Final grids set at MIBO International
With all the TQ’s settled over the four rounds of qualifying on Saturday, the fifth & final qualifier this morning was all about deciding the starting order behind 2WD & 4WD Buggy Top Qualifier Bartek Zalewski, Modified Touring Car pole sitter Ronald Volker, and Stock Top Qualifier Adam Izsay. In the Buggy classes, it was the only driver who was able to get the better of Zalewski yesterday, Michal Orlowski, who opened finals day here in Hrotovice in the best way possible with his second double TQ round having done the same in Q3. As a result the Schumacher driver lines up P2 in both Mains for his MIBO Offroad debut demoting team-mate Daniel Kobbevik back to third in each, the Norwegian having a rough morning and unable to better his overnight results. While Zalewski retired from both final qualifiers, pulling up after a mistake at the table top in 4WD, it is the Sworkz of Micha Widmaier which lines up P4 ahead of team-mate Dominik Vlasek who concluded qualifier as he started it with another run to the second fastest time. Getting his best result in Q5 of 4WD with a P2 behind Orlowski, European Champion Martin Bayer starts fourth ahead of Schumacher’s Elias Johansson.
In Touring Car, Volker completed another clean sweep repeating his 2025 performance of five from five with his Mugen Seiki. Overall while Sören Sparbier got a P2 for the final round it didn’t change the grid order and it is Xray’s Adam Izsay who starts P2. Patrick Gollner will fight to repeat his 2025 podium finish from P4 with the Xray of Oliver Havranek and Yokomo’s Christopher Krapp making up the Top 6 on the starting grid. In 17.5 Stock, Slovakian racer Jaroslav jun. Kriz will line up behind Izsay, the Hungarian chasing his third Stock win at MIBO as the defending champion. Austrian Tobias Sutrich starts third ahead of ARC’s Enrico Jung with Xray’s Martin Hudy completing the top half of the grid. In FWD defending Champion Phil Langner starts on pole ahead of Loris Buchhalt and 2024 winner Stefan Schulz.
