January 10, 2009
He was the Top Qualifier here in Denmark last year and after the second round of qualifying for the 2009 DHI Cup Teemu Leino is now the fastest man after just pipping team-mate & Round 1 pace setter Alexander Hagberg by 1/100th of a second. The flying Finn clocked up 21 laps in 307.20 after putting in a clean run. Leino said his car is good but getting a clean run is very difficult due to the inconsistency of the track surface, something which all the drivers are having to battle with here this weekend. ‘Yesterday I made too many…
January 10, 2009
Having won the opening qualifier yesterday Tommy Bergfeldt continues to set the pace on Day 2 of the 2009 DHI Cup putting his Red Bull Hot Bodies again at the top of the Pro Stock time sheets. Running the same set-up as yesterday, Bergfeldt appears to have found the perfect balance reporting his car as extremely easy to drive & fast and the times show this as he managed to knock 2 seconds off his first heat time. Once again the closest challenger to the pace setter was Germany’s Bastian Hennig. The SMI Motorsport driver was not so happy with…
January 9, 2009
The first day of action at the 2009 DHI Cup has come to a close and it is Alexander Hagberg who has taken first blood by setting the pace in the opening qualifier. After over 12 hours of running today the final heat saw the Swedish factory Xray driver post the fastest time recording 21 laps in 307.88 seconds with local ace and former European Champion Jonas Kaerup next up just over a second adrift. Hagberg was very pleased with his first day at the office here in Denmark and will only make a change to the setting of his…
January 9, 2009
Tommy Bergfeldt has TQ’d the first round of Pro Stock qualifying at the Speed Passion supported 2009 DHI Cup. The Swede took his Red Bull backed Hot Bodies to a run of 20 laps in 312.44 to top the timesheets by 6/10th from Germany’s Matthias Lang. Bergfeldt ran different tyre additive for Round 1 of 5 which gave his Cyclone TC more steering allowing him to end SMI Motorsport’s early domination of proceedings here in Denmark. Lang reverted back to the springs he used to top the third practice and described his Xray T2 009 as now being perfect. Driving…
January 9, 2009
Xray team driver Alexander Hagberg has topped the final practice at the 2009 DHI Cup. The Swede set the pace from German Xray driver Freddy Sudhoff with Tamiya’s Viktor Wilck completing the top three. Hagberg said his car is getting better with each outing as the traction comes up and will leave his set-up as is for the first Qualifier. Sudhoff is also following a similar plan of action. He said his car is ‘very good’ and the track layout is really suiting his driving style. Defending DHI Cup Champion Wilck tried a different tyre additive which considerably reduced traction…
January 9, 2009
Seen in the Corally pits here at the DHI Cup is the new, yet to be released follow up to the RDX Phi, the Phi 2. Featuring a new chassis as well as new front and rear bulkheads, the car has essentially been designed to accept LiPo cells. Retaining the same transmission from the previous car, the upper deck is now higher thanks to changes made to the bulk heads and this enables the LiPo packs to fit. Some other new changes include wider set lower wishbone supports as well as the all new chassis itself. View more photos of…