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RS4 Electric Mini (A Final) - Leg 1

I thought there was a tiny jump start by car 1 and 2 which the referees gave a kind warning for, perhaps this was because this was the first round of the finals and the drivers were caught off guard by the start sequence. It turned out to be a really close race between car 1 (Fotis) and car 2 (Andreas). Both pull a lead of around 10 seconds from 3rd and 4th but are incredibly close still on 6 minutes and have swapped places several times. The German Team are cheering their driver as he makes a clean pass coming onto the straight to take the first leg win by a mere 0.6 seconds.

RS4 Electric Mini (A Final) - Leg 2

A clean start for the 2nd Leg. This time everyone decided to wait for the buzzer before starting!! Again Pole man Fotis and Car 2 Andreas instantly pulled away, Werner in 3rd is desperate to keep with them but drops back slightly. The lead two are racing themselves as Werner makes some mistakes and drops back, the race is now between 3rd and 4th who battle till the end, actually crossing the line for a dead heat as both drivers clocked a time of 17 Laps — 6.00.00.

Andreas won to complete the class victory followed by Fotis and Werner and Thomas Voltz sharing 3rd (equal).

RS4 Electric Mini (A Final) - Leg 3

With the Mini Class wrapped up Andreas had nothing to lose, Fotis however wanted to show everyone why he was sat on Pole Position and stormed away with this leg. The battle running through this final was for 3rd and 4th place overall. With a good run and coming home in 2nd place in the 3rd Leg of the A Final, Thomas Voltz was able to climb to 3rd overall.

RS4 Electric Mini (A Final) — Final Results

  1. Andreas Kruse
  2. Fotis Agelakopoulos
  3. Thomas Volz
  4. Werner Spannerbruckner
  5. Patrick Ziegler
  6. Josef Dragani
  7. Peter Sobota
  8. Marcus Bauder
  9. Goerge Karaoulias
  10. Jordi Vives

 

RS4 Electric Sport (A Final) - Leg 1

With our very own Ricky Copsey on Pole us Brits had someone to cheer for, but it didn’t all go to plan for Ricky who had looked so strong in qualifying…

From the start Ricky made a bad error and hit the second corner getting collected by everyone and finding himself way back in 9th position. The race was a messy affair so Ricky was quickly able to get back up there to 4th place on lap 3 and chasing the leaders hard. Car 9 (Patrick Gassauer) made a great start after the 2nd corner pile up caused by Ricky and was out front followed by Car 6 (Sebastian Franzschky) and 7 (Andreas Weyhoven). With 20 seconds to go the order was car 9, 6 then 1 but coming onto the very last corner onto the start finish straight Patrick got hit and dropped down to 3rd allowing both Car 6 and 1 to come flying by, a bit unlucky for Patrick but unfortunately that’s racing.

RS4 Electric Sport (A Final) - Leg 2

The second leg started a lot better as Ricky and Car 2 got a clean start and pulled a large lead, this race was really great, Ricky was under so much pressure I was nervous for him, ultimately he made a mistake and Christian got by and pulled away. His car looked really quick through the infield and he won with ease. Near the end Ricky pulls up to 3rd but car 6, Sebastian who won the 1st Leg 1 came home in second place.

But that wasn’t the end of this race as back into Technical Inspection it is found that Car 2 has broken the rules regarding the Control Motor Springs and got himself DQ’d from the race. This means Sebastian (who was 2nd in Leg 2) moved up to 1st place and with it took the Sport Class World Championship title.

RS4 Electric Sport (A Final) - Leg 3

The result of the Sport Class is already settled, but the last leg is still to run. Ricky doesn’t mess his start up and pulls a good lead early on while the chasing pack make his life easier by making several crashes. Ricky is still out front by around 4 seconds yet seems to be backing off as the following cars appear to be catching. Christian who is looking for second overall drops out the race with a minute to go leaving Ricky certain of runner up spot. Going into the last lap and Ricky clips a curb and needs marshalling while a surprised Sebastian makes the clean sweep and takes the win claiming all 3 legs. Ricky finished 3rd.

RS4 Electric Sport (A Final) — Final Results

  1. Sebastian Franzschky
  2. Ricky Copsey
  3. Timo Kurtz
  4. Patrick Gassauer
  5. Andre Severt
  6. Karlhienz Scherer
  7. Andreas Weyhoven
  8. Dominic Carter
  9. Christian Mertke
  10. Peter Winton

 

RS4 Electric Pro (A Final) — Leg 1

A big crowd draws round the track to watch what is undoubtedly the premier racing Class, the 1/10th scale Touring Car — Pro Class. With 40 of the best HPI Touring car drivers here there was plenty of support for every driver and almost every country and we were set for some excellent racing.

From the buzzer the top 3 pull straight away by about 5 seconds, that’s pretty impressive already, first off Kris knocks the barrior then car 4 does the same coming past race control and the leaders group up again. The final then gets a bit scrappy apart from Car 2, Dominik Bauer who pulls way ahead keeping out of trouble. It finishes with Dominik, Kris then John Sotiropoulos 3rd.

RS4 Electric Pro (A Final) — Leg 2

Kris makes another good start but rolls almost straight away and drops to 4th, Dominik leads again by 6 seconds and looks very good remembering that he’s already won leg 1 and was now in a position to win the Pro class title.

The rest of the field are simply handing the race to Dominik who easily holds on, infact continues to pull away at the front for the simplest of race wins and claims the title - Well done Dominik, showing the rest how to do it… Artyom and Sebastian Kunz come home 2nd and 3rd.

RS4 Electric Pro (A Final) — Leg 3

Kris leads from the start again but is followed closely by Dominic again. They both pull away with a huge lead by about 6 seconds again in 3 laps. The rest of the field although well down are close together and battling for the remaining places.

As we’re watching the lead cars there’s a loud banging of colliding cars at the end of the straight as a stranded car gets thumped full pelt by car 7, the body is squashed flat but carries on regardless, everyone is amazed the car (a Pro 3) took such a hammering yet carried on, it didn’t even seem to have a ‘tweak’…. I think that’s called luck!!

Kris is still out front as they enter the last minute but another small mistake means the still pursuing Dominik takes the lead and with it a clean sweep of A Final victories.

RS4 Electric Pro (A Final) — Final Results

  1. Dominik Bauer
  2. Kristopher Ritchie
  3. Sebastian Kunz
  4. Artyon Lopukhin
  5. Thorsten Severt
  6. John Sotiropoulos
  7. Steffen Stien
  8. Stefan Thuner
  9. Jeremi Mastroianni
  10. Jon Sterling

 


Sport 'A' Final
Pro 'A' Final
A happy Frenchman

 

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