July 17, 2018

Swedish EB Buggy Championship – Report

Last weekend the Swedish 1/10th Buggy Championship was held at the Orebro Radio Bil Club race track. The track is of a very 1990’s style dirt design which always produces exciting racing in a different style than is the common norm today. To this added a very high temperature of over 30°C, adding another factor the racers had to cope with. In the 4WD class there was a showdown going into the final qualifier as both Alexander Landen and Wilhelm Skjoldebrand were in the mix for the overall TQ. Both drivers produced more or less flawless runs, while setting the two fastest runs of the day. Wilhelm however managed to slightly edge out Alexander, so Wilhelm would take the TQ.

In the first A-main Wilhelm and Alexander broke away from the rest of the field, and were dicing for a couple of laps, until Alexander clipped a curb just a little too hard and rolled over needing marshalling. This let local racer Axel Birgersson by and Alexander was not able to make his way past him to pick up the fight with Wille again. The second leg again saw Wilhelm and Alexander break away from the field, and mid-race Alexander was able to make his way past Wilhelm, but Wilhelm was able to re-pass, after some exciting racing, to take the round and the overall win. Wille didn’t take up his spot on the grid in the third leg, so Alexander was able to go out and take a dominant win with Lukas Larsson having a good run to score a 2nd place, coming from P8 on the grid.

4WD Buggy top 3 results:
1. Wilhelm Skjoldebrand – Team Associated
2. Alexander Landén – Xray
3. Axel Birgersson – Yokomo

In the 2WD class, Elias Johansson was able to win the first two A-mains for the overall and so it was all down to the third leg to decide the remainder of the podium. Alexander Landen, who qualified in 3rd, was able to get by Wilhelm in the 2 car and actually created a fairly good gap, set to secure a 2nd overall position by winning the final round. Sadly bad luck almost in the end demoted Alexander to the 4th overall.

2WD Buggy top 3 results:
1. Elias Johansson – Team Associated
2. Wilhelm Skjöldebrand – Team Associated
3. Rasmus Karlsson – Schumacher

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]



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