Peter Harder wins Rd3 of Hansa Cup

The Hansa Cup is made up of three 1/8 offroad buggy and truggy races during the season and earlier in the year Furulund in Sweden and Schietmeister in Germany hosted the first two rounds. Last weekend the SOS club, south of Copenhagen, hosted the final round. Drivers from Sweden, Germany and Denmark arrived Friday to a wet SOS track but the club put a lot of effort into draining and making sure the rain could not prevent a great race. TQ in buggy went to the young and very talented Kyosho driver Martin S. Hnansen, but unfortunately Martin had to retire from the semi final with a broken servo. Pole for the final went to Peter Harder who also made the fastest laptime of the weekend, doing a 37.000 second lap. For the final the track had some very bumpy sections and a clean 45 minutes run would not be a easy job. The grip was very high and the right tire choice and shock setup for a bumpy track, but without traction roll, was key. The final had 5 Danes, 4 Swedes and 1 German. Peter with his Novarossi powered Xray took the lead and would hold on to this throughout the final, but not far behind was Swedish Xray driver Simon Boklund and Mugen driver Mikael Palsson. In the end Peter took the victory, while the overall 2010 Hansa Cup title went to the Swede, Mikael Palsson.

Results:
1. Peter Harder (DK), Xray, Novarossi, Savöx, ProCircuit, Byron Fuel
2. Simon Boklund (SWE), Xray, OS, AKA
3. Mikael Palsson (SWE), Mugen, Ninja, AKA
4. Markus Lind (SWE), Associated
5. Henrik Steiner (GER), Losi
6. Soeren Hempel (DK), Mugen, Ninja, 6mik
7. Henrik Welthz (DK), Mugen
8. Henning Warner (DK), Mugen
9. Silas Hoegholt (DK), Losi, Nitrotec, AKA
10.Rune Gustavsen (DK), Xray, OS

Source: North TQ [northtq.com]