Markus Hellquist wins in Oslo

The combined 3rd round of the Swedish Cup and Norwegian national championship was held by the Oslo Modellbilklubb. The event was run in the four classes of 1/8th track, 1/10th 200mm nitro touring, and both modified and stock electric on-road. The weather was very uncertain, but in the end the event was run in dry weather conditions, despite some rain during Saturday night. After 4 rounds of 5 minute qualifying in the nitro classes, Lars Haugen managed to get the TQ spot in 1/8th track, followed by Bengt Andersson in 2nd and Christofer Hedlund in 3rd.

1/8th qualifying top 10:
1. Lars Haugen, Norway
2. Bengt Andersson
3. Christofer Hedlund
4. Karl Ullenius
5. Markus Hellquist
6. Per-Ola Hard
7. Martin Christensen
8. Mattias Ericsson
9. Hans Lyxell
10.Svein Harald Ytternes

In 1/10th nitro touring Andreas Husman managed to claim the TQ just 0.6 seconds ahead of Frank Andersen in 2nd. Oyvind Stusdal completed the top 3.

1/10th qualifying top 10:
1. Andreas Husman
2. Frank Andersen
3. Oyvind Stusdal
4. Mickael Brandt
5. José Castro
6. Lars Stub-Holm
7. Andreas Böök
8. Erika Hellquist
9. Philip Virgin
10.Ike Törnros

The first minutes of the 1/8th final were quite messy with a lot of positions being switched everywhere, but the front pack soon stabilised and the fight was on between Martin Christensen, Stig Berntsen, Markus Hellquist and Lars Haugen, who stayed on the same lap for over 20 minutes, until Martin had to retire from the race. In the end Markus Hellquist managed to secure the victory 6 seconds ahead of Lars Haugen, with Stig Berntsen in 3rd, a couple of laps behind after stopping half a minute before the end of the race.

1/8th final result:
1. Markus Hellquist
2. Lars Haugen
3. Stig Berntsen
4. Stefan Andersson
5. Per-Ola Hard
6. Anders Lind
7. Hans Lyxell
8. Martin Christensen
9. Christofer Hedlund
10. Karl Ullenius

In 1/10th Frank Andersen managed to pass Anderas Husman already on the second laps. Frank Andersen and Andreas Husman were both struck by some issues before the first fuel stop and Oyvind Stusdal took over the lead for a while before he had to retire from the race. It was then back to Frank Andersen to regain the lead and he was unchallenged for the rest of the race and so he was able to cruise to the win ahead of 2nd placed Andreas Husman and José Castro in 3rd, who passed Lars Stub-Holm on the last lap.

1/10th final result:
1. Frank Andersen
2. Andreas Husman
3. José Castro
4. Lars Stub-Holm
5. Mickael Brandt
6. Philip Virgin
7. Andreas Böök
8. Erika Hellquist
9. Ronnie Pettersson
10.Oyvind Stusdal

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]