Czech Masters Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Czech Masters, a new electric off-road series in the Czech Republic, was held at the Sport Arena Prague last weekend. The schedule saw four rounds of qualifying followed by triple A-mains, however due to unfortunate tech issues in the morning, qualifying had to be cut short to three qualifiers. Young Max Götzl was in control of things in the 2WD Buggy, 4WD Buggy and Stadium Truck class as he was able to top qualify all of them. In the Truck class it was Frank Hempel 2nd and Miroslav Loupy 3rd, in 2WD and 4WD Jiri Mara lined up 2nd on the grid and Michal Blahovsky was 3rd in 2WD and Dominik Vlasek 3rd in 4WD.

Max and Jiri then had a great fight in the opening A-main of 2WD. Max was easily pulling away at first and already had a comfortable lead, but because of a mistake of Max, Jiri was able to pass him with a few laps to go, however Max was able to take the win as he got past Jiri in a last corner manoeuvre. A2 was similar, but this time Max made the mistake earlier, so the fight was on from the first laps. Max made a nice pass on Jiri and then lead the race to the finish line to take the overall win. Jiri took overall 2nd and Matej Sulc 3rd, after some bad luck in the A3.

The 4WD finals there were a pretty straight forward affair for Max as he was able to stay on all four wheels the whole time in A1 and A2 to take the overall win. Jiri finished again in 2nd place and Michal Blahovsky took an overall 3rd.

In Truck Max was able to take an easy win in A1 and A2 to take the early overall, in front of Frank Hempel in 2nd and Miroslav Loupy in 3rd place.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]