September 19, 2015

Martin wins A2, all to play for in A3

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Having felt he was robbed of the win the opening A-Main, Yokomo’s Lee Martin came out on top in an exciting A2 setting the stage for a three way fight for the overall win at the opening round of Season #5 of the Euro Offroad Series.  Like in A1 it was Top Qualifier Bruno Coelho who led early but this time the Xray driver and Martin got to battle it out with the pair swapping position back and forth. Unfortunately a bad landing on lap 10 of 17 by Martin would leave Coelho nowhere to got sending them both tumbling off the the track as the Xray ran into the back of the Yokomo.  This would allow A1 winner Michal Orlowski to go to the front and looking like he was on for his second ever overall EOS victory an error with three laps to go would drop the Schumacher driver back to his P3 starting position.

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Much happier the reigning champion summed up the race as ‘karma comes around’.  Describing it as a ‘good battle’ with Coelho, the pair swapping position four times, he said he landed short and with Coelho committed he hit him in what was a racing incident.  Allowing Orlowski through, the pair having made contact in A1, the multiple European Champion said he just focused on a big push to catch him.  Catching the youngster, they would again come together at the big jump, Martin waited as he said should have happened in A1.  Orlowski would made another mistake however allowing Martin to continue on for the win with Coelho also getting past to finish 1.1 seconds back.

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‘I did a lot of mistakes’ was Coelho’s reaction to the race referring to the number of times he got his XB2 up on two wheels.  Commenting on the coming together with Martin he said ‘Lee had a bad landing and I couldn’t avoid running into the back of him’.  With the marshal tending to Martin’s buggy first he said that was the end of the challenge.  Getting back to second due to Orlowski’s late mistake he said that was good luck as having a DNF in A1, the second means he can still fight for the overall win.

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Orlowski was to the point saying he threw away the win through his own ‘stupid mistake’.  The newly crowned 4WD European Champion said the race had started out exactly as he was hoping with Martin and Coelho making contact allowing him to the front.  However after 3-minute his car lost power leading him to get his jumps wrong as he jumped them short.  For A3 he will fit a new motor in the hope that this cures the issue.

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