April 21, 2012

Evans takes Q2

Team Losi Racing claimed a 1-2 in the second round of 2WD Buggy qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series Finale with Dustin Evans topping the time sheets from this morning’s Q1 top qualifier Darren Bloomfield.  Having clipped down the pins on his front tyre for Q2, Evans said his Team Orion powered TLR22 was much more comfortable to drive although still a bit edgy but with the natural wear he said it’s only going get better for Q3.  The American Champion said cutting the pins has given him valuable information as to how he needs to prepare his dBoot tyres for the finals.

While Evans got his tyres close to the optimum performance, by the end of the 5-minute qualifier Bloomfield was starting to run out of front tyres.  Making changes to his set-up to improve the mid corner steering on his 22, the British driver said he could feel the tyres going away but the lack of pins didn’t effect his overall performance much as he set his fastest lap of the run on the final lap.

Making a mistake three laps into the run, which saw the Top 10 for the round run 15 laps, Neumann posted the 3rd fastest time.  Following his mistake he dropped behind Evans and shadowing his title rival for the rest of the run the Team Durango driver said afterwards they were both running almost an identicial pace. Like in Q1 the German once again set the fastest lap of the round being the only driver to navigate the challenging track in 19 seconds.

Lee Martin once again set the fourth fastest time with his Tamiya.  The Belgian EOS race winner said his Speed Passion powered TRF201 buggy is getting better with each run but is still hard to drive fast.  Planning to make the chassis heavier for Q3 he hopes this will help keep it planted more through the corners.  Team-mate Marc Rheinard who was 5th in Q1, managed only 5 laps after a lead came off his Speed Passion motor.

Going for a safe rather than fast run Team Losi Racing’s Mike Truhe set the 5th fastest time for Q2 followed by Team Associated’s Paul Bradby.  Bradby, who was joined in the Top 10 by both his AE team-mates Brent Theilke and Tony Truman who set the 9th & 10th fastest time respectively, said he needs to improve the reaction of the rear big bore shocks on his car so as to get C4.1 to settle quicker.

In between the Associated squad, with the 8th fastest time, factory Schumacher driver Tom Cockerill said his improvement was simply down to better driving.  Making one mistake the Englishman said he doesn’t know exactly where he is losing time but he feels the SV2 is not aggressive enough but thinks he will stick with having a safe set-up and focus on getting a clean run.

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