Cavalieri takes Q2 in 2WD Buggy

Ryan Cavalieri has TQ’d the second round of 2WD Buggy qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series in Sweden.  The Team Associated driver bettered Dustin Evans opening TQ run from yesterday by 4 seconds to head home his fellow American by 7/10ths with Lee Martin setting the third fastest time.

Cavalieri said other than rebuilding the shocks on his B4.1 it was the same as yesterday but this time he didnt make any mistakes.  Instead Evans made the mistakes, the Team Losi Racing driver admitting he pushed too hard as he could see Cavalieri was catching him up. Running new tyres on his Tamiya Martin said it was difficult to drive for the first few laps but by the end felt really good but the time lost at the start meant he couldn’t challenge for a TQ run.

Setting the fastest lap for the round and the fourth quickest time David Ronnefalk said both car and driver were working really well this morning.  Kyosho enjoyed a strong round as team-mate Shin Adachi, who got himself a full page of coverage in the local paper this morning, took his RB5 SP2 to the sixth fastest time.  The Japanese ace said his pace was down to a better slipper setting which he was able to fine tune in the hour free practice this morning.

In between the two Kyoshos with the fifth fastest time was Team Durango’s Joern Neumann.  The German lost 3 second with a mistake on his first lap but said shock changes had really improved the DEX210 from yesterday.  Martin Bayer continues to impress, the Czech 1:8 Offroad ace taking his Losi TLR22 to the seventh fastest time just ahead of local young gun Oskar Levin who is also running the all new Losi.

In 4WD Short Course the second qualifier was very close with Team Durango looking very strong.  Neumann took the round from Q1 top qualifier Cavalieri with Dustin Evans third.  Hupo Honigl was setting the pace with his Durango but got hit twice ending his challenge and dropping him to fourth.  Evans was then on target to TQ when he too got tagged having just lapped a backmarker.  In 2WD short Course Dustin Evans made it two out of two as he set the pace over team-mate Bayer while Sarah Ernst took her Associated to the third fastest time.

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