Alexander Hagberg wins Swedish Nats opener

Merlin Fuel have a report from their team driver Alexandar Hagberg, who last weekend took part in his first gas race in Växjö, southern Sweden at the opening round of the Swedish Nationals. Qualifying went well for the Xray driver as in the 3rd round out of 4 he could secure the overall TQ with a 2 second gap over the 2nd placed Kyosho driver Magnus Vässmar. In the finals Alex lead for the first 20 minutes until his engine flamed out, which gave Vässmar the lead ahead of Alexander. With 2 minutes to go Vässmar lost his 2nd gear and was running slowly around the track and this allowed Hagberg to take back the lead and with it the win, about half a lap down to 2nd placed Vässmar and another lap in front of 3rd placed Mugen driver Mikael Fransson.

Final results
1. Alexander Hagberg – 170 laps – Xray NT1 – Merlin Fuel
2. Magnus Vässmar – 169 laps – Kyosho
3. Mikael Fransson – 169 laps – Mugen
4. Per-Ola Hård – 167 laps – Serpent – Merlin Fuel
5. Alexander Andersson – 166 laps – Kyosho
6. Markus Hellquist – 165 laps – Kyosho
7. Ola Westholm – 163 laps – Kyosho
8. Edwin Suneson – 163 laps – Xray NT1
9. Bengt Andersson – 162 laps – Xray NT1 – Merlin Fuel
10. Johnny Karlsen – 156 laps – Kyosho

Source: Merlin [merlinfuel.com]