Körmendi Gábor & Eugenio Carlevaro win Rd1 in Hungary

The first round of Hungarian Championship took place last weekend in Pécs in the south of Hungary. The 30 minutes 1:8 scale final was dominated by Velox V8 driver Körmendi Gábor. Starting from TQ spot he managed to extend his lead to one lap gap in front of Serpent driver Tibor Bognár after 9 minutes. But during the 2nd fuel stop his engine stopped and he dropped back to 3rd place. After he rejoined the race he fought back to the top within 5 minutes and nobody could stop him to win the race. Tibor Bognár was running close to him during the whole final, but he lost his chance for the win when his engine stopped 4 minutes before the checkered flag and he had to settle for 2nd, four laps down. Zoltan Jáger earned some important championship points for third place.

The biggest battle was expected in the 1:10 200mm class. There was fierce battle for the first place from the start of the race, but two the potential winners Gergely Csekő (Serpent) and Team-Orion driver László Kiss-Orbán dropped out early with technical problems and a race accident respectively. The fight for the gold medal after this was clearly between last year’s Hungarian national champion Simon Ciudan and Eugenio Carlevaro. Simon was leading most of the final, but because of different race tactic he needed to do one more fuel stop 2 minutes before the end so he had to give up his first place and finished 6 seconds behind the Italian Eugenio Carlevaro.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]