Asian On-Road Championships Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the Asian On-Road Championships was held in Adelaide, Southern Australia over the weekend. The event saw some 100 entries split in the five different classes of 1/10 Touring Car Modified, 13.5 Stock, 21.5 Stock, Formula as well as 1/12th scale. The race was held at the permanent indoor asphalt track of Hobby Habit on a medium sized, very smooth and pretty high-bite track. In the Touring Car Modified class Yokomo’s Ronald Völker would take the TQ from Ryan Maker (VBC) who shot into the 2 spot by winning the final qualifier on new tyres as Ronald backed off. Alexander Hagberg put his Xray car on the 3 spot, saving tyres for the triple A-mains. Alex’ strategy would pay off as he came in 2nd in A1 and A3 to take the runner-up spot behind Ronald while Ryan fall back to 3rd place.

In the 13.5T Touring Stock class Tom De Nardis came out successful from Tim Gaukroger in 2nd and Alex Illevski in 3rd. The 21.5 Touring Stock class had Patrick Saelze taking the overall win from John Karnaros in 2nd and Matt Pimblett in 3rd while in the Formula class it was Dan Maher who grabbed the top spot from Mark Wallin and Scott Rawlings in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]