Haatanen gets it done in A1

Joona Haatanen has won the opening 2WD A-Main at the Euro Offroad Series in Germany.  Top Qualifier for Round 4 of the championship at Arena33, the Team Associated young gun took the win the hard way after an error lost him the comfortable lead he had built up over the opening 3-minutes. Allowing Lee Martin to slip through to the front as Haatanen rejoined the track, the Finn would push hard forcing a mistake from the Yokomo driver 2-laps later. Once back in front, the 14-year-old wasn’t going to let the opportunity slip again holding on for the remaining four laps to finish 4/10ths of a second in front of Martin. Behind them it was Joakim Nicolaisen who came out best of the battle for third place, benefiting from a late error from Bruno Coelho and a last lap mistake from his Associated team-mate Neil Cragg who would finish 4th.

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