Hagberg & Hönigl win 1/12th European Championships

Alexander Hagberg and Hupo Honigl both retained their 12th scale European Championship titles in Sittard, The Netherlands after an intense three days of racing. In the Modified class, which was running to 6.5T blinky rules for the first time, it was a business as usual for Alexander as the Swede took his 4th successive championship with his Xray. Backing up his wins in Italy and Slovakia (twice) Hagberg was imperious winning all five rounds of qualifying and then winning the first two legs of the A-final for a perfect weekend. Behind Alex teammate Hupo Hönigl took second after a 3-leg battle with CRCs Markus Mobers was only decided at the end of the final leg.

Modified final results:
1. Alexander Hagberg
2. Hubert Hönigl
3. Markus Mobers
4. Juho Levänen
5. Daniel Sieber
6. Dominic Vogl
7. Lucas Urbain
8. Alexander Andersson
9. Ollie Payne
10.Adam Catchpole

The Stock class also saw a repeat winner, this time it was Austria’s Hupo Hönigl (Xray) who claimed his 3rd successive Stock – 13.5T blinky – championship. The three legs of the final saw fantastic racing between Hupo and Germany’s Markus Mobers (CRC) with Markus taking the win in the last leg with a pass literally on the line. Hupo came back to claim leg 2, before the final leg saw a titanic battle with both men leading before Hupo just managed to close it out and claim the championship.

Stock final results:
1. Hupo Hönigl
2. Markus Mobers
3. Alexander Andersson
4. Vesa Yli
5. Adam Catchpole
6. Olivier Bultynck
7. Ollie Payne
8. Tim Altmann
9. Mathieu Briere
10.Martin Wilfinger

A great performance across the weekend brought Britain’s Ollie Payne the reward of the European Junior Champion in both classes.

Source: EFRA [efra.ws]