Hofer & Widmer take Swiss 1/8th Buggy Champs Rd4

Last weekend saw the running of round 4 of the Swiss 1/8th off-road nationals. The demanding track of Gland made racing challenging and in the end it was experienced Patrick Hofer with the TQ in the 1/8th Expert Buggy class as Fabian Widmer TQ’s the Amateur category. After the Expert class semifinals it was again Patrick who hold the upper hand and he would start from pole into the A-main. For the first 20 minutes of the main, Jean-Marc Betticher was able to stay in Patrick’s slipstream, however soon after the had to let him go meaning Patrick would be able to score a comfortable 30+ seconds win from JMB 2nd and Valentin Bader 3rd.

In the Amateur class the usual suspects took the lead followed by Fabian Widmer. His constantly fast pace together with clean passes of the top three placed him very quickly in the leader’s position, from where he controlled the 30-minutes race with a 20 second lead. Goncalo Fortunato came in 2nd from Gabriel Pinto 3rd.

Source: Team Associated Switzerland [facebook.com]