Volker, Lee and Boehringer top AOC seeding practice in Hong Kong

0 Sept. 25, 2015, 1:41 p.m.

By Aaron Waldron
LiveRC.com

By Thomas Tran:

With open practice over and everyone putting in their finishing touches to their car setup, the seeding round was fun and exciting in every aspect. With only 4 minutes to set their fastest 3 consecutive laps, the 2 seeding rounds was still an all out battle on the clock.

In the 1st round of seeding, Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker was just able to eclipse the newly crowned European Champion, Alexander Hagberg by just .1 second. However, as the track cooled off for the 2nd round of seeding, Volker was able to find a few extra tenths and was able to string together 3 consecutive, near perfect laps that earned him the fastest seeding time with a combined 43.745.

Hagberg was able to better his time as well in the 2nd round of seeding with a 44.332 and retained 2nd fastest. Singapore’s own Nicholas Lee was able to string together 3 fantastic laps and finished 3rd in and more importantly only .1 second behind Hagberg.

In the ultra competitive 13.5 boosted sedan class, local favorite and Leespeed’s own Ian Lee was able to just edge out Yeung Wai Ho by a narrow margin of just a tenth of a second. Finishing 3rd in seeding was Michael Lo, who was only .05 seconds behind Ho. With the margins being so close, tomorrow’s qualifying rounds will be guaranteed to be just as exciting as the seeding rounds.

Making his first appearance at an AOC race and all the way from Portland, Oregon Sven Boehringer set the fastest time in the 17.5 blinky class ahead of Ken Li and Hans Tang.