Hagberg, Honigl and Payne crowned European Championships in 1/12-scale

0 March 31, 2017, 12:39 p.m.

By Aaron Waldron
LiveRC.com

Race report from EFRA:
www.efra.ws

Hagberg and Honigl crowned 1/12th European Champions in the Netherlands

Alexander Hagberg and Hupo Honigl both retained their 12th scale European championships here in Sittard after an intense three days of racing.

In the Modified class, which was running to 6.5 Turn Blinky Brushless Rules for the first time, it was a business as usual for Alexander as the Swede took his 4th successive championship with his Xray Chassis. Backing up his wins in Italy and Slovakia (twice) Hagberg was imperious winning all five rounds of qualifying and then today winning the first two legs of the "A" final for a perfect weekend. Behind Alex teammate Hupo Honigl took second after a 3-leg battle with CRCs Markus Mobers was only decided at the end of the final leg.

Alexander Hagberg - SWE
Hubert Hönigl - AUT
Markus Mobers - DEU
Juho Levänen - FIN
Daniel Sieber - DEU
Dominic Vogl - AUT
Lucas Urbain - FRA
Alexander Andersson - SWE
Ollie Payne - GBR
Adam Catchpole - GBR

The Stock class also saw a repeat winner, this time it was Austria's Hupo Honigl who claimed his 3rd successive Stock (13.5 Turn Blinky) championship. The three legs of the final saw fantastic racing between Hupo and Germany's Markus Mobers 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.