Gustafsson sweeps Capital Cup

 

The last weekend of June Robertsfors MS hosted the 3rd round of Northern Race Series, which also served as a "warmup race" for the Swedish National Championship, a matter of weeks away.
 
Saturday morning there was heavy rain and strong winds, and the club decided to move the start to later in the day, but in the end it was cancelled since the track wasnt drivable, maybe more suitable for boats.

 
Howewer Sunday morning rain was gone and the sun was breaking through, the temperature was around 17 degrees. Since qualifying day was cancelled the host club decided to run 1 practice, 3 qualifiers and mains, and this was a bit stressful for everyone, but in the end worked out fine.

The first qualifyer was won by Magnus Björndal who showed consistancy and speed, Robert "Gus" Gustafsson suffered from a crash on last lap and fuel tank zip tie stuck and opend fuel lid.

Second qualifier was won once again by Magnus Björndal, putting in a bit faster time than in first. Gus suffered from a broken recieverpack and got a dnf.

In the third qualifier both Magnus and Gus drove great, and Gus managed to TQ the round on the fastest time of the day.

By this qualifying it ment JQ was on pole in both semis, and both Magnus and Gus got the wins in both of them, and Gus was on a faster time and would go into main on pole.

Since the timeschedule was shrunk down a lot, there was only 20 mins to prepare the cars for the 45 min mains, things got a bit stressful. After the 45 minute main Gus took a well deserved win, and Magnus got into engine trouble in last 5 minutes making him drop down of the podium. A Great result of Gus putting his yellow edition JQ  THECar/OS/Beta tires on top.

 

All in all a good weekend, and a good warmup and info collecting for the JQ Team going into the nationals.

Thanks to Robertsfors MS who made this race possible despite the bad weather on Saturday.

Great job guys!

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