Delorme crowned the French 10.5 Touring National Champion

0 June 28, 2017, 9:21 a.m.

Main Photo: Delorme crowned the French 10.5 Touring National Champion

By Mike Garrison
LiveRC.com

Race Report from XRAY - By Pierre Delorme:
www.teamxray.com

On saturday morning we had 4 practices with the last two used for reseeding, my Trinity powered XRAY T4'17 was great from the first laps. I just had to get used to some specific parts of the track as I never practiced there. I used a new prototype of XSV wing which gave me even more downforce which helped me to run 0° toe-in on the rear of the car. I put myself 2nd, 0.01s behind Jeremy Delalondre on the three fastest consecutive laps.

Qualifications started on Saturday afternoon. Steeve Favrelle (XRAY) managed to take two TQs and I won the last one of the day by putting the fastest TQ.

On sunday morning we had two more rounds of qualifications, in the first one I managed to get a faster TQ than on Saturday which gave me the overall TQ in front of Steeve who won the 5th qualification.

For the finals Steeve had issues with his electronics so he didn't start. With my new tires, I managed to conserve the lead in A1 without making mistakes. In A2 I had nice battle with Steeve and it was hard to contain him as he had a set of new tires. On a bumpy part of the track I lost the rear and he passed me. I was 2nd and I knew this place allowed me to win the championship so I raced without taking risks to the finish line. In A3 I was already the champion so I could take some risks to win the race. I managed to keep the door closed to Steeve during the whole 5 minutes as we were both running used tires and cruised to the win!

Top 10 TC 10.5 Blinky:

Pierre Delorme - XRAY T4
Steeve Favrelle - XRAY T4
Jeremy Delalondre
Mathias Rascol - XRAY T4
Romain Delaunay - XRAY T4
Bukowski Yohann
Rivard Aurélien
Brasset Benjamin - XRAY T4
Éric Sauterau - XRAY T4
Rabbe Jean-Pierre - XRAY T4

In Modified it was Thomas Vigneron who was the fastest in qualifications but Cyril N'Diaye found way to pass him in finals and took the win.

In TC 13.5 Blinky the race was very tight between Steeve Favrelle and Briac Berthoud during the whole weekend. Briac took 3 TQ and Steeve two but he had the fastest one. During the finals Briac didn't find a way to pass Steeve in A1 and A2 but he won A3.

Top 10 TC 13.5 Blinky: