Veseli, Walckiers, and Perry are the EFRA Large Scale Off-road European Champions

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Mike Garrison

0 July 31, 2017, 9:09 a.m.

By Mike Garrison
LiveRC.com

Race Report from EFRA:
www.efra.ws

EFRA LARGE SCALE OFF ROAD EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FINALS REPORT

Finals day at the Nene Valley Raceway saw the first fully dry day of the event and some great  racing across all the bump up finals culminating  3 cracking European Championship Main Finals.

4WD

In 4WD 14 year old Finn Pekko Iivonen started in pole but it was reigning champion Dario Veseli who took the early lead before coming embroiled in a 20 minute battle for first with Frances' Valentin Peuziat. Dario finally asserted his superiority in the final few minutes before a crazy end which saw both Peuziat and Iivonen fail to finish with fuel issues promoting Sven Rodenwald to second and Stu Wood to a delighted, and surprised third.

 RANK PILOT COUNTRY

1. Dario Veseli Croatia
2. Sven Rodewald DEU
3. Stu Wood Great Britain
4. Patrick SCHWEINZER AUT
5. J SARTEL FRA
6. Tim Vander Elst BEL
7. Dirk Kellermann DEU
8. Pekko Iivonen FIN
9. Valentin PEUZIAT FRA
10. Jouni Hiltunen FIN

2WD

In 2WD Ken Walckiers of Belgium finally became a European champion after leading 3 previous finals but failing to get over the line first. This year however there were to be no mistakes and Ken truly dominated the field, wining at a canter. Behind him Mike Plekkepoel and Karl Norriss fought hard for the runners up spot with the Dutchman Mike finally triumphing

 RANK PILOT COUNTRY

1. Ken Walckiers BEL
2. Mike Plekkepoel NLD
3. Karl Norris Great Britain
4. Martin KRAUS CZE
5. Olivier BLANCHARD FRA
6. Alex Mulder NLD
7. Théo PLANTE FRA
8. Kevin van Medevoort NLD
9. Daan Krebaum NLD
10. Luke van den Berg NLD

Short Course

The Short course final saw an incredibly tense race where despite a lights to flag victory for Mathew Perry he was never more than 3 seconds in the lead and for the vast majority had either Tommy Chung or Marc Kresig stuck to this rear mudflaps. In the end it was a British 1-2  with Marc having to settle for the final step on the podium

RANK PILOT COUNTRY

1. Mathew Perry Great Britain
2. Tommy Chung Great Britain
3. Marc Kreisig DEU
4. David Parish Great Britain
5. Sivil Sabinov Antimov BGR
6. Tobias Westhoff DEU
7. Lee Chapman Great Britain
8. Gertjan van Medevoort NLD
9. Petrov Damyan BGR
10. Matthew Stokes Great Britain

A huge thanks must go the Nene Valley club who organised a superb championship that also ran to time and to plan despite some pretty inclement weather.