Neumann completes Euros sweep with 4WD title

0 July 21, 2014, 8:11 a.m.

7/21/2014
By LiveRC Staff
LiveRC.com

Race report from Neobuggy:

www.neobuggy.net

Jörn Neumann would walk away with a comfortable victory in the first 4WD A final, Hupo Honigl managed to sneak it into 2nd, after Lee Martin had a troublesome first laps with minor bobbles and mistimed landings here and there, Ronnefalk was looking racey from 4th but a bad landing on top of Joona Haatanen’s car saw him penalised with a stop and go dropping him down the order.

Neumann immediately opened up a gap as Lee fought to keep Hupo behind him however on lap 3 a poorly timed double double jump saw Lee land off track and allow Hupo to whisk past, Orlowski was up to 4th with Joona pushing hard behind him. Lee dusted himself down and chased Hupo for the rest of the final, all the while as Jörn Neumann clicked off clean laps out front without major issue.

A2, the potential decider and another tone to flag victory for the new Double European Champion, lap 1 witnessed Finnish crowd-favourite Joona Haatanen jump into 4th after the triple but Jörn had already opened a small 1 sec gap to the chasing Lee Martin.

Ronnefalk soon had 4th back with Neumann’s lead at only 0.7 sec, he landed with a tank slapper which allowed Lee Martin to close right up to him, for a bit it looked like Lee might have the edge on Jörn however the German ace put the power down and gapped him, a small overjump on the triple didn’t help the cause as the freight training Hupo, Ronnefalk and Joona caught up ever so slowly.

A lap later and lucky lucky boy as Jörn landed his Durango DEX 410 on the pipe and had a Champion’s roll, landing chassis down, losing precious little time, however it was enough to unsettle Lee Martin who singled the double also Hupo whose different line sent him into the pipe which allowed Ronnefalk to sneak past into 3rd.

A lap later and Ronnefalk crashed off the first double allowing both Hupo and Joona through and it would go from bad to worse as yet another crash on the following lap at the same place saw Batlle move past.

Out front with 2mins to go, Jörn’s lead was 1.5 sec, trying in vain to reel him in with all the Yokomo’s pace, Lee would case the top of the first double dropping about a second as Hupo’s Team C buggy went flying into the 2nd double’s pipe allowing Joona into 3rd and Robert Batlle into 4th.