Gotzl is The 2020 Czech National Champion

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Report by Max Gotzl

The 3rd and 4th round of 2020 1/8 Czech Nationals took a place last weekend at my home track in Horni Jeleni! The nice weather forecast promised a good racing weekend, which it was!

On the 3rd round on Saturday I was able to set the overall TQ with Ebuggy straight after Q1 and Q2, Ales Bidovsky lined up 2nd and Mirek Koutek 3rd on the A main grid.

With Nitro Martin Bayer TQed Q1, but I managed to win Q2 and Q3 to take the overall TQ in Nitro as well!

As we went into finals, I was able to win all three A main legs with always at least one lap gap over 2nd Ales, and Martin Milowsky who took the last step on the podium overall!

With Nitro buggy I managed to set the fastest time in semis to take the pole position for the main final, just few seconds back was Martin who lined up second and Jiri Mara took the third starting spot. I resisted Martin for the whole first lap, but unfortunately on the second lap his engine stopped, probably because of the rocks on the track. After that incident I had a really big gap over second place and was able to finish the 30 minute main on the first place to take the second overall win! Martin managed to climb his way back to the 2nd place in the end and Jiri Mara finished 3rd.

On the 4th round on Sunday I again TQed all three qualifiers with Ebuggy to take the pole for triple A main. Ales was again on the second place and Mirek third. As we had less drivers than on Saturday, we decided not to have Semis and go straight into the main final, so we ran 4 qualifiers. I was able to TQ the first three to secure pole position for the main in front of Martin in 2nd and Ales Bidovsky in 3rd.

With Ebuggy I won A1 and A2 to secure the win straight away after some nice fights with Ales, who finished overall 2nd and Martin Milowsky took the 3rd spot again.

Straight on the second lap of the main final in nitro I made a mistake which put Martin in the lead, I unfortunately made some more stupid mistakes by my own, but still was trying to chase Martin as we ran this main for 45 minutes. But unfortunately again Martin had an issue, when about in the middle of the race his throttle servo broke down. So I took over the lead and finished on the first place with huge gap over 2nd Tomas Kapicka and 3rd Ales Bidovsky.

As this were the last two round of the series, we also had the whole season prize-giving ceremony. I became the Czech National Champion 2020 in both classes, for the second time in a row! Managed to get full points in both, Nitro and Ebuggy. In Ebuggy Ales Bidovsky became the vice-champion and Martin Milowsky finished 3rd. In Nitro Jiri Mara is the vice-champion and Martin Bayer finished 3rd overall. I also became the Junior champion in both classes!

Jarda Valder became 2020 Czech champion in nitro buggy 40+ category.

I would like to give a big thanks to all my sponsors for providing me with all the great products! But also my parents and Martin for always helping me through the season! Also big thanks to everybody for coming to our new track and we could have a nice weekend full of racing!

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Overall Ebuggy top3:

1.            Gotzl Max – XRAY XB8E

2.            Bidovsky Ales

3.            Milowsky Martin

Overall Nitro top3:

1.            Gotzl Max – XRAY XB8

2.            Mara Jiri

1. Bayer Martin – XRAY XB8