Orlowski scores double wins at the oOple Invernational 2018

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Mike Garrison

0 Aug. 29, 2018, 11:33 a.m.

By Mike Garrison
LiveRC.com

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Orlowski double TQ and double wins in both 2wd and 4wd at the oOple Invernational 2018.

This past weekend was the annual race of the oOple Invernational, held at the fantastic venue of Robin Hood Raceway in the UK.

The format was practice on Friday, then qualifying on Saturday, Sunday and finals on Monday. At the end of qualifying it was Orlowski who took TQ in both 2wd and 4wd to line up on pole position. In 4wd the Schumacher CAT L1 took 7 out of 10 spots in the A main and the Schumacher Cougar KC had 6 out 10 in the 2wd A main.

After some great racing action in the finals, the overall A final positions after all 3 legs were as follows:

2wd

1. Michal Orlowski
2. Ben Jemison
3. Greg Williams
4. James Helliwell
5. Eugene Galley
6. Allan O Brien
7. Wesley Van Helmond
8. Will Venables
9. Stephen Lawson
10. Charles Krontiris

4wd

1. Michal Orlowski
2. Wesley Van Helmond
3. James Helliwell
4. Greg Williams
5. Joe Howson
6. James Chappell
7. Allan O Brien
8. Ben Jemison
9. Ethan Chappell
10. Richard Coates

Truck

1. Andrew Wesson
2. Damian Whittle
3. Matthew Guppy
4. Tristan Morgan
5. Karl Bradish
6. Shaun Mcfarland
7. Kevin Brittain
8. Doug Thirkell
9. Danny James
10. Colin Kirkham
11. David Madsen

Also as usual at the oOple Invernational, there were some other events on during the weekend. This included the 3 hour team endurance race, after 3 hours of great fun and racing, team Domination Nation which was one of the Schumacher teams won this, so congratulations to the team of:

• Michal Orlowski
• Eugene Galley
• Steve Pierce
• Joe Howson
• Laura Hicklin
• Daniel Robins

Michal Orlowski also won the traditional annual oval race, a couple of track markers were moved which allowed the cars to go round the track and compete on the oval track.

Here is some of the racing action from the event, with thanks to David Liddle:

It was a great weekend and some fantastic results for team Schumacher. A huge thanks has to go to James Helliwell and the great team at RHR and also to the oOple team of people for all of their help and assistance during the event.