Swedish Champs #5 OTA

The last Swedish outboard stock tunnel nats is now over. It was run in the SSAB cooling pond in Oxelösund September 3. Mattias Bengtsson won with his quick HTB290 with me in second place. :)

OTA 3.5 Tunnel Results:

1. Mattias Bengtsson / 1500p/ Eksjö RC Klubb / HTB 290 / OS / Futaba 4PK
   
2. Niklas Edlund / 1125p / Oxelösunds MSK / TS3 / OS / Futaba 4PL
   
3. Stefan Adolfsson / 850p / Eksjö RC Klubb / TS3 / OS / Futaba 4PK
4. André Holster Westerberg / 25p / Karlskoga RCBK / TS3 / OS

No points to:

• Viktor Nordström-Käll / Katrineholms RCK
• Fredrik Lundahl / Norrköpings MBK

Swedish OTA nats #5 Oxelösund Sept. 4

We also raced the fifth nats of the 2010 season in Oxelösund this past weekend in beautiful weather with smooth waters all day long. Nicers.

Personally I had just before this race built myself the new Aquacraft Top Speed 3 boat (its my orange #5 TS3 boat in the pictures) and tested it on location for the first time and it was (if I may say so myself) quite amazing right out of the box! For our type of racing on the short 3-leg course (with tight 90 + deg turns) it seems to be way better then the VS1 boat and almost, if not equal, to the all mighty HTB290. But that is on smooth water - we havent tested the TS3 in rough waters yet. This will be interesting for sure!

I ended up TQ with it as I won all my first four heats and for the last heat I added some lead weight to the front and tried to drive it differently and push it as hard as I could. Me and Mattias had an really, really cool duel all heat long until I rolled it to the right base buoy when trying for the inside lane... :)

In the final I was a little cautious in the start and was second or third on the first lap with Mattias leading. There was a couple of dead boats around the course so it meant I couldnt really push myself to the front and it was not like Mattias was slow in the lead either. LOL. I ended up over driving it at the tightest top buoy and it DNF:ed.

HERE you can find my webbalbum from the race.

Nillas pics HERE.


Outboard Tunnel stock class:
1. Mattias Bengtsson - HTB290/OS21XM (300/25/0/400/400=1125p)
2. André Westerberg - VS1/OS21XM (400/25/300/25/25=750p)
3. Thorbjörn Carlsson - Bandit (0/225/169/25/25=444p)
4. Nicklas Ericksson - TS2 (25/169/169/169/300=807p)
5. Niklas Edlund - TS3/OS21XM (400/400/400/400/25=1200p=TQ)
6. Bo Sandström - VS1/K&B (300/400/25/300/25=1025p)
7. Viktor Nordström-Käll - Bandit (300/127/0/225/25=677p)

8. Thomas Ljungström - HTB260/OS21XM (225/225/225/25/25=700p)
9. Mikael Sundgren - VS1/K&B (0/0/300/300/25=625p)
10. Christer Sjögren - VS1/OS21XM (169/399/0/25/25=519p)
11. Stefan Adolfsson - HTB290/OS21XM (0/25/400/25/25=475p)
12. Anders Enblom - HTB290/OS21XM (0/0/225/25/25=275p)

Top 3 at the race and three different boats!

Some racing action at the bottom right buoy.

Yes, it was FAST. :)