EURO OFFROAD SERIES

Lee Martin steered his Tamiya TRF502X to victory in the 3rd Leg of the 4WD A-Main to secure second overall at the Belgian round of the inaugural TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series presented by Horizon Hobby.  With Neumann sitting out the race, having secured the overall win in Leg 2, Hupo Honigl led away the field but pressured by the 2WD winner he got slightly out of shape as the race just passed the 1 minute mark allowing Martin to slip through to take the win.  Finishing second Honigl had to settle for the third step on the podium at the Black Country Arena.

In 4WD Short Course the battle for the win went to the final race of the day with Honigl, the Top Qualifier, and Neumann having secured a win a piece in the opening two legs.  Running nose to tail like carriages on a train the Team Durango team-mates put on an entertaining race.  Making contact on a number of occasions Honigl managed to hang on to secure his first overall EOS win.  Unable to match the pace of the two European’s Mike Truhe was best of the rest, the American once again completing the podium just like at the season opener in the Czech Republic.  In the 2WD Short Course class Durango’s chief designer Gerd Strenge was the winner ahead of Luxembourg’s Tom Maquel and Sascha Hengen.

Another successful event for the burgeoning electric offroad series, drivers now have one month to prepare for the third & final round of the inaugural season of EOS which takes place at Europe’s biggest model exhibition in Dortmund, Germany.  Series organisers Scotty Ernst and Uwe Rheinard wish to thank the host club for making the visit to Belgium possible, in particular Jean-Paul Voumard, as well as sponsors TLR, Spektrum, Horizon Hobby, dBoots, Vampire Racing, Proline, Tonisport and DubiDesign who have allowed them to make the EOS a reality.