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Originally Posted by nikos2002
Pretty quiet in here -- Lee is showing the speedos to be some one of the fastest on both sides of the pond. VTX8's are running circles around competition in 1/8 and 1/10 SC here in the US.
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Hi Nick,
Just some feedback with regards to Eben. As planned he is currently in Switzerland. Had bad luck with weather and missed first two races.
The past weekend first International experience (French National Champs), against the likes of Renaud Savoya, Yannick Aigoin, Lorenzo Crolla, Antoine Rossetti to name a few.
Was great experience. Biggest adaption I think is the schedule and "speed" with which things were happening. In SA we have the Sunday, Thursday and Friday to practice with Qualifiers on Saturday and finals on Sunday.
In this race no practice, scheduled practice on Saturday morning for 2 and half hours and then straight into 3 qualifiers and the 1 qualifier on Sunday morning and then 3 finals.
End of Saturday he managed qualifying 5th in 2wd and 13th in 4wd. Had some bad luck in 4wd with collapsed bearing etc and believe that he can do much better. Lap times showed that and was positive with one qualifier for the next morning.
Unfortunately weather did not play with and all racing cancelled for Sunday. It was very disappointing because just got used to schedule, track conditions and the pace of the front runners. Would have been great to have an opportunity in the finals.
We are very excited about the results taking into consideration, first time International experience, no support structure (mechanic), schedule and the language barrier.
It was great experience and looking now looking forward to the Kampenhout Belguim GP where approximately 80 drivers per class is expected. Going to be complete new experience as he has never raced on Astro.
Just want to mention Antoine Rossetti and say thanks for the effort that he put in to make it possible to attend and all the help during the event. Without him it would not have been possible.
Viper performed flawless!