Thursday January 10th 2013

We had been approached by Ulrich some months before the 2013 DHI cup, and he'd asked us to attend and report from this race. Having not visited Denmark for many years and knowing of it's notority for pastry, bacon, and LEGO, we were unable to refuse.

Traditionally the DHI cup has focussed on catering for drivers of the touring car / on-road classes, however last year has opened its doors to 2wd and 4wd buggy. This event marks the DHI's 11th year running and the entry figures show no lack of popularity. Touring cars are run in two categories - the beginners group which uses stock motors wheras the lite-advanced group run modified motors.

As Tommy pointed out - the advanced group run off-road on the other track ;)

Easyjet lull you with super-cheap drinks so you will pay double to exit the juices in the toilets.

Without the support of Ulrich and the race sponsors LRP, Serpent and EuroRC in helping us out with accommodation, and Schumacher for helping us with travel expenses, it would not have been possible for us to attend this race - so huge thanks to them for their help.

Friday January 11th 2013 - Practice

Early morning booking in.

The tracks opened up at 7am to allow drivers time to set up in the pits and prepare their gear prior to practice commencing at 8am. The order of the day would be 4 rounds of practice run in heat order, of which the last two rounds would be used to determine the start order in qualifying heats using the regular method of fastest three consecutive laps.

During practice both the touring car and off-road tracks were running at the same time, however for qualifying this would change to make things much easier to follow.

Both the buggies and touring cars would have four rounds of controlled practice - with the buggies getting some extra practice whilst the more populated touring car class finished their fourth and final round.

DHI CUP - Danish Hobby Imports, a now extinct company but the name of this long-standing event remains.

The 4WD Buggies and Stock Touring would each have two qualifying runs on Friday - and Modified Touring would have just one qualifier before it was time to pack up for the night.

The setting for DHI cup is this spacious arena at the Odense Congress Centre, with more than enough room to accommodate two tracks, an impressive rostrum, comfortable pitting area, and a massive seating area for the audience. Speakers transmit the sound of DC's commentating throughout the entire building (including the ladies toilets) and music is played in the background. Live results are projected onto huge screens in all four corners of the audiatorium. Despite the arctic conditions outdoors, the huge hall is heated sufficiently for us to not be too concerned about forgetting to bring coats with us.

Beardy-cember	Prostate-RC

Lloyd Storey with the new CAT K1	Martin Bayer - Xray XB4

Outside - things were getting chilly

After two rounds of practice were completed drivers were called over to the grandstand to listen to DC's drivers briefing and various safety announcements.

Drivers were warned that motor spray must not be left out on the table due to fire risk - well, not really the risk of fire but the risk of the fire marshall seeing the spray and deciding it was dangerous, and that lipo's must be charged in special sac's - anyone breaching these rules would be disqualified from the event and kicked in the nuts - and fire officers would be patrolling to ensure compliance.

The drivers gather for drivers briefing - of course, we get them to all wave their arms like nutters.

From practice round three the fastest times would now be used to seed the start order of qualifying - but the heats would still feature the same drivers, so not a complete reshuffle.

OOOOOF - THIS IS RACING! THIS!!!!	Jimmy with Mikal - kind donor of his used dungarees.

The touring cars just sorta went round and round - but the hardcore badboys in the corner were more interesting

Qualifying rd 1.
4wd offroad qualifying was the only real off road action of the day and as expected Jörn got off to a good start. Some mistakes saw Martin Bayer take it up with his Xray XB4 - but mistakes from Martin didn't help him as Jörn came back quickly to take the lead and win convincingly.

	4WD Buggy Qualifying Round 1
	position name result 1 Jörn Neumann 14 5:08.304   2 Martin Bayer 14 5:15.927 3 Tom Cockerill 14 5:21.677 4 Jesper Rasmussen 14 5:21.955 5 Kim Nielsen 13 5:03.005 6 Lloyd Storey 13 5:03.502 7 David Hassel 13 5:04.590 8 Johan Balsberg 13 5:08.133 9 Jonas Kaerup 13 5:18.433 10 Christer Carlsson 13 5:19.647

	Touring Car Super Stock Qualifying Round 1
	position name result 1 Marek Cerny 22 5:06.443 2 Martin Lissau 22 5:07.436 3 Asmer Jan 22 5:07.913 4 Lars Hoppe 22 5:08.572 5 Mike Gosvig 22.5:13.572 6 Steffen Leinburger 22 5:13.739 7 Morten Iversen 21 5:05.044 8 Nicolai Lindegaard 21 5:05.251 9 Soren Boy Holst 21 5:05.701 10 Rasmus Tobias Callesen 21 5:05.906

I'm not so sure what these touring cars are - there's not so many name decals (come see me, I'll sort ya out) and the paint schemes are nothing I've seen before! Maybe Ronald Volker I can figure out, otherwise it's a lottery! Perhaps tomorrow I will ask a touring guy to help me name some of these cars! :)

This car is a Serpent - I know this because it has the logo I designed on the side!

Tyre sauce yummy	These lads like to douse the tyres properly

	Touring Car Modified Qualifying Round 1
	position name result 1 Adrian Berntsen 23 5:05.024 2 Alexander Hagberg 23 5:05.256 3 Martin Hudy 23 5:11.497 4 Steen Graversen 23 5:12.631 5 Vijami Kutvonen 23 5:12.631 6 Mahnus Vassmar 22 5:00.581 7 Rasmus Tobias Callensen 22 5:01.322 8 David Ehrbar 22 5:01.729 9 Morten Iversen 22 5:02.322 10 Nikas Johansson 22 5:02.415

Jurgen from LRP and Ronald Volker discuss the serial number sticker issue, and how to stop them falling off

Qualifying Rd 2
The second round of 4WD buggy qualifying saw Tom Cockerill take up the lead with a new trick up his very short sleeve - jumping from the small jump to the right of the rostrum, all the way onto the top of the tabletop. This was a much faster way and Tom quickly took the lead over Jörn. Sensing something was wrong - Jörn saw Tom's new lines in the corner of his eye and was quick to start jumping the same way - much to the upset of Tom who wished to keep things secret :)

Speaking to Jörn afterwards, he said he'd tried this jump in practice but decided it was too risky to do everytime - but with Tom busting out this move Jörn also had to go for it.

	4WD Buggy Qualifying Round 2
	position name result 1 Jörn Neumann 14 5:05.574   2 Tom Cockerill 14 5:08.351 3 Martin Bayer 14 5:12.949 4 Kim Nielsen 14 5:14.654 5 Jonas Kaerup 14 5:19.221 6 Jesper Rasmussen 13 5:01.836 7 Martin S Hansen 13 5:04.046 8 Lukas Jerresand 13 5:10.043 9 Christer Rasmussen 13 5:10.846 10 Carlsson Christer 13 5:13.799

AWESOMATIX There's only one really 'different' touring car out there it seems - the shaft driven Awesomatix. I saw some prototype pictures of this car a while back and whilst I'm not so interested in racing a touring car I was impressed with what I saw and thought it'll probably never make production. I was wrong of course, and so I went to take a look at the cars - of which there are quite a few running here at the DHI Cup. This thing is like nothing else, ever. In fact, it's AWESOME. Some of the guys say the Awesomatix is the best for the stock class since it has a better transmission - but this is one heck of an amazing piece of engineering, with an almost unreal attention to detail and never-before-seen features! Now the testing is done on the flat - this chap needs to make a buggy! BK Bones! - that's a shock absorber down there I want to make love to this car. This car has the moulded gearbox covers in place.

We'll find out some hopefully interesting business about this class to bring to you later in the report.

	Touring Car Super Stock Qualifying Round 2
	position name result 1 Zdenko Kunak 22 5:03.303 2 Martin Lissau 22 5:04.196 3 Marek Cerny 22 5:04.645 4 Tony Streit 22 5:05.911 5 Steffen Leinburger 22.5:06.653 6 Lars Hoppe 22 5:06.949 7 Jan Asmer 22 5:07.143 8 Morten Iversen 22 5:09.951 9 Carsten Madsen 22 5:10.381 10 Patrick Buddrus 22 5:12.734

Saturday January 12th 2013

Saturday started slowly - with drivers gradually turning up from 7am onwards. The first cars on the track were the 4WD buggies racing their third qualifier before the Stock touring cars took their turn at their penultimate qualifier. The modified touring guys would be on after all these had taken place - so were a little slow to turn up. Still - they had to get here in time to JUICE their tyres up and pretend to make changes to their car.

Jörn Neumann was back for the final round of qualifying to take the overall TQ. Martin Bayer put up a good fight

We were still confused about the order of qualifying and the random appearance of results throughout the report probably demonstrates the same - but the long and short of it is: Jorn TQ's 2wd and 4wd off-road, Adrian Berntsen TQ'd touring car modified, and Zdenko Kunak took the top qualifying score in super stock.

Having focussed heavily on 1/10th offroad since oOple went viral some years ago we were uncertain how we could really break the ice with these flat-track specialists, so we mixed it up a bit with a bit of japery between TQ of off-road classes Jorn Neumann and modified touring car TQ man Adrian Berntsen.

	Top Qualifiers BATTLE ROYALE - WITH CHEESE! In the oOple way, we stirred up some rivalry between Off-Road TQ man, Jörn Neumann - and modified touring TQ man, Adrian Berntsen from the non-EU country of Norsk. We cheekily informed each driver that the other had 'called them a pussy' - the guys were seriously angry and desperate to prove who's the best driver, and what the best type of racing is. This would be brutal street justice. Unfortunately some of the touring car drivers began to cry when they saw Jörn's Schumacher Mini Pins come close to the track - so we had to find an alternate, neutral, battle ground for these angry guys to face-off. Right: The guys line up with their rides - and throw out their gang signs of anger. The DRIFT arena was the perfect place - on road but loose, neither driver would have the advantage. We got a couple of hardcore street drifters to loan out their identical sexy new Yokomo drift cars - the battle could now commence. It was decided to have a 5-lap race. Jörn had a good start but Adrian got stuck early and had a bad time - he looked quick but every time he looked to close in on Jörn, he had a mistake which dropped him back. Jörn took the win and it was decided to have a best of three to make sure it was all fair. D-STYLE - Jorn hammers the smack down Jorn screws up Neumann dominated the first race - but there would be two more runs. The second run saw Adrian dominate - this time Jörn had a lot of errors as he tried to reel in the Norsk viking warrior. Adrian lapped Jörn before Jörn managed to make a quick pass, but by this point it was too late and Adrian took the win. Adrian took the second run by a huge margain The moments we carry of mens glory for passion we race, for tomorrow we are men and friends. The last run saw the guys really go side-by-side with some sexy drift action and in that moment the sheer slow-motion beauty of the cars going sideways melted the hearts of both drivers - tears were seen in the crowd of on-lookers as the moment was captured in the hearts of men. Adrian and Jörn crossed the line together, as friends and equals - forever this moment of beauty will live in their hearts. Now I must cry. But also of men. End.

Let's get back to reality now.

The guys at DHI don't mess around - the last heat of qualifying marshalled the first heat of off-road finals. The schedule squeezed in one round of finals for each group, but stopped at B final for every class to save the excitement of A finals for tomorrow when there would be more likely to be an audience present. We'll add some final summaries during tomorrows reporting but leave todays report at the end of qualifying so we can get something online for your reading pleasure.

Sunday January 13th 2013

The weather was making me think twice about wearing shorts - but at least it wasn't snowing any longer. Things kicked off with the lower finals - but there was too much to report on to do much more than take some photos.

4wd A Final Leg 1.
Vicky didn't know how to set up the video camera and the schedule which is slightly, erm, beautiful mind, caught us a bit by surprise - so we didn't get any video of the first leg of the 4WD main final. Never mind since it wasn't too eventful up front. There was a quick breakaway by Joern and Martin Bayer - the pair looked well matched and left the rest behind.

It wasn't the cleanest start ever - in fact, it was utter mayhem

Joern looked to have the edge and Martin had to drive to the limit to stay with him. Eventually a traction-roll saw Martin drop way back and suddenly Tom Cockerill's Schumacher CAT K1 was in the mix and chasing down Martin. Time was against him however and he had to settle for third behind Martin - with Joren way out front somewhere on a lap of his own.

Martin Bayer - I thought he was german, and kept using my bad german on him.

	4wd A Final Leg 1
	position name result 1 Jörn Neumann 14 5:08.683 2 Martin Bayer 14 5:17.458  3 Tom Cockerill 13 5:01.132 4 Johan Balsberg 13 5:06.338 5 Lloyd Storey 13 5:10.714  6 Martin S Hansen 13 5:15.682 7 Jesper Rasmussen 13 5:16.166 8 Jan Larsen 13 5:16.772 9 Kim Nielsen 10 5:11.543 10 Jonas Kaerup 1 0:27.934

Touring Car Modified A Final Leg 1
Sweet jebus these modified touring cars are fast as **** and next to impossible to follow with my camera. I take aim and suddenly the car has accelerated like it's been shot out of a cannon and it's out of my view. So - at least I got a grid shot.

TQ man Adrian Berntsen and Marc Fischer pulled away quickly from Ronald in third - Ronald tried to hang on but couldn't as he saw the leading pair disappear.

Close racing at last!	Proper concentration

Adrian drove a near perfect race - only getting his Xray out of shape once - but it wasn't enough for the hard-charging Marc Fischer to make his move. The pair lapped together for most of the race before Adrian managed to get a little breathing room again and took the win by just over a second from Marc, with Ronald Völker three seconds further back in third.

	Touring Car Modified A Final Leg 1
	position name result 1 Adrian Berntsen 24 5:06.704 2 Marc Fischer 24 5:07.858 3 Ronald Volker 24 5:10.581 4 Steen Graversen 24 5:12.431 5 Jan Asmer 23 5:05.123 6 Martin Hudy 23 5:05.373 7 Viljami Kutonven 23 5:05.696 8 David Ehrbar 23 5:08.637 9 Alexander Hagberg 23 5:11.257 10 Magnus Wassmar 22 5:01.087

4wd A Final Leg 2
Martin Bayer flipped on the ‘wall of death’ on lap1, Cockerill was up to 2nd place and ready to put the hammer down on Jörn, Bayer escaped without needing marshalling and although he dropped a few places he was soon back in the battle between Cockerill and Nielsen who were fighting for 2nd place. Jorn danced off ahead but made a slight error coming down the wall of death, which saw Tom and Nielsen close in. Bayer tripped up as he mounted the tabletop which gave Nielsen some breathing space as he pressured Cockerill for second place. Nielsen rammed his car into the upramp of the double jump, but landed on his wheels on the other side of the track… and continued driving, not before Jesper slipped through into 3rd place though. On the following lap Jesper had a slight wobble and Bayer came through into 3rd, whilst Nielsen rode behind looking for a way to pass.

Jorn was pulling a strong lead from 2nd place Tom Cockerill – who was pretty much out on his own whilst the battle for 3rd place followed a couple of corners further back. Bayer was continuing to work his way up the order after his early error and at half race distance was starting to close in on Cockerill.

	4wd A Final Leg 2
	position name result 1 Jörn Neumann 14 5:10.818 2 Tom Cockerill 14 5:18.725 3 Kim Nielsen 13 5:00.328 4 Martin S Hansen 13 5:05.973 5 Martin Bayer 13 5:06.854  6 Lloyd Storey 13 5:07.961 7 Jesper Rasmussen 13 5:13.783 8 Jan Larsen 13 5:13.852 9 Jonas Kaerup 13 5:20.419 10 Johan Balsberg 9 3:47.261

2wd A Final Leg 1
A clean start to the first leg of 2wd A finals, Jörn started to pull away. Martin Bayer made a smooth move on Hansen coming around the first lap, moving up into 3rd place and quickly closing in on Tom Cockerills gearbox. Bayer looked every way to make a pass at Tom, and soon took the slippery inside line to move into 2nd place. Tom freaked out a bit and flipped over the kicker jumps, landing on his lid and losing several places.

1 min 30 into the race, Jörn was out at the front doing his usual thing, Bayer pushinghard in 2nd, Hansen 3rd - whilst straight-edged Lloyd Storey battled with himself for last place.
With one minute left to race Jorn held a 7.5second lead and held Bayer at bay (lol) for the remainder of the race to take the opening leg.

	2wd A Final Leg 1
	position name result 1 Jörn Neumann 14 5:10.818 2 Martin Bayer 14 5:18.725 3 Tom Cockerill 13 5:00.328 4 Alex Lars 13 5:05.973 5 Martin S Hansen 13 5:06.854  6 Jonas Kaerup 13 5:07.961 7 Thomas Andersson 13 5:13.783 8 Jesper Rasmussen 13 5:13.852 9 Lloyd Storey 13 5:20.419 10 Christer Rasmussen 9 3:47.261

	Viljami Kutvonen Touring car Finnish national champion Viljami Kutvonen has come over to DHI with his LRP powered Awesomatix ride, which he slid into 5th overall qualifying position in the touring car modified class. Viljami has concentrated his efforts on modified touring car throughout his 10 year racing history, although he also races super stock on occasions - he will be competing at next weekends ETS event....... Viljami tells us that he has been dabbling with 'some of that there off-road racing' undercover and will hopefully be entering some off-road 2wd and 4wd competitions in the coming months. He seemed a bit scared when I suggested the oOple invernational 2013 to make his presence on the off-road scene known, and will keep his 3D-track racing within moderation as he continues to focus his efforts on his (currently) favoured flat-track class. Still, we'll be keeping an eye out for him at future events we attend, he'll most likely be 'one to watch' at the Swedish 1/10th off-road European championships next year.   Awesome! lol

Stuff just went nuts around 2pm - by this point the schedule had a bunch of A finals kicking off on both tracks nearly back-to-back and it was blowing our minds quite literally. With the drunkeness purely of a lack of sleep combined with the frenzy of the on-track action, it was indeed one heck of a frantic dash to try cover the finals. Indeed, it was impossible to cover them properly.

Touring car racers are strange guys - most of the drivers find the racing so darn easy that they like to mix it up by using different methods to hold the transmitter as a way to show how cool they are - below are just two examples, they are all at it!!!

The reverse under wrist freestyle	Thumb-throttle-jockey

We had some name decals for Jesper Rasmusse0n on display on our table and on Sunday it seemed people suddenly wanted them by the bucket load. Of course, not Jesper Rasmussen stickers but their own name and flag. Being that I've not even designed a range of name decals yet - everyone was going mad for the same style as Jesper. Just wait until we release the range! People will go off their nubs.

	WHY? I get the on-road part, but roads round West Yorkshire aren't flat and having watched REAL touring cars when I was younger (I'm talking FORD RS500), I remember the tracks not being entirely flat. Having seen a touring car go round the off-road track quite well, even jumping well - I have to ask the question why the tracks all seem to be so, erm, flat. I mean - the slightest ripple in the carpet would upset everyone, but why not have some small elevation changes, off-camber corners and even a banked corner? Surely the cars can handle this and it'd make it more fun to race and watch surely. This is a REAL touring car - getting some air This is a REAL TC track And now I've said that - I think the control tyres should have much less traction so the cars are more of a challenge and can move around a little more. These would be the rules of the oOple TC series anyway - not sure anyone would turn up tho!! :)

It's a fact that oOple stickers make you FASTER

Touring Car Super Stock leg 2
Lots of crashing at the back of the field on lap1, Zdenko Kunak and Marek Cerny pulled away. Things were close to start with but Zdenko soon started to extend a lead. Two minutes into the race the top 4 cars were all reasonably well spread out, no major incidents. Fek, how do I make this sound exciting? It’s like watching scalectrix.

Zdenko had a 1 second lead one minute into the race – these things are so quick it looked like more than a second. With the front few cars all spread out, the battles were going on mid-field and the last two cars were snuggled up close.
The green car at the back tagged the pink car and then overtook it on the straight just after half race distance. This excited the audience. The pink car was a bit disturbed by this and jumped over the track markers on the following lap.
By now the leader was 2.1seconds ahead of 2nd place, with one minute left to race, and won, I think.

	Touring Car Super Stock leg 2
	position name result 1 Zdenko Kunak 23 5:10.545 2 Martin Lissau 23 5:13.876 3 Jan Asmer 22 5:03.623 4 Bjorn Christiansen 22 5:05.149 5 Henrik Heitsch 22 5:06.709 6 Lars Hoppe 22 5:07.116 7 Steffen Leinburger 22 5:08.453 8 Marek Cerny 22 5:09.471 9 Patrick Folman 22 5:13.041 10 Tony Streit 6 1:22.458

TC modified leg 2

Pole man and leg one winner Adrian Berntsen was running out front with Marc right behind, as was the case in leg one but this time a rare mistake from Adrian saw him go too tight on a corner and flip his car - requiring marshalling and dropping many places in the process.

Adrian leads them away	A mistake from Adrian - BORG is on it!

Marc Fischer took it up but Ronald Volker was on a mission and the setup changes he'd made were helping as he closed in on Marc. Eventually Marc made a small error and clipped a corner - losing momentum ever so slightly but it was enough for Ronald as he punched the throttle for a dramatic pass on the inside for the lead.

Ronald was sniffing every gap, trying to pass	Marc's tiny error allowed Ronald his chance

Marc held on but the clock was against him, there was no time and no chances left. Ronald took the win half a second ahead of Marc, with Alex Hagberg third.

	Touring Car Modified A Final Leg 2
	position name result 1 Ronald Volker 24 5:08.435 2 Marc Fischer 24 5:08.969 3 Alexander Hagberg 24 5:10.245 4 Steen Graversen 24 5:11.406 5 Adrian Berntsen 24 5:12.385 6 Jan Asmer 23 5:03.995 7 Viljami Kutonven 23 5:04.081 8 David Ehrbar 23 5:04.366 9 Martin Hudy 23 5:04.837 10 Magnus Wassmar 23 5:05.614

2WD modified leg 2
Jorn lead Cockerill and Bayer around – the top 3 start to spread out as the battles further back for 4th/5th/6th place were kicking off. Jorn pulled a strong lead ahead of 2nd place Tom Cockerill.

Jörn was not 100% happy with this marshalling error

4 minutes into the race Jorn approached the backmarkers with a lead of 3.9seconds ahead of Cockerill still in 2nd. As Jorn started making his way through the rear end traffic disaster struck on the straight as a marshalled car was placed in the path of Neumann, the cars collided flat-out and Jorn limped off - trying but failing to drive the now-shattered remains of his once-proud ride.

Tom Cockerill marched past to take up the lead, and was already 5 seconds ahead of 2nd place Jonas Kaerup. Tom cruised his final lap unthreatened to take the leg 2 win and take this one to a third-leg decider.

	2wd A Final Leg 2
	position name result 1 Tom Cockerill 13 5:03.662  2 Jonas Kaerup 13 5:09.712  3 Martin S Hansen 13 5:14.235 4 Christer Rasmussen 13 5:17.888  5 Thomas Andersson 13 5:22.118  6 Jesper Rasmussen 13 5:23.050  7 Jörn Neumann 11 4:12.390  8 Alex Lars 11 4:39.394  9 Lloyd Storey 10 4:08.789  10 Martin Bayer 4 1:34.315

SØREN BOY HOLST was the only driver at the DHI Cup with the latest TOP Racing Photon touring car. This sexy red beast is from Japan and Soeren was running in the Super Stock class and said he's run here every year since the event started. Soeren also confessed to being a WORLD CHAMPION in the Tamiya Front-wheel-drive class at the Tamiya Worlds in Japan, 1996 to go with his Euopean title in the same class. There were some well known racers competing at the events but Soeren is a MANIMAL and took the wins.   I like the red bits

2WD modified leg 3
Jorn raced away from Tom, who was also fast and stretched a lead from 3rd place.
After the heartbreak of leg two, Jorn checked out in this one and no-one else stood much chance. He mixed it up a bit by flipping off the tabletop on his final lap, but he could probably have driven the last lap upside down, back to front and inside out, and still won.

Bayer closed in on Tom Cockerill	Tom and Martin cross the line together

Neumann was in a league of his own

	2wd A Final Leg 3
	position name result 1 Jörn Neumann 14 5:24.692 2 Tom Cockerill 13 5:06.094 3 Martin Bayer 13 5:06.213 4 Martin S Hansen 13 5:14.791 5 Jonas Kaerup 13 5:15.034  6 Lloyd Storey 13 5:16.862 7 Jesper Rasmussen 12 5:00.573 8 Thomas Andersson 12 5:00.759  9 Alex Lars 12 5:01.044  10 Christer Rasmussen 12 5:19.626

	4wd A Final - Overall Results
	pos name Leg 1 Leg2 Leg3 pts 1  Neumann Jörn 13 5:00.637 (1)  11 4:12.390 (7)  14 5:24.692 (1)  2 2  Cockerill Tom 13 5:11.541 (3)  13 5:03.662 (1)  13 5:06.094 (2)  3 3  Bayer Martin 13 5:09.179 (2)  4 1:34.315 (10)  13 5:06.213 (3)  5 4  Kaerup Jonas 13 5:17.926 (6)  13 5:09.712 (2)  13 5:15.034 (5)  7 5  S. Hansen Martin 13 5:15.942 (5)  13 5:14.235 (3)  13 5:14.791 (4)  7 6  Storey Lloyd 12 5:06.720 (9)  13 5:17.888 (4)  13 5:16.862 (6)  10 7  Alex Lars 13 5:14.326 (4)  11 4:39.394 (8)  12 5:01.044 (9)  12 8  Andersson Thomas 13 5:20.914 (7)  13 5:22.118 (5)  12 5:00.759 (8)  12 9  Rasmussen Jesper 12 5:00.863 (8)  13 5:23.050 (6)  12 5:00.573 (7)  13 10  Rasmussen Christer 9 3:43.000 (10)  10 4:08.789 (9)  12 5:19.626 (10)  19

TC Super Stock leg 3
Martin Lissau took a sneaky underpass on 2nd place Marek Cerny midway through the first lap, but as Marek tried to slip back onto the racing line he rubbed paint with Jan Asmer running in 4th. Marek was demoted to 6th place in the collision.

Zdenko started to move ahead slightly but 2nd-5th place all raced very close on the lovetrain behind. Martin Lissau really hammers down on the leader now, piling on the pressure. Follows like a sexually attracted magnet for the next few laps, but 2 minutes into the race Martin clips a track marker and nudges himself off the scent – giving Zdenko chance to stretch out and pull a lead. Zdenko was out on his own for the rest of the race, except for navigating through the backmarkers, taking the leg win with a 2 second lead from 2nd place Lissau, for the overall win.

	Touring Car Super Stock A Final leg 3
	position name result 1 Zdenko Kunak 23 5:05.839  2 Martin Lissau 23 5:07.981 3 Jan Asmer 23 5:10.789 4 Marek Cerny 22 5:02.823 5 Tony Streit 22 5:03.055  6 Bjorn Christiansen 22 5:05.037  7 Steffen Leinburger 22 5:06.494 8 Patrick Folman 22 5:10.096 9 Lars Hoppe 22 5:11.627  10 Henrik Heitsch 22 5:14.628

	Touring Car Super Stock A Final - Overall Results
	pos name Leg 1 Leg2 Leg3 pts 1  Kunák Zdenko 22 5:03.029 (3)  23 5:10.545 (1)  23 5:05.839 (1)  2 2  Lissau Martin 17 3:52.024 (9)  23 5:13.876 (2)  23 5:07.981 (2)  4 3  Cerny Marek 22 5:01.596 (1)  22 5:09.471 (8)  22 5:02.823 (4)  5 4  Asmer Jan 22 5:09.894 (7)  22 5:03.623 (3)  23 5:10.789 (3)  6 5  Hoppe Lars 22 5:01.662 (2)  22 5:07.116 (6)  22 5:11.627 (9)  8 6  Streit Tony 22 5:05.663 (4)  6 1:22.458 (10)  22 5:03.055 (5)  9 7  Christiansen Björn 22 5:10.519 (8)  22 5:05.149 (4)  22 5:05.037 (6)  10 8  Leinburger Steffen 22 5:05.924 (5)  22 5:08.453 (7)  22 5:06.494 (7)  12 9  Folman Patrick 22 5:09.893 (6)  22 5:13.041 (9)  22 5:10.096 (8)  14 10  Heitsch Henrik 16 3:46.315 (10)  22 5:06.709 (5)  22 5:14.628 (10)  15

The salty Danish treat	Erm - yes, I look like an amateur

TC Modified leg 3
This was the exciting final – having two different leg winners the 3rd leg would be the decider. Berntsen started walking away with the race from lap 1, pulling a visable gap back to 2nd place. Most cars appeared to be running in start order, keeping close further back.

Adrian Berntsen leads them round - lap one

Ronald in 3rd place needed to make a pass at 2nd place Fischer so he could challenge lead-man Adrian for the win.
Three minutes into the race and the order remained the same up at the front, Berntsen was starting to approach traffic at the back of the track. Fischer clipped a track marker which sent him up on two wheels, catching him momentarily off-guard Ronald could slip up the inside line and prepare to battle for the win – FTW!

Volker was on a charge - looks to pass Fischer	Berntsen and Volker cross the line together

4 minutes into the race and Ronald was starting to close the gap up to 1st place Berntsen, reducing his lead to 0.3 of a second. By the final lap Ronald was practically latched onto Berntsens spoiler, and looking every way to make a pass – in an exciting manoeuvre the pair crossed the finish line side by side - Volker losing out by fractions of a second but making the crowd go wild with some awesome driving.

	Touring Car Modified A Final Leg 3
	position name result 1 Adrian Berntsen 24 5:06.463  2 Ronald Volker 24 5:06.532 3 Marc Fischer 24 5:07.083  4 Alexander Hagberg 24 5:08.763  5 Viljami Kutonven 24 5:08.994 6 Steen Graversen 24 5:11.466  7 Magnus Wassmar 23 5:00.472  8 Martin Hudy 23 5:02.888  9 Jan Asmer 23 5:11.350 10 David Ehrbar 23 5:12.371

	Touring Car Modified A Final - Overall Results
	pos name Leg 1 Leg2 Leg3 pts 1  Berntsen Adrian 24 5:06.704 (1)  24 5:12.385 (5)  24 5:06.463 (1)  2 2  Völker Ronald 24 5:10.581 (3)  24 5:08.435 (1)  24 5:06.532 (2)  3 3  Fischer Marc 24 5:07.858 (2)  24 5:08.969 (2)  24 5:07.083 (3)  4 4  Hagberg Alexander 23 5:11.257 (9)  24 5:10.245 (3)  24 5:08.763 (4)  7 5  Graversen Steen 24 5:12.431 (4)  24 5:11.406 (4)  24 5:11.466 (6)  8 6  Asmer Jan 23 5:05.123 (5)  23 5:03.995 (6)  23 5:11.350 (9)  11 7  Kutvonen Viljami 23 5:05.696 (7)  23 5:04.081 (7)  24 5:08.994 (5)  12 8  Hudy Martin 23 5:05.373 (6)  23 5:04.837 (9)  23 5:02.888 (8)  14 9  Ehrbar David 23 5:08.637 (8)  23 5:04.366 (8)  23 5:12.371 (10)  16 10  Vässmar Magnus 22 5:01.087 (10)  23 5:05.614 (10)  23 5:00.472 (7)  17

Berntsen - Bernsten = same thing. Facts are not important.

We did a review on the trophy girl, she was nice	I didn't get this tho - wtf!!!!

Jimmy and BIG-Cam man - She adored us both equally, but his is bigger :(

Finn Aasen from Norway painted up these awesome shells for him and his son - actually he's not Finn's son we're told, but actually a whole new genepool of individualism known locally and elsewhere as Joakim Waale Loeken. Using marker pens and very small brushes to get the main details - and finally backing things up with some airbrush work. Finn said the shells took a very long time to complete - let's hope he doesn't smash em up!!!

4WD Modified leg 3
Having already won 4wd in the first two legs, Jörn sat out leg 3 to watch the fun. Bayer lead from the grid and Nielsen was straight onto Cockerill – making an opportunity to slip up his inside coming over the small jump, making contact and flipping Tom like a mancake. Tom dropped down to 7th. Bayer had a 1.5second lead back to 2nd place Nielsen who was followed closely by Hensen.

1min30sec into the race and Nielsen was closing in on Bayer. But then something happened and Nielsen dropped back from Bayer. That was it really, Bayer didn’t look back and took a 9 second lead from Nielsen before the time was up.

	4wd A Final Leg 3
	position name result 1 Martin Bayer 14 5:12.805 2 Kim Nielsen 14 5:21.161 3 Jonas Kaerup 14 5:22.749 4 Jesper Rasmussen 13 5:08.541 5 Jan Larsen 13 5:10.827 6 Johan Balsberg 13 5:11.895 7 Lloyd Storey 13 5:13.396 8 Martin S Hansen 13 5:13.669  9 Tom Cockerill 5 2:07.553 10 Jörn Neumann -

	4wd A Final - Overall Results
	pos name Leg 1 Leg2 Leg3 pts 1  Neumann Jörn 14 5:08.683 (1)  14 5:10.818 (1)  - (-)  2 2  Bayer Martin 14 5:17.458 (2)  13 5:06.854 (5)  14 5:12.805 (1)  3 3  Cockerill Tom 13 5:01.132 (3)  14 5:18.725 (2)  5 2:07.553 (9)  5 4  Nielsen Kim 10 5:11.543 (9)  13 5:00.328 (3)  14 5:21.161 (2)  5 5  S. Hansen Martin 13 5:15.682 (6)  13 5:05.973 (4)  13 5:13.669 (8)  10 6  Balsberg Johan 13 5:06.338 (4)  9 3:47.261 (10)  13 5:11.895 (6)  10 7  Rasmussen Jesper 13 5:16.166 (7)  13 5:13.783 (7)  13 5:08.541 (4)  11 8  Storey Lloyd 13 5:10.714 (5)  13 5:07.961 (6)  13 5:13.396 (7)  11 9  Kaerup Jonas 1 0:27.934 (10)  13 5:20.419 (9)  14 5:22.749 (3)  12 10  Larsen Jan 13 5:16.772 (8)  13 5:13.852 (8)  13 5:10.827 (5)  13

Thanks to Ulrich Rasmussen and Tommy Thunderdome - along with the sponsors of the DHI cup for making us welcome and able to report on this awesome event. Thanks also to Dave Church for some stellar work on the mic all weekend, helping the brotherly love to mingle between the forces off touring cars and off roaders - for the spirit of men, of.

Hey you 2D warriors -let us know what you think of the report :)

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