The 7^th round of Czech Open series took place last weekend on beautiful track in Kolin. Home club did perfect job and prepared whole area perfectly for which I owe them my thanks!

On Friday we had free practice, my FX powered XB8’16 was working good since the first lap and we only made few small changes on the setup to get more steering on this quite technical track.  

In Saturday morning the track was a bit wet and grip got much higher compared to the previous day. Therefore everyone knew first qualification would be the deciding one as only one best run was counted. Overall TQ went to Martin Bayer who posted fastest runs in all three rounds, Jiri Mara finished 2^nd, I was sitting 3^rd and Xray young guns – Milan Mudra and Max Gotzl were 4^th&5^th!

In semi-B Milan Mudra had to retire and Jiri Mara almost didn ‘t make to the main final. In semi-A Martin & I had a good fight for about 5-minutes until my front left tire ripped off and we had to change it – still made it to the final, starting 2^nd behind Martin.

In the Main final I had a tough start and had to work my way back to the top. Martin & his XB8’16 got quickly away from the rest of the field and took the win with almost a lap in front of 2^nd driver, congratulations! I had a good fight with Jiri Mara for the 2^nd place, but few small mistakes in the end resulted into the 3^rd place overall! Max Gotzl finished 4^th and won the Junior class, congrats!

TOP 12:

1. Martin Bayer (TQ) – Xray
2. Jiri Mara – Serpent
3. Kaja Novotny – Xray
4. Max Gotzl – Xray /1^st junior/
5. Martin Zicha – Mugen Seiki
6. Tomas Kapicka – Kyosho
7. Frantisek Kalenda – Xray
8. Jan Hujer – Kyosho /1^st senior/
9. Michael Horak – Xray
10. Michal Sindelar – HB
11. Petr Klatovsky – Sworkz
12. Vaclav Broz – Sworkz

In the end I want to say big thanks to my parents and my sponsors for their support!

Xray, Pro-Line, MKS, FX, Maxima, Team Orion, Hudy, Hiro Seiko, HOECO, H-Speed, WTF, Dubidesign, DFcreative, Ruddog and Kaja RC racing