Hungarian National Off-road Championship

Past weekend the Hungarian national off-road championship kicked off with more than 60 drivers. The race was held in Apaj, a small city about 50km’s from the capital city of Budapest and organized by RCOR club. The layout of the track is really nice, very enjoyable; it has all kinds of jumps (table, double, triple, step-down) and corners (sweeper, hairpin, chicane). The racing line was visible but covered with slight dust. The track held up really well all weekend, thanks to the proper preparation of the organizer club.

There were several new categories beside the usual Buggy, Truggy and Junior (under age of 14) classes, namely Short Course Truck (SCT) 2WD, Short Course Truck 4WD and Electric 1/8th (open for both Buggies and Truggies) which brought a busy schedule for the weekend.

In the buggy class was it was a very close fight between the two Losi drivers Cseko Gergely and Toth Bence all weekend, they were finishing all 5 qualification runs within 0,3sec with Gergely in the TQ position. They both won their individual semis (9 sec difference after 20 minutes) and starting from 1st and 2nd position in the 30 minutes long main final. They were having an intensive but very fair battle, driving side by side for almost all final, the difference was never more than a few seconds between the two, it was very spectacular. Only in the last 4 minutes Gergely could open a little gap, Bence ran out of tires while Gergely being able to pit one less and choosing Revolvers instead of Holeshot tires for the main.

The first three finished within 10 seconds.
1st Cseko Gergely – Losi 8ight 2.0 / RB Concept B9 / Pro-Line Revolver 52 laps 30:29.086
2nd Toth Bence – Losi 8ight 2.0 / OS VZB WC / Pro-Line Holeshot 51 laps 30:05.080
3rd Eszenyi Andras – HongNor X2 / OS VZB WC / Pro-Line Holeshot 51 laps 30:08.199

In the truggy class Losi driver Bruzsa Richard was dominating the field, winning all round of qualification and the semi as well. The final turned out different anyway, with Szebelledi Laszlo showing strong competition. He had bad luck in the Buggy class, dropping out from the 3rd place because running out of fuel so he was eager for the revenge. They immediately pulled from the rest of the field and driving in a different pace. Richard kept his head cool and controlled the pace in the final finishing 4 seconds in front of Laszlo in the end.

1st Bruzsa Richard – Losi 8ight-T 2.0 / RB Concept B9 / Pro-Line Revolver 50 laps 30:00.543
2nd Szebelledi Laszlo – Losi 8ight-T 2.0 / RB Concept B9 / Pro-Line Revolver 50 laps 30:04.308
3rd Markus Attila – Losi 8ight-T 2.0 / RB Concept B9 / Pro-Line Caliber 47 laps 30:13.988

In the Junior class Losi driver Arvai Krisztian was winning every heat and the final as well.
1st Arvai Krisztian – Losi 8ight-T 2.0 / RB Concept B9 / Pro-Line Caliber 32 laps 20:23.119
2nd Barazda Attila – Losi 8ight-T 2.0 / RB Concept B9 / Pro-Line Revolver 29 laps 20:15.697
3rd Ando Norbert – Nanda NRB-3 / Nanda / VP-Pro Cut-Off 24 laps 20:03.729

In the Electric 8th class it was again Bruzsa Richard who was dominating and winning all heats.
1st Bruzsa Richard – Losi E-8ight-T 2.0 / Losi Xcelorin / Pro-Line Revolver 1,1,DNS
2nd Arvai Istvan – Losi E-8ight-T 2.0 / Tekin / Pro-Line Revolver 2,2,1
3rd Gabor Laszlo – LRP S8 BXe / LRP / LRP 3,3,2

In the SCT 2WD class Juhasz Viktor was the class of the field, adapting his driving style for these cars the quickest.

1st Juhasz Viktor – Losi Strike / Corally Pro / Pro-Line Caliber 1,1,1
2nd Arvai Istvan – Losi Strike / Nosram Pure / Pro-Line Caliber 2,2,4
3rd Barazda Attila – Losi Strike / Losi Xcelorin / Pro-Line Caliber 3,3,2

In the SCT 4WD class Varga Daniel showed why he was the champion in the Monster class in the pervious years.

1st Varga Daniel – HongNor SCRT10 / Nosram Pure / Pro-Line Caliber 1,2,1
2nd Gyurics Tamas – Traxxas Slash 4×4 / Hybrid / Pro-Line Caliber 3,1,4
3rd Markus Attila – HongNor SCRT10 / Losi Xcelorin / Pro-Line Caliber 2,3,2