Team Associated / HRC driver Patrick Hofer finish on 2nd place at the 2014 Indoor Dirt Race at Edling in Germany.
120 drivers including some top drivers went to this yearly event in Germany. Patrick entered the finals on 4th in 2wd an 2nd in 4wd class. Hupo Hönigl put his car on TQ.
The final day was a very exiting race. In the first main of 2wd class Patrick pushed his Reedy powered Team Associated B5M from 4th to 2nd just after a few rounds and the fight started between Patrick and Hupo. A few seconds before passing the finish line Hupo did a mistake and Patrick won the first main. Patrick and Hupo also showed a hard fight in the 2nd and third main but Hupo won 2wd class followed by Patrick and Micha Widmaier.
Also in 4wd class Hupo and Patrick showed a very hot match. In the first main also Oliver Scholz keeped his chance for a win. All three drivers passed the finish line within 0.5 seconds! Then it was going into the 2nd main… where Oliver Scholz did a mistake and Patrick followed Hupo. In the last round of 2nd main Patrick over-jumped Hupo in the double jump area and won the 2nd main with his Team Associated B44.3. So it was all down to the last main for those top drivers. In the 3rd and last main Patrick and Hupo showed again full 6 minutes of finest racing. Patrick found no way through and finished on 2nd with only 0,01sec behind Hupo Hönigl !
Patrick used Team Associated vehicles, new Proline Phantom bodies, Reedy ESC, motors and batteries, HRC servos.
Top 10 2WD:
1. Hupo Hönigl
2. Patrick Hofer – Team Associated / Reedy / Proline / HRC
3. Micha Widmaier
4. Oliver Scholz
5. Markus Metsch
6. Roland Hauleitner – Team Associated
7. Philipp Stocker
8. Fabian Luca Widmer
9. Max Stölzle
10. Martin Kreil
Top 10 4WD:
1. Hupo Hönigl
2. Patrick Hofer – Team Associated / Reedy / Proline / HRC
3. Oliver Scholz
4. Sandro Bamert
5. Fabian Luca Widmer
6. Peter Forster
7. Stefan Pfeifhofer
8. Roland Hauleitner – Team Associated
9. Markus Metsch
10. Micha Widmaier
