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<\/a><\/p>\nRob Janssen and Richard had a difficult race with some tires and treatment issue, but Rob finished third and confirmed his national title, while Richard finished fifth.<\/p>\n
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Original Report from Rob Janssen:<\/strong><\/p>\n Last weekend our last round of Nationals was held at Raco2000; a<\/span><\/em>\u00a0low grip, bumpy & fast track.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n On Saturday both Richard and I went there to learn the track and work on set-up.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>I had not the fastest car on track but felt pretty comfortable with the car, a little easy to drive but i felt that was necessary on the bumps to keep it on track.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Most guys did some practise on new tires and was only few tenths behind on old tires.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n On Sunday the first run on new tires felt pretty good, but just not fast enough for TQ. Ended up 2nd, nearly a second behind TQ of Sybrand.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>After that, on older tires, the car became more understeered every run and front tires were decreasing a lot.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Sybrand in front of me, and Rick behind me, had better tire treatment and were faster in the finals.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Only in third final I was able to hold back Rick a little for about 4 minutes. But driving a defending line he could cross back at the left\/right turn end of the straight.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n So this time I was only able to finish 3rd on this round of Nationals.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>But at the end it was enough to secure the National Title for 2016 !! Really happy with that.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n I am really happy with the performance of the car, it works really well for me !\u00a0<\/span><\/em>So thanks for that and all the support from you, TM and HRC !<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Original Report from Richard Arts:<\/strong><\/p>\n The last round of the Dutch Nationals was held at the RACO2000 track in Utrecht.\u00a0<\/span>Typically a bumpy track with a fast and flowing layout.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The training on Saturday the car felt OK with it’s balance, but needed some work to handle the bumps better.\u00a0<\/span>After testing different setups, and spring and shock-oil combo’s with Rob, I decided for a\u00a0compromise to have a stable car for the race on Sunday.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Missing a little bit of pace compared to the other drivers, I knew this was going to be a tough one.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The 1st qualification on Sunday started bad, as I was able to flip the car in the first lap after driving a curb to aggressively. I aborted the run to save the 1 set of race tires.\u00a0<\/span>Q2 result was not too bad, although there was not much grip from the tires, and the car was understeering too much.\u00a0<\/span>For 3rd qualification I made some changes to the setup to find a bit more steering, but I was not able to better my previous time.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Starting from 4th on the grid, the first and second corner would be all important to stay out of trouble.\u00a0<\/span>In the first final, I managed to do so, but I soon had to go into defence-mode as I was lacking corner speed and 5th spot was charging hard. In the end I could just keep my position.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n For the 2nd final I changed on tire-prep, hoping this would solve the problem I was having. Unfortunately a hit in the second corner left me with a body-tuck, and I had to rejoin in dead-last position. I was making up some positions over the next minutes, but a mistake in the last minute had me drop back again.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The last final I could only half avoid a crash in front of me, and was sent into the grass. After a few minutes I was able to go up a couple of spots, but more was not possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n As for a season end, I sure had anticipated a different result. Nonetheless, looking back at the full season I am very pleased. I really enjoyed driving the car, and on many occasions I was able to setup the car to drive great, with results to show for it.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n My thanks goes out to HRC \/ Team Magic for the opportunity and their support.\u00a0<\/span>Now let’s go and have fun with some indoor racing<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Overall Result:<\/strong> Team Magic dutch drivers Rob Janssen and Richard Arts participated to the sixth and last run of Dutch Nationals, at the Raco2000 track at Utrecht. Rob Janssen and Richard had a difficult race with some tires and treatment issue, but … Continue reading ![\"track\"](\"http:\/\/blog.hrcdistribution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Track-500x208.jpg\" "\\"Rob")
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\n1. Sybrand de Boer
\n2. Rick van den Akker
\n3. Rob Janssen – Team Magic E4RS III Plus \/ HRC Racing
\n4. Fokke Groen
\n5. Richard Arts – Team Magic E4RS III Plus \/ HRC Racing
\n6. Ronald Martiginoni
\n7. Martijn Spaans
\n8. Fons Stabel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"