There was a dramatic outcome to the 2009 EFRA 1:10 200mm European Championships here in Gubbio, Italy this evening, with heartbreak for race dominator Dario Balestri and total joy for new Champion Dirk Wischnewski. Starting from pole Balestri’s Novarossi powered Team Magic was untouchable allowing the defending back to back Champion to lap the entire field, but in the final 10 minutes of the race the Italian suffered gearbox problems ending his quest for a hat trick of titles.

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Euros joy for Wischnewski, heartbreak for Balestri

The Semi Finals have been run and the 6 drivers who will join the four directly qualifiers has been decided.  In the Semi B Manuel Huber took a relative easy win over Dirk Wischnewski but the Semi A was a far more dramatic affair. Serpent’s Michael Salven lead for over half of the 20 minutes encounter but with 7 minutes to go and with a healthy lead his engine cut. This handed Mugen’s Guiseppe D’angelo the lead but he too flamed out with less than 3 minutes to go. Having benefited from the demise of Mark Green’s out of control Serpent 733 to move in to second Martin Hudy came through to take the win. The other four qualifiers based on fastest race times saw Wischnewski, Alexander Hagberg and Giorgio De Felici come from the Semi B while Gerhard Kandlehart got through with his Semi A race time.

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Euros Final grid complete – Big names missing