Team Durango and Hupo Clean up IROC
News has come in from Team Durango and their team driver Hupo Hönigl on his dominant performance at the IROC race held at the MAC-Inzell track in Bavaria, Germany. The fourth annual IROC (International Race of Champions) was held by the MAC-Inzell and Hupo Hönigl put on a show as he carried away the top prize in every class with his DESC410R, DEX410 and DEX210 prototype. The 4WD Short Course class showed once again how competitive the DESC410R is by taking the first six positions and having seven in the final. Hupo Hönigl reports on the race:
The crew of the club – a small group of young and motivated RC enthusiasts – did an awesome job with the track and everything around it. The race is also very famous for the Friday night drivers party. About 120 entries showed up in three classes – 2WD, 4WD and also a Short Course class, which was run in the famous Reedy Race format.
In 2WD my DEX210 prototype was working perfectly, and I won all the qualifying rounds and all finals. Martin Kreil, who was also using the DEX210 prototype had a good race and finished second with Roland Hauleitner also from Austria finished in third position.
in 4WD I won three qualifying rounds, but in the rocket round (which was right after the rain, where the track had super high traction and the dirt was sticking to the tyres) my fan on the speed controller broke and my electronics had a thermal shut down. This round was almost half a second per lap faster then all the others. This round was won by Rene Trauner, who got the overall TQ spot. I was second with Martin Achter in third and Martin Kreil fourth. In the finals I won the first two legs and behind was a really hard battle between Rene Traunerm who finished second overall and Martin Achter (WC & DEX410) in third and Martin Kreil in fourth also with the DEX410.
The SC class was amazingly funny to race in and they also let the higher point finishers start from the back of the grid, which made it even better. There were a lot of close battles and a lot to watch for the spectators. I won eight of the nine rounds (with one DNF) and won the event; Phillip Stocker, who just got his DESC410R a week before the race had a very good meeting and finished second. Third place was a tie between Martin Achter and Martin Kreil with the better finish for Achter. Fifth was Peter Wirthner and sixth Sven Rudig so top six for the DESC410R!
It was again a very well organised event with a lot of fun, good food at the track and Inzell itself is just a very nice place in the middle of Bavaria, Germany – defenitly a race which even more drivers from around Europe should join next year!
Source: Team Durango
