Kevin Brunsden’s DNX408 Wins Pro-Line Challenge
Team Durango’s Kevin Brunsden took a home the victory in last weekend’s prestigeous Pro-Line Challenge 1:8 off-road race, held at the all-dirt Remote World club’s track at Slough. Kevin beat some of the top racers in the UK including national champion Darren Bloomfield on his way to the victory in the hour-long main – proving the strength and durability of the car on the demanding track. Kevin reports on his experiences:
҉۬The Pro-Line was an event I was looking forward to after I finished second last year. The Saturday started wet so they decided to keep the track closed until midday meaning a long wait until we started. Eventually things got underway and we were showing good pace from the start, so it was nice to not have to do any tweaks for practice two in which again, we had very good pace.
Day two started with round one of qualifying and my car was very good and only missed TQ by 1.5 seconds to go third in the round. In the second round the pace was even faster and I finished third in the round. I made a couple of mistakes in round three but still finished fifth in the round. Round four and we decided to make a change the inserts. We went slightly softer and took TQ for the round! For the fifth and final round of qualifying, I changed the rear springs, going slightly harder which enabled me to put in a faster time which was good enough for second in the round and this put me second overall so I was very happy!
On finals day I was feeling good. The semi warm-up went well and we tried to do a ten-minute run, but soon found out this was not going to be possible so we’d have to revert to a shorter run. In the semi-final and it all went smoothly as I led from start to finish and put in the second fastest time which was good enough to put me third on the grid for the hour-long final.
At the start of the final I had a clean start but on lap three made a small error coming over the double jump and dropped down to ninth. I just stayed cool and drove smoothly. It quickly became apparent that I had a lot of pace over the people infront of me, so I worked my way through the field. At 12 minutes I was back up to third and pushing hard, trying to put a gap on the following pack.
Around 20 minutes, I was up to second after passing Craig Drescher who’d broken down. A problem with the leaders’ car at the 30 minute mark again saw me make a pass and up to first place which I held all the way to the line for win, almost a full lap up on the closest competitor.”
Source: Team Durango
