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published: 2011-07-30 19:54:37 (61278) Author: Oli_M

Collari is European Champion..............Again!

Lamberto Collari has re-captured the EFRA 1/8th Track European Title, winning a thrilling 45-minute main final


Lamberto Collari has secured yet another European Title in the 1/8th Track class here in Luxembourg.

The final started with some fantastic racing and the top 9 cars remained on the same lap for the first 15 minutes. Early leaders looked to be Ilia Van Gastel and Robin D'Hondt as Dario Balestri, Robert Pietsch and Collari suffered early incidents and accidents.
However Dario and Robert were quickly back in the fight, along with Collari, as the top 5 raced nose to tail for minute after minute.

But as the race unfolded, car problems slowly started to erode the number of drivers. Dario and Robert suffered issued and unfortunately dropped out of the race early. This, combined with different fuel strategies from drivers shook up the running order.

Collari emerged as the victor after just 5 cars were left running at the end of the 45 minute race.


Ilia Van Gastel secured second overall, and Rick Vrielijnck took advatange of other drivers problems and his own careful driving to secure the third step on the podium.

Michele Romagnoli (pictured) finished fourth and Oliver Mack completed the drivers still running at the finish.
2011 1/8th Track EFRA Euros Final Result

1 Lamberto Collari - IT - Kyosho / Novarossi / Matrix
2 Ilia Van Gastel - BE
3 Rick Vrielijnck - NL
4 Michele Romagnoli - IT
5 Oliver Mack - DE
6 Robin D'Hondt - BE
7 Robert Pietsch - DE
8 Eric Dankel - DE
9 Dario Balestri - IT
10 Simon Kurzbuch - CH
So that concludes our text coverage of this EFRA European Championship. Stay tuned to www.EFRA.ws for full video highlights later this evening. Thanks must go to our hosts at the Mini Circuit Ville de Luxembourg for organising a fantastic event, all the EFRA officials for their time and hard work and of course to all the drivers for making this another brilliant championships.

The RC Racing TV team move on to Sand in Germany next week as Nick will be hosting the coverage of the 1/8th Off Road Euros. Make sure you join us then!