Netherlands 1/8 NK 2 at Ruchphen
The second round for 1/8 Onroad Netherlands Nats, was held last weekend at Ruchpen track.
A really interesting and exciting race were Ilia Van Gsatel made his first race as Merlin Team Driver.
Robin D’Hondt has written this text for us:
«Hey Everybody,
The second round of the Netherlands championship was held at the fast track of Rucphen. Weather forecast looked good, we only had a bit of rain on Friday night, which made training on Saturday morning impossible, but for the rest of the weekend the dark clouds would stay away from the track.
On Saturday afternoon I came on track and the setup felt pretty nice to begin with. I didn’t changed anything at first because I wanted more grip to come, so in the late afternoon I only started changing some small things like down stops, front springs and rear arm positions.
The later it got, the faster everyone went and soon we were with 5-6 people driving lap times in or close to 13.0 (track record 12.8 I was told).
On Sunday morning the