April 7th saw the second round of the Sumatra Utara Regional Buggy Championship kick off at the MRCC track in Medan, Indonesia. The track itself was in good condition with a clean race line present and no dust. Due to problems with the loop not recognizing certain cars, qualifying was chaos! As a result the race director decided to change the event format to 1 best heat after only 2 runs followed by 3 finals (C, B and A Main) and 5 drivers bump up to higher finals. Unfortunately due to the qualifying problem, Hspeed and Patrix had to start from the C main and climbed their way up to the A main with Hspeed taking the win in the C and B main.
During the A main Asang set off from pole position but ran into trouble after being stuck in traffic while Reno, Hspeed and Patrix got away clean and had a commanding lead to the rest of the field. Reno was very fast but he had to retire after 35 minutes, while Hspeed and Patrix swapped position a few times to take the lead with Edy St in 3rd position, catching up with fast lap after fast lap. The three leaders were in the same laps for almost 30 minutes until Edy St flamed out after a bad landing. It was a very competitive race but Patrix secured the overall win with a 1 lap lead, not with the fastest lap as he would like to have done but with a very consistent run throughout the 45 minutes A main.
Results:
- Patrix H – Sworkz /Alpha
- Hspeed – Mugen / Alpha
- Edy St – Sworkz / Sworkz
- Asang – Mugen / Reds
- Redzwan – Mugen / Sworkz
- Bdspeed – Mugen / Alpha
- Bun Bun – Mugen / Sworkz
- (DNF) Reno – Sworkz / Novarossi
- (DNF) Ahan – Mugen / Argus
- (DNF) Iwan Z – Mugen / Alpha