Hagberg & Kragefski bump into A-Main

Just as he did at the season opener, World Champion Alexander Hagberg has booked a place in the Main event at Round 2 of the Euro Nitro Series by winning the B-Main. The Swede, who found himself 14th at the end of the truncated qualifying, would start 4th on the grid for the shortened 15-minute encounter but it was his team-mate Tom Krägefski’s fuel strategy that would allow the Xray/Orcan pairing into the A-Main. Starting from pole, Rene Püpke initially led from Infinity driver Andy Moore until a mistake dropped the German out of contention. Moore would now lead but with an extra stop to do this played into Hagberg’s hands. While Hagberg would pull clear at the front, Moore now had to contend with Krägefski but a slight bobble would be enough to let the German passed for second spot. While the British driver would fight back over the closing laps, Krägefski had enough in hand to book his place in the final.

After the race, Hagberg said, ‘we had good fuel consumption and having to do only two stops gave us the upper hand’. Posting one of the slowest laps of the race, he added, ‘I was not the fastest but did enough to bump up and now we need to make changes for final. Let’s see how it works out’. Krägefski said ‘we were not sure about the fuel strategy. It was a gamble but it paid off’. He continued, ‘When I had a gap I had to be very smooth. We had the engine very lean, I don’t think we can run the same way in the final’.

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