Pre-WC 1:10.

During the Easter weekend saw the warmup race for the 1/10th 200mm World Championships take place at the Monsanto track in Lisbon, Portugal, host of the World Championship event in August.
After qualifying it was 2 time European Champion Dario Balestri on the pole position for the main final ahead of Robert Pietsch in 2nd with Giuseppe D’angelo in third and Alessio Mazzeo closing the top 4.

During the 60minute final there was a big placeshuffle with all drivers, but in the end Dario finished about a half a second behind the winner, and Robert Pietsch chasing Dario hard but finished 3 seconds behind (including a tire change for Robert Pietsch).
The Top 3 all finished with 182 laps after 60minutes racing and even in 4 seconds from first place to 3rd.

During this event we went trough the paddock and counted the number of NOVAROSSI based engines (NOVA-Max Power-JP-Mega MF) and others.
After we putted the numbers into a graph and that showed that 49% of the 53 drivers that where present during this Pre Worlds meeting had a NOVAROSSI made engine to power their car.

Source podium picture: RedRC.net