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The final stage of the “Nitro Rallycross” championship has been completed. After Saturday 1: 1 due, in which Scott Speed was the fastest, the decisive battles began on Sunday. Kevin Hansen and overall leader Trevis Pastrana took the first row in the first race. Pastrana was the fastest in the exciting race, with Kevin Hansen losing 0.4 seconds. Timi Hansen won the second race, with Oliver Erikson losing less than two seconds. Ronalds Baldiņš started in the third race from the second starting row, next to Liam Doran. This time the start was not the fastest for Baldiņš, and after the first bend, our athlete took the last fifth place. Scott Spid, who lost to Tanner Faust in 4.1 seconds, celebrated a convincing victory in the race. Baldiņš was 9.3 seconds behind in fourth place.-
This was followed by semi-final races. Ronald, who was third after the first lap, started in the first semifinal race in front of the other three riders who had already left the jockeys. Baldiņš went to the second lap in the joker, after which our athlete returned to the sixth place on the track. Kevin Hansen celebrated a convincing victory, leaving Robin Larson behind, but the Latvian athlete took fifth place, more than ten seconds behind.
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In the second race, red flags were hoisted twice on the track. In the third run, the athletes managed to reach the finish line, where Steve Arpin was the fastest (one red flag had previously been hoisted precisely because of Arpin, whose car had remained on the side of the track before the big springboard). The second was originally Fraser Maconel, but later the athlete was penalized, allowing Chase Eliot to take second place.
This was followed by a race of last hope, in which eight riders took part in the start to fight for one place in the grand final. Tanner Faust celebrated the victory in an exciting battle, with brothers Kevin and Oliver Eriksoni losing 0.6 and 0.9 seconds. The sixth place for Baldiņš, which meant that our athlete is over.
Before the decisive race, three athletes applied for the title – Pastrana, Spid and T. Hansen. Spid and T. Hansen started from the first starting line, but from Pastrana and K. Hansen from the second. In the first turn, after the contact between K. Hansen and Pastrana, Pastrana ran into the side in the car of the team member Spid quite strongly, which allowed T. Hansen to take the lead. The Swedish athlete was closely followed by Pastrana while Hansen was ahead of Spid. Hansen managed to defend the first position, while his brother Kevin finished second. Spid came in third, but Pastrana, who went to the last lap in the joker, fell to fourth.
Adding points, it became known that Pastrana and Spid have the same number of points, but Pastrana became the champion. Spid was second and T. Hansen was third, who had one point less.
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Results of the final race:
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Championship overall rating:
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Final race:
Trips to Baldina – 28:40, 1:00:00 and 2:16:00
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