Race Report
Andreas Myrberg wins Swedish PTCC 2001 final with his Factory Team TC3!
The PTCC series
Procar AB supports an winter indoor cup-series that is held from
November to the end of March spread all over the Sweden. The series is
run under the general touring rules (two classes) but with an one-make
tyre that everyone uses (M1 T27) and no tracktite is allowed either. The
classes are modified and stock (with 23 turn sealed stock motors).
The track
This year the series final was held by the SMK Trollhättan club on the
west coast of Sweden with Dallas Mathiesen as referee on March 24-25.
Trollhättan is about an hours drive north of Göteborg and the track is
situated in Volvo Aero's sporting hall for it's employees. The surface
was 2 meter wide carpet taped to the floor with the straight being 3
meter wide. The layout was designed by local guy Mikael Bengtsson and
was quite open in it's design compared to most indoor tracks that tend
to be of "stop-n-go" type with a lot of 180 deg bends. This was
sure to
be an exciting race!
The qualifying Saturday
From the word go, Andreas Myrberg set the pace with really fast laps in
modified. In the end he was almost a full lap in front of last years
runner-up Jonas Andersson in second place. Andrea's TC3 was totally
hooked and he could place it anywhere he wanted it to be on the track.
There where many other fast TC3 cars racing also, all in all the TC3
out-numbered all the other cars as the most popular car at the PTCC
final and in the main final there where 6 TC3's, 2 Yokomo's and 2
Schumacher cars. In stock, Magnus Viktorsson (TC3) was 5 seconds clear
of the second placed driver Johan Lindberg.
The main finals Sunday
Every final (and sub-final) had the chance to run 3 rounds. In the first
modified A-main Andreas took off and by lap 2 or 3 was leading by the
complete straight. Then disaster struck - his TC3 stopped! So that was
an DNF for Andreas with two finals still to go. Jonas Andersson won that
final with TC3 driver Arvid Stenberg in second place and Jonas Nyrén in
third. It turned out that a metal washer was stuck between the magnets
and armature in Andreas motor - oops! Final number 2 and Andreas made
another get-away and never looked back. He won very convincing with
Jonas A in second an Jonas N in third. For the 3:rd final the pressure
was on Andreas and the common saying in the pits was that if he
"only"
stayed on the carpet for 5 minutes he would clearly win, and he did. He
pulled away for about roughly an minute and the seemed to back off.
Andreas was then just behind the fight for 4:th place and he didn't want
to get into that potential "wreck" so he backed off, not trying
to lap
them. He cruised to victory in seldom seen superiority.
In the stock class pole-man Magnus Viktorsson won all 3 finals with his
TC3 car in comfortable style.
Specs of Andreas Myrberg's car:
Factory Team TC3
Futaba 3PJS radio
Futaba S9450 servo
M1 T27 spec tyres
LRP Quantum
LRP Phaser
LRP Powers
LRP Quadra
LRP Fusion 9x3 (21/72T).
Modified results
| 1. | Andreas Myrberg | Factory Team TC3 | Q: 29 laps 6.41 sek | Final: 9-1-1 |
| 2. | Jonas Andersson | Yokomo | Q: 28 laps 5.36 sek | Final: 1-2-3 |
| 3. | Jonas Nyrén | Schumacher | Q: 28 laps 9.25 sek | Final: 2-3-2 |
| 4. | Arvid Stenberg | TC3 Team Car | Q: 27 laps 0.06 sek | Final: 3-9-4 |
| 5. | Fredrik Mathiesen | Schumacher | Q: 28 laps 7.51 sek | Final: 4-4-10 |
| 6. | Björn Pålsson | TC3 Team Car | Q: 27 laps 0.18 sek | Final: 10-6-5 |
| 7. | Stefan Andersson | TC3 Team Car | Q: 27 laps 0.79 sek | Final: 7-5-7 |
| 8. | Mikael Brandt | Factory Team TC3 | Q: 27 laps 0.91 sek | Final: 5-7-8 |
| 9. | Viktor Wilck | TC3 Team Car | Q: 27 laps 1.08 sek | Final: 6-8-6 |
| 10. | Jimmy Nilsson | Yokomo | Q: 27 laps 1.05 sek | Final: 8-10-9 |
43 starting in the modified
class.
Stock results
| 1. | Magnus Viktorsson | TC3 | Q: 26 laps 4.91 sek | Final: 1-1-1 |
| 2. | Johan Lindberg | HPI | Q: 26 laps 10.99 sek | Final: 2-10-2 |
| 3. | Kristoffer Eriksson | HPI | Q: 26 laps 12.71 sek | Final: 3-2-5 |
| 4. | Martin Svantesson | TC3 | Q: 25 laps 3.55 sek | Final: 4-3-3 |
| 5. | Jonny Sörensen | Schumacher | Q: 25 laps 5.24 sek | Final: 7-5-4 |
| 6. | Niklas Larsson | HPI | Q: 25 laps10.30 sek | Final: 5-4-8 |
| 7. | Joakim Magnusson | TC3 | Q: 25 laps 4.02 sek | Final: 8-6-6 |
| 8. | Jonas Andersson | Yokomo | Q: 25 laps 9.72 sek | Final: 6-9-7 |
| 9. | Johnny Karlsson | Yokomo | Q: 25 laps 10.12 sek | Final: 10-7-10 |
| 10. | Christer Jansson | Yokomo | Q: 25 laps 10.31 sek | Final: 9-8-9 |
Special thanks to Niklas Edlund / Minicars Hobby AB - Sweden, for this report.
For more information about the RC10TC3, click here.
For
Andreas Myrberg's TC3 setup sheet, (PDF)
(JPG)
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