So was it time for the kickoff the Norwegian indoor season, and as allways it was starting at the weekend race at  SAS Radisson Beitostølen hotel. Beitostølen is a ski resort 3 hours drive from Oslo, the capitol of Norway.

The young uppcomming star Martin Stensrud age 7.

The 1:12 class was dominated by Adrian Berntsen who managed to stay a head of the older and more experienced drivers. Adrian Berntsen totally dominated qualification and the finals, and leaving the Dahl brothers to fight for the runners up and 3^rd position

Results in 1:12

Adrian Berntsen                          CRC

Bjørn Dahl                                    BMI

Rolf Dahl                                      BMI

Johnny Magnussen                    ????

Alf Skaar                                     Home Made

Thorbjørn Jørgensen                 Corally

Ole Bro                                       ?????

Oddbjørn Trømborg                   Corally            

The most exiting to se was the new home made car of Alf Skaar the T(star)12. The car has many new exiting and good looking ideas, and it runs very well.

In the superstock class

This year is going to be more open since the pro racers like Helge Johannesen; and some other sponsored drivers are going to race in the modified class. This leave the class open for youngsters like Petter Berntsen and Jorn Borgevad to battle it out with the older Knut Enger and Rune “I got lucky” Berget.

After Qualification oldman Knut Enger was the man who sat on the pole, and after some exiting finals Petter managed to secure the win and get a good start of the new seson. 

Winner of B final was Knut Torger Stensrud.

Top 10 SS 19T

Petter Berntsen                        HotBodies

Knut Enger                                Xray

Kingsnake Borgevad              Tamiya

Rune ”I got lucky” Berget         Xray

Robert Kay                               Xray

Andreas Bull Freng                 Xray

Erik Ottervik                             Xray

Leif Tore Stensrød                  Tamiya

Knut Kåre Holt                         Hot Bodies

Espen Myhre                           Xray

This years modified class is the biggest in Norway in years. Top stars like Eirik Andreassen and Helge Johannessen who just mist out on a A final in 200mm nitro track this summer

The fight was to be between Helge Johannessen and Eirik Andreassen  followed by Georg Ellingsen. This was the top 3 after qualification

This was also the result after 3 finals but due some DQ Eirik Andreassen lost his best final run and ended up as #4

The nice thing is that so many different cars are representative, 6 different brand of cars. Watch out for some drivers profiles with their cars and setups are comming here soon.

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Top 10 Modified

Helge Johannesen                    Xray 007

Georg Ellingsen                        Xray 007

Adrian Berntsen                       Serpent S-400

Eirik Andreassen                     Tamiya MRE

Roger Berntsen                        Serpent S-400

Robin Simonsen Nordlie          Xray 007

Gøran Langsholt                      Serpent S-400

Christer Antonsen                    Hot Bodies

Jon Åge Olsen                         Corally

John Lara                                 AE TC5