The final round of the Spanish 1/8 Nitro On-road Championship was held at the Autet track near Valencia. During qualifying the weather was excellent resulting in a close affair with a gap of only 3sec from 1st to 6th place. Team Shepherd showed a strong performance and had five cars directly in the semi-finals: Carlos Peracho, Ruben Olivares, Vicente Eres, Jaume Bersco - who came back after a long time abstinence - and Alberto Alonso who already secured the Spanish championship title at the penultimate round.

For Sunday the weather changed with some clouds and thunder storms predicted for the afternoon. First up was the 40+ final and it was Shepherd's Vicente Eres who took the victory being joined on the podium by his team-mate Javo Godoy in 3rd position.

From the semis it were Peracho, Olivares, Alonso and Bresco who bumped up to the final making Shepherd the strongest brand. At the start Peracho suffered a flame-out and had to start from the pitlane. When climbing up the order he was hit by another car and dropped again to the last position while Alonso was in 2nd position fighting with Victor Gonzales for the lead. Peracho didn't give up and worked his way back to the front with an excellent drive. He took over the lead from Gonzalez at the 10min mark after a great fight. When Gonzalez had to retire because of technical issues Peracho was able to switch to cruise mode as he had a good advantage over the remainder of the field. After 32min the race was stopped by the officials because of a nearing thunderstorm and the race order was taken as the official result. Peracho took the victory being the only driver winning twice this season with Santeiro finishing 2nd and Olivares completing the podium in 3rd position.

Source: Team-Shepherd