March 14, 2024
…evolution of the European Federation’s original European Championship, reigning World Champion Dario Balestri will aim to defend his European title on September 18-21 when the championship is hosted at the Miniautodromo Locorotondo track in Southern Italy. Infinity driver Balestri secured his third 1:8 Onroad European title in Portugal last year ahead of Mugen’s Simon Kurzbuch and the Capricorn of Top Qualifier & 1:10 European Champion Toni Gruber. Miniautodromo Locorotondo peviously hosted the Championship in 2010 where Robert Pietsch took the victory for Mugen ahead of Balestri, then driving for Motonica, and the Kyosho of Lamberto Collari. Source: Miniautodromo Locorotondo [Facebook]…
May 25, 2018
…champion Tobias Hepp pushed his Serpent to pole position as he did at the season opener in Bad Breisig. Christian Wurst (Mugen), Daniel Toennessen (Mugen) and Frank Schewiola (Serpent) completed the top 4 which were directly qualified for the main race. With 12.362 seconds, Tobias Hepp established an absolute new track record with his S988, proving the quality of the new tarmac. From semifinal B Karl-Heinz Meister (Serpent), Ralf Vahrenkamp (Mugen) and Fedor Eskes (Motonica) stepped up, from semifinal A Benjamin Lehmann (Shepherd), Marco Muscara (Serpent) and Martin Figge (WRC). In the 30-minutes finale Tobias Hepp stormed into the lead…
August 29, 2017
…in front of Dirk Drechsler (Mugen/45.331), Alex Dill (WRC/45.945) and Christoph Loose (Serpent/46.208). Hertong continued his dominating performance in the heats to take TQ with 16 laps in 4.07.925 – the time would have meant 25th position in class 1. Already three seconds behind was André Boettcher (Mugen/4.10.847) as a surprising second with Dill (4.11.515) and Kroeger (4.11.997) completing the four direct qualifiers. Ralf Wacker (Mugen), Jan Fuss (ARC) and Markus Friedrich (Shepherd) as well as Marco Wambach (Serpent), Markus Gross (Motonica) and Tobias Wagner (Serpent) achieved the top three spots in the two 15-minutes quarterfinals to secure tickets for…
June 29, 2017
…– 119L 3. Uwe Baldes – Shepherd – 114L 4. Christoph Loose – Serpent – 108L 5. Ralf Vahrenkamp – Mugen – 88L 6. Daniel Toennessen – Mugen – 65L 7. Fedor Eskes – Motonica – 10L 8. Edwin Busschers – Xray – 4L After three of six rounds of the 2017 Nitro-West-Masters, Ralf Vahrenkamp is leading the ranking by 350 points in front of reigning champion Uwe Baldes (346) and Daniel Toennessen (345). Melvin Diekmann was able to continue his impressive series of victories in the 1/10th 200mm Open class. With six races in Western Germany and six wins…
June 7, 2017
…scale open class old-hand Karl-Heinz Meister pushed his Serpent to pole-position, furthermore Daniel Toennessen (Mugen), Ralf Vahrenkamp (Mugen) and Belgian Daan Haling (Motonica) were directly qualified for the finale. In the 30 minutes main, Karl-Heinz Meister was passed in a strong manoeuvre by Daniel Toennessen already in the first corner. Toennessen could open a cap and his victory was already in sight when he lost it all because of a broken pulley. While Meister lost some time running out of fuel because of a too rich engine, Benjamin Lehmann in a one-off race with his father´s Shepherd took his chance…
May 10, 2017
…and this ended his race after being so convincing during the whole weekend. Herfried than took the lead and in the middle of the race Nejc grabbed the lead and never looked back to bring home the win while Herfried ran into issues. 1/8th on-road final results: 1. Nejc Mihelič – ARC 2. Herfried Pucher – ARC 3. Luka Bušac – Mugen 4. Roland Riegler – ARC 5. Hans-Jorg Roschen – ARC 6. Simon Štelcl – ARC 7. Zvonimir Matošić – Serpent 8. Mihael Galeković – Capricorn 9. Patrik Pelin – Motonica 10.Jernej Vuga Štendler – Xray Source: Xray [teamxray.com]…
May 22, 2016
…six Serpent, four Shepherd, three ARC, two Capricorn and each one Motonica and Xray among 29 drivers in the halftime ranking. René Puepke pushed his Shepherd to pole position in 1:10 scale at Dormagen but was the first to retire from the finale. Victory was caught by young Melvin Diekmann who brought his Shepherd home two laps in front of Daniel Thiele (Serpent), followed by the three Shepherd racers Marco Nenner, Bernd Rausch and Julien Cevani. At Haltern Daniel Toennessen (Mugen) took pole position and in the main race went over water to achieve a 13 laps advantage while he…
March 29, 2016
…a lap behind. Nitro A-final Results 1. Michael Walton – Mugen / XRD – 106/1812.769 2. John Carr – Serpent / O.S. – 104/1803.157 3. Clive Connolly – Shepherd / Ielasi Tuned – 104/1812.299 4. Wayne Briggs – Serpent / O.S. – 95/1807.703 5. Karl Dransfield – Shepherd / Orcan – 81/1800.596 6. Chris Snell – Shepherd / O.S. – 71/1293.459 7. Richard Waters – Shepherd / Sonic – 68/1253.787 8. Steve Scott – Serpent / O.S. – 47/1800.986 9. Sam Snell – Motonica / O.S. – 35/665.394 10.Richard Hicklin – Serpent / O.S. – 3/667.301 After qualifying in the…
