The opening round of the Austrian 1/8th Nitro Buggy Nationals was held at the WMW Fehring track. Dominic Bauer (Mugen) took the TQ after the qualifiers and he went on to win the main final after a hard fought battle with 2nd placed Michael Nalukowy (Kyosho) and 3rd placed Patrick Schweinzer (Mugen). Jürgen Trieb (Mugen) and Hupo Hönigl (Serpent) rounded out the top 5 result.
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A track where back in 1978 a 6-year-old Lamberto Collari would begin a career that has brought him 9-time World Champion titles, today the legend of the sport gave his rivals a master class in how to execute the perfect final as he took victory in the season opener of the Euro Nitro Series. Now owner of the L.Collari RC Raceway, Collari claimed his third ENS win by a full lap over Top Qualifier Dario Balestri with Andrea Pirani completing the podium in Bologna. The honour of best non Italian fell to defending champion Simon Kurzbuch who would finish 5th behind Alberto Picco after a difficult race.
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VP Pro have a new wheel balancer available for 1/10th tyres with 12mm hex rims. Made from black anodised aluminium the wheel balancer offers high accuracy and a clamping-type system that prevents binding. A large lower tray acts as a sturdy base and also takes small parts such as mounting hardware. The balancer is made especially for 1/10th off-road wheels but it works with other 12mm hex adapter wheels also.
Source: VP Pro [vp-racing.com]
Man of the moment Bruno Coelho has won the opening round of Season #2 of the Euro Nitro Series in Bologna, Italy. Making his ENS debut, the factory Xray driver took victory in the 45-minute encounter over the HB of Jilles Groskamp and his Xray World Champion team-mate Alexander Hagberg. Top Qualifier Teemu Leino’s race would come to a sudden end when having lead the race for 25-minutes the Finn would pull a front corner of his HB as he hit the pitwall as he came in for a scheduled stop. 2014 ENS title front runner Dominic Greiner would suffer a similar faith as he broke the rear suspension on his Serpent 10-minutes into the race.
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The final round of the Finnish Electric On-Road Nationals saw Vesa Yli taking the day’s win and with it the overall title in the 1/12th scale class which, due to the lack of entries, was not an official Finnish national title this year. Vesa’s V-Dezign team mates Panu and Ari-Pekka Kyykkä came in 2nd and 3rd respectively to round out a great team performance.
Source: V-Dezign [v-dezign.net]
The German Indoor Touring Car Nationals were held this past weekend in Berlin. The qualifiers would see a battle between Marc Rheinard and Yannic Prümper with both ending tie on points and the tie breaker handed Marc the pole position for the triple A-mains. The opening A-main had Marc taking quite a clear win ahead of Yannic Prümper and Christopher Krapp and the TRF driver was also able to grab the victory in A2 to take the overall win and with it the national title. Sitting out the third A-main Marc Rheinard (Tamiya) made way for Yannic Prümper (Yokomo) who cemented his runner-up spot with a win in front of newly signed Tamiya/TRF driver Christopher Krapp who rounded out the podium in 3rd.
Image: Marc Rheinard
The first round of this year’s French 200mm Nitro On-Road Nationals was held in Toulouse. After the qualifiers Quentin Leroux (Capricorn/Team Orion) had grabbed the TQ honours in front of Michael Derderian (Xray/Gimar) and Basile Concialdi (KM/Novarossi). The final that saw a nice battle for the lead between Quentin and Michael with the latter being on a different tyre strategy which paid out at the end as he was able to grab the overall win from Quentin, while Basile rounded out the podium in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The opening round of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Off-Road Nationals was held this past weekend and to the surprise of many the race marked the end of an era. After 9 years of dominating the championship, except for two races were he was hampered by technical issues, Robert Batlle did not win a round of the Spanish 1/8th nationals. Instead round one saw a legit win of Oscar Baldo with whom Robert had some very nice battles until the very last lap. Oscar’s race for the win seemed to be in doubt early in the main when he crashed and dropped to 12th place and even stalled the engine but with a great recovery he managed to get to the top of the field again to fight with Robert and to take the win. Behind Oscar and Robert, Bryan Baldo, who started from the pole position, rounded out the all-Mugen podium in 3rd.
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