The warm-up race for the 3rd round of the Italian Nitro Off-road Championship was held in Fermo and saw Marco Natale taking the day’s win some two laps in front of Fabrizio Teghesi. Davide Tortorici would round out the podium in 3rd place in front of Alessio Arioli and Stefano Rossi in 4th and 5th respectively.
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Ronald Volker has claimed his fifth consecutive Euro Touring Series championship title, the Yokomo driver declaring that Season #8 of the world famous championship was ‘definitely the hardest season’ yet. Coming into the event with only long standing arch rival Marc Rheinard able to deny him the title, Volker said this season the level of world class drivers at each of the six rounds was higher than ever and this was the title he was most proud of. With the sixth & final round at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia netting Team Xray its first ever 1-2 finish Bruno Coelho taking the win from Alexander Hagberg, Volker said while this weekend was not a good race for him he still got what he came for and he was delighted to win ‘a hard fought fifth title’.
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Round five of the Funnycars Cup was held in Usti an Labem over the weekend. The Usti track is a pretty unusual affair as it is built into a hillside and thanks to the recent rebuild it is now covered in astroturf. The race format was four rounds of qualifying and triple mains for the finals and in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Vaclav Broz who took the pole position while teammate Vojtech Soukup placed his buggy on the 2 spot. In the mains Vaclav then came out successful to take the day’s win from Vojtech.
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The second round of the BeNeLux Nitro Challenge, a 3-race series for 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road cars, was held last weekend at the track of Model Race Genk. Overall a total of 41 drivers competed the 1-day race in very nice weather conditions and a friendly atmosphere. In the 1/8th class it was Tobias Hepp (Mugen) who took the pole position, ahead of first round winner John Ermen (ARC).
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Round four of the French 1/8th Nitro Buggy Championship took place this weekend in the Normandy in the Northwest of France. The track had a lot of difficulties to offer with loads of dirt and many holes. Kyosho’s Jerome Aigoin scored his first in the championship this year in front of his brother Yannick whose 2nd place was enough to win him the championship title. Agama driver Hugon Edouard came in 3rd to round out the podium. Missing in the main final was HB’s Renaud Savoya who DNF’d in the semifinal due to a broken servo.
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Having joined the Euro Touring Series’ elite list of race winners with victory at the penultimate round of the championship in Luxembourg last month, Bruno Coelho has backed that up with win number 2 of his debut ETS campaign today at the Hudy Racing Arena. Securing a career first ETS TQ in Slovakia, the Xray driver secured the overall win at his team’s home track with an even more convincing win in A2 ahead of team-mate Alexander Hagberg.
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Gas-powered cars 1/8th scale nitro on-road are considered to be the Formula 1 of radio controlled racing and like full-scale motorsports with the new Formula E, who have their season finale this weekend in downtown London, the new electric-powered 1/8th scale cars are an upcoming alternative. In the slipstream to the Nitro-West-Masters, a popular and still growing championship for 1/8th and 1/10th scale nitro on-road cars in Western Germany, the ePower-West-Masters have been launched for the 2015 season with four rounds in the preliminary calendar. Already at the end of the 2014 season the 1/8th ePower cars, powered by 6S LiPo packs, up to 2200Kv brushless motors and a minimum weight of 2500 grams have shown their potential in two promotion races at Borgholzhausen and Hamm.
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Bruno Coelho took a straight forward tone to tone win in the opening A-Main at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Slovakia. Starting from his first ETS pole position, the Xray driver led home team-mate Alexander Hagberg for what could be a significant result for the team at their home race with the threat of rain making it likely at least one of the two remaining Mains will not be run. Closest to the Xray duo, who were a class apart throughout the 5-minutes leaving the rest of the field behind, would be Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard. Starting fourth Rheinard inherited 3rd on the opening lap after a mistake from Meen Vejrak and then survived a challenge from Yannic Prumper to hold that position to the finish.
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