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June 26, 2017

Renaud Savoya takes French Nitro Buggy Champs Rd4

The fourth round of the French Nitro Buggy National Championship was held at Saint-Aubain-sur-Mer in the Normandy this past weekend. The dirt track held loads of bumps and dust, making it a real challenge for all drivers. Ultimately it was TLR’s Renaud Savoya who made the best out of the conditions, bringing home the TQ and win from Xray’s Jean-Pierrick Sartel in 2nd and TLR’s Jerome Sartel in 3rd. Eduard Hugon (Agama) and Jean Marc Lacheze (HB Racing) would round out the top 5 result.

Image: Jerome Sartel

June 26, 2017

French Electric On-road Nationals Rd4 – Report

La Ferriere-Aux-Étangs near Caen with its fast and bumpy track played host to round four of the French Electric On-road Nationals. In the 10.5T Blinky Touring class Steeve Favrelle set the early pace by TQing two rounds while Pierre Delorme also scored a TQ run on Saturday. Sunday came and it was again the duo of Steeve and Pierre that dominated the qualifiers with Pierre ultimately walking away with the overall TQ from Steeve in 2nd.

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June 26, 2017

Jared Tebo takes ROAR Nitro Buggy title

Stateline R/C Raceway in Fremont, Indiana played host to the 2017 ROAR Fuel Off-road National Championship this past weekend. Mixed weather conditions made this challenging for both drivers and the organisers and in the premier Nitro Buggy class it was Xray’s Ty Tessmann who took the overall TQ honours courtesy of round wins in Q3 and Q4 while the only other round TQ holders, Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin and Kyosho’s Jared Tebo had to settle for 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the finals things mixed up a bit with Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz looking really fast but being a bit too inconsistent, this allowed Jared Tebo to take another national championship title, although after quite a winning drought at national-level events. Ryan Lutz had to settle for 2nd overall while defending champion, Spencer Rivkin completed the podium in 3rd after a great recovery following an early mistake.

Image: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

June 26, 2017

Zuber & Hundertmark win at North German regionals

Round 3 of the North German Off-road regionals was held at the astro turf track in Celle near Hannover. The weather was great on Sunday but the challenging and bumpy track, that changes traction a lot during the day, made things difficult. Unfortunately the turnout of drivers was pretty low meaning a lot of hassle for drivers who competed in more than one class. Overall and in the stadium truck class it was John Zuber who brought home the win from Michael Bossel and Mirko Johne while the 4WD class was won by Lars Hundertmark from John Zuber 2nd and Olaf Stein 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 26, 2017

Kurzbuch & Schäfer win at EFRA GP Series Rd2

The final day of round 2 of the EFRA GP Series started off wet due to a huge overnight rain. Race director Ernesto Camponovo would delay the official start of the day until 10.00 as the rain stopped at about 9.00. Half an hour of practice was then used to clear the track and to allow the drivers to adapt to the new conditions with the race program continuing with the lower finals at 10.30. After the semis, Kyle Branson, Daniele Ielasi, Maximilian Vogl, Stefan Hanauer, Mattia Pesenti, Nicola Marrone, Marco Vanni and Louis Christophe would bump up to the main final that was completed by reigning IFMAR World Champion, Simon Kurzbuch and 9-times IFMAR World Champion, Lamberto Collari.

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June 26, 2017

BRCA Touring Car Series Rd3 – Report

Mixed weather conditions was the challenge for drivers at round three of the BRCA Touring Car Series, held at the Stafford track, with rain disrupting most of the morning’s qualifying runs and with Saturday’s practice held in the dry sunshine, this left drivers with little track data going into the meeting. Modified class championship leader, Olly Jefferies saw off a strong challenge in qualifying to take TQ with his Xray ahead of Chris Grainger’s Team Associated with Alex Gardner getting his best run at a UK national lining up third for VBC.

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June 25, 2017

Kurzbuch & Gruber TQ at EFRA GP Series Rd2

Day two of round 2 of the EFRA GP Series in Lostallo, Switzerland again saw very warm weather with more than 30 degree Celsius and high humidity. The day saw five rounds of qualifying of which three counted and in 1/8th nitro on-road it was Simon Kurzbuch who excelled and who took a pretty dominant overall TQ. Following the qualifying the Superpole races were on with Lamberto Collari, Toni Gruber, Robin D’hondt and Kyle Branson battling for the second direct qualifying spot. Unfortunately Toni had mechanical issues and wasn’t able to take part is the Superpole race while Robin and Lamberto both were in the mix. Ultimately Collari would prevail, taking the runner-up spot with a 20.334 from D’hondt with a 20.363.

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June 24, 2017

EFRA GP Series Rd2 – Practice update

The MRTM Lostallo track in Switzerland plays host to round 2 of the EFRA GP this weekend. Former home of three IFMAR World Championships as well as some EFRA Euros, the huge and fuel consuming track sets the stage for some competitive racing with 47 drivers attending in the 1/8th and 1/10th nitro classes. To the demeaning track conditions add high temperatures of about 34 degree Celsius which results in pretty high traction and in the 1/8th class it was Simon Kurzbuch (Shepherd/Novarossi) who set the early practice pace with a 1:00:150 for his best three consecutive laps. Some 0.429s down, Lamberto Collari (Infinity/O.S. M.Collari) is the only other driver to pull three laps with in the 1:00:00 range. Elsewhere in the 1/10th Touring class it is Germany’s Toni Gruber (WRC/Novarossi) who looks to be the man to beat so far with a 1:02:265.

Source: EFRA [efra.ws]