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September 11, 2017

Schumacher BTCC finale – Report

The final round for 2017 of the Schumacher BTCC took place this weekend at the popular Cotswolds circuit. The drivers had to contend with incredibly mixed and difficult track conditions throughout the day as the UK weather is definitely in Autumn mode. Olly Jefferies dominated the Modified class as he has for most of 2017 taking a comfortable win in both legs of the finals after taking TQ. Chris Grainger was 2nd and Elliott Harper 3rd.

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September 11, 2017

Soren Boy Holst wins at Danish EP On-road finale

The final round of the Danish Electric On-road Championship was held in Odense over the weekend. Saturday’s practice was pretty much washed away and only a handful of drivers tried to tackle the track with prepped cars. Sunday then started off with two round of controlled practice but unfortunately the track was still moist so track activity would be limited. With this being the championship decider Mike Gosvig and Kevin Nielsen were both keen to score maximum points, as they went even into the final round, but it was veteran racer Soren Boy Holst, who only has some sort of a practice season in 2017 but already won the Glostrup round of the nationals and the Hot Race Summer Cup, who stamped his authority with his VBC Racing car by taking the pole position for the triple A-mains. His TQ also meant the oh so important extra point was taken away from the championship contenders.

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September 11, 2017

Asia Onroad Championships Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of the Asia Onroad Championships were held at the GRC Raceway in South Korea. A true world-class facility greeted the drivers that gathered from all around the world to compete. In the opening Modified Touring A-main and out to the early lead was Akio Sobue with teammate Marc Rheinard following closely. In the 3rd position was E. C. Kim patiently waiting for the leaders to make a mistake and take advantage. The leaders would get by lapped traffic cleanly, Kim wouldn’t be so lucky. Akio and Marc would battle all the way until the end with only two tenths of a second separating them. E. C. Kim would finish 3rd.

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September 11, 2017

Kaja Novotny trifecta at Czech 1/10th Off-road Nats

The final round of the Czech 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held in Usti nad Labem. The organisers had created a new layout for the huge astro turf track and in the 2WD Buggy and 4WD Buggy classes it was Xray’s Kaja Novotny who managed to TQ all round of qualifying to take the pole positions in the respective classes. In the opening 2WD A-main Kaja suffered bad luck as a piece of astro turf caused havoc to his car which allowed Ales Bidovsky to take the win. A2 then was a done deal for Kaja which meant the final A-main would decide over the race win and also the overall title. For three minutes Kaja and Ales would have a great fight until the latter made a mistake and so Kaja would cruise to the win and the overall championship. Another fight was on for the overall 3rd place between Marek Schiller and Milan Mudra. Ultimately Milan would prevail to take the final podium spot.

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September 11, 2017

Hupo Hönigl doubles at Austrian EP Buggy Nats Rd4

Round 4 of the Austrian 1/10th Electric Buggy Nationals was held at the track of the ERT Steyregg club. It was the first ever Nationals on a full astro turf track JConcepts Lockness tyres being chosen as the control tyre. The fast layout and super high traction made it difficult to manage error-free runs and in the 2WD qualifying it was a 2-way battle between local driver Philipp Märzinger and Hupo Hönigl. Both had two TQ runs each, but in the end Phillip could take the overall TQ with the fastest overall time. In the finals Phillip was way too nervous and crashed early in the first two mains, which Hupo could win in cruise mode. Phillip finished 2nd by taking A3 and up and coming young star Lucas Grainer would round up the podium with his consistent performance over the whole weekend.

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September 11, 2017

Davide Ongaro crowned double Italian champion

The final round of the Italian AMSCI 1/8th Off-road National Championship was held this past weekend and it was Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro who walked away with the titles in the Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy classes. Davide would start behind Marco Baruffolo (TLR) in the Nitro A-main but he found a way past in the opening stages and never looked back. Even when rain started to some 15 minutes before the end Davide kept his cool and he would bring home a maiden Nitro national title. Elsewhere in the E-Buggy class Davide would take wins in the opening two A-mains to seal his third national E-Buggy title early.

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September 11, 2017

Zheyi Shen wins Chinese 4WD Buggy title

The Chinese Off-road Nationals were held recently in the town of Suzhou. In the 1/10th 4WD Buggy class it was 12-years old Yibo Zhang (Xray) with the overall TQ courtesy of two round TQs, however in the mains he suffered some bad luck and after mishaps in A1 and A2 he had to settle for 3rd overall behind Li Shen (Serpent) on the runner-up spot and new national champion Zheyi Shen (Serpent).

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September 11, 2017

Jean-Pierrick Sartel wins French E-Buggy finale

The final round of the French 1/8th E-Buggy National Championship was held in Noeux les Mines this past weekend. TLR’s Jerome Sartel HB Racing’s Thomas Musso and Xray’s Jean-Pierrick Sartel battled for the overall TQ with all three scoring round TQs and in the end it was Jerome who held the upper hand, taking the pole position for the A-mains tie on points with Thomas Musso while Jean-Pierrick ended a somewhat troubled qualifying in 3rd. Ultimately and after the four A-main encounters it was Jean-Pierrick with a clean sweep in the finals to take the day’s win from Thomas Musso on the runner-up spot while Jerome Sartel had to settle for 3rd overall.

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