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April 15, 2016

Tasos Paparegas successful at Greek EP Buggy opener

The opening round of the Greek 1/10th Electric Buggy Nationals was held at the new clay track of the Zorri RC facility in Athens. In the 4WD class Tasos Paparegas would start into the race with a strong showing in the qualifiers in which he kept Ntelmpenteris and John Paparegas behind in second and third respectively. The finals then were a pretty intense affair but Tasos managed to bring home the win in all legs to grab the overall victory from Ntelmpenteris in second and Amaxas in third.

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April 15, 2016

Volker remains on top as Groskamp edges closer

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Expected to be a faster round due the lowering temperature and increasing grip, that prediction did not materialise and conditions remained unchanged with round topper Ronald Volker’s time marginally slower than what he produced in Q1. JJ Wang remains second overnight despite crashing his car later in the heat, the LRP driver pulling up despite not damaging his car. Jilles Groskamp was the only driver in the top 3 to improve, moving to within 1.2 seconds of Wang’s Q1 time, while Jan Rathiesky’s overhauled Xray T4 was vastly improved and he leapt passed Rocket Zhang into the 5th position.

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April 15, 2016

Ronald Volker tops Q1 at AOC Shanghai

Ronald Volker has taken the opening qualifying round at RCI V2 in Shanghai, the German waiting until the last lap to take the top spot from practice pace setter JJ Wang. While JJ held the top spot from the start and even set his fastest lap of the event, a late mistake by the Chinese-American youngster meant he would have to settle for 2nd. The 3rd spot would go to Jilles Groskamp who would again set the second fastest lap time but some small mistakes lost him time to his rivals.

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April 15, 2016

JJ Wang tops controlled practice in Shanghai

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Controlled practice at the opening round of the 2016 Asian Onroad Championships at RCI V2 in Shanghai is now over and in the Modified Touring Car class it was local superstar JJ Wang who is top seed for qualifying. Holding a small advantage over his competitors, the next fastest driver was Yokomo’s Ronald Volker who was just under 1/10th of a second slower than the Chinese American driver over 3 laps. 2012 World Champion Jilles Groskamp was 3rd fastest, and along with JJ was the only driver to post a sub 10 second lap.

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April 15, 2016

F1ITA REmilia Championship GP 1 & 2 – Report

The opening round of the 6-race F1ITA REmilia Championship, a sister series of the F1ItalienSeries, was held at the Romagnoli Arena, near Bologna, Italy. Each race weekend of the championships consists of two GP called races and offers up to 100 minutes of track time for the drivers with the long run final, with two mandatory pit stops, being yet alone being 16 minutes long. As for the results at round 1, Manuele Zotti took wins at both the GP 1 and GP2 race with young Luca Romagnoli taking the two runner-up spots. The third places belonged to Pierluigi Guerrini in the Competition race and to Samuele Romagnoli in the Long Run race. The next races will be held in Reggio Emilia and Bologna with the final meeting in October being held at the Riccione Circuit, host of the Italian ETS meeting.

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April 14, 2016

Choi & Joo win at Losi Korea Championship

The 2016 Losi Korea Championship was recently held at the Banwol Ansan circuit in the three classes of 1/8th Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy. The event attracted a good amount of drivers to compete on the hard-packed yet dusty track and in the premier 1/8th Buggy class it was Byunghoon Choi who took the day’s win from Bumkyu Kim and Kwangbok Lee. In the Nitro Truggy class it was Wonkyu Joo who came out fastest in the main final from Yongjun Lee in second and Kabdong Lee in third. Finally in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was again Wonkyu Joo who ended the day on the highest step of the podium with Jaekuk Yoo and Danseok Lee rounding out the podium result.

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April 12, 2016

Nico Schmid doubles at Swiss Nats Rd2

Round two of the Swiss 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the HVBRS indoor track in Islikon. The qualifiers would be won by Nico Schmid in the 4WD class while Fabian Widmer grabbed the 2WD TQ honours. The 4WD A-mains then saw Patrick Hofer taking advantage of a mistake of Nico in A1 but the latter stroke back in A2 and A3 to take the overall win from Patrick Hofer and Romeo Grass in second and third respectively.

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April 12, 2016

Lanthaume & Crolla win at French Nationals Rd2

Round 2 of the French 1/10th electric off-road nationals was held over the weekend at the Xtreme race dirt track. Especially in Saturday morning the track proved to be very dusty and slippery, making it touch to tame especially for the 2WD drivers. In the 4WD class Armand Lanthaume would take the win from teammates Lorenzo Crolla and Nicolas Rodriguez in second and third respectively.

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