Last weekend the local club in Vichy, France recently hosted a nitro on-road race that was used by many racers to prepare the for the French Cup race that will be held later this year on the same track. In the 1/10th 200mm class Michael Derderian (Xray/Gimar) came out fastest in front of Maxime Legay (Capricorn/NDS Tech) and Xavier Blanc (Xray/Novarossi).
Source: Xray [team-xray.com]
The superb and very fast venue of Mendip was the host of the second round of the Schumacher BTCC this past weekend. Many drivers turned up on Saturday for some track time with the weather being dry but cool all day. Come Sunday the weather changed with the track being wet with a few puddles on it. The organisers decided that there would be open practice running until 10AM to give the track plenty of chance to dry out. Also due to the entry being somewhat lower than usual, mainly due to many of the regular drivers attending the ETS race on the same weekend, it was decided that six rounds of qualifying and single mains would be held. The format therefore was three from six rounds to count on round by round qualifying. This was hugely welcomed by the racers who were in attendance, making for plenty of track time before the National in a couple of weeks. After the qualifiers and the single mains Kyle Branson came out successful in the Modified class from Chris Grainger and Stefan Chodzynski.
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Round 4 of the RCMag Brushless Tour 2015 was held at the MRCL Longvic track in France. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class Kyosho’s Jerome Aigoin came out successful in front of Lorenzo Crolla (Xray) and Mugen driver Kevin Michaudet. In the 2WD Short Course class it was again Jerome Aigoin (Kyosho) who took the overall win, this time in front of runner-up Jean-Pierrick Sartel (TLR) and Armand Lantheaume (Team Associated).
Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]
Bruno Coelho has won the fifth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg, a fourth place in the final A-Main enough for the A2 winner to secure his first overall win in the world famous electric touring car championship. An event that would see four drivers go into A3 with a chance of the overall win, the new star of touring cars Coelho would become only the 11th different winner of the ETS’ premiere class helped by Xray team-mate Alexander Hagberg taking the win ahead of Marc Rheinard. Again briefly taking the lead only to again roll his HB Jilles Groskamp would complete the podium at the unique Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg” track. For reigning champion Ronald Volker his chance to secure a fifth consecutive title will have to wait until the season finale at the Hudy Arena after he put his Yokomo on the grass while leading, leaving him to end the event 5th overall. Rheinard’s second today means the Tamiya driver still has a very slim chance of the title.
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The third round of the Portuguese Electric Touring Car Nationals was held at the Associacao Academica de Coimbra race venue. Team Durango’s Jorge Simoes took the TQ in the Stock class from Helder Silva (Capricorn) and Joao Jardim (Xray) and in the triple A-mains it was again Jorge who came out successful despite having some mixed results. Helder Silva ended the mains tie on points with Jorge in 2nd place while Joao Jardim rounded out the podium in 3rd.
Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]
The 2015 Mugen Seiki Cup was held in Reims, France this past weekend. The race brought together Mugen’s international star racers, local talent and newcomers alike for a workshop and race weekend. As for the racing side of things, in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class UK’s Lee Martin came out successful from Spaniard Robert Batlle and Italy’s Davide Ongaro while in the triple E-Buggy mains Robert Batlle took the winning honours from Stephane Couchon and Davide Ongaro.
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The 1/8th E-Buggy European Championship warm-up was held this past weekend in Fehring, Austria. On Saturday four rounds of practice and three round of qualifying would be held with Xray’s Martin Bayer coming out as the fastest driver. Overnight rain and a wet track on Sunday morning meant round four of the qualifiers needed to be called off so everyone went straight into the finals in which Martin again came out successful after some dramatic situations. Winning A1 and A2 meant the overall win for him in front of Jürgen Trieb and Hupo Hönig (Serpent). Martin Wollanka (Xray) and Kaja Novotny (Team Durango) rounded out the top 5 result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The AMS 6.0 was held in Alabama this past weekend with the usual breed of Pro drivers in attendance. TLR’s Dakotah Phend dominated the Pro class qualifying by taking the TQ in Pro Nitro Buggy, Pro Nitro Truggy and Pro E-Buggy. In the Nitro Buggy final it then was Ryan Maifield who came out successful by taking benefit of an early mistake by his team mate. Dakotah finished on the runner-up spot while Cole Ogden completed the TLR podium lockout in 3rd.
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