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June 9, 2015

Bruno Coelho doubles at Portuguese Nationals Rd3

Round 3 of the Portuguese Nitro On-road National Championship was held at the São João da Madeira track in Oporto in the north of the country. The track was recently revived after not being in use for some ten years and due to the surface being pretty green tyre wear would be an issue for both the 1/8th and 1/10th classes. Bruno Coelho was the man to beat in both categories and so he would take the TQ after the qualifiers with a margin of a lap to the 2nd place drivers. In the 1/8th final Bruno’s biggest competitor for the win scored a DNF due to an engine failure only ten laps into the race. From that moment on Coelho was able to cruise to the win with his Xray prototype and despite a total of three tyre changes Bruno won the race some 7 laps in front of 2nd placed Hugo Exposto (Mugen).

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June 9, 2015

Zdenko Kunak teams up with Capricorn

Italian company Capricorn have announced the signing of former ETS Pro Stock Champion Zdenko Kunak to their electric on-road team. Zdenko will be racing in Touring Car Modified and Stock classes at events such as the ETS, the LRP Masters and other important races in Europe and World-wide. This is what Zdenko has to say about the deal:

First of all I would like to thanks Patrizio and other guys in Capricorn factory for everything they did me during my visit in Milano. It’s been a year since I make a pause in my racing career for a reason, but now I’m back, even stronger than before. I will be racing 1/10 Stock and Modified category at ETS, LRP Master and other big events in Europe and in the world.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

June 9, 2015

Korgae Scales takes WCICS WGT Championship

After 8 rounds of the 2014/15 Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series CRC-sponsored Korgae Scales, on this picture at home celebrating his son’s first birthday, took the 2014/15 WGT Championship. Fellow CRC team mate Wayne Mah from Alberta grabbed the runner-up spot and WCICS President Josh Carter from Alberta brought home the 3rd place overall. The series will celebrate its 25th Anniversary this year with the 2015/16 season kicking off September 25th in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]

June 9, 2015

IFMAR add Open GT World Cup to Large Scale Worlds

Due to the so far disappointing number of entries for this year’s IFMAR Large Scale World Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, IFMAR have announced the addition of a second class, 1/8th Nitro GT. Held as an open event the “World Cup GT 1/8th” will be run under ROAR and EFRA rules to make for more racing action during the event that will take place from the 4th to 12th of September. With 1/8th GT being an up and coming class in all four blocks the international governing body will review the possible need for a World Championship as it will take a look into the schedule of the large scale class in order to make adjustments to the international schedule as well. The IFMAR announcement can be found after the break and also here (PDF file) where you can also have a look at the technical rules for the 1/8th class event.

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June 9, 2015

2015 Victorian State Offroad Titles – Report

The 2015 AARCMCC Victorian State titles were held last weekend at the Mildura offroad track, 6 hours north of Melbourne, Australia. Just under 150 drivers from around the country made the trek to the red clay track, which started off wet following a rain dump Thursday night but grooved up beautifully through the weekend with perfect weather. The format was Friday practice, Saturday 2WD and Sunday 4WD and Truck classes with Pro-Line Holeshots were chosen as the control tyres for all classes. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class Ray Munday (Team Associated) defended his title with the TQ from local hero Mark Rogers (Team Associated) and young gun Cameron Zammit (Team Associated). After winning all four qualifiers, Munday was pushed hard in A1 by Zammit with Rogers taking A2 to set up an A3 showdown that was ultimately won by Munday sealed the title with a 6 seconds win in the deciding A-main.

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June 8, 2015

Salemi & Redaelli TQ & win at Ielasi Tuned Trophy

The first Ielasi Tuned Trophy was held at the Pista Leno in Italy this past weekend as Italian frontrunner Daniele Ielasi invited the fastest drivers in Italy to compete in the two classes of 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road. In the 1/8th class it was Mirko Salemi who grabbed the TQ and ultimately the winning honours. Francesco Tironi came in 2nd, Walter Salemi rounded out the top 3 result. In the 200mm Touring class TQ Luca Redaelli came out successful from Manuel Strano in 2nd and Mattia Lorenzetti in 3rd.

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June 8, 2015

Hot Race Cup & Beach Party – Announcement

The 2015 edition of the Hot Race Cup & Beach Part will be held on the weekend of the 26th of July at the Riccione track in Italy. The race will be held in the three classes of Touring Car Modified, Touring Car Pro Stock 13.5T and Formula with the Modified class will be run in a special format that sees the B-main drivers battle for an 11th A-main spot in a hot lap contest. Each of the B-main drivers will run a warm-up lap followed by a timed lap with the fastest driver bumping up to the 11 spot in the A-main. As usual the famous Hot Race Cup beach party will be held on Saturday evening and registration will open today, the 8th of June at 8 pm here. More information about the race can also be found here and here.

June 8, 2015

Austrian 1/10th Electric Off-road Nats Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of the Austrian 1/10th scale Electric Off-road nationals was held this past weekend at the MAC Traiskirchen track in the south of Vienna. The track, home of two European Championships, held some difficulties for the racers but the hard-packed and sugared surface made for equal conditions for everyone. A total of 72 racers signed in for the 2WD and 4WD classes and in the 2WD class it was former European Champion Hupo Hönigl who set the pace and who came out on top after the four qualifying rounds in front of Team C driver Martin Kreil and new Schumacher signing Peter Pinisch.

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