The 2015 season of the RC Lemans Series will kick off on the weekend of April 19th. The 7-race series visits tracks in Belgium, Luxemburg, German and the Netherlands and it is held in Pro10 Modified and Pro10 Stock 10.5T Zero Boost classes. Race 5, hosted by the German Bad Breisig club, also marks the warm-up race for the 25. International German Championship held in September. More information, rules and all dates can be found here.
David Ronnefalk has ended Day 1 of the Euro Offroad Series in Wels, Austria, at the top of the times sheets with the HB driver setting the fastest 4WD practice time ahead of Lee Martin who earlier in the day topped 2WD practice. Setting his fastest 3-consecutive laps in the second of the controlled practice rounds Ronnefalk would end up 1/10th of a second faster than Martin who set his time in CP1. Behind them Martin Bayer would complete the Top 3, the Xray driver making a substantial improvement on his opening seeding pace in the final practice.
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Potentially able to secure his first ever EOS title this weekend, Lee Martin got Round 3 of the championship in Wels, Austria off to an encouraging start as he took his Yokomo to the top of the times in 2WD practice. The British driver, who claimed his first EOS win with defending champions Yokomo at the prevous round in Berlin, set the fastest time over 3-consecutive laps from Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski. Overall it was a good start to the weekend for Yokomo with the strongly represented Japanese manufacturer getting four cars in the Top 10 with Bjorn Prumper completing the Top 3.
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The Brazilian 1/8th On-road Championship was held in the City of Americana near Sao Paulo, host of the IFMAR World Championships this year. Following a rainy qualifying Flavio Elias had no problems to win the semi-final and bump up to the championship deciding final. The first laps of the 45 minute main were a little bit troublesome but Flavio stayed calm and started to control the race when he took over the lead and kept the 1st place until the checkered flag.
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The 2015 Australian 1/8 Fuel Off-Road National Championships were held at the Model Off-Road Buggy Club in Perth, Australia. As qualifying got underway, it was clear that Kyle McBride would be one of the drivers to beat for the title in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy and Truggy classes. Comfortable from the first lap, the 18-year-old drove with the experience of a top veteran and put himself in great positions for the main events. First up was the Truggy main where McBride jumped out to an early lead and never looked back, lapping the field twice. In the Buggy class the results were similar, with McBride putting three laps on the competition getting him his fifth Buggy Championship in a row.
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The 5th and final round of the DRCMU series was held in Djurs Country, also known as the “nose” of Denmark. Going into the final round both the Touring Car Modified and Super Stock titles were still up for grabs in the series, that attracted over 130 drivers this season. In the Super Stock class the title decision would be between Nicolai Lindegaard and Steven M. Olsen. In the first two qualifying rounds, run on Saturday, Lindegaard took the TQ, putting pressure on Steven who stroke back in the third qualifier, held on Sunday morning. Despite the pressure building up Nicolai kept his cool and secured Q4 and Q5 to take the overall TQ for the finals. Steven M. Olsen came in 2nd while Soren Boy Holst rounded out the top 3 so far. The young guns of Mads Andreas Callesen and Stefan Finnich completed the top 5.
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The 1st round of the Spanish nitro on-road nationals was held at the Ronda track. The weekend was pretty much washed away by the weather and in the 45 minute main final it was Jorge Revert who made the best out of the situation as he came out successful in front of David Jonas Alonso and Alberto Alonso.
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The opening round of the 2015 Malaysia National Challenge kicked off at the Kuala Terengganu RC Track. Run in 1/8th and 1/10th on-road classes the series always attracts local racers and guest from abroad alike and round 1 made no difference. In the 1/10th 200mm class Baha took the TQ but it was Helmi who came out successful in the A-main in front of the TQ holder. Kimie rounded out the podium in 3rd.
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