The first round of the Austrian Electric On-road Nationals saw Dominic Vogl pretty much dominating the Touring Car Modified class and so he took the TQ and the pole position for the A-main in front of Patrick Gollner and Thomas Pumpler. The final result then again saw Dominic on top with Patrick and Thomas rounding out the top 3 result.
Image: Dominic Vogl
The second round of the French Nitro Off-road Championships was held in Pirerrefeu this past weekend. Yannick Aigoin, fresh from his move to Xray, took the win some two laps ahead of HB’s Renaud Savoya. TLR driver Jerome Sartel rounded out the podium of the 45 minute final another lap down. Julien Lattanzio came in 4th, Lorenzo Crolla completed the top 5 result.
Source: Yannick Aigoin
The 10th International Warmup Race was held at the ESV Bischofsheim track with around 180 drivers in attendance in the three classes of 1/8th Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy. The Nitro Buggy class had Jörn Neumann dominating the class with Marcel Guske and Carsten Keller coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively in the main final. The Truggy class again had Jörn Neumann coming out successful, this time in front of Alex Hardt and young Burak Kilic. Last but not least in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was again Jörn who came out successful for a clean sweep at the traditional off-road season opener. A hard chasing Joseph Quagraine finished on the runner-up spot while Carsten Keller rounded out the podium in 3rd.
Image: Jörn Neumann
This past Sunday the first round of the Belgian 1/8th and 1/10th Nitro On-road Championship was held at the track of Bierset. The qualifiers and finals were run in difficult track conditions due to rain in the morning and early afternoon. In the 1/8th class Robin D’Hondt took the pole with his new BMT. He confirmed his good performance in the dry final where he found himself in last position at first, following a crash in the first corner. With smooth but fast driving Robin moved his way up into the lead again before the first pit stop and he then maintained a high pace to take the win. Local young talent Augustin Mejor (Mugen), in his first year in the 1/8th class, demonstrated his skills and ended the main final in 2nd position. Hugues Yerna (Capricorn) completed the podium in 3rd.
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Round 2 of the Alberta Touring Series was held in Edmonton, Alberta. The NASCAR club hosted a great event with 121 entries across six classes. The focus of this new series would be to have fun, keep rules to a minimum, save budget conscious racers some money with less travel and create a friendly provincial rivalry so the format for the weekend would be three qualifiers and triple mains for everyone. In the Touring Car Modified Class, TQ Wayne Mah (Awesomatix) would win all three of his mains in dominating fashion over Steve Soon (Serpent), with Tommy Tam (Yokomo) taking 3rd.
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The first round of the Greek 1/8th Buggy Nationals was held in Athens. After five round of qualifying Tasos Paparegas took the TQ from Makropoulos and Zagorisos. Delbederis rounded out the top 4 result so far.
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Round 2 of the FBA Belgian Championship was held in Zarren at the RTI/Lovan club who hosted the race on a big indoor track. In the Touring Car Modified class it was last year’s winner Olivier Bultynck who took TQ in front of up and coming Mitchel Van Es. Nick Joosens grabbed the 3rd spot on the grid while a not-so-happy Nicolas Delisé ended the qualifiers on the 4th spot. The opening A-main saw Olivier having a splendid start and while the remainder of the field tried to follow him, a fight arose between Nick and Mitchel that ended in a coming together which allowed Nicolas to slip into 2nd place. Meanwhile Olivier was up and away and he took the win by almost 6 seconds. Further down the field Nicolas was under big pressure from Nick but managed to take 2nd place.
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Round 3 of the Maltese 1/8th Nitro Buggy and Truggy Nationals Championship was held at the MMORRC track. In the Buggy F1 class Dillon Cassar took the TQ after the qualifiers and he went on to win the main final in front of 2nd placed Charles Vassallo while Christ Zahra rounded out the podium in 3rd for an all-Xray podium lock-out.
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