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June 29, 2014

Jerome Aigoin wins rain affected French champs Rd4

The 4th round of the French Elite championship was run in the town of Les Andelys in the North of France. Known for being a very rainy region, this weekend made no exception. On Saturday only two rounds of qualifying could be completed with Jerome Aogoin taking the overnight TQ. More rain during the night and on Sunday morning forced the organisers to cancel the race, taking the qualifying results to determine the winner. Therefore Jerome Aigoin (Kyosho) was handed the win in front of Renaud Savoya (Xray) and Jummy Weimann (Kyosho).

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

June 28, 2014

Collari & Redaelli win at 2nd round of Italian champs

The 2nd round of the Italian nitro on-road championships was run at the Ayrton Senna circuit in Melzo. In the 1/8th Expert class Lamberto Collari took the win in the 45 minute final one lap ahead of Mirko Salemi and Alberto Picco. Daniele Ielasi came in 4th, Francesco Tironi ended the race in 5th place.

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June 27, 2014

Südhoff takes Rd3 of Central Germany regionals

Known for his electric touring car skills Freddy Südhoff took a deep nitro sniff and joined the 3rd round of the Central German nitro on-road championship to race in the 1/8th on-road class. Having never raced a 1/8th scale car before he got familiar with his Sonic-powered Velox V8 EC, bored from fellow racer Oliver Mack and prepared by Armin Weihert. In qualifying he took the TQ being the only driver to reach 25 laps with his fastest laptime being 0.2 sec faster than the remainder of the field. In the semi-final A everything went fine and he claimed the pole-position for the 30 minute final while Philip Sting, who was the winner of the semi-final B, was 2 laps short. Right from the start of the final “Fast Freddy” stormed away and increased the gap lap by lap. As the tyre wear was very moderate his lap times were still very fast towards the end of the race although he pushed the whole final. After 30 minutes he crossed the finishline some 6 laps in front of Jürgen Hennemuth in 2nd and Alexander Schmitt in 3rd who was another lap down.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 27, 2014

BRCA 1/10th IC on-road championship Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the BRCA 1/10th IC Championship took place at the Halifax Track in Yorkshire, the excellent facility that hosted the 1/8th European Championships in 2013. The weather forecast showed high temperatures for both days meaning two dry days of running were had. 25 drivers took part in the 200mm class and 14 in the Sports GT class. On Saturday in the open practice, Kyle Branson was showing a fast pace with his XRD-powered Capricorn in the 200mm class and Glyn Beal was posting the fastest laps in the Sports GT class with his Serpent/OS combo. Onto Sunday and round 1 of qualifying went the way of Kyle Branson and Richard Boult. Kyle again posted the fastest time in round 2 with Glyn Beal topping the round in the Sports GT class. The pair again topped round 3 and 4 of their respective classes giving them the TQ positions for their classes.

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June 27, 2014

Cordts brothers sweep Hessen Cup Rd3

The 3rd round of the Hessen Cup was run at the Ober-Mörlen track as part of the qualification for the German 1/8th off-road nationals. 114 drivers signed in for the race that was run under almost sunny weather conditions. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class Mugen’s Maximilian Cordts took the win from Luca Bethke and Thorsten Müller.

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June 27, 2014

Davide Tortorici wins International Dirt Meeting Greece

The 2014 edition of the International Dirt Meeting Greece attracted not only a good amount of national drivers but also some international guests. Run in very hot weather conditions at the Hobby Track Serres the race saw Mugen’s Davide Tortorici taking the win with his TOP-powred buggy from Dimitris Tsigos (Mugen/Ninja) and Kostas Zagorisos (Xray/Alpha).

Source: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]

June 26, 2014

Endurance Championship LSM Austria – Report

The 5th running of the Endurance Championship Austria took place at the Tirol Ring in Kematen, Austria, last weekend. A total of nine teams signed in with the AMC Racing Team Tirol grabbing the TQ honours from MRC Zillertal I and The Fantastic 3. Right from the start a battle between four teams arose with the WIN WIN Racing team making a statement and placing themselves in front. Unfortunately for the team of MRC Zillertal I, 2nd after qualifying, an electronic problem forced them to retire with the RC Bike Team, on route for a podium finish, also having to retire. Up front the WIN WIN Racing Team took the win after 1300 laps followed by the Team MARC Unterland with 1278 laps and the AMC Racing Team Tirol with 1255 laps.

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June 26, 2014

Bruno Coelho wins at Portuguese TC nats Rd3

The 3rd round of the Portuguese touring car nationals was halt at the Torres Novas track last weekend. Rain was predicted for practice on Saturday but the day was nice and sunny and even the qualifiers would be run in the dry on Sunday morning but a thunderstorm at around lunchtime forced the organisers to cancel the race and to use the qualifying results to determine the winner. This handed Bruno Coelho the win with the only 19 lap run in qualifying from Helder Silva in 2nd and Jose Pequito in 3rd. Joao Malveiro and Goncalo Alves completed the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]