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June 26, 2014

Swiss 1/8 off-road national championship Rd4 – Report

The 4th round of this year’s Swiss 1/8th off-road championship took place in Gland near the Lake Geneva with about 130 entries. The TQ went to Swiss champion and Top 25 Euro driver Jeremy Pittet in front of Robin Frischkopf. At the end of the lower finals the track started to become bumpy and rutted making it not easy for the main finalists, lead by pole position holder Yael Zurfluh and Robin Frischkopf. The 45 minute final was clearly led by Yael with Robin Frischkopf, Joachim Kallen and Jeremy Pittet fighting for 2nd place. Jeremy ran into problems early so the fight for the runner-up spot was on between Joachim and Robin. Both swapped positions several times while being on different fuel strategies. With leader Yael being only a couple of corners in front Robin started to attack near the end of the final but problems while lapping backmarkers cost him dearly and had him falling back to 3rd place. At the end Robin also ran out of fuel but this incident had no further influence on the result. At the end Yael Zurfluh (TLR) took the win from Joachim Kallen (Kyosho) and Robin Frischkopf (Xray).

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 26, 2014

Summer Shootout Series Rd2 – Report

Last weekend saw round 2 of the Action Model Centre supported Summer Shootout Series take place in Chesterfield, UK. With 100 entries across 5 different classes it was set to be a top notch event run on a nice track with good grip levels. The LMP12 open modified class saw a small entry of less than 10 cars. However, all of the drivers were of national A-final standard so the racing was still very competitive. 3 drivers battled it out for TQ honours, with Andy Murray eventually coming out on top driving a V-Dezign car ahead of the Reedy-powered Yokomo R12C3 of Mark Stiles and former World Champion David Spashett. These three were split by just 0.35 seconds, so it looked like the final would be a close race.

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June 25, 2014

Carsten Keller wins at German nats qualifier in Kürten

The second of only two Western Germany 1/8th off-road regional rounds was run at the Modellfreunde Kürten track. Kyosho’s Carsten Keller was able to take the win in the 40 minute final despite being hindered by a wrong tyre choice. At the end he took the win some two laps ahead of Jan Sievert with Sven Sievert finishing another lap down. Maik Wiesweg and Chris Kammann completed the top 5 result.

Source: Spielzeugautorennfahrer [spielzeugautorennfahrer.de]

June 25, 2014

Martini & Borgogni score at Hobbywing Trophy

The annual Hobbywing Trophy recently took place at the Bientina track in Italy. Francesco Martini took the pole position for the Modified Touring Car class while Tiziano Borgogni put his car on pole in the Stock class. The Mod class finals then saw a clean sweep of Francesco who took the win in all 3 final legs to take the overall win from Matteo Montagnani and Fabricio Manicardi. In the Stock class Tiziano had some issues in the opening A-main but a flawless 2nd and 3rd leg had him taking the overall win from Simone Aleotti and Gabriele Berselli.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 25, 2014

Rodrigues wins at Southern Portuguese regionals Rd3

The 3rd round of the Southern Portuguese 1/8th off-road regionals was held at the Evora track under changing weather conditions that put the drivers and equipment to the test. While the first semifinal could be run under dry conditions with Vasco Rodrigues taking the win, the 2nd semifinal had to be stopped and later on restarted due to rain pouring down creating some mess on the track. The main final then had Flavio Matias leading for the first 15 minutes until a bad tyre choice for the drying conditions hindered Flavio, allowing Vasco to close up. Both battled for the next 10 to 15 minutes but Flavio was not able to hold the pace and this gave Vasco the advantage he needed to win the race. Antonio Peixe grabbed the 2nd spot in front of Flavio Matias who was able to secure the 3rd and final podium spot.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 25, 2014

Western Germany IC on-road regionals Rd3 – Report

Following a somewhat brief report of the recent Western Germany nitro on-road regionals we now have a more in-depth report available. Reigning champion Christian Wurst has taken his first win of this season in the Western German Championship to put him to the lead in the overall ranking of the 1/8 scale class 1 nitro on-road category. Other winners at round three of the regional championship held on the famous Oberhausen track were young Philipp Roemer in 1/8 scale class 2 and Thilo Toedtmann in 1/10 scale. Oberhausen registered 51 entries with finally 50 participants joining a pleasurable racing weekend at the heart of RC racing in Western Germany with perfect weather and track conditions.

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June 25, 2014

Pedro Miguel Sousa wins at Portuguese regionals Rd3

The 3rd round of the Portuguese 1/8th off-road Northern regionals was held at the Vilela track with over 40 entries. After the semifinals Francisco Ferreira put his buggy on the pole position on front of Pedro Miguel Sousa. The final had Francisco leading the majority of the race with Pedro being the only driver to keep up with his team mate’s pace. With some 3 minutes to go Pedro made a move on the leader to take the 1st position that he then kept until the end of the race to take his 3rd consecutive victory in the championship. Francisco Ferreira managed to conserve the runner up spot while Ricardo Martins grabbed the 3rd place coming from 5th on the grid.

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June 25, 2014

Ricardo Hofmeier takes win at Dutch 1/10th IC nats Rd4

The 4th round for the Dutch 1/10th nitro on-road championship was held at the AMCA track in Apeldoorn. Being very technical yet fast the track requires a good setup for tight as well as fast corners, with tyre wear always being a concern in the final. With some light rain in the morning the actual racing started belayed with the 2nd round of qualification heats on a quickly drying track. After two rounds it was Pedro Rombouts who took the TQ spot, followed by Daan Stuiver, Ricardo Hofmeier and Sidney Blokker.

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