The 4th round of the Madrid Champs took place in Asoger with the race was used by many as practice session for next week’s Spanish Nationals at the same track. At the end of the 30 minute final it was Serpent’s Victor Pelaez who took the win one lap ahead of team mate Juan Antonio Hidalgo with David Lopez Garcia completing the top 3.
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The 2013 40+ European Buggy Championship took place at the Bistensee track in the very North of Germany. Rune Karlsen (Kyosho/OS) from Norway took the overall TQ after qualifying but Peter Harder (Hot Bodies/OS) and Mats Angseryd (Xray/OS) also looked very fast on track. The weather proofed to be very unreliable with a mix of rain showers and sun and this made things interesting over the final day. In the 45 minute main Peter managed to build a gab on Rune and Mats quite quickly and also took benefit of his two followers battling it out for second place. At the end Peter brought home the win and the 2013 40+ title some 20 seconds in front of Rune with Mats completing the podium only one lap down.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The last round of Greek 1/8th off-road championship took place at the Fanatix track in Athens, Greece. During qualification Papanikolaou proofed to be very fast on his home track so it was no wonder that he took TQ after four rounds of qualifying in front of T Paparegas and J Paparegas. In the 45 minute final Tasos Paparegas took the lead five minutes into the race and never looked back. Polesitter Papanikolaou had bad luck as an engine flame out letting him drop back to 8th but he soon recovered. Finally Tasos and his Xray XB9 won easily with a difference three laps ahead of Papanikolaou.
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The third round of the Kazuki Endo presented Speed King Tour East 2013 took place at the world famous Yatabe Arena in Japan. The meeting was held in Modified TC, Stock TC, JMRCA TC and Yokomo GT500 classes and it was young Yokomo driver Yugo Nagashima who won the 2nd round of the series and took TQ again in the modified TC class of round 3. TRF driver Akio Sobue captured the second spot after qualifying and Hayato Ishioka held the 3rd place with his Kyosho TF6SP. Making use of the usual ‘first corner chaos’ in the Modified A final Akio moved up to the first spot while Yugo lost a lot of positions. Yugo though recovered during the 5 minute run but was not able to catch Akio who took the winning honours with his TRF418 prototype. Yugo finished second, Kiyoto Kanno completed the podium. When it comes to the overall championship Yugo kept his top position after round 3 going into the series final that will take place at the Crest Speedway on the first weekend of November.
Source: Speed King Tour [speed-king-tour.blogspot.jp]
Last weekend the Czech Championship was held in Slavkov u Brna on a very fast high grip track. Saturday saw five qualifiers with the first heat of the Modified class being TQ’d by David Nemcek followed by a clean sweep of Marek Cerny who took the remaining four qualifying rounds. The young man was able to conserve his performance for the finals where he went on to win the first two legs in order to secure the 2013 title early with one A main to go. The second place and vice championship went to David Nemcek with Jaroslv Kopecky taking the last remaining podium spot. Elsewhere in the Stock class David Nemcek took the win and 2013 title after a hard fight with Pavel Martinec.
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The 4th round of the AE Cup EP 1/10 Offroad Championship was held in Jatibening-Jakarta, Indonesia. The race attracted a total of 33 driver who battled in the buggy and short course classes. The event saw triple five minute qualification rounds and triple seven minute A mains. In the 2WD class Wuzi Sevta took the win from Kris Heriyana and Rizky while Rama Tribudiman TQ’d and won the 4WD buggy class leaving Dimaz Arianto and Reza Sumendap behind. In 2WD short course Wuzi Sevta took the TQ and win from Rama Tribudiman and Dimaz Arianto. The 4WD short course class saw Jiriel K taking the TQ and win leaving Rizky and Haviedz in second and third position respectively.
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Round 8 of the British 200mm nationals was held at the Snetterton circuit last weekend. The weather forecast did not look good for both Saturday and Sunday but surprisingly the field managed to get through the event with only a couple of short showers. Unfortunately the track rarely gets used throughout the year so it was very slippery when drivers arrived on Saturday morning. It was well into the afternoon before the grip came up and it was at this point where the lap times got quicker and quicker right up until the end of practice. Mark Green was setting the pace fresh from his podium finish at the European Championships by getting down to 12.4 laptimes. Serpent teammates Joe Kerry and Alex Thurston were also very quick only 0.1 seconds behind Mark. At the end Mark took the TQ just 1.5 seconds ahead of Joe, with Alex a further 2 seconds behind. These three drivers were the only ones able to make 24 laps.
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The Italian electric on-road nationals was held at the Gubbio track last weekend. This year the championship would be decided in a single event with about 100 participants. The race started with practice sessions on Friday followed by two timed practice sessions and three of five qualifiers on Saturday with the remaining qualifying heats and finals on Sunday. In qualifying Francesco Martini (Xray) took the overall TQ followed by Alessandro Brunelli (Serpent), Kevin Pignotti (Associated) and Diego Macchioni (Xray). A main number 1 had Alessandro Brunelli taking the win in front of top qualifier Francesco Martini while disaster struck for both drivers in leg number two when they had a coming together resulting in 7th and 8th place finishes gifting Diego Macchioni the win from Kevin Pignotti. In the last A main both Francesco and Alessandro again had average runs meaning they would not be able to fight for the title. Kevin Pignotti took the win from Alessandro and Diego handing Kevin the overall win and the 2013 Modified class title. Alessandro was able to take the runner-up spot with Diego Macchioni ending up in third place overall.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
