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June 9, 2012

Pietsch & Dankel top Q1 in Germany

In the first round of qualifying for the European Nitro Challenge at the Hockenheimring in Germany it was Mugen’s Robert Pietsch and Capricorn’s Erik Dankel who set the fastest time over the 7-minute heat to claim the provisional TQ in 1:8 and 1:10 respectively. For defending champions Michael Salven (1:8) and Patrick Schafer (1:10) it was a tough opening qualifier. Salven had a steering rod come off on his Serpent 966 while Schafer suffered a stripped first gear on his Shepherd Velox V10.

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June 8, 2012

World Champions top practice at Hockenheim

Practice for the second running of the European Nitro Challenge has been completed at the Hockeneimring in Germany with World Champions laying early claim on the event with current 1:8 World Champion Robert Pietsch quickest of the 1:8 runners and former 1:10 World Champion Daniele Ielasi fastest in the 200mm touring car class. Having originally scheduled 6 timed practice runs race organisers added at seventh round in which both drivers produced their fastest three consecutive laps to become top seeds for qualifying tomorrow.

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June 8, 2012

Pietsch & Wischnewski set early pace at ENC

After four rounds of practice at the European Nitro Challenge which is taking place in Germany this weekend it is pre-event favourites Robert Pietsch and Dirk Wischnewski who are setting the pace around the Hockenheimring track where a capacity entry are set to do battle to become champions of the second running of the Shepherd Micro Racing created event. Located right behind the grandstand, that on the weekend of the full size German F1 Grand Prix would give spectators the perfect view of Sebastien Vettel and co. coming onto the main straight, the track is not your traditional European style track but more similar to what American’s would be used to racing on.

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June 7, 2012

Grainger & Giddins wins Rd2 of BTCC

Round 2 of this year’s BTCC championship was held at the West London Racing Centre track. Having looked at the weather forecast all week it was going to be a wet day, and sure enough when we all turned up at the track, wet it was. At drivers briefing it was decided that the format for the day would be 4 rounds of round by round qualifying followed by 1 final. With qualifying underway in round 1 it was Tony Broad who set the fastest time followed by Daniel Booker, Damian Giddins, Tim Tims and Spencer Jones in the stock class. In Super touring it was Schumacher’s Chris Grainger setting the fastest time with Olly Jefferies, Alan Bickerstaff, Andy Murray and Stefan Chodzynski rounding out the top five.

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June 7, 2012

2012 Nordic championships – Announcements

The 2012 Nordic championships for electric offroad will this year be held in Northern Finland from the 18th to 19th August, next to city of Oulu. The race is run as a 2 day event, 2wd on Saturday and 4wd on Sunday and is also round 3 of the Finnish national series which means some exceptions to rules compared to EFRA. The race format consists of 2 rounds of controlled practice, 4 rounds of qualifying (2/4 counts by points) and 3x A mains and 2x lower mains both days. Full event details can be found here.

June 7, 2012

2012 Inzeller Race of Champions – Announcement

The organisers of the 2012 IRoC, Inzeller Race of Champions, were in touch to tell us about this year’s event which is run from the 23rd to the 24th of June in Inzell, Germany. The 6th running of the event it is open to 1/0th electric offroad and more specifically 2wd & 4wd buggy and 2wd and 4wd SC classes. With a drivers party on Friday night and a qualifying heat run under floodlights, the event has already attracted entries from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with last year’s winner Hupo Honigl along with Martin Kreil already signed in. Find out more information here.

June 7, 2012

SC Summer Cup Finland Rd1

The first Short Course Summer Cup event took place recently at the Lavanko electric race track which is located in Vantaa, Finland. The SC Summer cup consist of four races on four different tracks in Finland and is intended for SC2-10 and SC4-10 cars. The series follows on from the SC Winter Cup which that was big success and also brought new racers to the SC class. In qualifying it was Riku Tolonen in 2wd and on Mikko Pyhältö in 4wd that took pole position.

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June 6, 2012

Adam Drake triple at JBRL Rd3

Last Saturday saw the 3rd round of the JBRL Nitro Series at Hemet Competition Raceway in Hemet, California. It’s been a while since the JBRL Series visited the track formally known as “The Dirt”. The layout was very technical and got bumpy late in the day. All three mains went really smooth for TLR / Novarossi / Pro-Line driver Adam Drake. Adam was able to settle into a comfortable pace and win all three mains.

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