The second round of the RC HobbyRacing Cup was held in Skripov recently on a bumpy and technical track. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Ales Bidovsky with the overall win from David Krizak and Bartek Zalewski in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Martin Rytir and Jaroslav Valder would round out the top 5 results.
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Dario Balestri has taken the win at ENS Germany. The Infinity driver came out on top of a close race long battle with Simon Kurzbuch after the Top Qualifier suffered a broken glow plug during his final fuel stop. Kurzbuch had lead the race with Balestri following close behind, the duo doing synchronised fuel stops early on but with a loose clutch on Balestri’s car meant he started to come in early. For Kurzbuch this meant he now had a stop in hand but first of the leaders to take on new tyres, the Shepherd driver made a second tyre stop for just outside tyres. While Balestri looked to have a slight edge as the race entered the final 5-minutes unfortunately we were denied a showdown of the two World Champions. In the pit for his last fuel stop, Kurzbuch’s engine for the second race in a row came to stop and needing a new plug the laps ticked away before he rejoined. This benefited Alessio Mazzeo, who having finished 2nd in the 1:10, finished just shy of two laps down on his fellow Italian. Toni Gruber would return to the ENS by claiming the final podium place ahead of Robert Pietsch with Kurzbuch ending up 5th. The result means it is Balestri who leaves Germany as the championship leader on the completion of the first half of ENS Season #5.
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Dominic Greiner has won Round 2 of the Infinity Euro Nitro Series in Germany. The championship’s fourth year to visit the challenging Minidrom Ettlingen, the Serpent driver became the race’s fourth different winner after seeing off a determined challenge from the Xray of Alessio Mazzeo. Initially it was Top Qualifier Jilles Groskamp who lead the way but gambling on a longer 5-minute refuelling strategy, the Round 1 winner got caught short and flamed out on his way in for his second stop. Holding Mazzeo at bay, Greiner’s super fast tyre stop would give him the breathing space he needed to secure his 4th ENS career win. The German was also helped by the fact Mazzeo was refuelling shortest of the leaders which meant he had to do two extra stops compared to his rivals. With Groskamp opting to change just his outside tyres, he struggled after the stop resulting in a big off which played into the hands of last year’s winner Eric Dankel who would take the final podium position ahead of the Infinity driver who leaves Germany still leading the championship.
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The third round of the HSH Sundayrace Cup was held at the HSH Racetracks in Dintikon, central Switzerland. Nearly 30 drivers attended in the three classes offered and in Touring Modified it was local hero Michele Manzo with three wins in the triple A-mains in front of Jan Hässig and Nuno Huber.
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The iconic Andernach track played host to round 5 of the Tonisport Onroad Series this past weekend. The race was held in Touring Modified, Stock 13.5T, FWD 13.5T, Fun 17.5T and a Formula class and in Stock 13.5T it was Awesomatix’s Max Mächler with the TQ and win from Tamiya driver Dai Sakaguchi 2nd and Jacques Libar (Awesomatix) 3rd.
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Round 2 of the Finnish IC Track National Championship was hosted by Hyvinkään urheiluautoilijat the past weekend under sunny conditions. In the 1/10th class, Panu Vehviläinen took the TQ honours but in the final Kim Elfström showed the better pace on the bigger and harder tyres and on the quite bumpy track. Taking over the lead, Kim was able to hold it to the end with Panu suffering technical difficulties later, just securing 2nd place in front of Sami Munck following 1.5 seconds behind.
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The 2018 Bittydesign Eurocontest was held at the Barcoff in Italy over the weekend. The event attracted some of Europe’s fastest 1/8th off-road drivers and in the Nitro Pro class it was Davide Ongaro (Team Associated) who was able to take the win with an incredible two laps ahead of second placed driver Robert Batlle (Mugen) while Mugen’s Marco Ravaglia came in 3rd. Davide was also able to take the win in the Electric Brushless class, winning the first and second A-main while in the strong Open class with 108 entries, it was young Italian driver Alessandro Scaramozzino who was able to take the win with an impressive drive ,showing once again his talent.
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Round 2 of Schumacher Dart Cup was held this past weekend at the Astroturf RC track in the town of Serock, some 70km north-east of Warsaw. The track offers a high grip Astroturf surface and a nice layout with a mixture of fast, sweeping and tight corners as various jumps make racing very challenging. Before round 2 the track underwent a rebuild of the cross-over section, by adding the bridge with the perfect shape giving the chance for long jumps. The format for the event was seven rounds of round by round qualifying with the three best to count followed by triple mains for everyone. The race saw the attendance of Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski who was a class of his own, showing a flying pace over the weekend.
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