The second round of the UK SRS Championship was held at the Slough track over the weekend. Sunny weather made for a nice day of racing and at the end of the 20-minutes Nitro Buggy final it was Callum Niblett with the win with his Agama. Kevin Brunsden came on a fine 2nd place with his SWorkz buggy and Mike Daniel finished in 3rd with his TLR.
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The 2018 Father’s Day race was held at the MC Schwedt track this past weekend. The event kicked off on Thursday’s Ascension Day and the following Friday with practice while Saturday was used for four rounds of qualifying of which two counted. Sunday was finals day and in the 30-minute long Nitro Buggy A-main it was Agama’s Burak Kilic with the win from Berkan Kilic (Agama) in 2nd. Johannes Klett (Mugen) would round out the top 3 podium result.
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The first round of the central region qualifiers for the German 1/8th IC Track Nationals took place this weekend at the Wiesbadener Minicar Club. In qualifying Oliver Mack would claim the TQ in impressive style. First setting a new track record in Q2 he then managed to go even faster in Q4. With rain on the forecast causing the final to be reduced to 20-minutes, Oli was pulling away from the field but he stopped at the 12-minutes mark due to an engine failure. Dennis Weihert, who qualified 5th, was able to take over the lead and from there he never looked back to take the win.
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Last weekend’s Delta Plastic Race was organised by Enjoy Drive and hosted by the Delvi Modellismo track near Rome in Italy. The event attracted the country’s fastest 1/8th off-road drivers as well as guests from abroad and in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro with the win from Tekno RC’s Alex Zanchettin in 2nd. Mugen’s Marco Natale rounded out the top 3 podium result. Over in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was again Team Associated young gun Davide Ongaro with the win as TLR’s Renaud Savoya in 2nd and Tekno RC’s Alex Zanchettin in 3rd completed the podium.
Bruno Coelho resisted another challenge from Naoto Matsukura to take a tone to tone win in the second of the A-Mains at ETS Andernach. Having let Matsukura through in A1 after touching the curbing, Coelho would have a moment in A2 also, but just beforehand Matsukura had dropped back with a moment of his own. Right on the bumper of the Xray, the Infinity driver looked to make a late inside pass in the chicane but he went over the curb and rolled allowing Coelho to take it by close to 2-seconds. As he did in the first encounter, Marc Rheinard would make up one position to complete the Top 3, this time ahead of Alexander Hagberg.
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Naoto Matsukura has taken the opening A-Main at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Germany. The Infinity driver would pressure Top Qualifier Bruno Coelho through the race eventually able to take an advantage of an error with one & a half minutes remaining. Looking to have the quicker car, Matsukura would himself survive at early mistake when he ran wide on the straight with his car making clearly audible contact with the steel boards. Dropping him back a little, the Japanese driver quickly got back with Coelho and when the leader touched the curbing and opened the door he went through for the win. Behind Marc Rheinard would get by Viktor Wilck to complete the Top 3 ahead of Freddy Sudhoff, with Wilck dropping back to fifth.
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Bruno Coelho has claimed his 3rd consecutive TQ of the ETS season, the Xray driver securing pole position thanks to his two TQ runs yesterday at the Motodrom Andernach track in Germany. With Naoto Matsukura taking Q3 this morning, but the time no match for last night’s Q2 time, it was only the Japanese driver who had the possibility to deny Coelho the No.1 spot. With the track at its hottest and with only used tyres for Q4, the odds were stacked against Matsukura but a mistake on the first lap confirmed things. Now the attention was on how they would line up behind the reigning series champion. Marc Rheinard took up the pace but with 4-laps to go had a mistake, briefly moving Alexander Hagberg to the top, but Wilck would finish strong to take the round from Freddy Sudhoff and Hagberg. The result meant Matsukura held onto his P2 starting position while Wilck moved ahead of Rheinard to secure third with Sudhoff completing the top half of the grid.
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Naoto Matsukura led an Infinity 1-2 in the third & penultimate round of qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series this morning in Andernach, Germany. Having missed out on the TQ last night in Q2 by 5/100ths of a second after touching the curbing on the last lap, Matsukura would claim his first ever TQ run of the ETS ahead of team-mate Marc Rheinard. Despite being 3.6-seconds faster than Rheinard, the time was slower than that of Coelho’s Q2 time. While Coelho would make a mistake on the opening lap and opted to pull in after the next lap, it is looking increasingly likely the championship leader is on target for the overall TQ. With temperatures rising the track is expected to be slower for the final round with the only challenger Matsukura having now used all 3 of his allocated sets of tyres. Behind Matsukura and Rheinard, Viktor Wilck backed up his Q2 result by again completing the Top 3 while Lucas Urbain put in a strong drive from the second fastest heat to post the fourth fastest time.
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