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June 21, 2017

Mark Wallin wins at AARCMCC EP On-road State Titles

The 2017 AARCMCC EP On-Road State Titles were held at the Sydney Model Autosports track in the west of Sydney. The SMA track is a flowing technical track with a challenging layout to really test drivers abilities. The lead up to the meeting was dogged with bad weather which ultimately caused the meeting to be abandoned after the completion of qualifying. Saturday kicked off with a seeding run, each class was given a 5-minute session on the track, a drivers quickest three consecutive laps would then be counted for a total time that would seed the first three rounds of qualifying. In 1/12th Modified Mark Wallin went all in, using a set of brand new, un-cut and un-treated tyres and his decision proved to be a good one as he set a seed time of 52.068 seconds placing him at the top of the order for round one. The first round of 1/12th qualifying confirmed that Mark was going to have to work hard. After missing the seeding round, Ed Clark came out strong posting several quickest laps to take 2nd behind Mark in the round.

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June 20, 2017

Quebec RC Series Rd2 – Report

This past weekend the second round of the Quebec RC Series was held at the Bego RC Raceway near Montréal, home of the 2017 Quebec Classic. The rain on Friday would turn into nice weather all weekend, making for good racing conditions. In Nitro Buggy, Sam Langer laid down the fastest run in Q2 to take the overall TQ and in the main Sam took the lead and never looked back while TLR’s Carl Boulianne and Team Associated’s Eric Deschenes were battling for P2. At the 15-minutes mark, both Eric and Carl had issues and Wesley Gurr took the 2nd spot in front of Steve Lamoureux.

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June 20, 2017

Quentin Leroux takes 200mm French National title

The fourth and final round of the French 1/10th IC Track Championship took place in great weather conditions at the circuit of Besançon in the eastern part of the country. The title would be in contention between championship leader Basile Concialdi and Quentin Leroux who sat in 2nd. To take the championship lead, Quentin would need to take the pole position and win and hope for a maximum 3rd place of Basile. In Saturday morning’s timed practice Quentin seemed already faster with an average of 17.2 seconds on three consecutive laps, followed by Thomas Gold in 17.4 then Brice Turco/Basile Concialdi/Michael Derderian all with 17.6’s.

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June 20, 2017

Italian Manufacturers Championship Rd2 – Report

Last weekend the second and final round of the Italian Manufacturers Championship took place at the World famous venue of Gubbio in central Italy. With the majestic track making for a perfect scenery for the season finale and a highly competitive field in both the 1/10th 200mm and the 1/8th class, the championship proved to be once again one of the best events in the Italian on-road scene. The 1/8th A-main would see an outstanding battle for the lead between Raiola’s Infinity and Mazzeo’s Xray until the RX8 of the 200mm vice-World champion was forced to retire due to a loose servo horn screw. From that moment on Carmine Raiola has been able to cruise to a deserved win ahead of his Infinity team-mates Balestri and Tironi. In the championship, Infinity claimed the chassis title with two wins (Balestri in Fiorano and Raiola in Gubbio), with Max Power and Runner Time winning the respective titles while Matrix won the Tires title at the second tie-breaker with Hotrace.

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June 20, 2017

Thurston & Beal win at BRCA 1/10th IC Track Nats Rd3

Round 3 of the British National 1/10th Nitro On-road Championships were held at the Mendip Raceway in the South West of the UK. The weather on Saturday was good sunny all day. The top three drivers for 200mm Touring in practice were Mark Green (Serpent) Joe Kerry (Capricorn) and Alex Thurston (Serpent). In the 220mm GT class Glyn Beal (Serpent) was the fastest with Rickard K (Xray) very close behind. Race day Sunday and the weather forecasters got it wrong. It started raining at the start of heat 1 round 1 and only stopped when the finals had finished. Ultimately Mark Green took TQ for 200mm Touring and Glyn Beal for 220mm GT.

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June 20, 2017

Dutch Electric On-road Nationals Rd3 – Report

The fast track of Rucphen in the south of the Netherlands played host to the third round of the Dutch Electric 1/10 nationals. A total of three categories were run with Formula, Touring Modified and Touring Stock. The touring classes were limited to one set of Volante tyres with the modified drivers being a bit concerned about tyre wear, because of the high strains that are being put on the tyres due to the high speed and high temperature. The race format was three qualifiers with the best two to count. In the Touring Modified class local driver Mitchell Van Es was the pre-event favourite as since switching to an Awesomatix he had proved to be extremely fast and consistent. And so he took pole with a 21-lapper and a fastest single lap time close to Olivier Buyltinck’s newly set track record. Athan De Witte put his car on a fine P2. He also improved his personal best to a 14.3, so he was quite happy with his achievement. Behind the two Sidney Blokker took 3rd spot in front of Rick Van den Akker and Govert Verbeke.

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June 20, 2017

Van Helmond & Briers win at Belgium Buggy Nats Rd3

Round 3 of the Belgium FBA 1/10th Buggy Nationals was held at the clay track of MAC Vlijmen in the Netherlands. A clear sky and hot temperatures made for a perfect day of fast dirt racing. In the 2WD Buggy class it was Bruno Heremans who took the opening qualifier but with the win of the second and third round it was Wesley van Helmond who was able to take the overall TQ spot in 2WD, leaving Heremans in 2nd in front of Wouter Wynen. In 4WD It was Marco Briers who took the first and second qualifier to put his car on the TQ spot. Van Helmond snatched the 2 spot on the grid thanks to a win in Q3 while Nick Vranckx sat in 3rd so far.

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June 20, 2017

John Hazlewood brings home Truck win at SRS Rd2

This past weekend the popular Slough track in the UK played host to the second round of the Southern Regional Series. The series brought nearly 100 drivers to the event, because of this there was only a bolt-on practise round for the drivers and with many having not driven on the track since the last national in 2016, it was a steep learning curve for most. With the three rounds of qualification in very hot weather conditions over, in Nitro Truck Jon Hazlewood took a commanding TQ, with Michael Shorey in 2nd. The Truck A-final was up first and as the buzzer went Jon’s truck stormed round the first corner and into the distance. His driving was on another level and it grew quite a crowd of people watching it as he went around untouched for the 20 minute final and ultimately he brought it home in 1st place a lap up on the 2nd place driver.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]