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May 16, 2017

Elias Johansson wins at Swedish 1/10th Buggy Nats Rd1

The opening round of the Swedish 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was recently held at the Green Hill track in Stockholm. The weather was quite cold and windy but a good turnout of racers made for fun and tight racing. The qualifying was a 3-horse race between Team Associated’s Elias Johansson, Wilhelm Sköldebrand and Niclas Månsson, the later ending up taking the overall TQ. In the opening A-main, Elias Johansson was able to grab the win after having a mixed first part of the leg but with about 50 seconds on the clock the leader made a mistake which promoted Elias into the lead. A2 again saw the leader making a mistake, this time at about halftime. Elias would benefit and he was able to bring home the win and with it the overall victory from Niclas Månsson 2nd and Wilhelm Sköldebrand 3rd.

Thanks to Elias Johansson for the report.

May 16, 2017

Gabriele Paloschi wins F1 class at Italian GT Champs Rd2

Round two of the Italian AMSCI GT national championship was held at the Circuito Lamberto Collari this past weekend. In the F1 category it was young Gabriele Paloschi who took a commanding win in the 45-minute main final, finishing the race some three laps ahead of Diego Pizzagalli on the runner-up spot while Kevin Polimeni completed the podium result in 3rd.

Source: Picco [teampicco.com]

May 16, 2017

Quentin Leroux wins French 200mm Nationals Rd3

This past weekend the third round of the French 200mm national championship was held at the Limoges track. The event started off on Friday with pleasant weather, but come Saturday things got complicated as heavy rain interrupted the qualifying and only one dry round could be completed although under totally different grip conditions compared to Friday. The last two qualifying rounds were then postponed to Sunday morning but they were still ran in low grip conditions. The qualifying results would see Kevin Rasquin taking the TQ honours with his Capricorn, followed by the other Capricorns of Quentin Leroux and Guillon Thomas, with Shepherd’s Concialdi Basile in fourth. For the main final the track offered improved grip conditions thanks to the running of the lower finals. In the opening stages of the 45-minute main final Quentin Leroux took over the lead and he never looked back to take the win some three laps ahead of Kevin Rasquin who was in a fight with Michael Derderian (Xray). Thomas Guillon as also in the mix for the 2nd place but a broken engine meant a DNF for him.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

May 16, 2017

Dominic Quek wins Urban Touring Series Rd5

Round 5 of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held this past weekend. During qualifying Dominic Quek (Xray) set the pace in the 17.5T Touring class when he twice put in the only 27-lap runs, narrowly missing a 28-lapper in Q2 to take the Top Qualifier honours. Allister Lim (Xray) qualified 2nd, while Leonard Sim (Xray) came in 3rd. In the finals, Dominic secured the early overall victory with convincing wins in both legs 1 and 2. With Dominic sitting out leg 3, four drivers were in with a shot to secure the remaining two podium spots. Despite a twin body tuck incident between Allister and Leonard early in the final leg, dropping them to the back of the field, both were able to fight back to the front. Ultimately, Leonard claimed the win in the final main and overall 2nd, while Allister had to settle for 3rd overall.

View the final results here

May 16, 2017

Andy Moore wins 2017 Singapore Open

The long standing Singapore Open was held at the super fast Marine Paradise track recently with the 2-day event once again attracting a number of international entries. Among the visitors was Jessie Davis, the Australian going on to secure the overall TQ ahead of former winner Nelson Lee. With Davis directly qualifying for the 45-minute Main, the rest of the grid would be decided in the 20-minute semi finals with the first win going to Singapore driver Alvin Ng. In the second encounter, Lee would take a narrow victory over Andy Moore. Carrying his qualifying form into the final, Davis looked to have victory sown up but in the 44th minute, while holding a 1-lap lead over Infinity team-mate Moore, he would make a slight mistake entering the pitlane. The contact would result in a damaged servo horn allowing Moore to slip through to take the win on the final lap. Moore’s first win with Infinity, Davis would finish 2nd despite his altercation while Thailand’s Chavit Sirigupta would make it an all Infinity podium.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

May 16, 2017

Alessandro Stocco wins at 2017 BarCup

The 2017 BarCup was held this past weekend at the Barco-off track in Barco, Italy. Alessandro Stocco took the TQ and win in the F1 class with his Reds-powered TLR buggy from TLR/Reds Racing team mate, Alessandro Castoldi while Leonardo Valente (JQRacing/Reds Racing) completed the podium result in 3rd.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]

May 15, 2017

Vincent Meertens wins at French regional race

The French RC94 club in Sucy-en-Brie held an 1/8th Nitro Buggy regional race over the weekend and it was Samuel Miroir who took the TQ after the qualifiers. In the 30-minute 1/8th Nitro Open class main final however it was Vincent Meertens (TLR/RC Concept), who only sat in P11 after the qualifiers and who would set the pace to bring home the win one lap ahead of Thomas Carandi (Kyosho/Novarossi) in 2nd and Pierre Raboulin (Mugen/Ninja) in 3rd.

Source: RC Concept [rcconcept.net]

May 15, 2017

Volker & Harper complete podium in Riccione

Ronald Volker has kept the championship race for this year’s ETS title going by winning the third A-Main in Italy to finish 2nd overall. With reigning champion Bruno Coelho wrapping up his third win of the season in A2, the Portuguese driver was a more than usual interested spectator of A3 as the failure of Volker to finish second overall would mean he would be crowned Champion for a second year. Leading away the field Volker will get the result he needs with pursuer Elliott Harper not able to get by the Yokomo driver. Harper would in fact come under attack from Marc Rheinard until the Infinity driver ran onto the grass. An important result for Volker, if not the one he came to Riccione seeking, it was probably Harper however who was the happiest driver on the podium, his first podium finish in 6-years marking the first for Schumacher in the premiere Modified class.

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