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April 13, 2017

Alex Thurston wins BRCA 1/10th Touring Nats Rd1

The opening round of the British 1/10th Nitro Touring Championship was held at the Cotswolds circuit. In the main final and after a bit of an action packed start everyone broke off into their own groups. Alex Thurston was in a comfortable 3rd place until the leader, who was Mark Green at the time, had a crash which cost him some time and put him behind Alex. That was where the two’s race battle started, both were fighting for a long time back and forth making overtakes sometimes three or four times per lap. Meanwhile, while the two were battling for 2nd place, the race leader had an incident which put Alex and Mark fighting for the lead. After the last pit stop Mark came out behind Alex. Green went inside, outside, hard into the corner, slow into the corner but Thurston had him covered off. With just a few minutes remaining Mark tried to overtake but hit a kerb and went off track with left Alex an easy coast to the end of the race where he would take the win some 8 to 9 seconds up the road from Mark. Fellow Serpent driver John Zottl completed a Serpent podium lockout.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

April 13, 2017

Tasos Paparegas wins at Hobbytech Cup Rd1

The Greek Hobbytech Cup recently kicked off at the Serres track in the North of the country. Xray’s Tasos Paparegas took an easy TQ and win in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy main final from his brother John on the runner-up spot. Mugen driver Zois would complete the top 3 podium result.

View the final results here

April 13, 2017

2nd Annual Panik Grand Prix – Announcement

The Panik Team Troisdorf has announced the 2nd Annual Panik Grand Prix for the weekend of the 4th of June. The race will be held at the club’s recently refurbished astroturf track in the three classes of 2WD Modified Buggy, 4WD Modified Buggy as well as Stadium Truck – all three run according to current national DMC rules. More information about the race can be found on the club’s social media site here.

April 12, 2017

Texas Electric On-Road Series Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Texas Electric On-Road Series was held at NControl RC Raceway, site of the upcoming 2017 ROAR Electric On-Road Paved Nationals in Dale, Texas. The permanent track features smooth asphalt and wide flowing lanes that made for close racing across all 6 classes. The event produced record breaking turnouts, which made making a spot on the podium all the more challenging and rewarding. In the star-studded Modified Touring class, Chris Tosolini and Ralph Burch would trade TQ position back and forth over the opening three qualifying rounds, with Tosolini eventually securing TQ honors. In the A-main, Tosolini would lead wire-to-wire followed by Burch in second. The real battle took place between 5th place qualifier Cristian Tabush and 3rd place qualifier Chris Adams. Within the first few laps of the main, Tabush was able to jump from 5th to 3rd, where he would battle with Adams for the rest of the race swapping positions. In the end, Tabush would claim the final podium position.

Continue reading the report here

April 12, 2017

Manten & Berkhout win at Dutch 1/8th On-road opener

The opening round of the Dutch 1/8th On-road National Championship was held at the AMC Apeldoorn track last weekend. In the premier NK class it was Arie Manten who took the win in the 30 minute main after getting past Joey Sorber on the last lap thanks to being on a different tyre and fuel strategy. Joey Sorber had to settle for second, 1.2s down on Arie while Jeffrey Rietveld completed the top 3 result one lap down.

Continue reading the report here

April 12, 2017

Cyril N’Diaye wins at Emerainville League Race

Emerainville near Paris, host of round five of this year’s French Electric On-road Nationals later in September, recently held a round of their Emerainville League series. In the Touring 10.5T Stock class local Awesomatix driver Cyril N’Diaye took the win from Team Magic’s Thomas Vigneron while Yoann Bukowski (Schumacher) rounded out the podium in third.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

April 12, 2017

Elliott Boots wins at BRCA Nitro Truggy Nationals

Round 1 of the BRCA E-Buggy and Nitro Truggy Nationals was held at the Kent Model Car Club over the weekend and in the Truggy class it was Elliott Boots who lead the way. TQing two of the three rounds allowed him to take the pole position for the 30-minute main final in which he would grab a dominant win with a 3-laps margin on the second place driver.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]

April 12, 2017

Xray Racing Series Slovakia finale – Report

The final round of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Racing Arean in Trencin over the weekend in both electric on-road and off-road classes. In Touring Modified Olivier Havranek would take the overall TQ despite having radio issues in the second qualifier. He would outperform Xray’s own Martin Hudy on his home track and Olivier would also come out successful after the A-mains despite not finishing the final leg due to a collision with another driver.

Continue reading the report here