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August 11, 2016

Mazzeo TQs third qualifier at WC

Alessio Mazzeo has TQ’d the third round of qualifying at the Nitro Touring Car World Championship. After a delayed start to the second day of qualifying as the rain that halted Q2 continued overnight in Italy, the Serpent driver was fastest in the slower track conditions ahead of Robert Pietsch and team-mate Tadahiko Sahashi. Having taken the opening round of qualifying yesterday, Dario Balestri would manage only the 7th fastest time, as he was hampered by a shock issue on his Capricorn. Again Bruno Coelho would show strong running on a TQ pace like in Q1 but this time rather than a mistake of his own the Xray driver would crash into the Shepherd of Simon Kurzbuch which spun in front of him in the windy conditions.

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August 11, 2016

Oliver Havranek takes IYRCA Touring Modified title

The International Youth RC Models Association hosted the inaugural Car Modelling Junior World Championships to Prague, Czech Republic. This first of its kind event focused primarily on the youth and children and to bring together young people from different parts of the world. Rising electric on-road racer, Oliver Havranek (Xray) set the early pace already in practice and he continued to dominated by taking the TQ. In the finals Oliver would then score two wins to take home the first IYRCA Touring Modified World Championship title.

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August 11, 2016

Wynn, Borkowicz & Marasco win at JConcepts Super Cup

The 2016 JConcepts Super Cup Series kicked off its fall session last weekend at NewRed Hobbies indoor facility located in Ocala, Florida. NewRed Hobbies has a very unique surface, as they were one of the first tracks in the country to start using “Soiltac” exclusively. The glued surface makes the tire choice very simple as everyone runs slicks. With 225 entries, race director Lance MacDonald got qualifying rolling promptly at 9:30am. Qualifying was highly contested throughout the two rounds, but it’s in the main events where the points are claimed. Modified 2WD Buggy saw Paul Wynn take his vehicle with laydown transmission to the top spot on the podium while Daimon Borkowicz put in a flawless wire-to-wire win from his TQ spot in the insanely fast 4WD Modified Buggy class. Elsewhere AJ Marasco would take his buggy from the TQ position to a wire-to-wire victory in the highly contested Expert Stock 17.5 Buggy class.

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August 10, 2016

Rain brings halt to opening day of quali at WC

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Rain has brought a halt to the opening day of qualifying at the Nitro Touring Car World Championships, a decision finally made that no more acton will take place today in Gubbio. Just as the top heat started their engines for Q2 forecast rain arrived just 10-minute too early with the Top 10 seeded drivers not even making it out on to the track. An initial heavy shower was followed by more and heavy rain with thunder & lightning thrown into the mix. The plan now to resume with the third round of qualifying tomorrow and then review track conditions with a view to running Heat 13 of Q2 with Round 4 so as the entire round doesn’t need to scrapped. In Q2, as it stands it was Kyle Branson that holds the fastest time. Running in the second fastest group, the Capricorn driver was quickest from fellow British driver Andy Moore, the pair separated by just 1/1000th of a second. As it stands the overnight TQ is held by Capricorn Dario Balestri who TQ’d the opening qualifier from Simon Kurzbuch and Robert Pietsch.

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August 10, 2016

Jitse Miedema doubles at Heemstede club race Rd5

The fifth round of the MAC Heemstede club race was held on the recently resurfaced MACH track. The new asphalt surface made traction conditions difficult and in the ETS spec Formula class it was Xray driver Jitse Miedema who took the TQ followed by Niels de Zwijger (CRC) with the latter scoring the fastest lap but on the expense of a consistent pace. In the 13.5 Touring class Jitse also took the TQ, followed by Roy Bakker.

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August 10, 2016

Balestri takes opening qualifier at WC

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Dario Balestri has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying at the Nitro Touring Car World Championships. The top seed took the first of the 6 scheduled qualifiers after a super close battle over the five minutes with Bruno Coelho, a last lap mistake leaving the latter with the 7th fastest time. While Balestri was to cut it ultra close in terms of his run time, his Tesla engine cutting as soon as he crossed the finish line, the Capricorn driver was to take the 5-minute qualifier ahead of Simon Kurzbuch by 2/10ths of a second. One second off the TQ pace, Robert Pietsch would complete the Top 3 followed by the Serpents of Dominic Greiner, Alessio Mazzeo and Mark Green.

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August 10, 2016

Amri, Ismail & Ryan win at Malaysia On-road Nats Rd4

Round four of the Malaysia Nationals was held in Batu Kawan, Northern Malaysia. The race was a 1-day event attracting about 80 entries for the Touring Modified, Touring Super Stock 13.5T Boosted, Touring Stock 13.5T Non-Boosted and 1/10th Mini classes. In Touring Modified it was Xray’s Azri Amri who took the day’s win from Wee Yuan (Tamiya) and top qualifier Wong Kok Wai (Awesomatix).

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August 10, 2016

Belgian SCT Cup Rd4 – Report

Round four of the Belgian SCT Cup was held in Enghien as part of an RC show that featured aircrafts, boats and of course RC cars. The organising BRTC crew put in lot of efforts in building a temporary track in front of the park’s castle, and it would pay off with the series’ highest ever entry count ever. The nature of the grass track made setup and tyre choice a bit of a task as traction levels changed much over the course of the day. Racing wise and in Pro2 qualification, Laurent Halluin (Team C) started the day with a win in Q1 ahead of Géry Ledocq (Kyosho) and Philippe Hautecoeur (Team Associated). In the second round, Géry came out fastest ahead of Laurent and Samuel Castel (TLR). In the final round Géry was able to secure the overall TQ with another fastest time, again ahead of Samuel and Laurent. Those 3 clearly had a higher pace than the rest of the pack with all three being very close together in terms of performance.

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