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July 5, 2016

Boots gets faster, Ongaro best Top 10 improver

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Elliott Boots continued to set the pace at the 1:8 Offroad European Championship in Spain, the reigning champion improving on his 3-consecutive lap time in FP3. Having lead the way after the first two rounds of free practice by half a second, Boots extended that advantage to 1.5 seconds, this time over fellow British driver Darren Bloomfield. Bloomfield improved two positions with his FP3 time demoting Robert Batlle, who failed to improve, back to third. The best place driver to move into the top 10 with his FP3, reigning Junior Champion David Ongaro would post the fourth fastest time demoting FP1 pace setter Bryan Baldo back to fifth, while also enjoying a strong improvement David Ronnefalk completed the Top 7.

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July 5, 2016

Boots sets early pace in Redovan

Reigning champion Elliott Boots has set the early pace at the 1:8 Offroad European Championships in Redovan, Spain, the Kyosho driver fastest after two rounds of 4 scheduled rounds of free practice. Posting the fastest 3-consecutive laps in the second practice, Bryan Baldo having set the fastest time in FP1, Boots topped the times ahead of Mugen’s Robert Batlle by just 4/10ths around the massive track. One of the few drivers not to improve in FP2, Baldo’s opening time was still good enough for third after two rounds with former Champion Darren Bloomfield next up in P4. Winner of the Warm-up Race back in May, David Ronnefalk failed to put together three good laps, the long 52-second lap making it possible to run just 5-laps over the 5-minute practice, and the HB driver finds himself only 24th.

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July 5, 2016

Elias & Moises take wins at Brazil On-road Champs Rd2

The second round of the Brazilian Nitro On-road Championship saw Flavio Elias walking away with the win in the 1/8th class, coming from the pole position and beating Felipe Chaud on the runner-up spot. Peterson Parpinelli completed the top 3 podium result. With the win Flavio already secured himself the overall title with one round to spare.

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July 5, 2016

Mirco Thalheimer wins at German 200mm Nats Rd3

Round three of the German 1/10th 200mm National Championship was hosted by the MBSC Wächtersbach club. Thilo Tödtmann grabbed the TQ after the qualifiers with Jannick Namyslo starting from the 2 spot into the finals after missing Saturday’s practice, starting directly with Q2 on Sunday. Thilo suffered some issues at the start of the main final which left his car tweaked and a handful to drive. This allowed Jannick to build a 1-lap gap on the field but two stupid mistakes and higher-than-expected tyre wear on Jannick’s car allowed Micro Thalheimer to take the win some three seconds in front of Jannick with Thilo rounding out the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 5, 2016

Norwegian Championships & Swedish Cup Rd3 – Report

The Norwegian 1/8th IC Track Championships and round three of the Swedish Cup where held at the Hverven Raceway, outside of Oslo. Mixed weather conditions made it difficult to complete the race as planned, but the drivers would get at least two rounds of dry track qualifying on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. After the qualifiers, Lars Haugen (NOR) would hold the TQ position in front of Tom Erik Haaversen (NOR), Trygve Berntsen (NOR) and Karl Ullenius (SWE), who completed the top four.

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July 5, 2016

Jacques Libar wins at Luxembourg Nationals Rd3

Round three of the Luxembourg Nationals was held at the iconic Mini Circuit Ville de Luxembourg track. With three TQ runs, Jacque Libar would take the TQ from Joe Streff and Gilles Choque. In the finals, Jacque continued to dominate, bringing home the win from Gilles Choque, while Laurent Libar rounded out the podium in third.

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July 5, 2016

SARDA Electric On-road Nationals Rd4 – Report

The 2016 South-African ORE national championship moved to Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape Province at the Diaz RC Club for round 4 of the series. With the third round being rained out, the challenge to gain championship points was on between the drivers. Some of the drivers could not make the event but quite a few of the country’s top drivers still participated. The track and “tennis court” surface was new to most drivers and the fast technical layout proved to be great for racing. Free practise started on Thursday but a cold front hit the coastal city on Friday with strong winds and cold rain. The rain stayed away for the weekend but the track surface gathered lots of sand and water, and the cold temperature made for low traction. The first qualification round started late on Saturday and the drivers were urged to do lots of practise laps to help clear the track of the fine sand that blew in from the coast.

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July 4, 2016

2016 Schumacher BTCC Rd4 – Report

This past weekend saw the Schumacher BTCC drivers visit the super fast circuit of Halifax for the fourth round of the championship. As usual on Saturday many drivers turned up to practice, the weather was mixed and there was also the occasional heavy downpour of rain, however due to the temperature it meant that the track would dry very quickly. A few drivers braved the wet conditions but most waited for it to pass. Sunday was a totally different story, everyone woke up to bright sunshine and it would stay for most of the day. In the Modified class Elliott Harper was away at the touring car Euros in Slovakia for this event, however there were still many fast drivers in attendance. It was Olly Jefferies who took three out of the four qualifying rounds to secure himself pole position for the final. Behind Olly it was a very close battle between Chris Grainger and Kyle Branson. With Chris winning the final qualifying round, this meant he would line up 2nd on the grid and Kyle 3rd.

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