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June 10, 2016

Martinelli & Schär win at Swiss IC Track Nats Rd3

Martinelli & Schär win at Swiss IC Track nats Rd3

Round three of the Swiss Nitro On-road Nationals was recently held in Schaffhausen. In the premier 1/8th class Simon Kurzbuch and Silvio Hächler would lead the proceedings at first but in the semifinals things would look a bit different. The first semifinal would be held in dry conditions until the very last minute when it started to rain. Silvio would bring home the win from Mattia Pesenti. The second semi than was run on a wet track with Luca “The orange submarine” Martinelli coming in first while Simon ran into trouble that now allowed him to proceed into the A-main.

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June 9, 2016

Rinderknecht & Vanderbeek sweep Summer Series Rd3

Round three of the Team Associated Summer Series at the Plex in Omaha, Nebraska, opened with some deja vu. Much like round two, 170 racers from Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota were on hand to battle it out for the top steps of the podium and a chance to advance in the points standings. Alex Vanderbeek and Tom Rinderknecht once again took victories in all three of the premier Modified classes. Tom started from pole position in Mod 4WD, and took a big win over the field. Alex Vanderbeek got the TQ in both Mod Buggy and Mod Truck, earning that valuable extra TQ point. He went on to take convincing wire-to-wire wins in both classes.

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June 9, 2016

Brown & Mayo win at JBRL Nitro Series Rd3

The third round of the JBRL Nitro Series was held at one of Southern California’s best-known 1:8-scale tracks, Revelation Raceway. In Expert Buggy and at the sound of the tone, Cody King led the field with Jeremy Kortz, Kody Numedahl, and Dayton Brown in tow. Toward the end of the race, both King and Dayton stretched out their lead and separated themselves from the rest. With just over 2 minutes to go, Brown pressured King for the race lead, causing him to bobble and give Brown the lead. King tried to go after Brown, but Brown was running too quick and smooth and he took the win in Expert Buggy.

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June 8, 2016

Felix & Coelho win at Portuguese IC Track Nats Rd3

Round three of the Portuguese Nitro On-road Nationals was held at the Maia track in Porto in the North of the country. The first dry race of the year had Bruno Coelho taking the TQ honours in both the 1/8th and 1/10th classes. The 1/8th A-main then saw an entertaining battle between Bruno Coelho and Hugo Exposto, with the latter putting much pressure on the World Champion. Some 11 minutes into the race Hugo forced Bruno into an error, allowing Hugo to take over the lead. Bruno then ran into more trouble as he crashed with a stopped car, breaking his car’s second gear and letting him drop to fifth. Pushing hard Bruno was able to recover to end the race in second place behind winner Jose Felix while Hugo Exposto completed the top 3.

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June 8, 2016

Eduardo Escandón sweeps Modified class at SNS Rd3

The recent third round of the Spanish National Series saw Eduardo Escandón (Yokomo) taking the TQ honours in the Touring Modified class. Setting a new fastest lap and track record, the nitro on-road expert left David Pérez (Xray) behind in second place while Gonzalo García (Yokomo) rounded out the top 3 after the five rounds of qualifying. The opening A-main on Sunday then saw David taking the win from Edu as the latter ran into problems. Beto Rivera (Xray) completed the top 3 in A1. The next two A-mains then had Edu dominating the proceedings, taking convincing wins in both legs to take the overall win from David Pérez and Beto Rivera.

Source: SNS [snseries.com]

June 8, 2016

Mario Spiniello takes Italian 200mm title

The iconic Gubbio track recently played host to the 2016 Italian 1/10th 200mm nitro championships. In the main final Mario Spiniello (Xray) took the win after a flawless race that saw Mario making a super-fast tyre pitstop that promoted him into the 1st place around the 25 minute mark. In the closing stages Mario only had to control a 3-second gap to teammate David Loppini (Xray) who was on a different fuel strategy with one additional pitstop. Behind the two Dario Balestri (Capricorn) completed the podium result in third.

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June 8, 2016

Hungarian RC Offroad Series Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Hungarian RC Offroad Series was held in Homokbodoge in several electric and nitro classes including E-Buggy, E-Truggy and Nitro Buggy. Sunday morning’s qualifying saw Sándor Paár (TLR) taking the TQ spot in E-Truggy, Peter Loncsar (TLR) grabbed the TQ in E-Buggy and Gergely Csekő (TLR) took the TQ in Nitro Buggy. The Nitro Buggy main then also brought the closest racing as Gergely Csekő (TLR) managed to take the win in the 30-minute final by only 0.238 seconds in front of Peter Loncsar (TLR) while Adam Izsay (Mugen) rounded out the podium further 10 seconds behind.

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June 8, 2016

Belgian SCT Cup Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Belgian SCT Cup was held at the BPT club’s astroturf track. The drivers were greeted by a new surface and track layout with the latter being even more technical with a huge step-up sequence and nice off-camber turns while overall the grip level was lower than before. Rain the week before the race let the surface being slightly damp even on Sunday, making tyre choice crucial this time. In Pro2, Géry Ledocq (Kyosho) started off with the TQ in round one ahead of Edouard-Benoit Michez (Team Associated). Géry snatched another TQ in the second round ahead of Nicolas Evens (TLR) while in the third and final round, Géry broke his truck on the second lap, allowing Nicolas to win the qualifier ahead of Tom Pierard.

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