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May 4, 2016

Michael Schäfer takes 200mm class win at SRC

Michael Schäfer take 200mm class win at SRC

The first round of the Swiss Racing Cup was recently held at the iconic Lostallo track. Xray’s Michael Schäfer took the TQ after the qualifiers from Xray team mate Patrick Fankhauser in second. The main final then was a pretty difficult affair as it started to rain some eight minutes into the race but it only was a short shower of a couple of minutes and so the track started to dry soon after. At the end Michael was able to bring home the win in front of Stefan Wüthrich (Xray) and Philipp Bühler (Xray), making it an Xray podium lock-out.

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May 4, 2016

Niblett, Hazlewood & Currie win at SRS Rd2

The second round of the SRS 2016 series was held on a glorious day at Herts over the weekend. Warm and sunny weather and a recently revamped track brought the drivers out in their droves for this round and they would not be disappointed, with excellent track conditions and great weather. The main Nitro buggy class was, as is always the case at Herts, a very closely fought competition and it was a bunch of juniors who dominated the qualifying sessions with Callum Niblett coming out on top, with Ollie Currie second and Jonny Skidmore third. The times were ever so close however, as Callum took round two by only 2/10’s of a second from Jonny would prove. Tony Truman was having a low key day, but he was still in the main final and would be a threat come final time.

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May 4, 2016

Belgian SCT Cup Rd1 – Report

The season opening round of the Belgian SCT Cup was held at the RC@CZ club whose track is located within the full scale Zolder Circuit. A big track surrounded by pine trees the facility made for a perfect place to start the new season that also attracted a record entry of drivers. In the Pro2 class, Samuel Castel (TLR) took the opening qualifier with Géry Ledocq (Kyosho) coming out fastest in the second round while Nicolas Evens (TLR) TQ’d the third and final qualifier. Overall the pole position for the finals would be taken by Nicolas with Géry and Samuel lining up in second and third. The three drivers had quite a similar pace with Tom Pierard (TLR), Laurent Halluin (TeamC) and Philippe Hautecoeur (Team Associated) battling for the 4th spot.

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May 4, 2016

Favrelle wins 10.5T class at French On-road Nats Rd4

The recent fourth round of the French Electric On-road Nationals was held in Ingrandes in central France. Almost 70 drivers signed in to compete in the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring 10.5T, Touring 13.5T and Formula 21.5T. In the Touring 10.5T class it was Steve Favrelle who took the TQ after a rained out qualification in front of Pierre Delorme and Romain Delaunay. The finals were run on Sunday afternoon in sunny and dry conditions and it was pole position holder Steve Favrelle who grabbed the overall win by coming out successful in A1 and A3. Alexandre Duchet ended the day in second while Jeremy Delalondre completed the top 3 result.

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May 4, 2016

RC Mafia season opening race – Report

The RC Mafia club in Gadka Nowa, Poland recently hosted their season opening race which was run in several electric and nitro off-road categories. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Marcin Malinski would come out successful in the A-main from Igor Goderski in second and Tomek Gadnicki in third.

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May 4, 2016

Andrew Bardetta wins at Serpent Cup race

Andrew Bardetta wins at Serpent Cup Race

The Australian Serpent Cup was held over the weekend with rain reduced qualifying from 6 rounds down to 4. Tim Lee took the TQ in 1/10th 200mm Touring followed by David Chen and Joel Casey. In the final Tim got the early lead followed by David Chen and Andrew Bardetta, all three drivers within a couple of seconds of each other. Chen managed to get the lead a few mins in and Bardetta moved into second. From their it was a race long battle between the pair with the lead swapping a couple of times and never more than 2 seconds separating them. Lee was in a comfortable 3rd only 6 seconds behind the leading duo. The battle was on in the pits with every pitstop critical. With a couple of mins to go Bardetta closed the gap to within one second of Chen. On the last lap Chen ran out of fuel coming onto the back straight which gave Bardetta the victory and moving Lee up to second for an Xray 1-2. David Chen (Serpent) managed to hold onto third, being a lap ahead of fourth.

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May 3, 2016

Pelle Culmsee doubles at Danish Nitro Offroad Nats Rd2

The second round of the Danish Nitro Offroad Nationals hosted by the Hillerod RC Racing club and as usual the weekend started off with Nitro Truggy and Electric Buggy racing on Saturday. In the Nitro Truggy class Peter Harder would grab the TQ in front of Jan D. Hansen and Steffen Culmsee. Mike Kjærgaard rounded out the top 4 after the qualifiers.

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May 3, 2016

Dave Hemenway wins at RC Excitement season opener

RC Excitement of Fitchburg, Massachusetts recently held their Outdoor Season Opener race on their newly refurbished track. In the 1/8th E-Truggy class Daven Hemenway would grab the TQ after having some trouble with traffic in the opening qualifier. The main event then saw Dave profiting of some clashes behind him and from that moment on he never looked back. Behind Dave, Jim Edmonds came in second while Phil Morris rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]