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April 14, 2016

Choi & Joo win at Losi Korea Championship

The 2016 Losi Korea Championship was recently held at the Banwol Ansan circuit in the three classes of 1/8th Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy. The event attracted a good amount of drivers to compete on the hard-packed yet dusty track and in the premier 1/8th Buggy class it was Byunghoon Choi who took the day’s win from Bumkyu Kim and Kwangbok Lee. In the Nitro Truggy class it was Wonkyu Joo who came out fastest in the main final from Yongjun Lee in second and Kabdong Lee in third. Finally in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was again Wonkyu Joo who ended the day on the highest step of the podium with Jaekuk Yoo and Danseok Lee rounding out the podium result.

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April 13, 2016

Quentin Leroux wins French 200mm Champs Rd1

Round one of the French 200mm Nitro Touring Championships was held at the AMCC track. Capricorn’s Quentin Leroux took the TQ after the qualifiers and he would continue to be on top of things in the main final as he took the day’s win from Nicolas Bougnoteau (Mugen) and Thomas Guillon (Capricorn) in second and third respectively. Basile Concialdi (Shepherd) and on-road newcomer Ahmed Kerfati (KM) would round out the top 5 result.

View the final result here

April 13, 2016

Alessio Mazzeo wins Italian GT season opener

Alessio Mazzeo got his GT season off to a perfect start, TQing and winning the first round of Italian GT8 Nationals on the Cassino track. Alessio’s team mate Michele Baruzzi finished second behind Alessio while Riccardo Scanziani rounded out the podium.

Source: PepeGroup [pepegroup.net]

April 12, 2016

Manuel successful at Portuguese 200mm Nats Rd1

Carlos Manuel successful at Portuguese 200mm Nats Rd1

Round one of the Portuguese On-road Nationals was held at the Coimbra track in rainy weather conditions. After a rained out qualification the weather seemed to turn to the better around lunch break and come the start of the main final the weather situation was open and unclear if it would start to rain again or not. Carlos Manual, who had some mixed qualifiers, opted to go for rain tyres shortly before the start and at the tone he just waited for the other drivers to take off to see how his car would behave. To his surprise his Xray was very drivable and after gaining confidence he managed to make up the lost time and by lap 8 he was in front of the pack and from there he was able to control the gap and to bring home the win from Franco Vilarinho (Mugen) in second and Tiago Afonso (KM) in third.

View the A-main result here

April 12, 2016

Nico Schmid doubles at Swiss Nats Rd2

Round two of the Swiss 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the HVBRS indoor track in Islikon. The qualifiers would be won by Nico Schmid in the 4WD class while Fabian Widmer grabbed the 2WD TQ honours. The 4WD A-mains then saw Patrick Hofer taking advantage of a mistake of Nico in A1 but the latter stroke back in A2 and A3 to take the overall win from Patrick Hofer and Romeo Grass in second and third respectively.

Continue reading the report here

April 12, 2016

Mark Green & Glyn Beal win at Cotswold

The nicely elevated track of Cotswald saw a round of the BRCA nitro on-road nationals and in the 1/10th 200mm class it was Mark Green who took the TQ honours and he would also take the day’s win from Joe Kerry in second and Alex Thurston in third. In the 1/10th GT 220mm category Glyn Beal was very fast again, taking the TQ and win from Hellawell in second and Kozakiewicz in third. Elsewhere in the 1/8th GT promo class it was again Glyn Beal who ended the day on the highest step of the podium.

View the other podiums here

April 12, 2016

Lanthaume & Crolla win at French Nationals Rd2

Round 2 of the French 1/10th electric off-road nationals was held over the weekend at the Xtreme race dirt track. Especially in Saturday morning the track proved to be very dusty and slippery, making it touch to tame especially for the 2WD drivers. In the 4WD class Armand Lanthaume would take the win from teammates Lorenzo Crolla and Nicolas Rodriguez in second and third respectively.

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April 12, 2016

Simon Kurzbuch wins Swiss 1/8th On-road opener

The opening round of the Swiss 1/8th Nitro On-road Nationals took place at the MRC St. Gallen track in Sitterdorf over the weekend. Already during the qualifiers on Saturday reigning Swiss champion Simon Kurzbuch (Sherpherd) showed a dominant performance when he TQed the race by winning four out of four qualification runs and setting a new track record. In the semifinals Silvio Hächler (ARC) pushed a lot while Simon made a safe run that resulted in starting position 2 for Simon for the main final. The main then saw a close battle between Simon and Silvio but after a few laps it was Simon who took over the lead. In the last minutes of the race the gap between Silvio and Simon was less than 1 second until Silvio made a small mistake in the final lap. In the end Simon won the race 5 seconds in front of Silvio Hächler with Christophe Pethoud (ARC) completing the podium 7 laps down.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]