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March 21, 2016

Nicholas Lee successful at Urban Touring Series Rd4 

Round four of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held at the city-centre circuit of Urban PlaySpace this past weekend. This event was once again a concurrent points scoring round for the Singapore national EP on-road series. With most of Singapore’s top racers in attendance, the event promised to be super-competitive in both the Open and 17.5T Non-Boosted classes. In Touring Open the first TQ went to Nicholas while Dominic Quek TQ’d the 3rd round. A short rain shower halted proceedings just before round four of qualifying was to get underway. Following the rain delay, round four would see slower lap times so Dominic Quek would once again TQ the round and tie Nicholas Lee on points. Thanks to his faster TQ results, Nicholas would confirm his TQ for the class to start on pole for the finals. Dominic would lock down P2, with Colin Tong starting in from the three spot.

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March 21, 2016

Pirani & Balestri win at Italian Manufacturers Champs

It has been a perfect weekend in Fiorano for both Andrea Pirani and Dario Balestri at the Italian Manufacturers Championship. While the former took the TQ and a very convincing tone-to-tone win in the 45 minutes 1/8th final, finishing ahead of veteran Alberto Picco and Infinity’s Carmine Raiola, while Balestri led an astonishing Capricorn 1-5 in the 200mm class, with Luca Redaelli and Giorgio De Felici rounding up the podium. A very good debut for Pirani with his new XRD FT Line engines, Andrea said “this is the best start of the season I could have hoped for”. Leading since the beginning over the ARC duo of Silvio Hachler and Mattia Collavo, he was able to cruise to the win after the Swiss driver was forced into the pits by a technical issue and Mattia suffered a servo failure. His win also gave WRC, FT Line and Energy fuel the manufacturer titles, with Matrix dominating the class tyre wise.

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March 21, 2016

Yaniv Sivan wins Israeli League Rd8

Round 8 of the popular Israeli League was held this past Friday at the Tavor Motors track near Ashkelon. The day started on a muddy track thanks to a few days of rain before the event but the fourth and final qualifier could be held on a dry track. Yaniv Sivan would grab the TQ in the Nitro Buggy class, less than a second in front of Ofir Avitan in second and Tal Siles in third. The 40 minute A-final started with Yaniv Sivan and Ofir Avitan running away from the pack, both swapping positions at first. Meanwhile Tal Siles, Omer Assayag, Ido Carmon and Aviv Mimon fought for final podium spot while Omer Assayag had to pull out due to technical issues. Some 15 minutes into the race Yaniv took the lead, followed by Ofir who had fuel issues and suffered from a flame out but ultimately he would bring home the runner-up spot from Tal Siles while up front Yaniv Sivan took the day’s win.

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March 21, 2016

Vesa Yli takes Finnish Prostock title

Round four of the Finnish FinTrack Tour and Prostock Nationals 2016 was held this past weekend. In Prostock Vesa Yli was the points leader going into the final round with two wins and a seventh place and the title would be decided between him and Markus Afelt, who had scored two runner-up spots and a third place so far this season. At the final round the win would went to Kalle Lehto from Markus in second and Vesa in third with the final podium spot being enough for Vesa to take the championship from Markus.

Thanks to Vesa Yli for the report.

March 21, 2016

Bakla & Wade successful at NSW State Titles

With a new format and allocation of the meeting to the country area Manning Valley was the chosen Track for the 2016 States in NSW, Australia. The weather was very warm during practice and the track did not hold any moisture, with only two rounds of practice and the track breaking up badly it was looking like a trying weekend for everyone. In the Nitro Buggy final Ari Bakla (Xray), coming from the 3 spot on the grid and Craig Lautghton (TLR) battled for most of the race, trading places at every pit stop. Pressure was on on Ari but he was still confident and calm, but two minutes to the end he lost the lead, and with one minute left a block pass on a corner jump was needed to take back the lead. After a last lap nose to tail and a drag race to the line Ari would take win by half a second.

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March 21, 2016

Ryan Maifield & Ty Tessmann win at Silver State

The 2016 Silver State race was held this past weekend at the RC Tracks of Las Vegas. Organised by Richard Saxton the event attracted the country’s fastest drivers as well as some international guests such as Reno Savoya, Joseph Quagraine, Jörn Neumann and more to attend in several 1/8th off-road classes. In 1/8th Pro Buggy it was Spencer Rivkin (Team Associated) who took the prestigious TQ honours and in the 45 minutes main final Spencer Rivkin and Ryan Maifield (TLR) would swap positions several times with HB’s Ty Tessmann also being in the mix mid-race but ultimately Ryan would bring home the win with a margin of around 15 seconds from runner-up, Spencer Rivkin and third placed Ty Tessmann who ended the race some 8 seconds shy on Spencer.

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March 21, 2016

Eric Albano wins Touring Modified at CTS Rd2

Round two of the California Touring Series was held at the famous Ripon RC Speedway, home of the Original Reedy Touring Car Race of Champions. Due to weather permitting conditions, the turnout was mild with close to 60 entries. This weekend’s top qualifier and Modified Touring Car winner, Eric Albano (Yokomo) showed a dominant performance with Team Associated drivers Rick Hohwart and Gonzalo Cortes finishing a respectable second and third. Round 3 will be held at Speedworld Raceway in Roseville California on the 17th of April.

Source: California Touring Series [facebook.com]

March 20, 2016

Akio Sobue makes it two in a row at Speed King Tour

The 2016 Speed King Tour continued with round 2 held at the GP-1 circuit in the Tochigi prefecture. The event marked the maiden outing for the series at his indoor tarmac track that offers high-bite and high-speed conditions for the drivers. 2013 “Speed King”, Yugo Nagashima took the TQ honours in the Modified class with his Yokomo from VBC driver Hayato Ishioka in second and opening round winner Akio Sobue (TRF) in third.

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