The Italian SRC Trophy was held at the Montegiorgio track in several 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road classes and with a total of 63 drivers in attendance. In the 1/8th category Sandro Sammarini would take the TQ and he also went on to win the A-main event from runner-up Stefano De Rossi and Attilio D’Angelo who would round out the top 3 result.
Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]
The International Open Polish Indoor Championships were held in Poznan last weekend. Marek Kusiakiewicz (Xray) dominated the qualifying by winning four of the six rounds in the Formula class to take the pole position for the triple A-finals. In the opening A-main Marek had to defend himself against the hard chasing Tomasz Szymanski (Xray) and Daniel Slomski (Xray), but Marek was able to take the win. In the opening stages of A2 Marek made some mistakes, allowing Tom and Daniel by. Marek then had to up his pace to catch up with the front runners but with flawless driving he would take the win and with it the overall title. A3 then saw Marek taking an easy win while Daniel and Tom battled for the runner-up spot with the better end for Daniel.
APPA Raceway in San Paolo, Brazil held the Campeonato Paulista EP 2015 last weekend. In the 1/10th Formula class Paulo Roberto Martins (Fenix) took the win from Lissandro Hossoda (Xray) on the runner-up spot. Luis Castori (TOP) would round out the top 3 result.
Source: Fenix Racing [fenix-racing.com]
Sundancers Raceway in Port Saint Lucie, FL, recently hosted a ROAR Region 4 1/8th scale off-road race. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class Brett Kingsbury was the man to beat as he won two out of the three qualifiers to take the overall TQ and pole position for the A-main. Brett then went on to win the final as well to take the overall title.
Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]
Tekno RC’s Rudy Rico has secured the overall win in the Expert 4WD Short Course and Electric 1/8 scale classes at the 2015 JBRL Series, defending his 2014 titles. This year the prestigious JBRL Electric Series travelled to eight California tracks over seven months and averaged over 200 entries per round. The TLR duo of David Jenson and Ryan Dunford would finish second and third overall in the Expert 4WD Short Course class while in 1/8th E-Buggy David Jenson (TLR) and Casper (TLR) would complete the overall top 3 result.
The fifth and final round of the Swiss Electric Off-road National Championship saw Tamar Schäfer (Intech) walking away with the win in the 4WD Short Course class. Tamar would win the opening A-main but Intech teammate Tyas Wuillemin came out faster in A2 meaning the third leg would decide over the day’s win. A3 then again had Tamar grabbing the win to take the overall victory from runner-up Martin Weidmann (Team Durango) with Tyas Wuillemin rounding out the top 3 result.
Source: Intech [intechracing.com]
The opening round of the 2015/16 Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Arena in Trencin. The race was held in several electric on-road and off-road classes and in Touring Modified it was pre-event favourite Martin Hudy who took the pole position on his home track. The fight for the 2 spot was on between David Nemcek and Zdenko Kunak with the better end for Zdenko while David placed his car on the third spot for the finals. As expected the A-mains then saw a clean sweep from Martin but behind him the race was on for the runner-up spot and this time David kept his cool while Zdenko ran into trouble. At the end David would grab the runner-up spot behind Martin, with Juraj Hudy rounding out the top 3 result. Oliver Havranek and Zdenko Kunak completed the top 5 result.
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The SRC Trophy was held in Montegiorgio, Italy over the weekend in the three classes of Electric Touring Modified, 1/8th Nitro and 1/10th 200mm Nitro. In the Electric Touring Car class Alessio Menicucci was the man to beat and he took quite an easy TQ from his teammates Mattia Collina and Alessio Mancini. In the A-mains it was again Alession Menicucci who came out fastest as he was able to secure the day’s win early while Mancini and Collina battled for the runner-up spot. At the end Alessio Mancini was able to leave Mattia behind with the three making a podium lock-out for Xray.
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