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September 14, 2015

Cavalieri takes maiden ROAR Modified Touring title

The 2015 ROAR 1/10 Electric On-Road Paved Nationals were held this past weekend at the Tamiya USA track in Aliso Viejo, California. This has been the famous site of numerous Reedy International Touring Car Race of Champions events and with over 100 entries at this years ROAR Nationals, it was going to be a great weekend of racing. In the Modified Touring Car class Team Associated factory driver Ryan Cavalieri would secure the overall TQ honors by taking the TQs in rounds three and four of qualifying. In the triple A-mains Ryan took full advantage of his hard earned TQ position and went onto dominate A-mains one and two leading each A-main Event from tone to tone and take home his first ever ROAR Modified Touring Car National Championship. Behind him his Team Associated’s team mates Rick Hohwart and Kevin Hebert would make for an all-AE podium lock-out.

View the top 10 result here

September 14, 2015

Hupo Hönigl sweeps Austrian 1/10th Buggy Nationals

The final round of the Austrian 1/10th Electric Off-road National Championship was held at the MRC Oberaich track over the weekend. The track also played host for a round of the 1/8th E-Buggy Nationals so both the track and the jumps were a bit bigger than usual although this did not create huge problems for the drivers. In the 2WD class Serpent’s Hupo Hönigl came out fastest after the qualifiers to take the fourth TQ in a row in this class. In the finals Hupo again made a clean sweep to grab the overall win early and with it the championship title. Peter Pinisch (Schumacher) came in second, Stefan Pfeifhofer rounded out the top 3 result.

Continue reading the report here

September 14, 2015

TopRC Summer Electric Masters – Report

This year’s TopRC Summer Electric Masters was again held at the Newteamfriuli track in Cervignano, Italy in the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring 13.5T, Formula 21.5 and 1/8th Electric GT. Preparation with sugar water and high ambient temperatures made for high grip and demanding racing conditions for both the drivers and the cars. As hand-out tyres for the 1/10th Touring and 1/8th GT class would be used many drivers joined Saturday’s practice to get used to the SP Racing tyres. Sunday started off with a round of controlled practice followed by three rounds of qualifying. In Touring Modified Alojzij Osvald (Xray) snatched the TQ from Andrea Ghilotti (Xray), who gave Alojzij a hard time during the qualifiers. The top 3 was completed by a very fast Matej Miklavec (Xray).

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September 14, 2015

Adrian Bertin takes French 1/8th Elite class title

The final round of the French 1/8th Nitro On-road National Championship was held at the MARCG Castelsarrasin club. Going into the season finale with a pretty big margin on his competitors was pre-event favourite Adrien Bertin, with an 8th place in the final would be enough for him to take the overall Elite class title. Technical issues in the qualifiers then tightened things up a bit for Adrien as he had to go through the quarter finals but after a safe drive in the semis Bertin would be able to put his car on the 4 spot for the main final. Adrien then would have an early battle with Desmaries, but after a small mistake of his opponent, Adrien would take the lead and later on the win and with the 2015 French Championship.

Source: HB Europe [hbeurope.com]

September 14, 2015

Ielasi & Spiniello win at Novarossi Trophy Gubbio

The 2015 Novarossi Trophy Gubbio was held at the Automodellismo 5 Colli club in Gubbio, Italy over the weekend. The 1/8th on-road class saw Italian frontrunner Daniele Ielasi taking the win in the main final some three laps ahead of Alessio Mazzeo in second. Mattia Rinaldi ended the 30 minute race some 16 seconds short on Alessio in third place to round out the podium. In the 1/10th 200mm Touring class a close fight for the top spots arose between TQ Mario Spiniello, Alessio Agostinelli and Giuseppe Musolino. At the end Mario came out successful one lap ahead of Alessio and Giuseppe. Alessandro Balboni and David Loppini rounded out the top 5 result.

View the 200mm class podium here

September 14, 2015

Robert Pietsch wins German 1/8th Nitro On-road Nats

The German 1/8th Nitro On-road Nationals were held at the MCC Türkheim track over the weekend in the two categories of class 1 and class 2. In the faster class 1, Mugen’s Robert Pietsch came out successful to add another national title to his belt. ARC’s Lars Hoppe ended the main final on the runner-up spot while Shepherd’s own Patrick Schäfer rounded out the podium in third.

Image: Lars Hoppe

September 14, 2015

Viktor Wilck wins Swedish Cup finale

The final round of the Swedish Cup was held at the brand new Eskilstuna raceway. This 500 metre long track is one of the biggest in the world and it features a crazy long straight. In the Touring Car Modified class Viktor Wilck and Niclas Nilsson battled for the TQ with Niclas taking the wet opening round and Viktor striking back in Q2 and Q3 to take the overall TQ. The fight for the top spot would go on in the finals but it was again Viktor who had the upper hand, winning A1 and A2 with a 5-seconds margin to take the overall win. A wet A3 kept Viktor from starting and it looked like his team mate Niclas would grab the runner-up spot but some small mistakes let Alexander Andersson by. Alexander ultimately ended the day in second place from Niclas Nilsson who rounded out the podium in third.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 11, 2015

Jürgen Horn takes Austrian TC Stock title

The sixth and final round of the Austrian Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Linz track in changing weather conditions. In practice pre-event favourite Jürgen Horn saw himself in the mix with his Xray team mates Jan Popic and Manfred Pasch all of which showed a very fast pace. Sunday then started out wet again and it was decided to skip the first qualifier so the new schedule would see three qualifying rounds followed by triple mains. The opening round than saw Jan Popic, Ralph Dorninger, Manfred Pasch and Jürgen Horn fighting for the TQ with the better end for Jan who took the round TQ from Jürgen, Ralph and Manfred. The second and third qualifier were then won by Jürgen while Jan came in second and Ralph and Manfred rounded out the top 4. The finals, run on a drying track with increasing grip, had Jürgen taking the win from Jan, Ralph and Manfred (all Xray) and with this win Jürgen Horn (Xray) grabbed the overall Stock championship from Jan Popic (Xray) and Vincent Schrank (VBC Racing).

View the Stock class overall top 10 result here