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July 7, 2018

Greiner TQs opening qualifier at ENS Austria

Dominic Greiner has TQ’d the opening round of 1:10 qualifying at the Infinity Euro Nitro Series in Austria. With qualifying originally scheduled to get underway yesterday evening before rain forced the cancellation of the second half of the day, Greiner picked up where he left off. Fastest in free practice yesterday, those times determining the seeding after this morning’s planned controlled practice were made into untimed practice as the track proved much slower following the rain, Greiner took the first of the four qualifiers by a second over a much improved Jilles Groskamp. Francesco Tironi would post the third fastest time followed by Alessio Mazzeo and Eric Dankel, the latter two both suffering early mistakes at the start of the 4-minutes.

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July 6, 2018

Gruber & Greiner top free practice as rain halts action at ENS Austria

In an all too familiar situation at races this Summer, rain has halted action at the third round of the Infinity Euro Nitro Series in Austria. After completing 8 rounds of free practice in dry conditions yesterday and a further 3 rounds this morning, just after the drivers briefing and scheduled lunch the rain arrived at the Aigen-Schlägl. With 2 rounds of controlled practice and the first of the 5-scheduled qualifiers on today’s timetable, racers waited for the track to dry with the Uruguay – France World Cup game helping to pass the time. However, with the track drying slowly, the rain returned and with no chance of any meaningful running the ENS organisers call time on the day.

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July 6, 2018

Matteo Passetti wins at AMSCI IC Track Champs Rd2

The recent second round of the Italian AMSCI IC Track Nationals saw Serpent’s Matteo Passetti walking away with the win in the 1/10th scale 200mm Nitro Touring F1 class. The BMT duo of Matteo Menichetti and Alessio Agostinelli could round out the top 3 podium result in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]

July 5, 2018

Jörn Neumann teams up with Hiro Seiko

Hiro Seiko have announced the addition of Germany’s Jörn Neumann to their team. The multi-time national and international champion will be using Hiro Seiko’s lightweight screws to lower the weight of his Schumacher and SWorkz cars and he has the following to say:

I am very happy to join the Hiro Seiko team, I already started to use their titanium screws in my cars. If you want to lighten your cars and have a great look, Hiro Seiko screw kits is what you need.

Source: Hiro Seiko [hiro-seiko.com]

July 4, 2018

Jimmy Deprez wins at Border Wars Rd1

Last weekend was the first leg of the Border Wars series, an U.S. Southwest 5-race series which hosts races in Colorado, West Texas, and New Mexico. The race was held in several nitro and electric classes and in Open Nitro Buggy it was Sean Guthrie with the TQ from Braxton Morgan on P2. The 30-minute main final then saw Jimmy Deprez, who got a bit beat up at the beginning of the race, taking the win. After qualifying on the 8th spot, Jimmy kept his head down and had some really good middle stints, making up time to bring home the victory with a 1-lap margin from Roman Gastelum 2nd and Scott Brewer 3rd.

Source: JQRacing [jqracing.com]

July 4, 2018

Jessica Palsson wins at Middle Swedish Cup Rd3

The third round of the middle Swedish Cup was held at the Skövde track last weekend. Kyosho’s Jessica Palsson made a clean sweep in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class by bringing home the TQ, win and best junior title. Serpent’s Pontus Larsson came in 2nd some eight seconds back as Per Carlsson (Serpent) completed the top 3 results.

Image: Jessica Palsson

July 4, 2018

2018 Alabama Manufacturer Shootout – Report

The 2018 Alabama Manufacturer Shootout is always a highly anticipated race known for its awesome reddish clay surface, technical track layouts, and fun atmosphere. Located in Cullman, Alabama, the AMS is now in its 9th year and organized by RaceTime Entertainment, who hosts some of the biggest nitro races on US soil like PNB and Wicked Weekend. The layout was extremely fun. There was a lot of challenging elements including a cross-over to quad jump that was extremely difficult with a capital E. The step-up jumps were perfect and required precision throttle control to not overshoot. The double drop downs to chicane added fitness and accuracy that made for a wonderful challenge. Overall, the layout was unique and definitely fun. For those who like challenge and difficult tracks, this one was definitely for you.

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July 3, 2018

David Loppini wins Italian 200mm Nats Rd2

The 2nd round of Italian Championship was held at the Mini Autodromo Fiorano track last weekend. In the 200mm Nitro Touring class it was David Loppini (Xray) with the TQ. For the final David went for a super aggressive strategy as he was the only one to go for a full tyre change, starting with qualfying tyres. After a few minutes a little touch with Francesco Tironi resulted in a stop & go penalty but after few laps David was back in the lead again. Running in qualifying mode with a super fast pace David was confident to recover after the tyre change and after a super tight battle in the final minutes he finally saw the chequered flag in the 1st position as Francesco Tironi (Infinity) came in 2nd and Salvatore Gilberto (Capricorn) ended the race on the 3 spot.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]