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July 17, 2017

Schäfer wins 200mm class at Swiss IC Track Nationals Rd4

The recent round 4 of the Swiss Nitro On-road National Championship was held in Langenthal. While Simon Kurzbuch took the win in the 1/8th class it was Xray’s Michael Schäfer who TQ’d and won the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring category. The TO secured Michael the pole position for the A-main and saved him from having to attend the wet semifinals. At the start of the 30-minute A-main Michael was closely followed by teammate Traugott Schär but a flawless pace and a fast working pit crew kept him on top of things and so he was able to walk away with the win from Traugott in 2nd while Philipp Bühler in 3rd rounded out an all-Xray podium.

View the final results here

July 17, 2017

Sugiura wins Invitational class at Kyosho Masters Japan

The 14th Kyosho Masters Japan were held this past weekend at the RC Land Taki track in Chiba with about 70 entries from Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia and Japan. The 2-day event was held in Invitational, Expert and Sports classes and in the premier Invitational class it was Yusuke Sigiura who walked away with the win from Wataru Takashiro in 2nd. In 3rd Dani Choi would round out the top 3 podium result.

Image: Yusuke Sugiura

July 14, 2017

U.S. World Nitro Cup – Announcement

The 2017 U.S. World Nitro Cup will be held from November 29th to December 3rd at the World-famous Full Throttle RC Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida. Like every year the race will attract racers and teams from all around the World, and the 2017 edition will also include 1/8th GT and 1/8th pan car classes in addition to the traditional 1/8th on-road and 1/10th 200mm touring categories. Entries are now open here.

July 13, 2017

Mikael Fransson takes Swedish 1/8th IC Track title

The recent Swedish Nitro On-road Nationals were held at the big and fast Örebro track with drivers from Sweden, Norway and Denmark in attendance. Saturday was pretty much washed away by the rain and so it was decided to have two additional rounds of qualifying on Sunday morning. In the 1/8th class some drivers decided to race anyway and so the overnight TQ was held by Mikael Fransson from Bengt Andersson. Sunday started off nice and dry and the two remaining rounds would be held in good track conditions. Again Mikael was the fastest in front of Norwegian top driver Tom-Erik Haaversen. Due to the revised time schedule the Super Pole format was cancelled and the top 4 drivers would directly proceed into the A-main with Tom-Erik Haaversen, Magnus Bengtsson and Bengt Andersson being the lucky ones to score a direct spot on the grid behind TQ holder Mikael. In the final Mikael Fransson was able to pull away directly from the start. Behind him it was a close battle between Magnus and Tom-Erik until the latter ran into problems. This meant Magnus could take the runner-up spot in front of Per-Ola Hård who ran a solid final and finished 3rd overall.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

July 13, 2017

Vasilis Lykaris wins at Greek 200mm Nationals Rd4

Round 4 of the Greek 200mm Nationals was held at the Fanatix Racing Track in Athens. After four rounds of qualifying Vasilis Lykaris took the overall TQ and the pole position for the 35-minute A-main event. Right from the start Vasilis was able to pull away and he opened a significant gap on the field that he managed to bring home to take the win with a 2-lap margin on the 2nd placed driver.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

July 11, 2017

Simon Kurzbuch wins at Swiss IC Track Nationals Rd4

The fourth round of the Swiss Nitro On-road Championship recently took place in Langenthal. Already on Friday the drivers took the chance to test engines and bodies but unfortunately it was drizzling on Saturday from time to time but it was never really wet and the qualifying could be held in good track conditions. In the 1/8th class once again Simon Kurzbuch stamped his authority on his home track. He shocked his rivals with lap times under 12 seconds and was the only one to pull 25 laps in qualifying which meant he easily took the pole position for the final as the super pole race went to Silvio Hächler in front of Thomas Henzi and Michael Henzi.

Continue reading the report here

July 11, 2017

Adam Drake wins at JBRL Nitro Series Rd4

Round four of the 2017 JBRL Nitro Series was held at Revelation Raceway. The temperatures reached a scorching 40 degrees Celsius but the turnout was still around 150 entries for the multiple classes. Mugen’s Adam Drake was the top qualifier in Nitro Buggy, Nitro truck, and Electric 1/8th buggy and he also lead both nitro finals from tone to tone and took the victory in Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truck by more than a lap. In Nitro Buggy HB Racing’s Cody King finished 2nd and Kyosho’s Anthony Westergaard came in 3rd.

Source: Mugen Seiki [mugenracing.com]

July 10, 2017

Romagnoli & Di Prisco win at Italian IC Track Nats Rd2

Round two of the Italian 1/8th IC Track Nationals was hosted by the RME Cassino this past weekend. In the Expert category main final Michele Romagnoli would hold the upper hand over Marco Vanni on the runner-up spot. Simone Peretti would round out the podium in 3rd. Elsewhere in the F1 class Antonio Di Prisco brought home the win.

View the F1 class podium here