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June 21, 2017

Polish On-road Championship Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Polish On-road National Championship was held recently in several electric and nitro classes. In the Touring Modified class it was Arkadiusz Smyk who took round TQ in Q2 and Q3 to take the overall TQ and the pole position for the finals. In the opening two A-mains Arkadiusz brought home wins to bag the overall victory from Bartosz Pochopień, who challenged Arkadiusz in A1 but made a mistake in A2. The podium was rounded out by Mateusz Ogonowski in 3rd.

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June 21, 2017

Chan Chau-man doubles at Shepherd China Cup Rd2

The second round of the Corona Shepherd China Cup was recently held at the SRC track in Shenzhen. In the 1/10th Open class it was Chan Chau-man who was the man to beat as he swept all three qualifying rounds to take the overall TQ. Also in the main final Chan Chau-man drove a flawless race, leading from the start to the checkered flag he took the win in front of Fai Ho and Ray Poon in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the 1/10th Shepherd class, run with mandatory Shepherd Velox V10 cars, Chan Chau-man completed his podium sweep by taking another win that weekend. Ray Poon came in 2nd with Pong rounding out the podium. With this result Chan Chau-man claimed the second win in a row in the Shepherd Championship and increased his lead in the championship standings.

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June 20, 2017

Quebec RC Series Rd2 – Report

This past weekend the second round of the Quebec RC Series was held at the Bego RC Raceway near Montréal, home of the 2017 Quebec Classic. The rain on Friday would turn into nice weather all weekend, making for good racing conditions. In Nitro Buggy, Sam Langer laid down the fastest run in Q2 to take the overall TQ and in the main Sam took the lead and never looked back while TLR’s Carl Boulianne and Team Associated’s Eric Deschenes were battling for P2. At the 15-minutes mark, both Eric and Carl had issues and Wesley Gurr took the 2nd spot in front of Steve Lamoureux.

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June 20, 2017

Quentin Leroux takes 200mm French National title

The fourth and final round of the French 1/10th IC Track Championship took place in great weather conditions at the circuit of Besançon in the eastern part of the country. The title would be in contention between championship leader Basile Concialdi and Quentin Leroux who sat in 2nd. To take the championship lead, Quentin would need to take the pole position and win and hope for a maximum 3rd place of Basile. In Saturday morning’s timed practice Quentin seemed already faster with an average of 17.2 seconds on three consecutive laps, followed by Thomas Gold in 17.4 then Brice Turco/Basile Concialdi/Michael Derderian all with 17.6’s.

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June 20, 2017

Italian Manufacturers Championship Rd2 – Report

Last weekend the second and final round of the Italian Manufacturers Championship took place at the World famous venue of Gubbio in central Italy. With the majestic track making for a perfect scenery for the season finale and a highly competitive field in both the 1/10th 200mm and the 1/8th class, the championship proved to be once again one of the best events in the Italian on-road scene. The 1/8th A-main would see an outstanding battle for the lead between Raiola’s Infinity and Mazzeo’s Xray until the RX8 of the 200mm vice-World champion was forced to retire due to a loose servo horn screw. From that moment on Carmine Raiola has been able to cruise to a deserved win ahead of his Infinity team-mates Balestri and Tironi. In the championship, Infinity claimed the chassis title with two wins (Balestri in Fiorano and Raiola in Gubbio), with Max Power and Runner Time winning the respective titles while Matrix won the Tires title at the second tie-breaker with Hotrace.

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June 20, 2017

Thurston & Beal win at BRCA 1/10th IC Track Nats Rd3

Round 3 of the British National 1/10th Nitro On-road Championships were held at the Mendip Raceway in the South West of the UK. The weather on Saturday was good sunny all day. The top three drivers for 200mm Touring in practice were Mark Green (Serpent) Joe Kerry (Capricorn) and Alex Thurston (Serpent). In the 220mm GT class Glyn Beal (Serpent) was the fastest with Rickard K (Xray) very close behind. Race day Sunday and the weather forecasters got it wrong. It started raining at the start of heat 1 round 1 and only stopped when the finals had finished. Ultimately Mark Green took TQ for 200mm Touring and Glyn Beal for 220mm GT.

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June 20, 2017

John Hazlewood brings home Truck win at SRS Rd2

This past weekend the popular Slough track in the UK played host to the second round of the Southern Regional Series. The series brought nearly 100 drivers to the event, because of this there was only a bolt-on practise round for the drivers and with many having not driven on the track since the last national in 2016, it was a steep learning curve for most. With the three rounds of qualification in very hot weather conditions over, in Nitro Truck Jon Hazlewood took a commanding TQ, with Michael Shorey in 2nd. The Truck A-final was up first and as the buzzer went Jon’s truck stormed round the first corner and into the distance. His driving was on another level and it grew quite a crowd of people watching it as he went around untouched for the 20 minute final and ultimately he brought it home in 1st place a lap up on the 2nd place driver.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

June 20, 2017

Berkan Kilic wins North German regional race

The MAC Uetersen club played host to a round of the North German 1/8th Nitro Off-road regionals this past weekend. The race was part of the qualifiers for the German nationals and right from the start it was clear that the race for the win was on between the Burak and Berkan Kilic. The 30-minute main final saw pole position holder Burak taking off with no problem and it looked like smooth sailing for the Agama driver but in the closing stages his young brother Berkan had closed the gap and after a nice and fair battle Berkan Kilic (Agama) was able to get past Burak to take the win by about 3/100th of a second. In 3rd TLR driver Hendrik who rounded out the podium.

Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the report.