The second round of this year’s Dutch 1/8th Nitro On-road National Championship was held at the RACO2000 track in Utrecht. In the premier NK class the day’s win went to Robbin Hertong with a 2-laps margin from Roy Bakker while Jeffrey Rietveld completed the podium another two laps down in 3rd.
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Round 2 of the Xray Racing Series Alpe Adria was held at the Mini Autodrom Ayrton Senna in Zagreb, Croatia. Drivers from six different countries including Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, Italy and Slovenia attended the event, giving it some international flair. The weekend started off with nice weather and pleasing temperatures on Saturday although mixed weather and cooler conditions were on the forecast for Sunday and because of the chance of rain the first qualifiers were held on Saturday evening.
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The opening round of the South German nitro on-road regionals was held at the MCC Türkheim track. In Saturday’s dry 1/8th class qualifying it was Maxi Vogl who took the top qualifier honours and he would also come out on top after Sunday’s rain-soaked main final. Armin Baier would end the day on the 2 spot some two laps down with Bastian Gramlich completing the podium another lap down.
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Reds Racing have announced the signing of top Japanese driver, Wataru Takashiro to their team for 2017 and 2018. Wataru will use Reds Racing nitro engines throughout his campaign that will see appearances at all major races.
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The second round of the BRCA 1/10th IC circuit championship was held at the Halifax track. In qualifying it was Capricorn’s Kyle Branson who managed to take the TQ and set a new track record ahead of Joe Kerry, followed by Alex Thurston in 3rd and Mark Green in 4th. The final got under way with Kyle managing to pull a gap early on from Mark, who managed to get into 2nd in the opening laps. A great battle was going on from around the 10 minute mark with Alex and Mark fighting for the 2nd spot for almost the remainder of the race. After 30 minutes it was Kyle who took the win with his Capricorn car nearly two laps ahead of the two Serpents of Mark in 2nd and Alex in 3rd.
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Round 8 of the 1/8th Nitro Buggy Israeli League was held at the Omer Ring track in fantastic weather conditions. After the four rounds of qualifying it was Ido Carmon to take the TQ honours. At the start of the 40-minutes main final Ido was not able to take profit of his pole position as he had a bad start which dropped him down the field. This allowed Yaniv Sivan, who came from the 2 spot on the grid, to take over the lead and to open a gap on the field. It wasn’t for long though as a few mishaps and a flame out promoted Ofir Avitan into the lead. However Yaniv managed to recover and to hold onto the 2nd position while Ido Carmon had fuel flame out which he could not recover from. Meanwhile there was a battle between Aviv Maymon and Or Balulu for 3rd. Aviv had some issues and lost valuable time which promoted Or Balulu into 3rd as Asi Bitton and Gil Harush were in the fight for the 4th place. Ultimately Gil Harush had the upper hand but up front Ofir Avitan would walk away with the win from Yaniv Sivan in 2nd and Or Balulu 3rd.
A round of the German 1/8th Off-road regionals, qualifying races for the nationals later this year, was held at the Sand/Main track over the weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Micha Widmaier (SWorkz/SPower/ TPRO) made a clean sweep by winning all qualifiers and taking the win in the A-main from Aaron Münster (Kyosho/O.S. Speed/AKA) and Luca Rau (Kyosho/O.S. Speed/AKA). In the E-Buggy class it was again Micha who grabbed the TQ by coming out fastest in two of the three qualifiers. In the A-main finals Micha continued to set the pace and taking wins in both legs secured him the second overall win of the day, with Agama’s Markus Metsch and Kyosho driver Tim Kraus completing the E-Buggy podium.
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The opening round of the Austrian 1/10th and 1/8th Nationals was held at the Sollenau track and it was Gerhard Kandelhart who took home the biggest trophy although it was his team mate Leonardo Varga who claimed the TQ spot after qualifying. In the main final Leo was in the lead for quite some time but a crash with a back marker forced him to get his car repaired in the pits. Gerhard Kandelhart took over the lead after Leo’s incident andhe never looked back, crossing the finishing line in 1st position in front of Kurt Hubeny while Leo fought his way back to the front to complete the podium.
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