Indonesian front runner, Bowie Ginting has teamed up with Italian company Novarossi. Bowie will use Novarossi engines, exhausts and accessories in his upcoming nitro on-road campaign and he has the following to say about the deal:
I would like to thank Mrs. Graziosa Barchi for this wonderful opportunity, also a huge appreciation goes to Michael S Nugroho for his help and effort. Looking forward to give my best in onroad with Novarossi.
The 2016 Losi Korea Championship was recently held at the Banwol Ansan circuit in the three classes of 1/8th Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy. The event attracted a good amount of drivers to compete on the hard-packed yet dusty track and in the premier 1/8th Buggy class it was Byunghoon Choi who took the day’s win from Bumkyu Kim and Kwangbok Lee. In the Nitro Truggy class it was Wonkyu Joo who came out fastest in the main final from Yongjun Lee in second and Kabdong Lee in third. Finally in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was again Wonkyu Joo who ended the day on the highest step of the podium with Jaekuk Yoo and Danseok Lee rounding out the podium result.
Round one of the French 200mm Nitro Touring Championships was held at the AMCC track. Capricorn’s Quentin Leroux took the TQ after the qualifiers and he would continue to be on top of things in the main final as he took the day’s win from Nicolas Bougnoteau (Mugen) and Thomas Guillon (Capricorn) in second and third respectively. Basile Concialdi (Shepherd) and on-road newcomer Ahmed Kerfati (KM) would round out the top 5 result.
Alessio Mazzeo got his GT season off to a perfect start, TQing and winning the first round of Italian GT8 Nationals on the Cassino track. Alessio’s team mate Michele Baruzzi finished second behind Alessio while Riccardo Scanziani rounded out the podium.
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Round one of the Portuguese On-road Nationals was held at the Coimbra track in rainy weather conditions. After a rained out qualification the weather seemed to turn to the better around lunch break and come the start of the main final the weather situation was open and unclear if it would start to rain again or not. Carlos Manual, who had some mixed qualifiers, opted to go for rain tyres shortly before the start and at the tone he just waited for the other drivers to take off to see how his car would behave. To his surprise his Xray was very drivable and after gaining confidence he managed to make up the lost time and by lap 8 he was in front of the pack and from there he was able to control the gap and to bring home the win from Franco Vilarinho (Mugen) in second and Tiago Afonso (KM) in third.
The nicely elevated track of Cotswald saw a round of the BRCA nitro on-road nationals and in the 1/10th 200mm class it was Mark Green who took the TQ honours and he would also take the day’s win from Joe Kerry in second and Alex Thurston in third. In the 1/10th GT 220mm category Glyn Beal was very fast again, taking the TQ and win from Hellawell in second and Kozakiewicz in third. Elsewhere in the 1/8th GT promo class it was again Glyn Beal who ended the day on the highest step of the podium.
The opening round of the Swiss 1/8th Nitro On-road Nationals took place at the MRC St. Gallen track in Sitterdorf over the weekend. Already during the qualifiers on Saturday reigning Swiss champion Simon Kurzbuch (Sherpherd) showed a dominant performance when he TQed the race by winning four out of four qualification runs and setting a new track record. In the semifinals Silvio Hächler (ARC) pushed a lot while Simon made a safe run that resulted in starting position 2 for Simon for the main final. The main then saw a close battle between Simon and Silvio but after a few laps it was Simon who took over the lead. In the last minutes of the race the gap between Silvio and Simon was less than 1 second until Silvio made a small mistake in the final lap. In the end Simon won the race 5 seconds in front of Silvio Hächler with Christophe Pethoud (ARC) completing the podium 7 laps down.
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The opening round of the 6-race Swiss 200mm National Championship was held at the Sitterdorf track. The weekend started off wet but the track dried just in time for the four rounds of qualifying. Traugott Schär, Raphael Wicki and Patrick Fankhauser made up the top 3 after the qualifiers and after a strong semi final Raphael was able to take the pole position for the final. The 30-minute A-main started with a lot of confusion and incidents and Michael Schäfer, coming from the 7 spot on the grid, took maximum benefit of the situation as he was able to take over the lead. Michael’s lead did not last long though as he made a small error that allowed Patrick Fankhauser to take the 1 spot right before the first fuel stops. At around half time Raphael Wicki was able to put a lot of pressure on Patrick but the latter was able to defend his position till the end to take the win from Raphael Wicki in second and Theo Giannakos in third.
