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August 11, 2015

2015 Futaba/O.S. Racing Nitro Challenge report

The 2015 Futaba/O.S. Racing Nitro Challenge is in the books and it was an incredible event and this year featured an excellent but challenging track from Sik Track Designs (AKA Levi Jackson). With all the top guns from the Midwest and factory drivers Ryan Lutz, Joe Bornhorst, Josh Wheeler, Matt Gosch, and Michael Paige, the competition was going to be tough. The format for this race is different than most races with practice on Thursday evening and on Friday. With the first round of qualifying on Friday night under the lights. The final 2 round of qualifying on Saturday and the raffle, Dash for Cash, and all the mains on Sunday. This race features double A Mains for both Pro Buggy, Pro Truck, and E Buggy.

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August 11, 2015

Roland Strom wins Swedish 1/8 gas onroad champs

This past weekend MHF-u Skarpnäck organised the Swedish championship at their newly repaved Flatenbanan in Stockholm. The event saw racing in 1/10 Nitro touring, electric touring and 1/8 gas Track. An unusually sunny and warm weekend made for great atmosphere and really good track conditions for everyone participating. The new asphalt gave good traction and the builders had succeeded with a silky-smooth track with no bumps whatsoever – and it was also very nice to look at. In the 1/8 Track class it was Mattias Ericsson who got the TQ with his Mugen. It was obvious that fuel consumption was very tight over the five minute qualifiers with some participants being forced to refuel at around the four minute mark. Roland Strom, Running a Serpent/Max combo, was among the few to manage the whole five minutes on a single tank of fuel which gave him the third starting position in the A-main behind Mattias Ericsson and Marcus Lindner.

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August 11, 2015

Dutch 1/8th Nitro On-road Championship Rd4 – Report

The MBC de Sluis track in Gouda played host to last weekend’s round 4 of the Dutch National 1/8th Nitro On-road Championships were sunny weather greeted the competitors all weekend, which resulted in a good racing atmosphere. Following qualifying in the premier NK class it was Joey Sorber (Shepherd/Maxima) who came out on top, followed by Arie Manten (Shepherd/Picco) and Frank Baggen (ARC/Reds). Sorber would go on to win the 30 minute main ahead of Baggen in 2nd, with Jeroen Van Iperen taking 3rd. In the Nomac class qualifying it was Jesse Keller (Mugen) followed by Stephan van Rooijen (ARC) and Martijn Smits (ARC). In their final Keller was able to convert his starting position into the win by 3 laps in front of Ad Arents in 2nd and Peter Berkhout 3rd.

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August 10, 2015

Daniele Ielasi dominates Euro GT race

Ielasi and FastRace sweep Euro GT

Last weekend the Euro GT race took place on the wonderful BlackTarmac track in Mesero. After being fastest since practice, Daniele Ielasi took the TQ honors and went on to complete a clean sweep in the GT-A Class, taking his Nova-Ielasi powered FastRace GT-R15 to a tone-to-tone win ahead of class specialist and former Offroad Italian Champion and European finalist Fabio Boero. The podium was rounded out by Luca Redaelli. Fast and comfortable since the very first laps with the car, Daniele wanted to thank his sponsors FastRace, Novarossi, DKT and his mechanics Piero Cresta and Riccardo Verardo.

Source: Fast Race [fastraceshop.com]

August 10, 2015

Greiner wins the 2015 German 1/10th Nationals

The German Nationals for 1/10th scale were held this past weekend in Leipzig in the eastern part of Germany. Qualifying would see Robert Pietsch on TQ for Mugen with Serpent driver Dominic Greiner a very close 2nd and his Serpent Team mate Toni Gruber in 3rd. In the semi-final Greiner came out on top with 101 laps, with Patrick Nahr and Pietsch with 100 laps in 2nd and 3rd so Greiner would start the Main final from pole position. Most of the final saw a great fight for 1st position between Greiner and Pietsch, a real cliff-hanger. Greiner’s Natrix 748 TQ worked really well and he was was on a different fuel-strategy as his Max showed better mileage, and he was also on a different tyre change strategy. So in this race his pit-crew of Thomas Guensel and Michael Salven were of huge importance. In the last part of the final Greiner had a small lead, but due to the very high temperatures, the chassis and engine became very hot, and being on very small tyres at the end of the race the clutch started sticking a little, losing some speed. At the finish line there was only 0.2 seconds gap ahead of Pietsch in 2nd and so Greiner took the National title, with Nahr taking the final podium spot in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 5, 2015

Jack Embling takes UK Truggy title

This past weekend the BRCA 1/8th Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy Nationals were held at the Slough track. Mugen’s Jack Embling was the man to beat in the Truggy class as, after taking the TQ in the qualifiers, he would also take the day’s win and with it the overall title.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

August 5, 2015

Xray NT1 Work.Shop Italy

Xray will hold a dedicated Work.Shop for NT1 owners from the 11th to 12th of August at the Gimar Speed Park in Reggio Calabria. The workshop will focus on Xray’s 1/10th scale nitro on-road car and it is held by Xray’s own Martin Hudy who will be track side to help drivers making their car setups perfect. Participation is for free and more information can be found here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

August 4, 2015

Lutz doubles at OS/Futaba Nitro Challenge

The OS/Futaba Nitro Challenge was held at the St. Louis Dirtburners track with a turnout of over 200 entries. The Levi Jackson built track was a lot of fun, watered and the grip level was pretty decent. As the sun got strong though the track began to dry quicker and it was made a decision to let it groove in early and hopes were it would hold together. By the end of practice on Friday everyone became aware that this wasn’t going as planned. The track got super dry and while there was a nice groove it had little holes in that groove that continually grew and spit out sand, dirt, and rocks. By the end of the weekend the track was a complete challenge as finding a setup to traverse the conditions was tricky. Everyone bemoaned about finding consistency and some found themselves using medium hardness tires, even though the conditions were loose.

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