Reds Racing have announced the signing of former World Champion Yuichi Kanai to their factory team. The head of 1/8th offroad development for Kyosho is currently attending the Kyosho Masters in France from where the deal was finalised. Kanai will uses the Italian made engines to power his distinctive green race cars, replacing the RB engines he ran previously.
Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]
Francesco Tironi secured the overall TQ at Round 2 of the Italian Nationals on the beautiful Leno track, locking himself the no.1 spot for the start in tomorrow’s final after TQing two of the four rounds and getting second in the remaining two. It was a perfect day for the Shepherd/XRD driver as he showed both pure speed and consistency throughout the whole day. Second overall was Mazzeo, the former 200mm European Champion debuting in the season with his 8th scale Gimar powered Serpent, while third was Top Qualifier and winner of Round 1 Alberto Picco, who managed to snatch a spot on the main grid winning the Superpole with a blistering fast lap ahead of Dario Balestri.
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Planet Racing have announced the signing of Riccardo Rabitti to their Fastrace team. The multiple Italian National Champion, who made the semi finals at last year’s World Championships in Sicily, will use Fastrace products in his 2015 campaign.
Source: Fastrace [fastraceshop.com]
Fastrace have announced the signing of 2015 1/8th Buggy European “B” Champion Riccardo Berton to their team. The young gun will use Fastrace’s wide range of options while also helping with research and development of forthcoming products.
Source: Fastrace [fastraceshop.com]
The second round of the South German Regional Championship took place at the MSC Rötz track. Under perfect weather conditions a total of 35 drivers attended the event to score points for the championship. Dominic Greiner took the TQ spot after the qualifiers in front of Patrick Nähr and Marco Kaufmann. The semifinal B was then won by Patrick in front of Dominic Schöffel while the semi A went to Dominic Greiner who had Marco Kaufmann in tow. The 30 minute main final then was a close affair between Greiner and Nähr. 2 minutes before the end Dominic suffered from a technical problem, taking away pressure from Patrick. For the final laps he just cruised around the dangerous track and crossed the finishing line 6 laps in front of Marco Kaufmann with Dominic Greiner completing the podium.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Round four of the RCE 1/8th Nitro Buggy Championship was held at the Dirt Paradise track in Nicosia, Cyprus. Hot weather conditions made for a lower number of entries than expected and in the final of the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Nicholas Zachariades took the day’s win from Rafael Panayi. Savvas Savva completed the podium in 3rd.
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The La Nurcia track in Italy, host of the The Italian Job race in August, will hold the “A race for Guillen” event at the 25th and 26th of July. The charity race for young Spaniard Juan Guillermo Carrasco, who suffers from muscular dystrophy, was set up to raise the awareness and to collect money for a Spanish organisation that does research on this rare disease. The race will take place in nitro and electric classes and more information (in Spanish language) can be found here.
Round four of the Danish 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at the ENB-RC track in Holstebro on a technical dirt track. In the Nitro Truggy class Mike Gosvig took the overall TQ after winning the third and fourth qualifying round. Rain before the finals and even at the start of the main made for a muddy track that saw Mike starting from the pole position and building a gap on the field within the first couple of minutes. Around halfway into the race Mike had build a 5-lap lead as many other drivers struggled with flameouts but his car started to become heavier with every lap and so his pit crew decided to take an extra stop to clean the rims and body. Mike rejoined the action with a 3-lap margin on the runner-up spot and in the final stages of the race his truggy again had collected a lot of dirt so that he was hardly able to jump the obstacles, but Gosvig took it easy and brought home a secure win in front of 2nd placed Jesper Lund and Christian Willams who rounded out the podium in 3rd. Behind the trio Henrik Fihl, Tim Culmsee and Dennis Frandsen completed the top 6 result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
