The 4th round of the French 200mm nitro on-road championship was held at the Lentilly track near Lyon. In the National class, it was Maxime Legay who took the TQ position in front of Philippe Martineau and Stephane Campourcy while in the Elite class, Leo Arnold had a tremendous third qualifying round to take the overall TQ. Basile Concialdi came in 2nd and Quentin Leroux held the 3rd spot.
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The 2nd round of the RCE Championship was held at the Dirt Paradise off-road track in Nicosia, Cyprus. Despite hot weather conditions many drivers attended and finally it was former champion Andreas Georgiou who took the TQ for the A-final. The championship leader also went on to win the main in front of Andreas Thrasyvoulou in 2nd and Nicholas Zachariades in 3rd. Marios Christodoulou completed the top 4 result.
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The 4th round of the French nitro on-road nationals took place under mixed weather conditions. All qualifiers would be run in dry track conditions and in the 1/8 Elite class it was Anthony Abisset (Serpent) who took TQ in front of Benjamin Brasset (Serpent) and Arnaud Mathieu (Capricorn). In the National class 14 years old Gaetan “Iceman” Nousse (Serpent) outperformed Ludovic Cesar (Serpent) and Benjamin Coulaud (Capricorn).
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Uwe Baldes, Melvin Diekmann, Marco Muscara and Stefan Schumann achieved class wins at round 3 of the Nitro-West-Masters which was held at the Rhein-Ahr-Motodrom in Bad Breisig. With 42 entries and finally 41 competitors attending the number of participants was slightly lower than at the previous rounds in Oberhausen (67) and Dueren (55). But that did not derogate the thrilling racing action and the great atmosphere though. The conditions on Sunday were perfect nearly till the end before some slight rain hit the track during the last ten minutes of the 1/8th main race.
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This past weekend the BRCA Truggy and E8 championship moved South to the newly revamped dirt track at Kent. The morning skies had a little moisture in them to welcome the drivers. The 6 minute practice session that both classes had was a little greasy but still allowed the drivers and marshals to get a feel of the new layout. Round 1 started with the E8 buggy doing there first qualifying run out of 3, with the best 2 to count. This resulted in an assortment of lap times with Kevin Brunsden fastest in heat 1 and Elliot Boots fastest in heat 2. By the time the Truggy class started the track was starting to loose the damp shine. Heat one of the Truggy class was won by Tony Truman and heat 2 by young Oliver Currie.
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The final round of Attiko championship took place after some rainy months at the FRT track in Athens. The race was postponed more than 5 times because of the weather conditions and it marked the highlight of the season as it was to decide the championship and the following 3 places. The top 4 drivers where close together in the championship and in qualifying it was last year’s champion Papanikolaou who showed great speed with the only 10 laps run. The 2nd place after qualifying went to Koudouris with Zagorisos sitting in 3rd place.
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The Italian Xray On-road Grand Prix was held at the Gimar Speed Park in Lazzaro last weekend. Nearly 60 drivers signed in for the event that was run in various classes including electric touring car modified, 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road and 1/5th large scale. In the touring car modified class, Alessio Menicucci TQ’d the event followed by Alessandro Brunelli and Martin Hudy. The 1/10th 200mm nitro class saw Biagio Spataro taking TQ from Alessio Mazzeo and Davide Stefanizzi.
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The 2nd round of the Austria 1/8th off-road national championship saw a strong field of drivers competing with the likes of Hupo Hönigl, 2-times national champion Martin Karner, Euro finalist Dominic Bauer and Martin Wollanka in attendance. In the qualifiers two round wins secured Martin Wollanka the overall TQ for the finals and the Xray driver was also able to take the pole position for the A-main by winning his semifinal 4 seconds in front of runner-up Martin Karner. The final had the two Martin’s fighting for the first 10 minutes of the race until Wollanka’s pit crew realised that he had to do an additional stop for fuel compared to Karner. Nevertheless Martin Wollanka ended the race 1 lap ahead of Martin Karner with Klemens Heiss completing the top 3 result.
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