The first round of the Italian nitro on-road nationals was run this past weekend. In the premiere 1/8th scale class Capricorn’s Dario Balestri took the win from Mimmo Calce (Serpent) who finished only one lap down with Nicola Marrone in 3rd with his BMT. In the 1/8th F1 category the TQ was grabbed by Antonio Calce (Serpent) but the win in the final eventually went to Francesco Guida (Serpent).
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The French EFRA GP was run in Noeux les Mines last weekend on what the drivers described as a great and technical track laid out by the CARCA club crew. The 3-day race attracted the majority of the French top-level drivers including Xray’s Reno Savoya whose weekend started disastrous as he got a good load of equipment stolen from his road car. Leaving the issues behind he was able to take the overall TQ for the Nitro Buggy final by taking 3 out of the 5 qualifying rounds. The finals then pretty much being a Reno show as he lead for the first 20 minutes, followed by some issues that let him drop in the ranking but he soon recovered to take the win 12 seconds ahead of Jerome Aigoin and Jerome Sartel. Lorenzo Crolla finished 4th with Jean-Pierrick Sartel in tow.
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The 2014 Silver State Nitro Challenge got under way this past weekend in Las Vegas at the Boulder City Track. Run in 1/8th nitro and electric off-road classes as well as electric short course the race attracted the 1/8th scale off-road creme de la creme like Jared Tebo, Adam Drake, Cody King, and Ryan Cavaleri to name just a few. The event, presented by and run on a Joey “The Dirt” Christensen prepared track, also marked the 2nd race of the 5 round U.S. ProCup.
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The 2014 Nitro Season began this past weekend on Long Island, NY at MRRC Raceway for the 2nd annual MRRC Super Challenge. Over 140 entries from NY, NJ, CT, PA, MA and even Canada made the trip to run on the newly built Joey “The Dirt” Christensen layout. Round one of Nitro Buggy qualifying would go to Mugen’s Jerome Treignier from Quebec Canada followed by Associated’s Gunnar Rieck & TLR’s Jay Bless. Round Two would see TLR’s Anthony Mazzara reset the TQ with team mate Stephen Plackis less than 2 seconds behind.
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The 2014 FEMCA Asia nitro on-road championships will take place on the weekend of the 11th of May at the TRC Racing Track in Yuen Long, Hong Kong. The race will be run in 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm nitro classes and is also qualifying race for all Hong Kong based drivers at the 200mm World Championships. Online registration for the event is available by clicking this link.
The popular Western German Championship is turning into an international competition for the 2014 season with drivers from six nations are fielding the top-level class 1 in 1/8 scale nitro on-road. When the lights will turn green on Sunday at round one in Dormagen, two-time W.C. finalist and former German Champion Robin D’Hondt from Belgium is on top of the newcomers in the regional championship which comprises four rounds of qualifying for the single event German Nationals on the weekend of the 14th of September at the Munster track in the South of Hamburg. Motonica factory driver D’Hondt is facing a strong challenge from drivers like country-fellow Steven Cuypers (Mugen), John Ermen (Xray) from the Netherlands, Dirk Rischard (Serpent) from Luxembourg or top German drivers like Michael Salven (Serpent), Tobias Hepp (Xray) and Karl-Heinz Meister (Serpent). Others foreign drivers will include Alain Levy (Shepherd) from France and Emil Kostadinov (Mugen) from Bulgaria.
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Hudy Arena invites everyone to take part at the Vintage Tour 1/8 on-road series which starts at Hudy Arena on the 26th of April. The start of this series will be held at the same weekend when Czech National Championship 1/10 and 1/8 on-road will take place at Hudy Arena. The Vintage Tour is a fun race organised for everyone to give a tribute to the old-school days when drivers hand made their own cars. As such only hand-made cars are allowed at Tour, so grab one of yours vintage cars or one of your first father’s or grandfather’s vintage RC car and come to have fun to Hudy Arena. More information (in Czech language) can be found here.
The Dutch nitro on-road Nationals started last weekend traditionally at the Real80 Groningen track. In qualification Pedro Rombouts immediately showed a dominant pace with lap times three tens faster over the rest of the field. During the next two round the pace was even better, resulting in a TQ in 48,9 seconds over three conservative laps. Behind Pedro it were Julius Kolff, Milan Holthuis and Daan Stuiver all posting three laps just under 50 seconds.
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