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September 25, 2013

Bernd Hasselbring wins 200mm at 40+ Euros

The EFRA Nitro On-Road 40+ European Championship took place at the famous La Turbie track in Monaco with its fast and flowing layout and the challenging bumps in the Parabolica corner. The practice sessions of the 1/10th 200mm class had Germany’s Hartmut Rose, Daniel Grosso (Monaco), Alexander Naumov (Russia) and Bernd Hasselbring (Germany) pulling the fastest laps and it was obvious that these drivers would be hot candidates to battle for the 40+ title. Come qualifying things looked a bit different as one or the other driver struggled to convert a single fast lap into consistent 5 minute runs.

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September 24, 2013

Stuiver wins at Dutch champs, Rombouts champion

The AMCA Apledoorn track saw the final round of the Dutch 1/10th nitro on-road championship. This time no Kyosho World Cup driver attended due to the KWC International Race but a couple of guests filled up the NK clas field nicely. Daan Stuiver finally got it together having a perfect weekend, just beating Pedro Rombouts to the pole in front of Julius Kolff. Sander Borghoff completed the top 4. In the final Daan took the gamble and selected a car that was good in the beginning of the race. Julius gambled as well but it did not work out for him. At the end Daan took the win one lap ahead of Pedro with Ruud Schuitemaker completing the podium. Milan Holthuis came in fourth, Julius Kolff completed the top 5. In the championship, it was between Roy Bakker and Pedro Rombouts. Pedro missed one race and had to end up in front of Roy Bakker while Roy had to finish five places in front of Pedro. Unfortunately Roy did not have the speed this weekend to challenge Pedro so the latter took the championship again.

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September 24, 2013

International Romanian Nitro Cup – Report

The International Romanian Nitro Cup took place last weekend at the new Hobby Arena circuit near Bucharest. The new built track shares many of the facilities you will find rather on a F1 circuit: Big scale scoreboard, displays everywhere, everything you could imagine and some more you would not expect on a regular RC track. As traction additives were strictly forbidden the track itself was treated giving the brand new asphalt layer a good amount of grip. The race schedule had Friday and Saturday for free practice, controlled practice, qualifications and the first round of semifinals for both 1/10 and 1/8.

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September 23, 2013

Antros Lemesianos wins Cyprian buggy champs Rd3

Last weekend the 3rd round of the Cyprian nitro buggy championship was held at the Navounita track in Pafos. Last year’s champion, Savvakis Milikouris (Xray) managed to take an easy TQ but in the final Milikouris made a mistake and his teammate Antros Lemesianos took the lead. With a perfect and error-free driving he managed to take the win in front of Sotiris Taifas (Xray) who took the second place in front of Savvakis Milikouris. The 2013 championship will be decided at the next and final round, at the moment both Savvakis Milikouris and Antros Lemesianos are leading the championship.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 23, 2013

Reno Savoya victorious at French buggy nats

The fifth and final round of the French nitro buggy nationals took place at the Chanu track in the north-western part of France. The track is often used by large scale buggies so it was difficult for the drivers to pull issue-free and consistent laps in the rough conditions. The final had Kyosho’s Jerome Aigoin and Xray’s Reno Savoya battling for the lead. Both drivers swapped positions several times until Reno was able to open a gab on Jerome about 15 minutes into the 45 minute final. In the second half of the main Reno’s buggy suffered a flame out so he lost the lead to Jerome but with five minutes to go the Xray driver was able to reduce the gab by 12 seconds. Then disaster stoke for Kyosho driver Aigoin as 3 minutes before the end Jerome had to retire handing Reno the win in front of Lorenzo Crolla and Jerome Aigion.

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September 23, 2013

Mario Spiniello wins 1st Trophy Sempre al Max

The 1st Trophy Sempre al Max, in memory of Massimo Renzi, was held at the Cassino track. David Loppini took TQ with Mario Spiniello starting into the final from second position. The first minutes of the final had a great battle between Loppini, Spiniello and D’angelo but once Spiniello took the lead from Loppini he took off and never looked back. At the end he won the race in front of Giuseppe D’angelo and Generoso Mazza who grabbed the last remaining podium spot.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 23, 2013

Scherer & Wopfner win at Alpencup Rd5

The fifth round of the Alpencup took place at the Kematen track in Tirol. In the 1/8th class Rudi Scherer took the win in front of Serpent team mate Wopfner who fall back to the 10th place at the start of the final but managed to come back thanks to an amazing run. In the 1/10th 200mm class Wofner did even better by taking the win and expanding his lead in the overall ranking. Second place went to Christian Wuntschek with Manuel Dellacher completing the podium.

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September 23, 2013

Fransson & Hard win at Swedish Cup

The final round of the Swedish nitro on-road cup took place in Gothenburg at the famous Väst-8 track. It looks like this was the last race at this track, most likely it will be removed next year but the club is busy finding an alternative location for the track. As for the race, due to the risk of rain on Sunday it was decided to hold the qualifying and finals on Saturday making it a one day event which worked out very well. After qualifying the top 4 of the 1/8th class saw Marcus Lindner (Shepherd) in front of Mikael Fransson (Serpent), Lars Haugen (Xray) and Karl Ullenius (Xray). In 1/10th 200mm Markus Hellquist took TQ in front of Per-Ola Hard (Serpent), Andreas Husman (Mugen) and Martin Åberg (Serpent).

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