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March 20, 2023

Collins wins Italian Indoor TC Championship

Mattia Collina is the 2023 Italian Indoor Champion for Modified Touring Car, the Schumacher driver claiming the title ahead of Xray’s Alessio Menicucci at RC Landia in Scandiano over the weekend. The race was the first sanctioned event of the 2023 national sporting calendar for RC Car Racing of ACI Sport, the Italian Motorsport Federation and member of the FIA. Having secured the overall TQ in qualifying, Collina then converted it into the title after 3 hard-fought finals with EZ Power driver Guido Ristori completing the podium. In Touring Stock, Orlando Fenili (Team Xray) dominated the day with pole position and overall win, preceding his brother Riccardo Fenili (Team Xray) and Federico Collina (Team Schumacher) on the podium. In FWD, great emotions for Enrico Rabitti (Bittydesign) who won the title of Italian Indoor Champion after three hard-fought finals ahead of Emiliano Dagliana and Andrea Selva (Awesomatix). Finally, in GT class, Luca Tassinari (Team Schumacher) took pole and overall win with second place going to Daniele Pacini (Awesomatix) ahead of Andrea Tonini.

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March 19, 2023

D’angelo wins Italian 1:8 GT Championship opener

Alex D’angelo has won the opening round of the AMSCI 1:8 GT Italian National Championship. The Genius Racing team driver lead a 1-2 for the GTc8.23 and Gimar engine combo, taking the win at the Naxos World track in Sicily from 1:8 Buggy World Champion Davide Ongaro. A track that will host the EFRA 1:10 Nitro Onroad European Championships later this year, in qualifying it was Natanaele Senesi who would take the overall TQ ahead of Alessio Mazzeo’s Capricorn with D’angelo P3. Senesi took two of the four rounds of qualifying with his Ielasi Tuned powered Xray but would hit trouble early on in the 45-minute final retiring after just 6-minutes. Upfront and recording the fastest lap D’angelo would win by 2-laps from Ongaro with the new Raptor Max23 of Loris Luise completing the podium. In the Nitro Sport Category Fernando Campeti took the win while in electric Andrea Muscolino was the winner.

Source: Alessio Mazzeo / Image: Alex D’angelo

March 15, 2023

Pekko Iivonen crowned Finnish Touring Car Champion

Pekko Iivonen is the 2023 Finnish Modified Touring Car National Champion, the Schumacher driver claiming the title with his third consecutive win of the season in as many races. Taking place in Äänekoski, the 20-year took his LRP powered Mi8 to the top of the times for all four qualifying rounds and from the TQ continued his domination to secure his latest win ahead Joona Lempiäinen and Arttu Syrjänen. Multiple former European Champion Juho Levänen would finish fourth with Joseph Quagraine rounding out the Top 5 at the third round.

Image: Pekko Iivonen [Faceook]

March 13, 2023

Eldridge claims EssexCarpetClash title with Rd6 win

Harley Eldridge is the overall EssexCarpetClash 2WD Champion, the Xray driver securing the title with victory at the sixth & final round. The 2022/23 championship concluded with an interesting track layout, having a straight that was diagonal with a couple of dogs legs, and a kicker jump that saw cars enjoy some ‘air time’. Kyle Moon with his Willspeed car dominated the 4 rounds of qualifying by TQ’ing all rounds to line up on pole for the final. Ellis Stafford would line his Associated ride up in 2nd, ahead of Harley Eldridge (both joint on points). Ed Kerry, Chris Delves would round off the top 5 of the 11 car final. The final would see Eldridge make some set up changes which suited her and she managed to take the win in leg 1 and 2, heaping up the places and winning the meeting. Moon, would take the 2nd step with Stafford rounding off the podium.

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March 12, 2023

Hebert takes 2023 ROAR On-Road Carpet National title

Quebec’s Keven Hebert is the 2023 ROAR On-Road Carpet Nationals Touring Car Champion. Hosted by Top American racer Eric Anderson’s Apex Raceway in Tennessee, qualifying would see Hebert secured the overall TQ when he set the fastest time in the third of the four rounds. Behind Xray team-mate Chris Adam, the pace setter in Q1 and Q2, would secure second on the grid his fastest time also coming in the penultimate qualifier. Setting the fastest time in Q4, Awesomatix Kemp Anderson lined up third for the triple A-Mains with Andrew Ellis completing the Top 4. In the final getting his title aspirations off to the best possible start with an A1 win from Anderson, Hebert sealed the deal in A2 to add yet another ROAR National title to his name. Winning A3, Adams would become Vice Champion with Anderson completing the Mod Touring Car Podium. Anderson did however take the top prize in 1:12 securing the title from the TQ ahead of Donny Lia and Hebert.

Image: 1up Racing [Facebook]

March 9, 2023

Nedrebø and Dahle crowned Norwegian Champions

Last weekend Stavanger Modelcar Club played host to the 2023 Norwegian Championships for 1:12 and Stock Touring Car with almost 90 drivers making the trip to Stavanger Raceway. While the focus was on the two official titles up for grabs the event also had support 1:12 Stock, FWD and 21.5 Touring Car. After four rounds of qualifying it was Andreas Byrne who secured the 1:12 TQ while Olav Dahle was Top Qualifier in Touring Car. The titles would be decided over triple mains with Mathias Nedrebø getting the better of Byrne to win the 1:12 title while Martin Sørlie completed the podium. In Touring Car Dahle made it a clean sweep to be crown Norwegian Champion from Fredrik Håvardsrud the original Touring Car Viking Helge Johannesen!

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March 8, 2023

Italian Indoor Championships – Announcement

ACI Sport, the Italian Motorsport Federation and member of the FIA, has announced that the first phase of the 2023 national sporting calendar for RC Car Racing, the one dedicated to indoor races, culminates with two appointments that will assign the titles of Italian Indoor Champion for 2023. The “TOURING EP” classes will race on 18/19 March and will see Modified, Stock, FWD and GT hit the track. On 2 April it will be “LMP & GT12” classes’ turn, with 1:12 Open Modified and GT12 contesting the titles. The RC Landia indoor track in Scandiano, best known for the annual international ‘Charity Race’ will host both races. Both events will offer prize money awarded by ACI Sport to the drivers crowned Italian Indoor Champions. €650 is on offer the Modified champion, €500 for Stock and €350 each for FWD and GT. In 1:12, Open Modified the Champion will also receive €650 with €350 on offer for GT12. Registration for both events is via MyRCM.

Source: ACI Sport [acisport.it]

March 7, 2023

Thurston wins EWS Season Finale – Report

The 2022/2023 Essex Winter Series concluded over the weekend with the fifth and final round of the popular British Indoor Series. In Modified, new Yokomo signing Alex Thurston gave his new team something to smile about as he topped the first three qualifying rounds. Already-crowned champion Kyle Branson took Q4 to secure second on the grid, with Kyle’s team-mate Harley Eldridge third overall and looking to secure the overall championship podium. The top five was made up of the Schumacher duo of Andy Murray and Chris Grainger. Alex led away the final, with the top two pulling away from the field. Alex initially built a small gap, but Kyle then reeled him in and for the final minute, there was a great battle as it looked like Kyle had the slightly faster car in the latter stages of the race. However, Alex kept his car on the racing line and Kyle wasn’t able to find a way past, leaving him to take the runner-up spot on the day. The victory confirmed Alex as second in the overall points standings, whilst behind Harley was best-of-the-rest in third, with Andy and Chris maintaining their starting positions to round out the top five – which directly translated into the same results in the overall championship.

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