The Picco Cup was held this past weekend at the Roma Cross Village track in Italy. The event attracted some of Italy’s fastest off-road drivers to compete against several guests from abroad and ultimately Mugen’s Marco Natale came out successful in the 1/8th E-Buggy class, taking the win from Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro on the runner-up spot.
Source: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]
The second round of the Swiss Electric On-road National Championship was held this past weekend. The HSH race track in Dintikon played host for the race that attracted more than 60 drivers to compete in the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring Pro Stock, Formula and Swiss GT. Michele Manzo was the man to beat in Touring Modified as he took the TQ and win from teammate Fabian Widmer while Boris Siladi had to settle for 3rd overall.
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Round 7 of the FSEARA Florida State Series was held in in sunny Fort Myers this past weekend. The world famous “Fort” track with its challenging but fun layout greeted the 17.5T and 21.5T drivers drivers and in the faster 17.5T class it was Cory Parsons who walked away with the day’s win from Dave Vera 2nd and Joe Sumasky 3rd. In 21.5T it was Michael Bruce who brought home the win from runner-up, Jonny Q while Jason R rounded out the podium in 3rd.
The opening round of the Czech Nitro On-road Nationals was held recently and it was Tomas Liptak (Xray) who set the TQ in the 1/8th on-road class. Right after the start of the main final Tomas opened a gap on the field that was as large as five seconds before the first round of pit stops. Some 18 minutes into the main light drizzle made things interesting as the track was partly damp and partly dry but it soon started to fully dry up again and the final stages saw a dry track and a dominating Tomas Liptak who took the win some three laps in front of the Shepherd duo of Martin Zvara and Miroslav Jurenka.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
A round of the Czech Open series was held at the Horni Jeleni track recently. Xray’s Max Gotzl would hold the TQ until the third round when in the fourth and final qualifier Xray team mate Kaja Novotny, who struggled in the opening rounds, out-qualified him for the overall TQ. In the semifinals Kaja secured himself the pole position for the A-main and on lap three a small mishap of Kaja allowed Max to take the lead that he would extend after the first pit stop. About mid-race rain started to fall which made conditions tricky. Max lost some ground but ultimately he was able to bring home the win from Kaja, who had to make an additional fuel stop, in 2nd while Ales Bidovsky (Xray) had to settle for 3rd overall.
The second round of the BRCA Formula National Championship was held at Aldershot. Qualifying started cold and dry but it was tricky to find grip but as the weather warmed up the lap times dropped. Current UK Formula Champion and championship leader after the first round, Luke Lee (Xray), took a convincing TQ winning all four qualifying rounds. The first final saw Luke take an early lead but his lead was cut by an unfortunate incident with a back marker, however he had enough of a gap to resume in the lead and maintained it till the end of the race. The second final was a repeat of the first – without the back marker incident – Luke sailed off to a comfortable lead and the overall win with James Wright (MD Racing) coming in 2nd and Damian Giddins (Xray) 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Seriesflew into the beautiful Northern BC mountain town of Kamloops, British Columbia for round 7. As expected, Touring Mod was fast and full of action. Blake Bell would be the driver to beat opening up with a 36 lap run. Round 2 proved to be a shaky heat for all drivers with no impressive pace. But all the stops came out for round 3 when the top 5 heard the tone. Blake settled it with a 37 lap run, the only one of the weekend.
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The second round of the Spanish 1/8th On-road Nationals as held at the Valladolid track. In the premier class A Capricorn driver Ruben Olivares took the TQ in the qualifiers and in the 45-minute main final the race for the win was a 5-horse race. Ultimately Ruben managed to take the win followed by Vicente Eres (Mugen) while Guillermo Perez (Capricorn) complete the podium in 3rd.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
