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September 30, 2015

Mattia Collavo grabs Italian 1/8th F1 class title

Last weekend’s Italian 1/8th Nitro On-road Championship finale not only saw the title decision in the Expert class but also the F1 category title was up for grabs. The championship had to be decided between Mattia Collavo – who took the super pole – and Roberto de Cesare with the fastest driver in qualifying being Valerio Moccia. The start of the final saw no surprises. But 5 minutes into the race de Cesare had a crash and destroyed the rear end of his car which allowed Collavo to back off the throttle and cruise to the title win. At the front it was Luca Martini who took over the lead after Moccia had to retire because of a broken engine. Martini drove an excellent race and crossed the finishing line in first position while Collavo took it easy, finishing in 4th position and scoring enough points to win the Italian Championship in the F1 category.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

September 30, 2015

Ryan Nimori takes 1/8 Sportsman win at KO Propo GP

The recent KO Propo Grand Prix was hosted by the Greater LA R/C Club and held at the Harbor Gateway Transit Centre. In the A-main of the 1/8th Sportsman class Ryan Nimori, coming from 4th on the grid, would take the win from TQ Mark Santa Ines in second. Biboy Angeles would round out the podium in third.

Source: Hobby Authority [hobbyauthority-dist.com]

September 30, 2015

Nitro-West-Masters Rd5 – Report

Round five of this year’s Nitro-West-Masters was held at the Velp track in the Netherlands. With a margin of less than a second Christian Wurst won an exciting battle in the 1/8 scale nitro on-road Open class ahead of Frank Schewiola, but not only in the 1/8 class great racing was shown on the popular track. Also in the three other classes with René Puepke (1/10 Open), Matthias Guenther (1/8 Stock) and Majuran Tharmalingam (1/10 Stock) taking the winners trophies great racing was on display. A total of 65 entries were received for the Dutch round of the seventh edition of the Nitro-West-Masters. Following an intensive day of practice on Saturday also on race day the weather made for perfect conditions.

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September 30, 2015

Grainer doubles at Slovakian Off-road Nationals Rd6

The 6th and final round of the Slovakian 1/10th Electric Off-road National Championship was held at the very dusty and bumpy MSR-Bratislava race track. Lucas Grainer was the man to beat in the 2WD and 4WD buggy classes as he was able to grab the TQ in both categories. Michal Nagy came in 2nd in 2WD and Adam Urban grabbed the 2 spot in the 4WD class. In the 2WD class Michal and Lucas then also clearly dominated the mains. The opening leg saw Lucas coming in first while leg 2 had Michal coming out successful following a small bobble of Lucas. The very entertaining third and deceive final was then again won by Lucas, following a series of passes of both drivers.

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September 30, 2015

Rug Racers Reloaded – Report

This past weekend the famous Rug Racers race returned to Wodson Park, although for those familiar with the series it looked somewhat different. This was a one off event called Rug Racers Reloaded, which the organisers felt needed to be dedicated to Martin Laxton for his vivacious love for HRCC and Rug Racers and the sport. Martin loved to help bring youngsters into RC racing, which was his forté, and those youngsters are still at HRCC to this day, be it a few years older. “The Martin Laxton Memorial Cup” was a one off Trophy, which was presented to Martin’s son Stuart by his Mum Vicky, to look after, like his Dad looked after HRCC and Rug Racers.

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September 29, 2015

Martin Wollanka wins Austrian Nitro Buggy Nats Rd4

The fourth and final round of the Austrian 1/8th Nitro Buggy Nationals was held at the A-Team Graz track. The newly prepared surface offered high yet smooth traction and it was Xray’s Martin Wollanka who set the pace by winning three qualifiers to take the TQ while Serpent’s Hupo Hönigl closely followed in second spot. After the semifinals Martin placed his buggy on the pole position for the 45-minute main final with Hupo coming in second, only one second short of Wollanka’s time. The main then saw Martin and Hupo running like a freight train and thanks to a different fuel strategy Hupo was even able to take the lead at some point but a silly mistake had Hönigl collide with a back marker so he would loose contact to Martin. From that moment on Wollanka was able to cruise to the win with Hupo securing a happy second place. Dominik Bauer (Mugen) would round out the top 3 result.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 29, 2015

F1ItalianSeries 2015/16 season opener – Report

The opening round of the F1ItalianSeries was held at the MiniAutodromo T5 in Rome. The race also marked the 100th anniversary GP of the series with 30 drivers signing in for the season opener. As a special gift every driver received a helmet painted by A-Paint. For the 2015/16 season former F1ItalianSeries driver Alessandro Tittozzi joined the organising team to support the tech inspection. The race format this time saw the seven fastest drivers to qualify directly for the main GP while the remaining 23 battled for the eight remaining spots in two different mini grand prix. With the qualifying positions also scoring points for the overall championship things got a bit more interesting.

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September 29, 2015

Carles Echarri wins Spanish 1/8th EP On-road Cup

The first ever Spanish 1/8th Electric On-road Cup was held at the Almussafes in Valencia this past weekend. Nine drivers signed in for the class that was run alongside the National Nitro Championship. After five rounds of qualifying Carles Echarri took the TQ, closely followed by Marc Moix, Ramón Guasch, Miguel Puchal and Carlos Gimenez. As the drivers used different battery and motor configurations with some running on 6S while others opted to use 4S LiPo batteries the drivers decided to go for four minute finals but four instead of only three, after it became clear that some drivers struggled to complete a five minute run in qualifying. During Sunday’s finals Carles Echarri took wins in all four legs to grab the overall victory from Marc Moix and Ramon Guasch. Performance-wise the electric and nitro powered cars were only separated by 0.1s in the fastest laps with the cars being capable of speeds of up to 107km/h on the long Almussafes straight.

View the final result here