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September 24, 2015

Italian 1/8th Off-road Nationals Rd4 – Report

The Italian AMSCI 1/8th off-road national championship recently concluded with the running of the fourth and final round. Held at the Rome Cross Village track, more than 80 drivers competed on the three nitro categories of Expert, F1 and F2 and the event also saw the single round Electric Brushless Championship to be held. In the Expert category Davide Ongaro took the win from tone to tone in the 45 minute final. Behind him Marco Natale, Davide Tortoricci, Alessandro Stocco and Fabrizio Teghesi battled for the remaining podium spots with the positions changing constantly. At the end Marco held the upper hand by taking the runner up spot one lap down on Davide Ongaro, leaving Davide Tortoricci behind by only around 0.5 seconds. Alessandro ended the final some 3.5 seconds short of Davide in fourth, Fabrizo rounded out the top 5 in the same lap as the second to fourth placed drivers, making for an entertaining season finale.

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September 24, 2015

2015/16 WCICS Anniversary season – Announcement

This season the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series WCICS celebrates its 25th year as one of the World’s largest RC series, and the organisers have announced that Protoform has joined the series as title sponsor. WCICS President Josh Carter said “Protoform is originally a Canadian company, with their design studio still located in the Great White North. They are a fantastic organization, a natural fit, and a wonderful partner for WCICS. Huge thanks to Eric and Dale and the entire team at PF, we look forward to many successful years together.” This season sees some changes, as the Touring classes will be using slightly softer Sweep 28 tires while the 1/12th stock class will move to WGT stripe-style spec tyres to make for even closer racing. The opening round will be held on the 25th of September in Saskatoon, SK. More details can be found on the series’ website here.

September 23, 2015

Alexander Hagberg doubles at Xray Challenge Greece

The second running of the Xray Challenge Greece was again held at the Fanatix Race Track just outside of Athens with some 50 entries for the electric and nitro classes. Held over a single day the fun and entertaining event would see the attendance of Xray’s Alexander Hagberg who competed in the electric and nitro classes. In the nitro class, Alexander managed to take the TQ position after a fast and clean run, some 8 seconds in front of Greek driver John Sotiropoulos, and the Xray pairing of Nikiforos and Dimitrios.

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September 23, 2015

Hinz wraps up double PL Indoor Champs victory

The Pro-Line Indoor Championships race was recently held at Warehouse3. Friday started out as all-day practice, with everyone trying to find the hot setup. On Saturday the track opened for three rounds of qualifying with rocket round times. About halfway through the 18-heat program was Mod 4WD Buggy. Tommy Hinz set the TQ time to beat by over 15 seconds. Up next was 2WD. Hinz again had the TQ run by 4 seconds over teammate Ashe Deering. In the second round, Hinz again TQd 4WD. However, 2WD racing got a bit closer. Deering was in the first heat and had a good run going the extra lap. Hinz followed him to go the extra lap and take TQ back over by half a second. Sunday was the triple A-mains and Hinz would win A1 and A2, wrapping up the win for both 2WD and 4WD classes.

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September 22, 2015

Alessandro Remia takes Italian F1 buggy title

The Italian 1/8th Buggy Championship was held this past weekend. In the F1 class Alessandro Remia had a tough final as he looked to secure an easy win until 15 minutes to go when he ran out of fuel several times due to a faulty fuel gun. But at the end a fourth place was enough for Alessandro to grab the overall F1 category title. Francesco Piccinetti came in second at the final round while Giuseppe Tescione rounded out the podium in third.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 22, 2015

Sebastian Recio wins Argentine 1/8th On-road Champs

The Argentine 1/8th On-road Championship was recently held in Cordoba in several classes. In the 1/8th “Free” category Sebastian Recio came out successful from second placed Juan Pablo Golobic. Natalio Maringolo in third would round out the podium. In the “3 Transfer” category it was again Sebastian who ended on top of the class while Agustin Cutini and Emilio Lanzilota came in second and third respectively.

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September 22, 2015

Mickael Brandt wins at Swedish On-road Cup

The final round of the Swedish On-road Cup was recently held at the MK Eskils track, host of next year’s EFRA 1/8th On-road Euros. The qualifying of the 1/10th 200mm class had Mickael Brandt coming out fastest from second placed Nicolai Hvid and third placed Jose Castro. Before the start the TQ holder ran into trouble due to a dying transmitter battery but a quickly borrowed pack got him on track in time. The start then went ok for Mickael but his nerves got the better of him and he almost got caught by the field. Mickael managed to cool down and he began to pull away quickly and some 25 minutes into the race he had managed to open a gap of several laps to the second place driver. A quick pit stop for tyres didn’t change much and while conserving the lead Mickael lost focus a bit and clipped a curb which cost him the 1st gear on his car. During the repair his pit crew forgot to refuel and so he soon after flamed out but he still had a 3-lap lead only to clip another curb which send his car on the roof. The following flameout cost Brandt the lead that was promoted to a happy Jose. While chasing the leader Mickael scored the fastest lap of the race with a 30.7 and after the final pitstop both were racing tail to bumper. With a pass on the straight Mickael regained the lead that he was able to conserve it until the end to take the win from Jose Castro and Hans Elmerfors. Rune Stokka and Ake Törnros rounded out the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 22, 2015

Adam Drake doubles at Western Cup

Revelation Raceway hosted its annual Western Cup this past weekend. World traveller Adam Drake was in attendance beside a vast amount of local talent and Mr. Drake would TQ’d and win both the Expert Nitro Buggy and Expert Nitro Truggy classes.

Source: Mugen Seiki [mugenracing.com]