The Greek nitro off-road season opening race was held in Athens on a newly refurbished track and under perfect weather conditions. The TQ after the qualifiers went to Tasos Paparegas in front of Kodouzoglou and Zagorisos.
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Serpent have announced the return of Niclas Nillson to their electric on-road team. The Swede will be racing Serpent’s Eryx 3.0 touring car and the S120-LTR 1/12th scale pan car while working closely with Serpent designer Michael Salven and the factory team of Marc Fischer, Viktor Wilck, David Ehrbar and Hupo Hönigl in terms of testing and racing.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The third round of the Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Racing Arena this past weekend in the six classes of Touring Car Modified and Stock, Pan Car, Formula and 2WD and 4WD Buggy. The Touring Car Modified class was dominated by Martin Hudy who won all qualifiers and finals to grab the day’s win. David Nemcek came in 2nd while Igor Liptak rounded out the top 3 result. Lacko Toth and Daniel Zak completed the top 5 result.
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The Navan Winter Series attracted drivers from all over Ireland and it finished up at the weekend. In Nitro Buggy Jason Noonan took 3rd, Jakub Wawrzacz 2nd and Barkley Abernethy took the overall win for an all-Agama podium lock-out while in E-Buggy Agama driver Colin Whelan grabbed the overall win.
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The final round of the SITCC attracted 70 drivers including participants from France. French guests Arnaud Soulignac and Walter Pollet Villard put their cars on 1st and 2nd on the grid while Cham Dassanayake came in 3rd with Kevin Zwahlen rounding out the top 4. After the 6 minute A-mains the top 3 order remained the same with Arnaud taking the win from Walter and Cham.
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The opening round of the Belgian Electric Touring Nationals was held at GTM in Vosselaar on a small and technical indoor track, attracting 52 entries. In the Efra class it was 6-times champion Olivier Bultynck who took TQ after the qualifiers. Behind him the race was on between Nick Joosens, Nicolas Delisé, Thomas Stockman and Mitchell Van Es with Mitchell eventually taking the 2nd spot in front of Thomas.
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With industry veteran Billy Fischer Tekno RC announce the latest addition to their team. Billy is well known around the world for his speed, setup knowledge, and willingness to help others off the track. He is already up to speed and will debut his new ride at the upcoming Silver State Nitro Challenge. Billy had this to say:
I’m really excited to join the Tekno team! I’d like to thank Daniel Lewis and Matt Wolter for the opportunity, and Casey Peck for initiating this relationship. The product quality is amazing and the performance has been great right from the start. I really look forward to working with such an awesome group of people and can’t wait for the first race!
Source: Tekno [teknorc.com]
Last weekend the Silver State warm-up race was held in Las Vegas. Local track record holder Kyle Johnson TQ’d over JQ Racing’s Joseph Quagraine after two rounds of qualifying. The A-main was 25 minutes long, and after a fun race on a true offroad track, bumpy and difficult, JQ took the win with former World Champion Greg Degani (JQ Racing) finishing 2nd at one of his first outings after coming out of retirement. Track owner Chris Tocco got 3rd with his Kyosho to complete the podium.
Source: JQ Racing [jq-products.com]
