The Lap Paradise Challenge was held in Johor Bahru with 50 entries from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Switzerland in attendance. The race format saw three rounds of 10 minute qualifying with the best round to count and “Christmas tree” bump-up finals. Jason Nugroho was able to TQ the first two rounds of qualifying until Didier Perrin from Switzerland took the overall TQ in the 3rd and final qualifier.
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At the recent EFRA GP in Leipzig, Germany Toni Gruber took the win in the 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road class. In the final he came out successful leaving Rico Kröber and Willy Lehmann behind. Alexander Naumov completed the top 4 result. In the 1/8th class Toni started from pole position and he was able to pull away quickly but a technical issues around the 12 minute mark ended his chance to take the second win of the day. The win then went to Michael Kammer with Merlin Depta and Alain Levy completing the podium.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
A round of the SM Championship was run in Singen, Germany in mixed weather conditions. In the highly competitive GT class Philipp Walleser took all three qualifying rounds and also successfully ended the finals to take the day’s win. By taking the Singen round of the series the young man also made a big step towards the overall championship win. Elsewhere in the Sport class Philipp’s father and pitman Pius also came out successful despite a stressful weekend with constant setup changes due to the demanding weather conditions.
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The 2014 Byron On-road World Challenge was run this past weekend at the Leisure Hours Raceway in Joliet, Illinois. Mugen’s JJ Wang took the TQ and race win in both the 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm classes. Vincent Jackson and Eric Jones came in 2nd and 3rd respectively in the in the 1/8th class while Ditta Claymore and Loran Whiting completed the 200mm class podium.
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The 2014 Catalonian regional nitro on-road championships where held at the Cerdanyola modelcar track. Sergi Franch was able to TQ the meeting with flawless driving, being the only driver to pull 17 second laps and by also setting a new track record with 17.489 seconds. In the main Sergi did not look back to take the win from Jaime Lacuesta and Cesar Rubio which handed him the Catalonian 1/10th 200mm regional title.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 4th round of the French Elite championship was run in the town of Les Andelys in the North of France. Known for being a very rainy region, this weekend made no exception. On Saturday only two rounds of qualifying could be completed with Jerome Aogoin taking the overnight TQ. More rain during the night and on Sunday morning forced the organisers to cancel the race, taking the qualifying results to determine the winner. Therefore Jerome Aigoin (Kyosho) was handed the win in front of Renaud Savoya (Xray) and Jummy Weimann (Kyosho).
Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]
The 2nd round of the Italian nitro on-road championships was run at the Ayrton Senna circuit in Melzo. In the 1/8th Expert class Lamberto Collari took the win in the 45 minute final one lap ahead of Mirko Salemi and Alberto Picco. Daniele Ielasi came in 4th, Francesco Tironi ended the race in 5th place.
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Known for his electric touring car skills Freddy Südhoff took a deep nitro sniff and joined the 3rd round of the Central German nitro on-road championship to race in the 1/8th on-road class. Having never raced a 1/8th scale car before he got familiar with his Sonic-powered Velox V8 EC, bored from fellow racer Oliver Mack and prepared by Armin Weihert. In qualifying he took the TQ being the only driver to reach 25 laps with his fastest laptime being 0.2 sec faster than the remainder of the field. In the semi-final A everything went fine and he claimed the pole-position for the 30 minute final while Philip Sting, who was the winner of the semi-final B, was 2 laps short. Right from the start of the final “Fast Freddy” stormed away and increased the gap lap by lap. As the tyre wear was very moderate his lap times were still very fast towards the end of the race although he pushed the whole final. After 30 minutes he crossed the finishline some 6 laps in front of Jürgen Hennemuth in 2nd and Alexander Schmitt in 3rd who was another lap down.
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