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June 10, 2014

Nitro-West-Masters Rd2 – Report

Frank Schewiola, Thilo Toedtmann, Marco Muscara and Thorsten Lewandowski are the class winners of round two of the Nitro-West-Masters, a popular on-road racing series mainly held in Western Germany. Three weeks after the amazing season opener in Oberhausen with a series record of 67 participants, a total of 55 drivers entered the race weekend in Dueren which made it a new record for this 232 meter track near Aachen. Once again the weather was perfect but the nitro family was quite lucky that a thundery front just passed the area with no effect. Finally, as in Oberhausen, the Nitro-West-Masters experienced thrilling racing action in a friendly and fair atmosphere.

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June 10, 2014

Drake sweeps Alabama Manufacturer Shootout 5.0

The Alabama Manufacturer Shootout event in Cullman, Alabama, continues to be one of the most well-known races on the calendar during the Summer racing season. The AMS 5.0 event had a record 600 entries, race directors Jimmy Babcock and Canyon Thompson kept the program running smooth all weekend while the AMS crew built a very technical layout that held extremely well. Qualifying in the Pro classes was dominated by Adam Drake. Drake was the overall TQ in 1/8th Nitro Buggy, 1/8th Nitro Truck, and 1/8th Electric buggy.

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June 9, 2014

Korgae Scales takes WCICS WGT championship

At the final round of the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series (WCICS), which hosted over 1500 registrations across 8 events this season, newly crowned WGT champion Korgae Scales wasn’t racing. Instead he was at home welcoming his new son into the world. But he had so dominated the class that he had the Championship locked up before the 8th and final round. CRC sponsored Korgae won the WGT season Championship for the 3rd year in a row, becoming the first and only 3-peat champion in the modern WCICS era, moving ahead of the only other repeat champions Steve Soon and Josh Carter. Second in the WGT championship was Team Associated’s Peter Toszer, followed by privateer, WCICS President, Josh Carter. Planning is already underway for next season, which will begin in late September in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]

June 9, 2014

Andy Iwahara wins 13.5T class at Red Carpet series Rd3

The 3rd round of the Red Carpet series took place at the outdoor asphalt track of the Red Carpet hobbyshop in Semarang, Indonesia. Serpent’s Andy Iwahara came out successful in the 13.5T Touring class while his team mate Donie W finished in 3rd position overall.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 9, 2014

Van Staey & Ciere win at Dutch 1/8th nats Rd3

The 3rd round of the Dutch 1/8th on-road national championship took place at the RACO2000 track. In the NK class Gunther van Staey came out successful by winning the 30 minute final two laps in front of Steven Cuypers and Arie Manten who finished another two laps down. In the Nomac class Benny Ciere took the win only 1.01 second in front of 2nd placed Koen Geurds. Rene van Dijk completed the podium in 3rd position.

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June 6, 2014

Dunavölgy wins Rd2 of Hungarian 200mm champs

The 2nd round of the Hungarian nitro on-road championship was held in Pécs which is one of the oldest but still the most active RC track in the country. The track recently got a new higher rostrum for a much better view, so everybody was looking for some improvements in lap times, which finally came up to the expectations in each category. 1/10th 200mm proved to be the most exciting class of the weekend since 4 to 5 drivers where on the same pace. Qualifications were held under changing weather conditions and the 1st round of qualifying turned out to be the “rocket” round as some rain showers hit the track just before the 2nd leg. With time being too short to completely regain traction until the last round meaning only a few drivers were able to move up in the grid during the day.

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June 6, 2014

Mark Green TQ’s & wins at Wombwell

Mark Green TQ's & wins at Wombwell

Round 2 of the British national 1/10th nitro championships were held at the Wombwell Race Circuit in Yorkshire, the track is the longest one on this years race calendar and was very well prepared for the event. The entry was a little low but the racing very close. Sunday morning and the sun was shinning and after 4 rounds of qualifying 200mm Touring Car was TQ’ed by Mark Green with Alex Thurston second, in 220mm GT Adam Crossland was just beaten for TQ by Glyn Beal. Mark Green then lead the 200mm A -final from the start and won the race driving a Serpent 748 pre-production car, with Joe Kerry second. Serpent’s Glyn Beal won the 220mm GT final with the help of his mechanic form many years ago Wat Bailey. The next round of the series will be at Halifax on the weekend of the 22nd of June.

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June 5, 2014

Elliott Boots wins at BRCA E8 nationals Rd3

The 3rd round of the BRCA Truggy and E8 nationals was run in Wakefield, North Yorkshire last weekend. The all dirt track is also playing host for the Nitro national championship round 3, so it was also a good time to be getting practice and test tyres in readiness for that Championship round. In E8, 1/8th Electric Buggy, Kyosho’s Elliott Boots was able to TQ 2 of the 3 rounds of qualifying which would give him the overall TQ and pole position for the main A-final later in the day in which he was able to make a clean break at the start of the race. He then started to give himself a good lead over Darren Bloomfield, who was chasing hard but after a few minutes into the race Elliott was able to pull a comfortable lead and was able to manage his final, which he would then win after nearly lapping the whole field. With 3 wins from 3 rounds for the series and only 2 more rounds left to go Elliott has also taken the national series adding another British championship crown to his CV.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]