The first round of the Italian nitro on-road nationals was run this past weekend. In the premiere 1/8th scale class Capricorn’s Dario Balestri took the win from Mimmo Calce (Serpent) who finished only one lap down with Nicola Marrone in 3rd with his BMT. In the 1/8th F1 category the TQ was grabbed by Antonio Calce (Serpent) but the win in the final eventually went to Francesco Guida (Serpent).
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The second annual Mile High Indoor champs were held last weekend at the 5280 Raceway in Denver, Colorado. Racers from around the U.S. and Canada made up the nearly 200 car field. The classes run were F1, World GT, 17.5 TC, 13.5 TC, Modified TC, 17.5 12th and Modified 12th. In the very competitive 13.5 TC class it was Drew Ellis who was fast all week and had a great last qualifier to sit on the pole. Other TQ’s were Mario Ficco in F1, Bill Cydor in 17.5 TC. All five other classes were TQ’d by Josh Cyrul.
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The French EFRA GP was run in Noeux les Mines last weekend on what the drivers described as a great and technical track laid out by the CARCA club crew. The 3-day race attracted the majority of the French top-level drivers including Xray’s Reno Savoya whose weekend started disastrous as he got a good load of equipment stolen from his road car. Leaving the issues behind he was able to take the overall TQ for the Nitro Buggy final by taking 3 out of the 5 qualifying rounds. The finals then pretty much being a Reno show as he lead for the first 20 minutes, followed by some issues that let him drop in the ranking but he soon recovered to take the win 12 seconds ahead of Jerome Aigoin and Jerome Sartel. Lorenzo Crolla finished 4th with Jean-Pierrick Sartel in tow.
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Michael Schoettler and Steven Hartson took comfortable wins in the opening legs of the main Buggy A-Mains at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals, Top Qualifier Schoettler dominating Mod Buggy while Hartson came out on top in the 4WD Buggy which saw three lead changes. Behind Schoettler Luke Smith finished as he started with Ryan Matesa making up one place to complete the Top 3 of the 2WD class. In 4WD, World Champion Hartson was followed home by one time race leader JR Mitch and John Walentia while Top Qualifier Tyler Vik had a tough race eventually pulling off to save tyres.
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Michael Schoettler is the Top Qualifier of 2WD Mod Buggy at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals. The talented Tacoma teenager secured pole position for this afternoon’s three A-Main encounters with his third & fastest TQ run of the weekend in the final of the qualifiers at the Tacoma R/C Raceway event. The second round of the JConcepts Indoor National Series, Schoettler has stamped his authority on the class with only fellow local racer Luke Smith, who will start second, heading his Associated all weekend when he TQ’d last night’s third qualifier. Of the visiting drivers it is 4WD World Champion Steven Hartson who is the highest qualifier with his Associated set to start 5th just in front of his team-manager Brent Thielke.
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RC America team driver Tyler Vik is the Top Qualifier for 4WD Buggy at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals at Tacoma R/C Racway. The San Francisco driver claimed the honour with his third TQ run of the day but felt he didn’t deserve to top the Q3 saying the only reason he got it was because his rivals crashed more. Running old tyres he said this was a bad decision in terms of his front tyres which were too worn. Running AKA Deja Vu on the rear of his Xray XB4 he said for tomorrow he will run a fresh set of Pin Stripes.
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Luke Smith ended Michael Schoettler’s domination of qualifying at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals at Tacoma R/C Raceway, the Associated driver TQ’ing the penultimate round of qualifying by 1.685 seconds from the Q1 & 2 pace setter. Kyosho driver Ryan Matesa made it an all local Top 3 with Team Associated’s Brent Thielke the best of the visitors with the 5th fastest time.
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Michael Schoettler put in another flawless drive at his home track to TQ the second round of 2WD Buggy qualifying at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals. Having topped Q1, this time round the 18-year-old’s took the qualifier by an even larger 6.2-second advantage from Steven Hartson. The Top 3 for the second of the four scheduled qualifiers at Tacoma R/C Raceway was completed by another quick local as Kyosho driver Ryan Matesa laid down his first 20-lap run ahead of TLR’s JR Mitch.
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