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October 2, 2015

Nick & Ethan Lefebvre take ROAR Region 9 titles

The ROAR Region 9 O-road Fuel Championships were held at RCRCNT, located just south of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Rendon, Texas. With nice weather and warm temperatures it was set to be a great weekend of racing. In the premier 1/8 Open class it was Nick Lefebvre taking the TQ position from fellow team driver Chris Methany. As with the sedan class, tire wear was very high and became a factor for the 30 minute final event. Off the start, Nick remained in the lead and began to pull away from Chris. On Lap 4, Terry Brown got around Chris and took over the 2nd spot. During Lap 11, Nick made a mistake and gave up the lead. After catching back up to Terry, Nick continued to press hard and eventually passed him for the lead. This is how the race continued and eventually ended with Nick winning while holding on to a 1 lap gap over both Terry and Chris.

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October 2, 2015

7th annual Charity Race – Announcement

7th annual Charity Race - Announcement

The seventh edition of the Charity Race will be held at the RC Landia carpet track in Scandiano, Italy on the weekend of the 6th of December. The brainchild of the Team La Gang club as well as Marc and Toni Rheinard, each year attracts both factory drivers as well as local talent to race and collect money for the good cause with last year’s revenue having been donated to the Scandiano community kindergarten. Due to the limited pit space the entries are capped off at 120 drivers with the first Pro drivers having already signed up. This year’s race will be held on a brand new Fastrack HD II CRC carpet using Volante ETS tyres for the touring cars and Ride ETS tyres for the formula class. For more information feel free to email Toni Rheinard (info@tonisport.de) or Davide Sillingardi (sillarcmail@gmail.com) or visit the club’s website here.

October 2, 2015

Hviid takes Swedish Championship Series title

The final round of the Swedish Championship Series was held at the MK Eskil track, home of the 2016 EFRA 1/8th On-road European Championship. In the 200mm class Mickael Brandt (Xray) took the TQ from Nikolaj Hviid (Capricorn) with the two being the only drivers to score 10-laps runs in the 5 minute long qualifiers. Jose Castro (Capricorn) came in third one lap down on Mickael and Nikolaj. In the 45 minute main final on Sunday Mickael then took the win from Jose while Nikolaj ran into trouble early as a problem with the rear belt on his car made it difficult to drive. Nevertheless a fifth place in the race secured the Capricorn driver the overall Swedish National Championship Series title.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

October 1, 2015

Martinelli crowned 40+ European 1/8th Champion

Luca Martinelli crowned 40+ European 1/8th Champion

The 40+ European Nitro On-road Championships were recently held in Lostallo, Switzerland in challenging weather conditions all week. In the 1/8th class Alain Levy took the TQ but it was Luca Martinelli who came out successful in the shortened main final. Second in the 35 minute encounter, that was stopped due to rain, was Erol Sehirtoy who took the vice championship. Cristofer Hedlund would round out the podium in third place.

Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]

October 1, 2015

Peracho wins final round of Spanish 1/8th Champs

The final round of the Spanish Nitro On-road Championship was held at the Autet track. During qualifying the weather was excellent resulting in a close affair with a gap of only 3 seconds from 1st to 6th place in the 1/8th class. Alberto Alonso already secured the Spanish championship title at the penultimate round so the race was on for the runner-up spot. For Sunday the weather changed with some clouds and thunder storms predicted for the afternoon. First up was the 40+ final and it was Vicente Eres who took the victory.

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October 1, 2015

Micha Widmeier renews with Schumacher

Up and coming young German driver, Micha Widmaier, has re-signed with Schumacher Racing and CS Electronics. Micha is the current German junior champion in 2WD with his KF2. Just two weeks ago Micha raced a prototype of Schumachers new CAT K2 4WD buggy at the EOS in Nurburgring and won the B final against some world class drivers. Micha plans to race at most of the big races in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland next year, including EOS and Euros. Micha said:

I am very happy that I can drive for Schumacher and CS in 2016. I will give my best at the races.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

October 1, 2015

Raphael Wicki takes Swiss 200mm title

The sixth and final round of the Swiss Nitro On-road Championship was held at the iconic Lostallo track. Xray’s Rahael Wicki took the TQ after some mixed qualifiers and he looked like he would also score a win in his semifinal but Traugott Schär (Xray) made a late move on him to take the pole position for the 30 minute final. At the start of the main Raphael jumped into the lead followed by Traugott with both showing some great battles until some 9 minutes before the both had a coming together but they would escap with no problems and at the end of the half hour encounter Raphael took the win from Traugott and with it the Swiss Championship title. Michael Schäfer (Xray) would round out the top 3 at the final round while Maurice Lüscher (Xray) and Traugott Schär rounded out the championship podium.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 1, 2015

Akio Sobue dominates Speed King Tour Rd5

The fifth round of this year’s Speed King Tour was held at the RC stadium Sodegaura outdoor tarmac track. The track layout was updated a few days before the event to better suit the high-speed modified touring cars. The event saw the running of a total of four classes including Touring Car Modified and Stock as well as two oval classes. Current standings leader and reigning Japanese Modified Touring Car Champion Akio Sobue (Tamiya) made a clean sweep this weekend by dominating from the first practice on. Akio would then take the TQ and also the A-final win in front of round four winner Jin Sawada (Yokomo) and local star Kyoichi Matsumoto. With his fourth win this season Akio is now in a strong position to take the overall title in the Modified class.

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