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September 29, 2015

F1ItalianSeries 2015/16 season opener – Report

The opening round of the F1ItalianSeries was held at the MiniAutodromo T5 in Rome. The race also marked the 100th anniversary GP of the series with 30 drivers signing in for the season opener. As a special gift every driver received a helmet painted by A-Paint. For the 2015/16 season former F1ItalianSeries driver Alessandro Tittozzi joined the organising team to support the tech inspection. The race format this time saw the seven fastest drivers to qualify directly for the main GP while the remaining 23 battled for the eight remaining spots in two different mini grand prix. With the qualifying positions also scoring points for the overall championship things got a bit more interesting.

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September 29, 2015

Carles Echarri wins Spanish 1/8th EP On-road Cup

The first ever Spanish 1/8th Electric On-road Cup was held at the Almussafes in Valencia this past weekend. Nine drivers signed in for the class that was run alongside the National Nitro Championship. After five rounds of qualifying Carles Echarri took the TQ, closely followed by Marc Moix, Ramón Guasch, Miguel Puchal and Carlos Gimenez. As the drivers used different battery and motor configurations with some running on 6S while others opted to use 4S LiPo batteries the drivers decided to go for four minute finals but four instead of only three, after it became clear that some drivers struggled to complete a five minute run in qualifying. During Sunday’s finals Carles Echarri took wins in all four legs to grab the overall victory from Marc Moix and Ramon Guasch. Performance-wise the electric and nitro powered cars were only separated by 0.1s in the fastest laps with the cars being capable of speeds of up to 107km/h on the long Almussafes straight.

View the final result here

September 29, 2015

Tanner Denney teams up with Pro-Line

Pro-Line have announced the signing of Tanner Denney to their factory team. The long-time JConcepts racer will start his campaign with the new sponsor at the Sidewinder Nitro Explosion this coming weekend and he has the following to say about the deal.

I want to thank Daniel Adams and everyone at ‪‎ProLine‬. I am very excited to begin a new chapter of my racing career with such a great company. We have had a great relationship over the years and I look forward to seeing how far it can take us now! My first debut with Pro-Line will be at the ‪‎Sidewinder‬ Nitro Explosion this weekend.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

September 29, 2015

2014/15 Formula Champion Jan Ratheisky Interview

The 2nd part of Xray’s interview series with 2014/15 ETS series winners Marek Cerny and Jan Rathiesky is now online. Having already heard from Marek Cerny, this time it is the turn of back to back to back Formula Champion and Pro Stock championship contender Jan Rathiesky from Germany.

Read the full interview with Jan here

September 29, 2015

Autumn Shoot Out Rd1 – Report

Sunday saw the start of the UK based Autumn Shoot Out series. Run by the successful clubs C.A.R.S and Swifts Raceway, the series would cater for the GT class cars and run over four meetings with C.A.R.S hosted the opening round that fielded a competitive collection of racers. In GT12 it was Rory Hobkirk who was the man to beat in qualifying. He was being closely followed by Sion Wedley and Summer Shoot Out winner Gavin Stephenson. Stephen Lander was also in the chase with the new Mardave Assassin, the car could not take TQ on its debut but it did record the fastest lap. The final was a great battle between Hobkirk, Wedley and Stephenson. With Hobkirk and Wedley having problems with back markers it was left for Stephenson to show why he is a Shoot Out champ.

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September 29, 2015

Hoppe takes 1/8th On-road North German regional title

The final round of the North German 1/8th Nitro On-road regionals was held at the MSC Polizei Braunschweig track this past weekend. The event saw a dominant Lars Hoppe (ARC/Reds Racing) taking a hat-trick with the TQ, win and the fastest lap. Starting from pole position, Lars set the pace and he was followed by Merlin Depta (Serpent/Picco) and Lennart Skornia (Serpent/ Orcan) but the final began with a lot of action in the first corner, after Timo Schröder (Shepherd/Picco), Andreas Giesa (Shepherd/Picco) and Michael Pätz crashed with a bad outcome for Timo and Andreas and at the end Lars was able to take the win one lap ahead of Merlin and Lennart. The victory at the final round also got Lars the North German Championship title in front of Merlin Depta and Timo Schröder.

View the championship’s top 3 podium here

September 29, 2015

Dutch Electric On-road Nationals Rd6 – Report

The final round of the Dutch Electric On-road Nationals was held at the fast and flowing track of the MAC De Baanbrekers in Rucphen this past weekend. The nice weather made for perfect racing conditions and the event started out with free practice on Saturday with the usual classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Formula would be accompanied by the 10.5T Pro10 class who made a guest appearance. In the Modified class Mitchell van Es (Yokomo) was the man to beat all weekend. After the three qualifiers he took the TQ followed by Govert Verbeke (Xray) and Rob Jansen (Team Magic). In the finals Mitchell would again show his skills as he made a clean sweep to take the win from Rob Jansen and Athan de Witte (VBC).

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September 28, 2015

Picco wins as Vanni takes Italian Championship

Alberto Picco completed another perfect weekend of racing, taking the win at the final round of the Italian 1/8th Nitro On-road Championship over Mirko Salemi and local racer Morgan Renzi at the end of an outstanding 60-minute long final in which he again proved himself and his package very competitive. Behind the top three it was veteran racer Marco Vanni to finish fourth after a highly conservative race, with the Shepherd driver collecting enough points to conquer the overall title ahead of Picco.

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