The German 1/8th Nitro On-road Nationals were held at the MCC Türkheim track over the weekend in the two categories of class 1 and class 2. In the faster class 1, Mugen’s Robert Pietsch came out successful to add another national title to his belt. ARC’s Lars Hoppe ended the main final on the runner-up spot while Shepherd’s own Patrick Schäfer rounded out the podium in third.
Image: Lars Hoppe
The final round of the Swedish Cup was held at the brand new Eskilstuna raceway. This 500 metre long track is one of the biggest in the world and it features a crazy long straight. In the Touring Car Modified class Viktor Wilck and Niclas Nilsson battled for the TQ with Niclas taking the wet opening round and Viktor striking back in Q2 and Q3 to take the overall TQ. The fight for the top spot would go on in the finals but it was again Viktor who had the upper hand, winning A1 and A2 with a 5-seconds margin to take the overall win. A wet A3 kept Viktor from starting and it looked like his team mate Niclas would grab the runner-up spot but some small mistakes let Alexander Andersson by. Alexander ultimately ended the day in second place from Niclas Nilsson who rounded out the podium in third.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Power Save Racing from Germany have announced the signing of Serpent’s Jörn Neumann to their team. Jörn was supported by P-S-R in the earlier stages of his career and he now returned to the company to run their line of accessories such as air filters, ball bearings and Revolution fluids in his 1/8th and 1/10th rides.
Source: P-S-R [power-save-racing.de]
The sixth and final round of the Austrian Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Linz track in changing weather conditions. In practice pre-event favourite Jürgen Horn saw himself in the mix with his Xray team mates Jan Popic and Manfred Pasch all of which showed a very fast pace. Sunday then started out wet again and it was decided to skip the first qualifier so the new schedule would see three qualifying rounds followed by triple mains. The opening round than saw Jan Popic, Ralph Dorninger, Manfred Pasch and Jürgen Horn fighting for the TQ with the better end for Jan who took the round TQ from Jürgen, Ralph and Manfred. The second and third qualifier were then won by Jürgen while Jan came in second and Ralph and Manfred rounded out the top 4. The finals, run on a drying track with increasing grip, had Jürgen taking the win from Jan, Ralph and Manfred (all Xray) and with this win Jürgen Horn (Xray) grabbed the overall Stock championship from Jan Popic (Xray) and Vincent Schrank (VBC Racing).
View the Stock class overall top 10 result here
The final round of the Belgian Electric On-road Nationals was held at the technical track of the MRCZ club in Zwevegem. Practice on Saturday started out with dry weather but in the afternoon it began to rain. The qualifiers on Sunday then were a mix of dry and small rainy moments and it was Olivier Bultynck who made the best out of the situation by grabbing the TQ spot in the Efra class. Mitchell Van Es came in second while a happy Thomas Stockman took the three spot on his hometrack. Nick Joosens and Nicolas Delisé rounded out the top 5 result.
Continue reading the report here
The 2015 French Cup was held at the Longvic track in central France with more than 95 driver attending in the five classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock 10.5 blinky, Touring 13.5, Formula 21.5 and 1/8th Electric. The huge and very fast track made it difficult for the drivers to get clean runs without mistakes as also traction rolling was a problem. After a reseeding practice round on Saturday morning five qualifying rounds were be held of which the best two would count towards the ranking. In Modified Loic Jasmin took the TQ followed by Alexandre Laurent, Cyril N’Diaye and Jeremy Limoges while in TC Stock 10.5 Jean Delorme would come out fastest. The Formula class was dominated by Jérémy Limoges and he grabbed the TQ in front of G. Mantrand and H. Becet.
Continue reading the report here
The 6th and final round of the Dutch BL-Cup was again held at the Euregio circuit in Hengelo, this time as a combined event with the German BL-Cup, raising the number of entries and making for good competition. The Euregio track pleased the drivers with a new feature called the Carrera twister which was a nice addition. After the qualifiers Bart grabbed the TQ followed by runner-up Lucas Jost. In the semifinals it was again Bart who came out fastest to put his buggy on the pole position for the main final. Right from the start Bart was leading the pack but he wasn’t able to pull away and so he was closely followed by Lucas who in turn had to defend himself. On lap 3 the leader made a mistake and he fell back to 5th place and Bart managed to get back into the 3 spot only to retire later due to a problem on his buggy. Up front Lucas managed to retain the lead and to take the win from Sascha Gehring and Anne Strom in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Overall and despite the DNF Bart Mullink took the 2015 Dutch BL-Cup title.
Thanks to Oscar Koot for the report.
Having taken both the highly competitive Pro Stock and Formula class titles in the 2014/2015 season, Xray sat down and interviewed their Factory drivers Marek Cerny and Jan Rathiesky about their recent success in what is the biggest onroad series in the World. First up its Czech driver and 3 time Champion Marek Cerny.
Read the complete interview on the ETS site here
