Serpent have announced the signing of Singapore’s Nicholas Lee to their nitro on-road team. Nicholas will campaign the company’s Viper 977 and Natrix 748 cars at the Asian FEMCA races and other events while giving on-track support together with recently signed Felix Law. Nicholas had the following to say:
I would like to thank Serpent for the opportunity and Felix for the help. I’m ready to race!
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The “The Traditional Lucia race” was held in Sweden and it saw Daniel Kobbevik taking the TQ in the 2WD Buggy class after the three qualifiers. Alexander Landen would line up second on the grid from Max Johansson in third. The opening final saw Daniel and Alexander taking off with no problems and the two were soon joined by Niclas Mansson who was able to pass Max. Daniel was keeping the lead, but made a small mistake and got placed on the wrong track segment by a marshall which cost him a lot of time, meaning the battle was now on between Alexander and Nille. They were battling for a few laps and eventually Niclas managed to make an aggressive pass in the chicane and Alexander got spun. The latter took up the chase and tried a pass at the end of the straight, but they tangled and Alexander flipped so they finished in the order of Nille first and Alexander second.
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The second round of the Swiss Islikon Offroad Masters was held this past weekend with about 80 drivers in several electric off-road classes. In the 4WD Buggy category it was Kevin Prinz (Xray) who took the overall TQ after the qualifiers but in the finals Adi Riederer (Xray), coming from the 2 spot on the grid, would take the overall victory from Kevin while Team Durango driver Philipp Huber rounded out the podium. The Xray duo of Michel Buschor and Mario Di Bella completed the top 5 result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The recent round of the popular Silverstone Winter Series saw Schumacher’s Tom Yardy scoring a dominant win in the 2WD class. Tom TQ’d all four rounds of qualifying, and cruised to a final win by a comfortable margin. There was a close battle for second between Eugene Galley (Xray) and Jack Neal (Schumacher) but eventually they tangled which allowed Richard Barton (Schumacher) through to take second and Iain Mellish (Kyosho) took third.
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Round three of the 2016 BRCA LMP nationals took place last weekend at the the Tamworth track just north of Birmingham. Drivers would compete over two days, with Saturday seeing all drivers racing in the 13.5 fixed timing class and Sunday seeing classes split into 6.5 Modified and 13.5 Sports Modified, both fixed timing. As always the central location saw a strong field of drivers, which was headed by 3-time 1/12th European Champion Alexander Hagberg. Competing against Alexander would be multiple World Champion David Spashett, past European Champion Chris Kerswell and a host of European A-finalists headed by Mark Stiles and Ollie Payne.
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Xray have announced the dates for the Xray Racing Series Germany that will be held on four weekends between January and March 2017. The season will kick off on the weekend of the 15th of January in Adenau and finishes on the 12th of March, again in Adenau. Drivers of select classes will receive an Xray promo package and each driver has the change to win a T4 kit at the series finale. More information and all dates can be found here.
The 2016 U.S. World Nitro Cup was held at Full Throttle RC Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida over the weekend. As usual the event attracted some of the country’s fastest nitro on-road racers to compete against guests from abroad and it would be Australia’s Jesse Davis (Infinity) that would lead the way in 1/8th Open qualifying to take the TQ after four rounds of qualifying. In the 45-minute main final though it would be Italy’s Alberto Picco (Mugen) that took the overall win some 7.6s in front of Jesse while Lamberto Collari (Infinity) completed the podium result in third, one lap down.
Source: Mugen [mugen.eu]
Round three of the popular MRC Longwy Winter Series attracted more then 100 drivers to compete in a total of five electric on-road classes. After three qualifiers and triple mains it was Ronald Völker who came out fastest in the premier Touring Modified class from Remi Callens in second and Loic Jasmin third. Matthias Keding and Nicolas Delise would round out the top 5 result.
