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April 10, 2017

Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Belgian Electric On-road Nationals was held at the GTM indoor track in Vosselaar. The race was highly anticipated and every driver was eager to show his best for the sole carpet race of the season. Over the winter, the pecking order had been a bit reshuffled. The new rules stipulated that the 17.5 Touring class would be primarily for beginners and this meant that most of the top runners in this class entered in the new 13.5 Stock class, which is being run according to ETS rules. On the other hand, Rico Claeys, the 2016 Stock champion, entered the Modified Touring class. With the absence of multiple Belgian Modified and Formula champion Oliver Buyltinck, and Formula front runner Steve Deblaere, everyone expected some new faces on top of the rostrum.

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April 10, 2017

Coelho wins ETS Spain

Bruno Coelho has drawn first blood at the first asphalt race of the Euro Touring Series season, the Xray driver winning with relative ease with another win in A2 on the championship’s first visit to Spain. Top Qualifier for the Madrid based third round, having dominating the opening final, the reigning champion looked like he might have to work a bit harder second time round. With Marc Rheinard make a much stronger start and keeping with the reigning champion with Ronald Volker in toe, initially a more interesting race looked on the cards but it was short lived. With his Infinity stepping out in the first right hander of the lap, Rheinard would spin out, his race effectively done. While Volker would take up the challenge for a time, even with Coelho having a big moment at the end of the straight, the Portuguese ace would complete the perfect weekend to extend his lead in the championship with his parents on hand to watch his master class.

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April 10, 2017

BRCA Clubman Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the 2017 BRCA Clubman series took place this last weekend with a full 110 drivers booked in. The popular Bedworth club hosted this first round and the track was in fantastic condition to greet the drivers for the optional Saturday practice. The weather was perfect all weekend and the racing closer than ever. The Touring Car classes remain on the popular Sorex 32 control tyre for both the 17.5 Blinky and 13.5 Open classes. Colin Jackson made the switch from 17.5 to 13.5 to take the pole and both A-final wins with his Awsomatix. Luke Burr fought hard from 6th on the grid to take the overall 2nd place for Xray and Schumacher’s James Hart took the final podium place in 3rd.

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April 10, 2017

RDRP XB2 brass rear weight

Revolution Design Racing Products have introduced the XB2 brass rear weight for all Xray XB2 with laydown gearboxes. The weight is made from high-quality brass material and is a direct fit to the vehicle’s gearbox. The weight adds 34g to the rearmost part of the chassis for increased traction in lower grip conditions. The weight comes coated in black and with machined gold-colour edge details to match the remainder of RDRP’s brass option parts.

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April 10, 2017

Hepp, Liedke & Diekmann win at West German regionals

Round one of the West German division Nitro On-road regionals, a qualifying race for the German Nationals, was held in Dormagen this past weekend. In the premier 1/8th Nitro class 1 category, Tobias Hepp (ARC) would take the win from Serpent’s Merlin Depta in second and Christian Wurst (Mugen) in third. In the slightly slower class 2, Mugen racer Waldemar Liedke came out fastest in the main final from Ingo Braun (Serpent) in second and David Kröger (Shepherd) third. Finally in the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class it was Melvin Diekmann that lead an all-Shepherd podium with Rene Püpke and Benjamin Lehmann coming in second and third.

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April 10, 2017

Kaja Novotny sweeps Lestr Cup Rd8

Round 8 of the Lestr Cup was held this past weekend in Dubec. The series’ finale was held on a challenging track with three long straights and a series of double jumps and a table top. In the 2WD Buggy class Xray’s Kaja Novotny would take a dominant overall TQ from his team mates Milan Mudra and Zdenek Miksovsky. In the 4WD Buggy class Kaja would take Q1 and Q2 but a collision with a backmarker in the final qualifier would only mean a second place finish, however Kaja would still take the pole position for the triple A-mains.

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April 10, 2017

Lantheaume doubles at French 1/10th Buggy Nats Rd2

The second round of the French 1/10th Electric Buggy National Championship was held in Meyrargues in the south of the country. In the 2WD Modified class Armand Lantheaume would take the overall TQ from Clement Boda in the tie breaker, while Renaud Savoya put his car on P3, tie on points with Sylvain Gallo Selva. In the 4WD Modified class it was again Armand that lead the way with a clean sweep after the qualifiers, taking all five rounds with Renaud Savoya in second and Arnaud Matohaza in third.

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April 10, 2017

Balestri & Strano win at CIC2017 Rd1

The opening round of the Campionato Italiano Costruttori was held at the Miniautodromo Jody Scheckter in Fiorano, Italy over the weekend. In the premier 1/8th nitro on-road class, Dario Balestri took his first win for his new chassis sponsors Infinity ahead of his team-mate Alberto Picco and Alessio Mazzeo. The final saw an early domination of Andrea Pirani who started out from pole after TQing three of the four qualifying rounds, although a problem at the tyre stop moved the ARC driver back in the order, with Balestri ready to capitalise after having waited patiently for the right moment to attack.

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