Last weekend the opening round of the HNS was held at the AMC Tirol track in the three on-road classes of 1/8th Nitro, 1/8th Electric and 1/10th 200mm. Nice weather, good food and a relaxed atmosphere made for a fun weekend and in the 1/8th nitro class it was Michael Klausner (Serpent/Picco) who came out successful in front of Gerhard Kapferer (Mugen/OS) and Rene Doktor (Capricorn/Reds).
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Lee Martin has achieved the Euro Offroad Series title double, fourth place in the season finale at the Hudy Racing Arena enough for the Yokomo driver to clinch the 4WD title from previous undefeated 3-time champion Joern Neumann. Having won the 2WD driver title at the previous round in Austria, Martin becomes only the second driver to clinch both titles with Neumann having achieved the feat in the first two seasons of the indoor 1:10 Offroad Championship. While all the attention was on the title, the fourth & final round of Season #4 would go to Xray’s Martin Bayer, last year’s title runner up claiming his first win of the season ahead of Top Qualifier Naoto Matsukura and Saturday’s 2WD winner Michal Orlowski.
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The opening round of the Norwegian Gerland Cup was held on a newly refurbished multi-surface track that offered a mix of dirt, astro turf and concrete. The race format for the 1/8th E-Buggy class saw three 5 minute qualifiers followed by triple 12 minute A-mains with the best two to count. Young Malin Karlsen comfortably took the TQ with the only 9 laps run to line up in pole position for the A-mains. After some bobbles in the opening main Malin continued to dominate the competition in the final legs were she would take wins in A1 and A2 to grab the overall victory with one final to go. Just before the final A-main hail hit the track making for slippery conditions and despite having won the first two A-mains Malin also opted to run in A3 and after making some issues on her own she dropped down the field only to find herself back in 2nd place after she found her rhythm again. Although it seemed impossible to catch up to the car running in front Malin decided to continue to push as hard as she could and with only 2 laps to go the car in front ran into problems and Malin could take the 3rd A-final win of the day. Behind her Patter Strand and Tom Erik Strand rounded out the top 3 result.
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The BRCA National Touring Car Series kicked off with round one at the fast and popular Cotswolds track in Gloucestershire, UK over the weekend. Two classes are run over two days and it was a great weekend for the defending champions. In Super Touring Modified reigning champion Olly Jefferies was on good form after dominating the UK national 1/12th scale series over the Winter and he showed he had maintained his form as racing moved out on to the tarmac and with his Xray touring car as he set TQ after five rounds of qualifying.
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The second round of the Spanish National Series was held at the Nitro 15 track in Villareal, Spain. In the Formula class David Rebollo grabbed the TQ honours and the pole position for the finals but it was Tony Mur, coming from the 4 spot on the grid, who won the first and second A-main to take the day’s win early. Gonzalo Garcia came in 2nd while David Rebollo rounded out the top 3 result. In the championship Tony Mur sits on the top spot with 1280 points from Hector Albarracin in 2nd with 1175 points. The next round of the SNS will be held on the 4th of July on the Capa track in Madrid.
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The 4th round of the Tonisport Onroad Series was held at the AMC Hamm outdoor track. In the Touring Car Modified class Serpent’s Marc Fischer took the TQ after the qualifiers from Christopher Krapp (Tamiya) and Thimo Weissbauer (Serpent). In the triple A-mains Marc underlined his dominant performance by making a clean sweep to take the overall win from Christopher and Thimo.
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The second round of the North German Nitro On-road Regionals was held in Hildesheim this past weekend. In the 1/10th 200mm Touring class Rico Kröber (Capricorn) took the TQ after the qualifiers in front of Lars Hoppe (Shepherd) and Kristof Sielaff (KM). In the 30 minute final Lars Hoppe took the win from Kristof Sielaff and Bernd Hasselbring but due to Lars’ car not complying with the technical regulations he got disqualified which handed Kristof the day’s win. Bernd gained the runner-up spot while TQ Rico Kröber rounded out the podium in 3rd.
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