June 24, 2014
Round three of the Western Germany nitro on-road regionals was held at the famous MRC Oberhausen track. 51 racers from 5 different countries made their entry for the event on a track that is known for its very high grip surface because it is mainly used by large-scale cars. With no direct qualifiers all of the top drivers had to run the 20 minute semifinals with Thilo Tödtmann being the fastest, taking the pole position for the finals. Right after the start of the main final Thilo flipped his car due to traction rolling caused by large diameter tyres, having…
June 10, 2014
Frank Schewiola, Thilo Toedtmann, Marco Muscara and Thorsten Lewandowski are the class winners of round two of the Nitro-West-Masters, a popular on-road racing series mainly held in Western Germany. Three weeks after the amazing season opener in Oberhausen with a series record of 67 participants, a total of 55 drivers entered the race weekend in Dueren which made it a new record for this 232 meter track near Aachen. Once again the weather was perfect but the nitro family was quite lucky that a thundery front just passed the area with no effect. Finally, as in Oberhausen, the Nitro-West-Masters experienced…
May 20, 2014
…the reputation as the heart of RC racing in Western Germany, but also more than 60 drivers who completed a total of about 8000 laps in practice, made for heat on the track. During the core hours the practice was separated into 30 minutes windows for the 1/8 and 1/10 scale classes. The Oberhausen paddock was bursting at the seams on early Sunday morning when finally the 67 drivers got ready for a remarkable racing day. All racers moved together on the working desks and even some tables had to be added in the paddock area to grant every racer…
May 15, 2014
The Nitro-West-Masters will start into its 6th season this coming weekend. On the 17th and 18th of May the first of six rounds of this popular nitro racing series, held in Western Germany and the Netherlands, will take place at the famous track in Oberhausen. The following rounds will be run in Dueren (07th/08th June), Bad Breisig (05th/06th July), Haltern (26th/27th July), Velp/NL (27th/28th September) and Dormagen (11th/12th October). More than 60 nitro racers have already made their entry for the season opener which means a new record of participants for Oberhausen. The Nitro-West-Masters offers four categories, the regular 1/8…
April 14, 2014
…with drivers like Michael Salven, John Ermen, Steven Cuypers and Robin D’hondt attending. The TQ went to Xray team driver John Ermen from the Netherlands with 20 laps in 5:07.601 minutes which put him only 91 thousands of a second in front of Michael Salven with his Picco-powered Serpent 977 Viper. While Mugen racer Steven Cuypers from Belgium is already a regular competitor in Western Germany for years, it was the first appearance of country-fellow Robin D’hondt, who captured the fourth position in qualifying right behind Cuypers already a couple of seconds slower than Ermen and Salven. But D’hondt’s race…
August 24, 2013
…leader and floated with his Serpent until his engine was drowning out. The trio which was left alone in the rain was Uwe Baldes, Ralf Vahrenkamp and Martin Baumann. Finally Ralf Vahrenkamp won on home soil three laps in front of Uwe Baldes who lost the chance to win when he had to replace a washed-out first gear one-way bearing. 15 laps down Martin Baumann crossed the finish line with his Serpent on third. A total of 22 class 1 racers joined the 2013 competition in Western Germany, one of five regional championships to qualify for the German Nationals which…
August 19, 2013
The first of two races for the German nitro buggy nationals was run at the Oberhausen track in Western Germany. RB’s Daniel Reckward took TQ for the finals with Martin Bayer (Xray) and Carsten Keller (Kyosho) in tow. Marcel Guske (TLR) and Jörn Neumann (Team Durango) completed the top 5. The 40 minute final race was a very close affair for the top 4 drivers who all finished on the same lap. At the end it was Martin Bayer who took the first round of the 2013 German championships 20 seconds in front of Marcel Guske and Daniel Reckward who…
August 8, 2013
The dirt track of the RCRT Duisburg in the western part of Germany saw a busy weekend with the 4th round of the western division regionals, the 6th round of the Brushless Cup and the German nationals warm-up all being held at one race. Nearly 70 drivers attended to tackle the hard-packed and abrasive high-traction track. Saturday saw an early free practice followed by the first qualifiers that had Mugen driver Chris Kammann dominating the field with Carsten Keller and Chris Hahlen in tow. The finals were run according the to the national rules with a runtime of 15 minutes….
