August 27, 2022
Apeldoorn in the Netherlands is the host of the season finale of the Euro Nitro Series this weekend and it is home hero Jilles Groskamp who has secured the TQ in 1:10 while Toni Gruber is the Top Qualifier in 1:8. Round 4 of the series is a track favourite among drivers and Groskamp put his year’s of local knowledge to good use to top all four rounds of qualifying. Behind the factory Infinity driver and 2022 Champion it’s another Dutchman with Milan Holthuis second after going second fastest in Q1 & 2. Making it an Infinity 1,2,3, former champion…
August 1, 2022
…for the 2020 season but just as the world was forced into shut down due to Covid. Having to wait so long to make his first major championship appearance for the Italian manufacturer, Greiner kicked off the 16th running of the EFRA European Championship with p4 in practice as Balestri set the pace for Infinity from up & coming Xray star Filippo Domanin and Dutch veteran Jilles Groskamp. It wasn’t long however before Greiner hit the front to take the opening qualifier. With some mistakes in Q2, Balestri going on to take that qualifier, he was back on top in…
June 7, 2022
…was Prümper who took A2 and A3 after thrilling battles with Völker. Rheinard had no racing luck and finished 5th overall, right behind the Yokomo duo of Christopher Krapp and Nicholas Lee. Matrix Modified class Overall results 1. Yannic Prümper (DE) Yokomo/Dash 2. Ronald Völker (DE) Mugen Seiki/LRP 3. Christopher Krapp (DE) Yokomo/Racing Performer 4. Nicholas Lee (SI) Yokomo/Dash 5. Marc Rheinard (DE) Awesomatix/ORCA 6. Loic Jasmin (FR) Yokomo/Hobbywing 7. Michele Manzo (CH) Awesomatix/Hobbywing 8. Eric Dankel (DE) Mugen Seiki/Hobbywing 9. Lucas Urbain (FR) Awesomatix/Orca 10. Jilles Groskamp (NL) Infinity/Orca 11. Tim Benson (DE) Awesomatix/Hobbywing Winner B-Main: Frederik Hovgaard (DK)…
December 31, 2020
ORCA have announced the signing of 5-time IFMAR World Champion Marc Rheinard to their team. Marc will be joining other elite drivers like Jilles Groskamp, Naoto Matsukura and Akio Sobue to mention a few. Making the switch from long time sponsors Muchmore, Marc will be using the full series of ORCA products to power all his rides for 2021 and beyond and ORCA hopes they will be able to power him to many more wins. Rheinard has the following to say: I would like to thank the whole ORCA Team to take me on board for 2021 and more! I’m…
September 15, 2020
…Speed 3. Rick Vrielijnck – Infinity/Max Power 4. Jeffrey Rietveld – Infinity/Picco 5. Steven Cuypers – Mugen/Picco 6. Timo Schroder – Shepherd/OS Speed 7. Arnaud Mathieu – Capricorn/ONE 8. Robbin Hertong – ARC/Reds 9. Toni Gruber – Shepherd/Novarossi 10.John Ermen – ARC/Reds In the 1:10 Scale Class, Dominic Greiner led Jilles Groskamp in qualifying, and these two drivers opened up an early gap on the field as the race got underway. Groskamp kept his Infinity within one second of the Capricorn of the race leader during the early stage of the race and looked to apply pressure to the former…
August 16, 2020
…scale final result: 1. Simon Kurzbuch – Shepherd/OS Speed 2. Dario Balestri – Infinity/Max Power 3. Carmine Raiola – Infinity/Max Power 4. Robert Pietsch – Mugen/Ielasi Tuned 5. Silvio Hachler – ARC/OS Speed 6. Lars Hoppe – Shepherd/Reds 7. John Ermen – ARC/Reds 8. Rick Vrielijnck – Infinity/Max Power 9. Shasa Lackner – Mugen/ASM Nuclear 10.Merlin Depta – Serpent/OS Speed In 1:10 Scale, Jilles Groskamp started on pole for Infinity, but it was Capricorn driver Dominic Greiner who moved into first place on the opening lap. Dominic was clearly quicker in the long 45 minute final, pulling a gap over…
August 15, 2020
…dropped to fifth in the round, the Shepherd driver very critical of the backmarkers influence on the result. Taking the best two scores (which will become three if the fifth round can take place tomorrow), Balestri holds the provisional TQ, ahead of Kurzbuch and Raiola, with Pietsch fourth for Mugen, and consistent results from Lars Hoppe netting him fifth overnight. In 1:10 Scale, Dominic Greiner opened up Q1 by beating top seed Jilles Groskamp by one-and-a-half seconds, who was in turn just eight-tenths of a second ahead of Mugen’s Dirk Wichnewski. Groskamp took Q2 by the smallest of margins –…
February 24, 2020
Akio Sobue has claimed a second TITC title, this time round the Infinity driver doing so in much more dominant fashion to his spectacular win over Alexander Hagberg in 2018. While concerns of the Coronavirus depleted the international entry for the 18th running of Asia’s most famous annual touring car event, the Infinity driver still faced stiff competition, most of which came from within his own team. With the race marking the international race debut of the Japanese company’s IF14-II, Jilles Groskamp would keep Sobue honest in the finals. A crash in A1 caused by his pinion coming undone, gave…
