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September 28, 2020

Kurzbuch sets up Swiss title showdown with Rd2 win

Round 2 of the Swiss 1/8th onroad Nationals were run last weekend at Modell Rennsport Club St. Gallen where wet weather greeted racers on Saturday for qualifying. Mastering the difficult conditions it was Rudi Scherer that would come out on top, ahead of multiple ENS Champion Simon Kurzbuch in 2nd with Luca Martinelli and Oliver Krähemann completing the top 4 direct finalists. On finals day, Sunday, the weather had improved and so in the 45 minute main final the pecking order had been restored and so it was Shepherd driver Simon Kurzbuch that would take a decisive victory by over 3 laps. The runner up spot went to Andy Geisser, with veteran racer Jürg Nydegger completing the podium in 3rd place. The final round of the series will be held at Simon’s home track in MRCL Modell Rennsport Club Langenthal, where the title will be decided between himself and Silvio Hachler, the latter having won the opening round of the series.

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September 21, 2020

Volker victorious as ETS gets back on track

The Euro Touring Series (ETS) finally got back underway last weekend, after the Coronavirus situation forced the delay to the 2020 season. The newly re-surfaced and re-configured Arena 33 circuit in Andernach, Germany was the host for the return of the famous series and attracted around 200 entries – impressive given the situation and the travel restrictions that continue to affect events in Europe. In the Modified class, Yokomo’s Ronald Volker took the first two rounds of qualifying, putting him in a strong position early on. The German driver led Q1 ahead of Awesomatix’s Lucas Urbain and Xray’s Bruno Coelho, whilst Q2 saw second and third places reversed as Urbain showed his intention to challenge the “big three” at this event. Marc Rheinard took the challenge to Ronald in Q3 to get his event back on track, the Tonisport/Awesomatix driver leading Volker and Coelho in the round. Q4 would then decide pole position between the two German rivals, but it was Urbain who took his first ever ETS round TQ to lead, leaving Rheinard in second and Alexander Hagberg having his best result in third. This left Volker on pole, ahead of Rheinard, Urbain, Coelho and Hagberg.

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September 18, 2020

2020 GenevaModelCars Series Rd4 – Report

The fourth round of the GenevaModelCars Series 2020 was held recently at the GEMC track in Meyrin, Geneva. With 47 drivers attending in three classes, Touring 13.5T boosted, FWD 17.5 zero timing and Formula 21.5T zero timing all run under perfect weather conditions. The layout chosen for the this round was challenging, as it was both technical and fast at the same time. In the Touring 13.5T boosted class, that is run on Hudy A1-36 spec tyres and without traction compound, Xavier Deparde (Xray) secured the pole position followed by Bastien De Marco (Awesomatix) and Alexis Banderier (Awesomatix). After three entertaining A-mains, Xavier took the overall win, in front of Bastien and Sébastien Leuenberger (Xray).

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September 16, 2020

XRS Italy 2020 – Report

The XRS Italy event was held this past weekend at the marvellous facilities of Club Automodellistico 5 Colli in Gubbio, Perugia. The race saw 110 entries in 6 different categories. In the TC Modified class, it was the current World Champion Bruno Coelho who lead the way, in front of Alexander Hagberg, and Alessio Menicucci. The top two would finish in the same order after the triple A-finals, but Alessio Mancini moved up to 3rd, and snatched a podium spot from his team mate, The modified class was a blast to watch, with the cars reaching 125 km/h on the long Gubbio straight.

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September 15, 2020

Kurzbuch & Greiner make it 2 from 2 in 2020 ENS

The winners of the 1:8 Scale and 1:10 Scale Class of the opening round of the 2020 Euro Nitro Series last month were once again the drivers to beat in their respective 45 minute long finals at Round 2 of the shortened series, which took place at the famous Apeldoorn circuit in the Netherlands. Due to the seemingly ever-changing travel restrictions in place, it was unfortunate that some drivers had to make a last-minute cancellation to their entry – perhaps the most notable being the Italian Infinity pairing of Dario Balestri and Carmine Raiola. However, their role to lead the 1:8 Scale Class for the team was taken up by the Dutch pairing of Jeffrey Rietveld and Rick Vrielijnck, who performed admirably – Rietveld even topping the Controlled Practice to be the top seed for Qualifying. Teemu Leino was again absent due to the conditions imposed by his native Finland, so once again Milan Holthuis slotted into the front of the Infinty team’s 1:10 Scale assault.

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September 8, 2020

Mächler, Vogl & Luyer victorious at 2020 Austrian EP Nats

The Austrian Nationals, compressed into one event, was held this past weekend at the track of MRC Wiener Neustadt. The Stock class was headed by ‘Mad Max’ Mächler, making the trip from Germany for the race and having TQ’d he would go on to take the win, needing to go to 3 finals having lost out to eventual runner up Philipp Neudinger who took A1. Alexander Mayer would round out the top 3 and give a podium lock out for Awesomatix. In the Modified touring class it would be Dominic Vogl that would take the top spot in qualifying in what was a very reduced field. The finals saw the Awesomatix driver come back from a difficult first main to take the title ahead of A1 winner Patrick Gollner (Xray) in 2nd and Sascha Klug (Awesomatix) in 3rd. FWD would see Florian Luyer win from pole, wrapping up the National title early again for Awesomatix, with Johannes Neumaier (Mugen) coming home in 2nd thanks to his win in A3, while René Kronsteiner (Awesomatix) would lose out on the tie break and have to settle for 3rd. The Formula class was dominated by Rene Kobel who took his Xray to the win from pole position to claim the title with Andreas Stiebler (Serpent) in 2nd and Michael Pittner (Xray) in 3rd.

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September 7, 2020

Nikko Haheim takes Norwegian cup

The Norwegian Cup race was held this past weekend at the upgraded facility in Lørenskog. This was a 2 day event with 3 qualifiers on Saturday and 3 mains on Sunday, so there was plenty of time to wrench and just enjoy a nice weekend with fellow racers. In the mod touring class Olav Dahle ended up taking the TQ honours ahead of Nikko Haheim and Helge Johannessen in 3rd. In A1 Nikko put Olav under immense pressure from the very beginning and after a few laps he opened a gap Nikko was trough. From there he could bring the car to the line some 6 seconds ahead of Mathias Nedrebo who came in 2nd, followed by Oyvind Stusdal. In A2 Haheim made a better start and managed to out drag Olav down the main straight and take the lead. From there he could control the gap back to Helge who came in 2nd, the result enough to secure the overall race win, and with it the Norwegian Cup title. With Nikko sitting out A3 Helge would go on to win the last main securing 2nd for the race with Mathias Nedrebo able to claim 3rd overall.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 1, 2020

Miguel & Nascimento win at CRB Cup Rd2

Last weekend saw the 2nd round of the CRB Cup take place in Lisbon, Portugal. Despite restrictions a solid number of drivers turned up in both touring and formula to enjoy a clean, sugar watered track and a beautiful sunny day. In TC, Rodrigo Ferreira (Awesomatix) drove brilliantly and took the TQ spot. During the finals, there was some amazing head to head competition, but in the end Hugo Miguel (Serpent) took the win followed by Rodrigo Ferreira and Rui Rodrigues (Xray).

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