September 25, 2019

Paolo Morganti takes ROAR 200mm Sedan title

Last weekend’s 2019 ROAR Nitro On-Road Nationals, held at the One Eighth Racers of Toledo, saw Serpent’s Ralph Burch taking the overall TQ in the 200mm Sedan class, however it was Paolo Morganti (Capricorn) who would be crowned National Champion after the 30-minute A-main final. Qualifying in 2nd Paolo would bring home the win after battling with Ralph for the lead for a good part of the race. The latter would score an unfortunate DNF after about 23 minutes, allowing Paolo to take the lead and bring home the win a lap in front of Shepherd’s Ted Hammer as Serpent’s Jeremiah Ward came in 3rd, some 15 seconds behind Ted.

Source: RC Target [rctarget.com]


September 24, 2019

Arrowmax Cup HK Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the Arrowmax Cup HK was held at the PYC track in Hong Kong last weekend. The event was held in Touring Modified, Touring 13.5T Stock, FWD and Formula classes and in Touring Modified it was Yokomo’s Kendrick Fong who checked out in leg 1 and 2 of the A-main to take an early overall win while Small Fung and Simon Yeung (Xray/ZeroTribe) fought for the remaining podium spots. Ultimately it was Small Fung with the runner-up spot from Simon Yeung in 3rd.

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September 24, 2019

Naoto Matsukura wins at International Nitro Grand Prix

The RCMC Singapore club held the Infinity International Nitro Grand Prix last weekend, attracting some of the World’s fastest nitro on-road drivers. The event was held in 1/8th and 1/5th scale classes and saw Infinity’s Jesse Davis taking the overall TQ from Infinity teammate, Naoto Matsukura in 2nd. The 45-minute main final then was a pretty close affair with Naoto taking the win by less than a second from veteran racer, Infinity’s Alberto Picco while Rick Vrielijnck (Infinity) came in 3rd, some nine laps down, to round out the podium result in 3rd.

Image: Alberto Picco


September 24, 2019

Hächler & Scherer win at Swiss IC Track Nats Rd5

The fifth and final round of the Swiss IC Track Nationals was held at the challenging MRC Langenthal track last weekend. In the premier 1/8th IC Track class it was Shepherd’s Simon Kurzbuch with a clean sweep after the qualifiers to take the overall TQ from ARC’s Silvio Hächler. In the 45-minute A-main however it was Silvio who turned the page, taking the win with a 1-lap margin from Simon Kurzbuch while Xray’s Mattia Pesenti came in 3rd to round out the podium. Overall in the Championship his 2nd place finish was enough for Simon Kurzbuch to bring home the overall title from Xray’s Luca Martinelli in 2nd and Mattia Pesenti, who attended only four races, in 3rd.

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September 24, 2019

DJ Apolaro takes ROAR 1/8th IC Track National title

Last weekend’s 2019 ROAR Nitro On-road Nationals, held at the Toledo One Eighth Racers, saw Capricorn’s DJ Apolaro walking away with the win in the 1/8th Open class. DJ snatched the overall TQ after the qualifiers and he also came out on top in the ultra-close 30-minute A-main event that had Paolo Morganti (Capricorn) finish in 2nd, only 6.6 seconds behind DJ while Serpent’s Joaquin Desoto came in 3rd to round out the top 3 just 0.052 seconds behind Paolo.

Image: Bryce Butterfield


September 23, 2019

Luke Lee grabs BRCA Formula title

The seventh round of the BRCA Clubmans series was held at the Bedworth track in the usual Touring Stock and Formula classes. Despite missing Saturday’s practice, it was Luke Lee who made a clean sweep in qualifying to take the overall TQ in the Formula class. Onto the finals and on pole with a clear track ahead of him, Luke didn’t look back in leg 1, as he managed to create a gap and keep it for the whole race. Leg 2 however was not so straight forward. A mistake on the opening laps dropped Luke down the field and he tried to work his way though, but a few cars were beginning to struggle with rear grip under braking so on a couple of occasions they touched resulting in Luke waiting for them to regain track position ahead of him. Eventually Luke worked his way through the field and with just a minute to go there was a big gap to the lead car but he pushed hard and on the penultimate lap he was nose to tail, and he made a hard move to get passed but pushed the leader into a slide so he conceded the place back. With just one lap to go Luke tried a few places to get passed but eventually just a couple of corners from the end he managed to find a way past and took the win by just 0.17 seconds. Behind him it was Michal Lee on the runner-up from Lee Owen in 3rd, completing an all-Xray top 3. With the win Luke also took the overall championship with the maximum points score.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


September 23, 2019

Xray Racing Series Greece Rd7 – Report

Round 7 of this year’s Xray Racing Series Greece was held at the RC Maniacs track in Argos recently. Sunny weather made for excellent racing conditions and in the Touring Modified class it was Ioannidis Dimitris with the day’s win from Dimitriou Dimitris while Diamadis Sotiris came in 3rd to round out the all-Xray podium.

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September 23, 2019

Paolo Morganti takes ROAR 1/8th GT title

The 2019 ROAR Nitro On-road Nationals were hosted by the Toledo One Eighth Racers this past weekend. In the 1/8th GT ROAR Spec class it was Paolo Morganti (IGT8/Novarossi) with the overall TQ from Joaquin Desoto Jr in 2nd. In the 20-minute A-main event it was again Paolo who would lead the way, taking the win and 2019 title some four laps in front of 7th place qualifier, Franco Desiderio (SWorkz/Picco) while 4th place qualifier, Massimo Fabiani (SWorkz/Picco) came in 3rd to to round out the podium another two laps down.

Source: Picco [teampicco.com]


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