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April 30, 2019

BRCA 1/10th IC Circuit Nationals Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the British 1/10th IC Circuit nationals took place this past weekend at the Adur circuit in the south of England. Dry but windy qualifying conditions would see the usual contenders battling for overall TQ. In 200mm it would be Joe Kerry with his Capricorn taking top spot some 4 seconds in front of Serpent’s John Zottl, with James Connolly rounding out the top 3 driving a Mugen. In 220mm GT, returning to the class, Serpent driver Mark Green dominated qualifying to claim pole position in front of the Capricorn of Glyn Beal and Richard Kozakiewicz also driving a Serpent. The GT8 support class would see Serpent’s Paul Bellinger taking overall TQ in front of the IGT8s of Glyn Beal and Rob Scott.

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April 29, 2019

Tyler & Albano win at Tom Meyers memorial race

Speedworld Raceway of Roseville, California hosted the 1st annual Tom Meyers race over the weekend. Awesomatix driver, Eric Albano would take the overall TQ in the Touring Modified class, however after the triple A-mains it was Xray’s Lex Tyler with the win, despite some mixed 1-7-2 finishes. Eric, who scored 2-2-1 finished had to settle for 2nd after the tie-breaker with Team Associated’s David Jun coming in 3rd overall.

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April 29, 2019

Greiner takes exciting maiden 1/8th victory

Dominic Greiner has taken a hard fought win in the opening round of the ENS this afternoon in Italy. Better known for his 1/10th exploits, the Serpent driver pulled off a major upset, utilising a well executed tire and fuel strategy to get the better of multiple ENS Champion Simon Kurzbuch. A late flameout by Dario Balestri took the Infinity driver out of contention while mixing it at the front, ending up in 5th, allowing veteran racer Alberto Picco to pick up the pieces and claim 3rd. Coming home 4th, Lamberto Collari looked set early on to throw a curveball to his competitors by going 5 minutes between fuel stops, only to come short on the in lap of his 2nd stop. Having been stuck behind Carmine Raiola early in the 30 minute main, once passed Greiner had to set about catching the leading pair of Kurzbuch and Balestri, and was helped by doing 4 minutes between stops, his OS engine not as thirsty as the Novarossi based power units of those ahead. With all those up front on the same basic tire strategy, changing just the outside tires first and then all four, by the end of the race Greiner’s tires were done and with Kurzbuch catching him fast he said ‘I had to remain calm as I knew I had only one minute to go’. His first podium in the 1/8th class at ENS, the German praised the improvements made to his Serpent 988 over the winter and is looking forward to a competitive season.

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April 29, 2019

Teemu Leino wins ENS season opener in Italy

Teemu Leino has taken the win today in the 1/10th scale class at the opening round of the Euro Nitro Series in Bologna after rain caused a long delay in the day’s proceedings. The Finn took the victory from a hard charging Alessio Mazzeo, with pole man Leo Arnold having to settle for the final podium spot in 3rd after the he ran out of tires at the very end of the race. Thilo Todtmann would take 4th for Shepherd with Jilles Groskamp finishing up in 5th. Asked about his race win the Infinity driver simply said ‘the race was good’, noting that they changed their planned tire strategy during the race, going from an outside only tire stop to a full tire stop, after he felt that the track was more abrasive following the morning rain. Very pleased with the performance of his IF15, Leino was also quick to credit the very fast fuel and tire stops by his pitman Felix for him being able to take the lead in the 30 minute final. Running in 3rd for a very long time, his tire strategy played out in the final 5 minutes as he was able to pass both Mazzeo and Arnold within 1 lap of each other and go onto win the race even though he too began to run out of tires at the very end.

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April 29, 2019

Laverychev & Karpov win at Russian Cup

The Russian Cup was held in Moscow this past weekend in several electric on-road classes. The event saw Maxim Laverychev taking the TQ and win in the Touring Modified class from Mihail Bykov on the runner-up spot. Nikita Ignatiev would come in 3rd to round out an Awesomatix podium sweep. Over in the Touring Stock 13.5T it was Vitaly Karpov with the TQ and win.

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April 29, 2019

BRCA Touring Championships Rd1 – Report

The Eastbourne club on the south coast of the UK hosted round one of this year’s BRCA touring championships and following two of the top drivers swapping teams over the winter round one was eagerly anticipated. Reigning champions in both classes Olly Jefferies (Modified) and Zak Finlay (Stock) had swapped over from Xray to Schumacher, but both drivers were busy developing Schumacher’s latest touring car and this would present a golden opportunity to 2018 runner up Elliott Harper who had moved to Xray at the end of 2018 national season. Eastbourne had not been a regular venue on the UK National calendar in previous years, for many drivers this was a new venue or at the very least one they had not raced at for many years.

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April 29, 2019

Asian Nitro Championship Rd2 – Report

The second round of the 2019 Asian Nitro Championship was held at England Park Raceway in the Brisbane suburb town of Brendale, Australia this past weekend. With a rich 20-year history of hosting World Championships, Nationals and of course local club racing, EPR is truly a world-class facility that offers a 90×40 metre layout, a sunken pitstop area and floodlights for night-time racing. The 1/8th Open final saw an amazing start for the last main of the day. Along with perfect weather, a perfect textbook start would begin this race. Looking down the leaderboard with three minutes down, absolutely no positions had exchanged with everyone remaining in the same position they started. Jeff Hamon lead the group and would actually pit the very next minute and would execute a perfect stop. After some pit stops midway though the race, things would shuffle Jesse Davis into the lead. Fate would have many things in store for a lot of the racers still on the track.

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April 29, 2019

Speed King Tour Rd2 – Report

The second round of the 2019 Speed King Tour took place at the RC Stadium track in Sodegaura. The event was held in the regular Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Oval classes and a new qualifying system was in introduced for this year: only the top 5 qualifiers from the three qualifying rounds would directly proceed to the A-main with these five would also have a Super Lap race to determine the overall pole position. The A-main would be filled up with the three fastest B-main finishers plus the two fastest drivers from the lower mains. Yokomo driver Hayato Ishioka set the fastest lap time in Super Lap session with top qualifier Akio Sobue also making it in the front row of the grid. Young Xray driver Takuma Sasaki took the TQ in the Stock class but Takeshi Yokoyama got the pole position in the Super Lap session.

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