The recent second round of the Italian AMSCI IC Track Nationals saw Serpent’s Matteo Passetti walking away with the win in the 1/10th scale 200mm Nitro Touring F1 class. The BMT duo of Matteo Menichetti and Alessio Agostinelli could round out the top 3 podium result in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]
Power HD have announced the addition of Australian frontrunner, Simon Nicholson to their factory team. Being multiple National and State champions, TITC Modified and AOC A-Main finalist, ETS, Reedy Race familiar, Simon will use Power HD’s B7-Revolution servo in his upcoming campaign. Simon says:
I would like to thank Power HD to give me the opportunity to race for them, their servo lineup is great and showing high performance.
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The 2nd round of Italian Championship was held at the Mini Autodromo Fiorano track last weekend. In the 200mm Nitro Touring class it was David Loppini (Xray) with the TQ. For the final David went for a super aggressive strategy as he was the only one to go for a full tyre change, starting with qualfying tyres. After a few minutes a little touch with Francesco Tironi resulted in a stop & go penalty but after few laps David was back in the lead again. Running in qualifying mode with a super fast pace David was confident to recover after the tyre change and after a super tight battle in the final minutes he finally saw the chequered flag in the 1st position as Francesco Tironi (Infinity) came in 2nd and Salvatore Gilberto (Capricorn) ended the race on the 3 spot.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The Urban Touring Series returned to the rooftop circuit at Urban PlaySpace this past Sunday. This round marked the halfway stage of the 5-race series, and most of the racers in the top-10 of the championship ranking list entered. Anticipation was therefore high as to who would take the win and assume the lead in the overall championship rankings. The day started off overcast, but thankfully dry. After a short open practice session, racers hit the track for the first of three rounds of qualifying. Out of the gate, it was clear that young Sean Lee meant business as he showed tremendous pace to challenge regular front-runners Dominic Quek and PY Tang. Another youngster, Koh Boon Yang, was also translating his recent practice track time to a strong showing.
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Round 4 of this year’s Greek 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring Nationals was held at the Fanatix Racing Track in Athens. After four rounds of qualifying Bill Likaris managed took the overall TQ while scoring the fastest lap of the day in the process. In the A-main Bill then took over the lead, never looked back and though he did an extra pit stop he finished 1st with a 16-seconds gap on 2nd placed Xray driver Sotiropoulos. Nikos Karabelas had an amazing beginning in the final, holding 3rd place, and looking forward to overtake 2nd place John Sotiropoulos until Nikos made a mistake, missed the timing loop and lost a lap which dropped him in the last position. Lampros Tsiklitiras held the 4th position and after the mistake of Nikos he took over the 3rd place, doing his best to manage the podium but a flame-out cost him one minute, promoting Capricorn’s Dimitris Papadopoulos into 3rd. Not having enough time to overtake him Lampros finish 4th in the A-main, gaining important points for the the championship.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com] | Image: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round 4 of this year’s Dutch IC Track Nationals was held at the newly resurfaced Raco 2000 track in Utrecht. The race was held in beautiful summer weather and in the premier 1/8th NK class it was Robbin Hertong with the win in the 30-minute A-main some two laps in front of Jeffrey Rietveld in 2nd. Arie Manten would complete the top 3 another two laps down.
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The MSC Kirchhain club played host to a round of the German IC Track regionals, qualifying races for the German Nationals. In the 1/8th Nitro class 1 category Oliver Mack was able to secure the TQ from where he led the 30-minute final from start to finish. Despite being unable to attend Saturday due to work, and so missing practice and Q1, over his three qualifying runs Dennis Weihert was able to take 3rd on the grid. Winner of round 1 of the Regionals, in the final Dennis was able to come in 2nd, some four laps down as Olaf Engelmann completed the top 3 results.
Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]
The 2018 EFRA 1/10th scale Electric Track European Championships were held at the MRC Wiener Neustadt track this past weekend. The event started off wet but things got better over the weekend. In the Touring Modified Ronald Volker headed the field round from pole position in the first leg and in a great display of controlled driving soaked up all the pressure from a charging Alexander Hagberg to take a step towards retaining his title. Bruno Coelho had a quiet race by his standards to finish a couple of seconds behind the lead two.
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