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July 10, 2018

AOC 2018 Australia – Report

Round 3 of the AOC 2018 season was held in Melbourne, Australia on a temporary carpet track that was being set up at the Gloria Pyke Netball Complex located in the Dandenong suburb of the city. The event was run together with the South Eastern Radio Controlled Car Club and the large 38x20m track with a fun and technical layout got praised from the drivers. The Modifed Touring class wasn’t business as usual for Jan Ratheisky for the triple A-Mains. He had pulled off some of the fastest runs of his Modified Touring career to TQ ahead of a couple of former world champions. At the start of the A1 main, Ratheisky wasn’t going to have it easy. With Alexander Hagberg in tow, the racing stayed pretty close all race long as the two pulled ahead of the field and through back markers, Ratheisky was able to edge out Hagberg by 1 second.

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July 10, 2018

Frederic Santos wins Portuguese EP On-road Nats Rd4

The fourth round of this year’s Portuguese Electric On-road National Championship was held at the ARMAIA club this past weekend. In the sole Touring Stock class it was Hugo Miguel with the TQ from Nuno Duraes and Frederic Santos. In the triple A-main events Frederic Santos (Xray) would come out on top in A1 and A2 for the overall win as Nuno Duraes (Mugen) scored 3-2-1 finished for the overall runner-up spot. Hugo Miguel (Serpent) had to settle for 3rd overall, rounding out the podium results.

Image: Nuno Duraes

July 10, 2018

2018 Arrowmax Cup Rd1 – Report

The popular Arrowmax Cup returned to the AMA track in Guangzhou, China, last weekend for the opening round of the series. The event was held in Touring Modified, Touring Stock and 21.5T Formula classes and in Touring Mod it was Lo Man Hau with the TQ and win from Fung Chiu Chi 2nd and Siu Bo 3rd. The 13.5T Stock class was TQ’d and won by Ali in front of Jiu Jiu Chan 2nd and Moon in 3rd while the 21.5T Formula class win went to Ho Hai Ben from La Ka Wing and Lo Man in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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July 10, 2018

John Bruins wins at Dutch EP On-road Nats Rd4

The popular Heemstede track in the Netherlands played host to round 4 of the Dutch Electric On-road Nationals this past weekend. In the Touring Stock class it was John Bruins who set the pace to take the pole position for the A-mains in front of Rob Janssen and Tjitte Miedema. After the A-mains it was again John who held the upper hand with Rob Janssen, who had a difficult A1, managing to stay on the 2 spot in front of Max Hordijk. Florian Joos and Tjitte Miedema would round out the top 5 results.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

July 10, 2018

Danish IC Track Championship Rd3 – Report

Last weekend the third round of the Danish Nitro On-road Championship was held at the technical track of the Greve RC Center. In the premier 1/8th category it was Martin N.O Hansen who set the pace, by scoring a new lap record and claiming the TQ position after winning the four qualifying rounds. Henrik Christensen lined up in 2nd and Morten Nielsen had to settle for the 3rd spot after the qualifiers.

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July 9, 2018

Akio Sobue inks deal with ORCA

ORCA have announced the signing of Japanese frontrunner, Akio Sobue to their factory team. The former long-time LRP driver is understood to use ORCA’s full line of motors, speed controllers, batteries and chargers during his upcoming campaign.

Source: ORCA [orcarc.com]

July 9, 2018

Kurzbuch takes first win of season at ENS Aigen

Simon Kurzbuch has taken his first win of the 2018 Infinity Euro Nitro Series in Austria. Coming into the weekend with three consecutive ENS wins at the Aigen track, the Shepherd driver continued to add to that tally adding his 10th ENS career win. Capping off the perfect win having TQ’d all four rounds of qualifying, today’s result means the title goes down to the final round in Fiorano in September. In contrast to the reigning champions successful weekend, for his main title rival & points leader coming into the event it was a 10th place DNF for Dario Balestri. Starting 3rd, the Infinity driver suffered an early flame out but on his recovery drive he would later clash with Silvio Hachler with his car suffering damage that would end his race. Pushing Kurzbuch in the first half of the race, Toni Gruber would finish 2nd with Merlin Depta taking advantage of others issue to secure the final podium placing ahead of Lars Hoppe.

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July 9, 2018

Groskamp leads Infinity 1-2 at ENS Aigen

Jilles Groskamp lead home an Infinity 1-2 at the third round of the Euro Nitro Series in Austria today. Starting from 4th on the grid, the Dutch driver would win the 45-minute encounter from team-mate Francesco Tironi, benefiting from engine troubles that would strike both Top Qualifier Dominic Greiner and Eric Dankel. Taking early control of the race, Greiner looked destined for his second win of the season with his team executing a perfect tyre stop but as the Serpent driver rejoined the track his engine cut in the sweeper. Brought back to the pit lane, it fired up immediately, but again in the sweeper it stopped but again it was fired up without hesitation and third time lucky it kept going for the remainder of the race but it cost the dominant German any chance of the win. The only driver to really take the fight to Greiner today, Dankel’s race started to come undone when he made contact with Alessio Mazzeo who was exiting the pits but in the end the Mugen driver’s frustration would only get worse with a flame out, contact with a backmarker and finally a broken engine. All the while Groskamp was having a steady race even overcoming a slow tyre stop to take his 2nd ENS career win ahead of Tironi with Mazzeo hanging on to complete the podium ahead of Greiner.

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