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May 16, 2018

Tim Wood wins BRCA 1/8 Track Nationals Rd3

The third round of the BRCA 1/8 Circuit championship took place at the Halifax RC Track in Yorkshire last weekend. Forecast for the weekend was changeable, but thankfully the rain came over night leaving race days sunny and bright. Sunday saw a round of practice followed by four rounds of qualifying and then finals. Due to a damp track, Q1 was delayed to allow the track to dry. Qualifying saw a struggle for 5-minute runs with the top contenders falling short on fuel. TQ was set in round 1 by Tim Wood from Alex Thurston and John Carr.

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May 15, 2018

Nitro-West-Masters Rd1 – Report

The 2018 season of Nitro-West-Masters recently kicked off at the Bad Breisig track, located between Bonn and Koblenz at the river Rhine. 62 racers made their entry for round one of the popular nitro on-road championship. Following some intensive practice at perfect conditions and a familiar come-together to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Nitro-West-Masters on Saturday, the 2017 location of Germany´s 1/8 scale Nationals was hit by rain during the night. Only a few drivers dared to enter the 254-meter track during the first two rounds of qualifying but after a break all drivers had the opportunity for one dry run in the third and final heat. Because of the NWM mode with three consecutive laps to count, the drivers had a couple of chances to improve their lap times.

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May 15, 2018

Paolo Morganti TQs & wins at Miami GP

The Homestead RC Raceway played host to the Miami Grand Prix recently and in 1/8th Nitro GT it was Paolo Morganti with the TQ and win. In the 30-minutes main final Paolo would take the win with a 4-lap margin on Massimo Fabiani in 2nd and Eric Spong in 3rd as Lazaro Alonzo Jr. and Harold Pagan rounded out the top 5 results.

Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]

May 15, 2018

Rafiq takes win at KL Grand Prix GP Challenge Cup

The 2018 KL Grand Prix GP Challenge Cup was held in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia took place with the racing seeing massive weather changes. Late on Saturday rain was falling heavily, however the Sunday turned out hot and sunny. In the 1/8th class the first round of qualification saw Yee Kok Leong TQ-ing the round while Amirul Rafiq topped Yee Kok Leong’s time by a margin of only a second in round 2. So it all came down to the last round of qualifying, where Yee Kok Leong tried to seek redemption and pushed hard for the pole position but in the end it didn’t work out. Meanwhile, Amirul Rafiq was able to find more time to take the overall TQ with Yee Kok Leong 2nd and Anthony Wee in 3rd.

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May 15, 2018

Julien Morvan wins at French 1/8 IC Track Nats Rd2

Round 2 of the French 1/8 IC Track National Championship was held at the Neuville de Poitou track last weekend. Saturday running was hampered by rain, however in Sunday Sun greeted the drivers and in the end it was a nice day of racing. In the National category Jean Noel Austruy took the TQ but in the half hour long A-main final it was Julien Morvan with the win from young Maxime Ripoll, who came all the way from the 1/4 final to finish just four seconds off the leader. Behind the two, Bilal Sullivan would round out the podium result.

Source: Aigoin Racing [aigoinracing.com]

May 14, 2018

Leo Arnold wins at French 200mm Nats Rd3

The third round of this season’s French 1/10th 200mm National Championship was held at the popular Clermont-Ferrand track. The Elite class practice saw Basile Concialdi on top while the qualifiers had Quentin Leroux coming out fastest. In the 45-minute A-main final however it was Xray’s Leo Arnold who excelled as the took the win some five laps on front of Basile Concialdi (Shepherd) as Quentin Leroux (Capricorn) had to settle for 3rd, another two laps down.

Source: Aigoin Racing [aigoinracing.com] | Image: Basile Concialdi

May 14, 2018

Coelho extends ETS lead with Andernach win

Bruno Coelho has extended his points lead in the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the Xray driver today becoming the first double winner of Season #11. With the fourth round marking the ETS’ return to Motodrom Andernach in German, rain forecast for Sunday led to the decision to condense the event to run over two days. Initially it looked like Coelho’s first time to the tight technical track was going go give his rivals the opportunity to reduce his lead as he struggled to find a set-up for the layout. Come qualifying however things changed with him TQ’ing the opening qualifying on Saturday but it was Q2 in the evening that ultimately decided the event. On a TQ run, in what would be the rocket round, Naoto Matsukura touched the curbing on the last lap which was enough for the Infinity driver to hand Coelho the TQ by 5/100th of a second. This all but decided the TQ, Matsukura starting today’s action by topping Q3 the time that was no match to the Q2 pace of the night before while Viktor Wilck claimed the final qualifier. In the opening final, Matsukura clearly had the quicker car but he couldn’t find a way pass until a late mistake by Coelho made him open the door. With both drivers making mistakes in A2 they finished as they started, meaning A3 wold decide it. Again Matsukura pressured the reigning champion who jumped the curbing in the centre chicane which was his queue to take the lead but both cars touched, with Wilck coming out the main benefactor and taking the A3 win. For Coelho luck was again on his side as his A2 win was the faster, giving him the overall win ahead of Matsukura while Marc Rheinard completed the podium ahead of Wilck.

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May 14, 2018

Dennis Weihert wins at German Nats qualifier

The first round of the central region qualifiers for the German 1/8th IC Track Nationals took place this weekend at the Wiesbadener Minicar Club. In qualifying Oliver Mack would claim the TQ in impressive style. First setting a new track record in Q2 he then managed to go even faster in Q4. With rain on the forecast causing the final to be reduced to 20-minutes, Oli was pulling away from the field but he stopped at the 12-minutes mark due to an engine failure. Dennis Weihert, who qualified 5th, was able to take over the lead and from there he never looked back to take the win.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]