Round 2 of the 1:8 GTS Cup was held at the AMC Mühlau track in Germany last weekend in challenging weather conditions. High temperatures of about 30 degree put man and machine to the test and it was Serpent driver Holger Schmidt with the win in the Nitro class from Marcus Unger 2nd and Mugen driver Lars Mauksch in 3rd.
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Last weekend the first round of the Pro Stock Series was held at the WMC-Wiesbaden track. The track, that will also host the Pro-Stock-Series final later this year, saw exciting and fair races under beautiful weather conditions. Saturday’s practice showed that there was no favourite in both classes and as expected, the qualification was close. In the 1/8th class Michael Kosok took the TQ ahead of Wolfgang Hederich and Rudi Hofsäß while in 1/10th 200mm Touring it was Alexander Kien with the pole position ahead of Marcus May and David Ranft.
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The second round of the Polish Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Ruda Slaska track recently. In the competitive 13.5T stock class it was Jakub Klapacz with the TQ from Krystian Kopacki and Arkadiusz Smyk, however the finals were not run after the organisers had to call it a day following torrential rain. This meant the qualifying results were taken as the overall ranking with Jakub taking the win from Krystian and Arkadiusz.
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The Austrian MORAC Ring held a club race this past weekend and in the 1/8th IC Track class it was Tomáš Lipták who came out on top after the double 20-minute A-main finals. Branislav Panák and Erich Scharler would round out the top 3. Over in the single 30-minutes 200mm main final it was Oliver Havránek with the overall win from Filip Obora and Igor Lipták.
Round 4 of the BRCA IC Track National Championship was held at the Brookline track and was held as the British Open GP together with the 1/10th 200mm GP class. The latter saw Alex Thurston taking the overall TQ honours after winning Q1 and Q2. In the final Alex had a clean start with him, Kyle Branson and Mark Green having a great race up front until a marshall put a back marker back on the track just before the straight meaning that Alex would come along and smash into him flat out. The crash crushed his car’s body, broke his bumper and damaged a front shock and the following pitstop meant that he was out of the equation for the win. Alex lost a good amount of laps, however with a borrowed shock from a retired teammate he was able to at least score a 3rd place finish to snatch valuable points as Mark Green came in 2nd and Kyle Branson took the win.
Image: Alex Thurston
Round 2 of the Tyrolean Championship was hosted by the RCCÖ club and held in Umhausen. Like the previous round the race was held in four electric on-road classes and in the Touring Modified category, that attracted a total of six entries all of which were in a position to win or at least finish on the podium, it was Thomas Rinner with error-free runs that award him the overall win from Aaron Tursky 2nd and Markus Fleischmann 3rd.
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Round three of the BRCA 1/10th Formula National Championship was held at the Aldershot track this past weekend. Andy Murray and Ben Cosgrove, the latter being hindered by not be able to show up for Saturday’s practice rounds, battled it out for the overall TQ in qualifying. Ultimately it was Ben with the TQ and pole position thanks to winning the tie-breaker. In the opening A-main Ben made a mistake about three laps in running too low and rolling mid sweeper dropping him back to 4th. He managed to catch and pass Luke Lee in the sweeper the next lap and then Andy and James Wright were tangled together when Cosgrove arrived at the next corner. From then on Ben backed off and took a relaxed leg win. Leg 2 then was a very simple race from the front with a controlled pace so Ben Cosgrove (Xray) took the leg win and with it the overall with Luke Lee (Xray) and Stephen Lander (Capricorn) coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Thanks to Ben Cosgrove for the report.
The third round of the 2018 South-African ORE 1/12th National Championship series was held at the Welkom RC Arena. In the 1/12 Modified class and after missing round 2 due to his host responsibilities at the pre-worlds, local Xray driver Antonio Caroli showed good early pace during practice with Marius van Niekerk, Shaun Schutte, Willie du Plooy and Wayne Joelson also running good fast laps. Ultimately it was Antonio Caroli who managed to secure TQ with Marius van Niekerk and Willie du Plooy starting from 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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