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September 22, 2024

Balestri retains 1:8 Onroad European C/ship Title

Infinity’s Dario Balestri has retained his EFRA 1:8 Onroad European Championship title, the Italian claiming the title for a fourth time with victory at Miniautodromo Locorotondo in Italy. Qualifying fifth and having to come through the Semi Finals, winning his encounter, the reigning World Champion would line 5th for the 45-minute decider behind the Top 4 direct qualifiers. While the Mugen Seiki of Top Qualifier Simon Kurzbuch lead way the field, the Swiss driver’s quest to retake the title he last held in 2018 ended in the first round of fuel stops. With his engine running lean, he suffered a glow plug failure dropping him to last from where he could only recover to eventually finish 6th. A race that saw a number of contacts between drivers, leading to a post race protest against Balestri which EFRA would reject, despite being on a three tyre stop strategy Balestri would take the win by 2 seconds from his 2-stop team-mate Carmine Raiola. Suffering a crash earlier in the race after contact with Serpent’s Andrea Catanzani in which he then got collected by Raiola, 1:8 GT World Champion Toni Gruber would take his damaged Capricorn to the final podium position only half a lap down. Winner of the Last Chance Final to secure P11 on the grid, Lamberto Collari came through to take P4 followed by Xray’s Filippo Domanin.

Image: EFRA [Facebook]

September 20, 2024

Kurzbuch Top Qualifier at 1:8 European Championship

Mugen Seiki’s Simon Kurzbuch is the Top Qualifier at the EFRA 1:8 Onroad Championship. The former World Champion came out top of the 5-rounds of qualifying at the Miniautodromo Locorotondo in Italy, where 4 different drivers posted TQ runs. Thursday’s opening day of qualifying would see defending Champion Dario Balestri kick off proceedings by taking his Infinity to a TQ run before Kurzbuch posted the first of his two TQ in Q2. Friday’s second day of qualifying would open with the Serpent of Practice Top Seed Andrea Catanzani topping the times sheet for Q3 before Kurzbuch went on to take Q4. With the overall TQ wide open going into the fifth & final round, it would be Infinity’s Carmine Raiola who set the pace from the Capricorn of Toni Gruber, Kurzbuch, Catanzani and Balestri. With 3 from 5 to count overall, Kurzbuch was declared the Top Qualifier from Catanzani with the all important Top 4 direct Main Final qualifiers being completed by Raiola and Gruber, the latter’s 1-2 in Q5 knocking Balestri back to P5. The 22nd running of European Championship will be decided tomorrow over 45-minutes with Kurzbuch going for his second title having previously won it in 2018 when the race was also held in Italy.

Image: Simon Kurzbuch [Facebook]

September 19, 2024

PRO 10 European Cup 2024 – Report

The PRO 10 European Cup took place recently in Grenoble, France, where Team WRP could take the TQ and win in both the Modified and Stock classes. Almost 60 drivers, representing the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and France, took part in the four day event which was greeted by perfect weather and perfect track conditions for racing. In qualifying it was Swiss racer Markus Schneider who took his WRP IV to the TQ over the JRP of France’s Julien Parnot. With four leg 5-minute Mains, Schneider would taking the first three for the overall winning setting a new track record of 14.780 secods in the process which is 0.5 sec faster than the old record set at the 1:8 Nitro Euros in 2019. He was joined on the podium by the VIP Performance car of Germany’s Tobias Weist and Dirk Elsebusch. In Stock, Koen Geurds Koen claimed the the TQ and win with his WRP IV which featured a special cooler and a handwound 10.5 WRP outlaw motor. Laurent Lauper would finish runner-up with third going to Patrick Bariot.

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September 18, 2024

IFMAR publishes ISTC World Championship entry list

IFMAR has just published the latest entry list for the upcoming 1:10 Electric Touring Car World Championship with 6 of the categories 8 World Champions set to make the trip to the US in November. The 12th running of the ISTC World Championship will be hosted by Finishline RC Raceway in Bakersfield, California, from Nov 5-10th where reigning Champion Bruno Coelho will try to emulate Davide Ongaro’s recent 1:8 Offroad feat of three consecutive wins of the biggest prize in racing. With the ISTC Worlds first held in 2000, it is great to see inaugural Champion and all time great of the sport Atsushi Hara back on the entry list. Hara’s last ISTC Worlds was in China in 2016 but this year the Japanese legend has enjoyed a return to competitive international racing.

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September 17, 2024

Iris sweeps Austrian FWD Nationals

After all six events of the Austrian Nationals the 1:10 FWD championship concluded with German manufacturer Iris securing 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th place in their first full year of competition. Veteran racer Philipp Stadler, with 3 wins and 3 TQs emerged as the new Austrian Champion while alongside him, two young talents, Matheo Buchhalt (2 wins, 1 TQ) and Loris Buchhalt (1 TQ), took 2nd and 3rd place, respectively, locking out the overall championship podium and securing the youth title as well. Markus Buchhalt rounded out the excellent results with a strong 6th place in the overall championship. While the team used the ONE.05 chassis for the first five rounds, the final race of the series marked the debut of the new ONE.1 and it enjoyed the perfect debut taking the victory!

Source: IRIS [iris-racing.com]

September 17, 2024

Gruber defends German 1:10 Nitro TC title

Capricorn’s Toni Gruber successfully defended his German 1:10 Nitro Touring Car Title, leading a 1-2 for the Italian manufacturer at the AMC-Hamm track over the weekend. Gruber, who will travel to Thailand in November as a leading contender for the World Championship title, secured the TQ for DMC event ahead team-mate Melvin Diekmann, the reigning ENS Champion the only driver apart from Gruber to top one of the 5 rounds of qualifying. Tim Benson complete the Top 3 on the grid. In the 45-minute final Gruber would set the fastest lap of the race as he cruised to the National title with over a 2-lap buffer on Diekmann. Starting 5th on the grid, Jan-Simon Knispel came through to complete the podium with his Serpent.

Image: Jumpstart RC [Facebook]

September 16, 2024

Xray’s Keven Herbert confirmed for MonTech NYGP

Xray’s Keven Hebert is the latest driver to be confirmed for the upcoming MonTech New York Grand Prix. The sixth edition of the high profile US indoor race, which takes place at 360v2 RC in New Rochelle from October 10-13th, the Canadian joins reigning NYGP double Champion Sam Isaacs and 1:12 Spec World Champion Max Mächler in doing the event. The 2o24 Snowbirds Champion and ROAR 1:12 National Champion, Hebert will be aiming to go one better this year in Modified Touring Car having finished runner-up to Isaacs last October. Drivers will battle it out over a total of 12 classes with Touring Car divided into Modified, 17.5T SuperStock, 21.5 Stock, and 25.5 LMH (LeMans Hypercar) while 1:12 offers Modified GTP, SuperStock GTP, Stock GTP, and GT12R. Additionally there are classes for USGT, PRO10, USVTA, and FWD. To book your entry for the 2024 MonTech New York Grand Prix click here. Red RC are excited to traveling to New York to cover the NYGP for the first.

Source: Fordham 360 Hobbies & Raceway [Facebook]

September 16, 2024

AOC announces single Korean race for 2024

The Asian Onroad Championships has announced the hosting of a single event for 2024 with long time AOC race hosts GRC Raceway in Korea to stage the race on October 18-20, 2024. This will be the sixth year that Korea has played host to the Scotty Ernst organised championship for 1:10 Electric Touring car with Yokomo’s defending Champion Nicolas Lee already confirmed to head the entry. Also confirmed to make the trip to the newly remodelled GRC Raceway, which is located near the capital city of Seoul, is Akio Sobue. The Axon team driver & World Championship podium finisher is a 3-time winner of the Korean AOC round taking victory in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Sobue will be joined by team-mate Hayato Ishioka while Infinity has confirmed Viktor Wilck for the race. Further international driver confirmations are expected to be announced shortly.

Source: Asian Onroad Championship [aocrc.com]