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September 5, 2017

David Ehrbar wins European F1 Masters

The popular Lostallo track in Switzerland played host to the European F1 Masters this past weekend with drivers from Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and Switzerland in attendance. David Ehrbar would take three round TQs to line up in 1st on the grid while Julian Borowski, with two round TQs, came in 2nd from Sidney Blokker 3rd. In the triple A-mains David made maximum use of his starting position and he would take wins in all three mains to snatch the title from 2nd placed Julian Borowski and 3rd placed Sidney Blokker.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 5, 2017

Turkish On-road National Championship Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of the Turkish On-road National Championship was held at the Bumod track in Bursa. This time the track was run anti-clockwise which made for about four to five seconds lower lap times in the 200mm Nitro Touring class compared to running clockwise. Alain Sarafyan made a clean sweep in the Nitro Touring class, taking the TQ and his first pole position in this category. In the main final Alain kept his cool and with swift laps and a flawless run he was able to open a gap on the field and control the other drivers to give him the win from Kagan Aydin 2nd and Halit Körpe 3rd.

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September 5, 2017

Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

The fifth and final round of the Belgian Electric On-road Nationals was hosted by the MRCZ club in Zwevegem this past weekend. The race was held on a purpose built track laid out in a local parking lot. Two weeks before the Belgian nats, the club hosted a club race and an open practice during which it turned out that the grip levels were quite low, and this resulted in a lower turnout for this championship decider. In the three main classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Formula the race for the overall title was still open.

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September 4, 2017

International German Pro10 Championship – Report

The 28th Annual International German Pro10 Championship was held at the AMC Hildesheim track this past weekend. The open championship saw entries from The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Belgium and Germany with the race being held in Pro10 Modified and Stock classes as well as an 1/8th Electric support class. The event started off wet but Friday’s and Saturday’s practice sessions here held on a dry track until the heaven opened again on Saturday evening – in time for the opening two qualifiers. In the Modified class 2014 champion, Tobias Weist won Q1 some eight tenth of a second in front of 2016 vice-champion, Timo Schad who in turn won Q2 on his home track from reining German champion, Tim Altmann and Roman Krejci from the Czech Republic.

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September 4, 2017

Bowie Ginting wins Jakarta On-road regionals Rd3

The third round of the Jakarta 1/10 Electric On-road regional championship was held at East RC Speedway in East Jakarta. The race was held in very sunny weather with Touring 13.5 Boosted as the only class. It was Bowie Ginting who scored the overall TQ by securing the first two rounds of qualifying followed by Teddy Syach and Muhammad Izzah. Bowie then would able to converted his pole into a win in the main final followed by Izzah and Teddy who swapped their starting positions into 2nd and 3rd place finishes respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 4, 2017

Urban Touring Series Rd9 – Report

The penultimate round of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held this past weekend at Singapore’s Urban Onroad Raceway. The event saw the return of Daryl Thong (Xray), a past TITC A-main podium finisher, who had been missing from racing action for some time due to his on-going National Service commitments. Daryl missed the early action and could only complete one of the four rounds of qualifying, meaning he would start last in the finals. Hasron Robana (Xray) topped the first three rounds of qualifying to take the overall TQ honours for the day. 13-year old Sean Lee (Tamiya) gave everyone notice when he pushed Hasron hard in Q1 and Q2, and was in fact on pace for TQ in both rounds when he encountered unfortunate back-marker incidents. With Hasron sitting out Q4, Sean gained some comfort with a TQ run in the round to qualify overall 2nd. Qualifying 3rd was Chee Lip Keong (Yokomo).

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September 4, 2017

BRCA 1/8th Circuit Championship Rd7 – Report

Round 7 of the BRCA 1/8th Circuit Championship headed south only a short distance from the channel tunnel crossing to France to the revitalised Brookland Circuit in Kent. The circuit having undergone upgrades to the surface and facilities with more changes planned for the future. The circuit being more ideal size for 1/8th cars and allowing them to be pushed to the max on the main sweeper and straight. The Nitro class was going to be another close encounter with a few big names away, Tim Wood took pole position narrowly from Neal King and David Spashett. Andy Mollett showed all his practice had paid off achieving 10th overall to qualify with his Mugen for his first A-final of the year. Chris Simons also made it in and Jack Garrett-Lines qualified an impressive 6th place.

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September 2, 2017

Marc Fischer Scorpion-powered through to 2020

Scorpion Power System have announced the signing of Germany’s Marc Fischer to their factory team. The former Trion driver signed a long-term contract through to 2020 and he will not only race Scorpion’s brushless motors and speed controllers but he will also assist with research and development. Marc says:

Since my contract was done on 01.08.2017 with Trion, I really want to thank Koba for the great and good Time in the Team. I test multiple system for a couple of weeks and I decided Scorpion Power System is the way to go for me. As George van Gansen offer me to work in the RD and testing/developments. So I am really happy that from 01.09.2017 until 31.08.2020 I sign with Scorpion Power System and want to thank George van Gansen and the whole Scorpion Team for the opportunity for their team. First official Race will be ETS Round 1 in October, so I am really looking forward for the first Indoor event and for sure with the new system. Thank you very much George.

Source: Scorpion Power System [scorpionsystem.com]