July 26, 2017

RC Maniacs Argos Championship Rd2 – Report

The second round of the RC Maniacs Championship was held at the Argos track in Greece. Classes run were Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T blinky, and Formula 17.5T blinky. Tyres were open but the Touring car drivers opted to use LRP’s G32 tyre as it is the handout wheel for the Greek championships, while the Formula class relied on the new Hudy Formula tyres. To increase fun and add a bit of spectacle it was decided to run the event in a Reedy race format with six of eight rounds counting towards the overall results. In Touring Modified Xray’s Michalis Kiriazis was a force but he had to leave early due to family obligations – a situation local driver Diamantis Sotiris (Xray) took advantage of to grab the overall win with Nikos Nikolakopoulos coming in close 2nd. Christos Vasilopoulos (Tamiya) finished 3rd ahead of another local Xray driver, Christos Kindis.

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July 26, 2017

Juan Hidalgo successful at Spanish 200mm Nationals

The Spanish 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring Nationals were held at the Asoger track in Madrid in very hot weather conditions. The high temperatures and prepped track made for a lot of grip changes with Capricorn’s Victor Pelaez making the best out of the conditions as he took the overall TQ and pole position for the main final. Superpole winner Juan Hidalgo (Serpent) also scored a direct entry for the main while all other had to go through the sub finals. In the main final and after a good start Victor was out in front with Juan in 2nd and Sergi Franch and Jonnhy Pastor fighting for the 3rd spot. Later Juan was able to get past Victor in an amazing manoeuvre and from that moment on he never looked back. Unfortunately Victor suffered an engine problem later on making way fro Sergi Franch (Mugen) in 2nd and Jonnhy Pastor (Mugen) 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

July 26, 2017

Oliver Havranek wins Austrian 200mm Nationals Rd3

Round 3 of the Austrian 200mm Nitro Nationals was held at the Graz track. Xray’s Oliver Havranek swept the qualifiers to start from pole position into the main final that would see the TQ holder struggle in the opening minutes. Later Oliver would keep his head down and he managed to catch up with Igor Liptak. After a tight fight Oliver was able to get past Igor and soon after it was started to rain heavily so the organisers had to stop the race that was scored at the current standings, handing Oliver the win from Igor in 2nd.

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July 25, 2017

Swiss McBest Cup Rd5 & Rd6 – Report

Round 5 and 6 of the Swiss McBest Cup were recently held in Herblingen. Run with “hand-out” engines and fuel the qualification format is also special as the 7-minute qualifiers have a mandatory pit stop. Round 5, run on Saturday saw Xray’s Martin Wenger coming out on top in the 1/8th class from Shepherd racer Stefan Graber 2nd and Nick Zünd 3rd.

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July 24, 2017

2017 Benelux Electric On-road race – Report

The annual Benelux 1/10th scale electric race was held this past weekend at the fast track of Rucphen in the Netherlands. Free practice on Friday took place in ideal weather conditions with track temperatures exceeding 35 degree Celsius. The weather forecast for the weekend wasn’t so good though and this lead to several last-minute withdrawals. Nevertheless a good amount of drivers turned up to attend in the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T, Formula and Pro10 10.5T. In Touring Modified, Mitchell Van Es, one of contenders for the overall victory in the modified class, had a glitch on the main straight and crashed his Awesomatix at full speed into the barriers. This meant that the young Dutch driver had to defend his chances with his old Yokomo.

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July 24, 2017

Daniele Conte successful at World Freedom Cup

The World Freedom Cup was held this past weekend at the famous Minicar Fiorano track in Italy. The somewhat special event saw a single 15-minute A-main for the Formula class and it was Daniele Conte with the TQ and win in front of Luca Fantinel and Mirco Bordin in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

July 24, 2017

JJ Wang completes perfect weekend at CETC in Shanghai

Xray Factory driver JJ Wang took the win in the 2nd A-main, to secure the overall win of the 3rd round of the CETC presented by Infinity with one final in hand. On his home track, RCI V2, the Chinese American maintained a 0.9 second lead over Nicholas Lee to convert his pole position into the win here in Shanghai. In what was a relatively uneventful A2 in comparison to the opening leg, Awesomatix driver Rocket Zhang could maintain his 3rd place starting position with ease with the only driver to make a big mistake being Xray youngster Lao Ming Hao, who following the incident on the 5th lap, fell back to 8th and was not able to recover.

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July 24, 2017

Hoppe & Tödtmann win Northern German regionals Rd3

Round 3 of the Northern German Nitro On-road regionals was held at the MC Munster track, home of the German 1/10th 200mm Nationals later this year. In 1/8th on-road class 1 it was Timo Schröder (Shepherd) with the overall TQ but the 30-minute main final was narrowly won by Shepherd’s Lars Hoppe who left Serpent’s Merlin Depta behind in 2nd by about 3/10th of a second. Timo Schröder would round out the top 3 result in 3rd.

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