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May 20, 2017

Coelho takes opening 1:10 qualifying at ENS France

Bruno Coelho took the opening round of qualifying at ENS France, heading an Xray 1-2 ahead of new for 2017 team-mate Alessio Mazzeo. Opening the fourth season of the ENS by topping the morning’s two rounds of seeding practice from former champion Jilles Groskamp, Coelho would be almost 3-second quicker than Mazzeo over the 4-minute qualifier. Preventing an Xray Top 3 , Capricorn driver Kyle Branson would set the third fastest time just ahead of the Xray of Mulhouse track resident Leo Arnold. With Groskamp completing the Top 6 behind the Serpent of Mark Green to be the quickest of the Infinity drivers, for team-mate & reigning champion Teemu Leino it was not a good first round. Posting the 12th fastest time, the Finn said, ‘I was just making donuts. When I hit the gas I would just spin so we need to figure something out’.

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May 19, 2017

Tomas Liptak successful at Czech IC Track Nats Rd1

The opening round of the Czech Nitro On-road Nationals was held recently and it was Tomas Liptak (Xray) who set the TQ in the 1/8th on-road class. Right after the start of the main final Tomas opened a gap on the field that was as large as five seconds before the first round of pit stops. Some 18 minutes into the main light drizzle made things interesting as the track was partly damp and partly dry but it soon started to fully dry up again and the final stages saw a dry track and a dominating Tomas Liptak who took the win some three laps in front of the Shepherd duo of Martin Zvara and Miroslav Jurenka.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 19, 2017

Luke Lee wins BRCA Formula Nationals Rd2

The second round of the BRCA Formula National Championship was held at Aldershot. Qualifying started cold and dry but it was tricky to find grip but as the weather warmed up the lap times dropped. Current UK Formula Champion and championship leader after the first round, Luke Lee (Xray), took a convincing TQ winning all four qualifying rounds. The first final saw Luke take an early lead but his lead was cut by an unfortunate incident with a back marker, however he had enough of a gap to resume in the lead and maintained it till the end of the race. The second final was a repeat of the first – without the back marker incident – Luke sailed off to a comfortable lead and the overall win with James Wright (MD Racing) coming in 2nd and Damian Giddins (Xray) 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 19, 2017

Protoform WCICS Rd7 – Report

The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Seriesflew into the beautiful Northern BC mountain town of Kamloops, British Columbia for round 7. As expected, Touring Mod was fast and full of action. Blake Bell would be the driver to beat opening up with a 36 lap run. Round 2 proved to be a shaky heat for all drivers with no impressive pace. But all the stops came out for round 3 when the top 5 heard the tone. Blake settled it with a 37 lap run, the only one of the weekend.

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May 18, 2017

Ruben Olivares wins at Spanish 1/8th Nationals Rd2

The second round of the Spanish 1/8th On-road Nationals as held at the Valladolid track. In the premier class A Capricorn driver Ruben Olivares took the TQ in the qualifiers and in the 45-minute main final the race for the win was a 5-horse race. Ultimately Ruben managed to take the win followed by Vicente Eres (Mugen) while Guillermo Perez (Capricorn) complete the podium in 3rd.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

May 18, 2017

Markus Hellquist doubles at Swedish Cup Rd1

The opening round of the Swedish Outdoor On-road Cup was held at the Staffanstorps Raceway in the south of the country. Good weather and lots of traction made for competitive racing in the 1/8th Nitro, 1/10th 200mm Touring and Electric Touring classes. In the 1/8th class Mikael Fransson posted the fastest four-minute qualifying round, taking the overall TQ. In the Superpole race Lars Haugen got himself the second direct qualifying spot to go straight into the main final.

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May 17, 2017

Jesse Davis lands factory O.S. Engines deal

Top Australian International on-road racer Jesse Davis has landed a factory deal with O.S. Engines for 2017. The Infinity team driver, who has chosen to run the Japanese engine brand in his 1/8 and 1/10 exploits for the past number of seasons, joins team-mate Teemu Leino as one of O.S. Engines’ new signings in this 1/8 On-road World Championship year. A multiple Australian National Champion, Davis will make his first official appearance as a factory supported driver this weekend at the Euro Nitro Series season opener in France. Commenting on the deal, the 26-year-old said:

Having already used O.S. engines for the last two seasons with some good results I’m happy to have the opportunity to join the factory team. I will be attending all major events this year including ENS and the World championship in France and would like to thank the O.S. team for this opportunity.

May 16, 2017

Western German regional Championship Rd2 – Report

Round two of the Western German Nitro On-road Championship was held at Bad Breisig, located between Bonn and Koblenz at the river Rhine. The Rhein-Ahr-Motodrom will see the German 1/8th scale Nationals to be held at the end of August for the second time since 2011. For practice on Saturday lots of rain was predicted but finally 54 drivers enjoyed a day full of dry practice with a huge amount of laps on the fluent 254-meter circuit. Also the race day started out dry but at the end of the second round of heats the first rain drops hit the track. Round three was dry again for some heats but round four was completely lost due to rain. During lunch break, heavy rain with thunder and lightning flooded the track but finally the event would with changing conditions during the afternoon.

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