Round 1 of the Turkish On-road Championship was held at the Efmod Track in İzmir. Unlike last year the weather was nice all weekend and in the Electric Touring Prostock class it was Mustafa Alp who took the TQ after winning three of the five qualifiers. In the finals Mustafa came out fastest in A1 and A2 to take the overall win early, leaving Ahmet Kasap and young Poyraz Serezlioğlu in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The second round of the 2017 South-African ORE national championship was held at the newly-built Gear Raceway in Ballito. The outdoor asphalt track offered a mixed layout with medium traction with the grass infield took many victims during the weekend. It was evident from the start that local driver and owner, Deon Gove was the man to beat while Jason Hillcoat, Ashley Hurley and Hein Kotze also were pretty fast during the pre-national practise weekend.
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Capricorn team driver Federico Barbieri took another convincing TQ and win in the Touring 10.5 Stock class at the first round of the LRP-Associated Summer Championship held on the La Valletta track. Winning all three rounds of qualifying, he managed to transform his pole position into a win in A1, finishing 2.2 seconds ahead of Gianluca Beggio’s Xray, while in A2 he DNF due to a technical problem. Federico then managed to keep his cool and went on to win again ahead of Beggio with a lead of 3.2 seconds. The final’s podium would be completed by Gianluca Beggio (Xray) and Ruggero Zanusso (Team Associated).
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The opening round of the Spanish 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring National Championship was held at the ARCA track in Madrid in very tricky weather conditions. Due to rain on Saturday, the qualifying was moved to Sunday morning, just before the finals. Sergi Franch would claim the overall TQ after some flawless driving, setting the fastest time in Q3 in front of local drivers Adrian Ortiz and Victor Pelaez. Unfortunately after the qualifying it started to rain again and Victor Pelaez took the 2nd spot on the grid after winning the Superpole.
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Round 1 of the 2017 Schumacher BTCC was held at the slightly revised Aldershot racing circuit. The fast chicane as you come on to the main straight has been slightly changed, meaning all drivers would have to start from scratch to find the fast and consistent lines. There were drivers in attendance on Saturday for some practice and to get their cars set up to their liking and to master the chicane. On to Sunday and race day, the weather was dry but it was quite windy which seemed to affect the cars as they went round the fast circuit. Due to slightly lower entry numbers for this round, it was decided the qualifying format was round by round and two from four to count towards the final qualifying position.
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Round 2 of the BRCA 1/8th Track National Championship was held at the super fast Halifax track with the weather being dry and sunny for both Saturday’s practice and the race on Sunday. The entry was 36 nitro cars and 21 electric cars and by the end of the practice day Mark Green was the quickest with his XRD-powered Serpent in the nitro class while Alex Thurston with his Arrowmax-powered Serpent, was the quickest electric class driver. The two would also come out on top after Sunday’s qualifiers and they would again excel in the finals, with Mark Green taking the nitro win from Andrew Hastings (Shepard/O.S./Matrix) in 2nd and Richard Hicklin (Serpent/O.S./Contact) 3rd. In the electric class Alex Thurston was sidelined on the podium by Adam Catchpole (ARC) and Joe Hawnt (Serpent).
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The 2017 Argentinian On-road Championships were recently held in Buenos Aires in several nitro on-road categories. In the premier 1/8th Free class Sebastian Recio took the title from Agustin Cutini in 2nd and Flavio Elias 3rd. In the 1/8th “3 Transfer” class, understood to be a stock engine category, it was Agusto Quinteros who came out fastest from Frank Delepiane on the runner-up spot while Martin Mazzeo rounded out the podium in 3rd. In 1/8th GT Sebastian Recio took his second title this weekend with Flavio Elias and Carlos Fernando Lima coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Finally in the 1/10th 200mm touring class Marcos Corbani came out fastest to grab the title from Enzo Branciforte and Lucas Lemes.
Veteran racer and living RC legend, Barry Baker has announced his retirement from RC racing. With 30+ years of racing under his belt “The Fabulous one” as he is often called, has attended his last race this past weekend, standing on the podium with long-time fellows Mark Pavidis and Greg Hodapp. We at Red RC wish him all the best for his future endeavours at hope to meet him again in his new spectator role.
After 30+ year of racing RC cars I have raced my last race. The passion for competition is still there but the fire and fun of racing is no longer.
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