The Italian Riccione track held their ETS warm-up race this past weekend with many national and international drivers taking the opportunity to get some laps under their belts in preparation for round 4 of the series. In the Touring Modified class Alexander Hagberg took the overall TQ after winning two of the four qualifiers. Alessio Menicucci showed a very strong pace and after TQing Q4 he put himself 2nd on the grid.
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Round one of the Swiss Nitro On-road National Championship was held at the iconic Lostallo circuit. The event was run anti-clockwise which meant some difficulties for the 200mm pilots due to the small chicane entering the main straight. Fuel consumption is always an issue on the fast track and in the 1/8th class Simon Kurzbuch and Mattia Pesenti made the best out of it, obtained the top 2 spots after qualifying. In the 45-minute main final Simon Kurzbuch once again showed a World-class performance, taking the win some three laps in front of Michael Henzi while Raphael Roider ended the main another three laps down in third.
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The opening round of the Nitro-West-Masters (NWM), a popular championship held in the western part of Germany, turned into a full-throttle party on the fast 310-meter Hamm track last weekend. With a total of 64 entries, practice on Saturday was intense and the event would start in full on Sunday morning with three heats of 7-minutes qualifying of which the three fastest laps would count. In the premier 1/8th Open class it was Tobias Hepp who snatched the pole position less than two hundredth of a second ahead of ARC teammate John Ermen. On the 3rd and 4th spot, Michael Salven (Serpent) and René Puepke (Shepherd) were the last direct qualifiers for the main.
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The second round of East Touring Series was held at the Sunter International Speedway. The race was held in a Reedy Race format for both the Modified and Mini chassis classes. The race format saw 7-rounds of reverse grid racing and in the end Bowie Ginting would score four wins in the Touring Modified class to take the win from Arya Seta and Suwardi Suliandy in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the Open Mini class it would be young gun Ridhwan Sutedja who made a clean sweep for the win.
The second round of the French Electric On-road Nationals was held in Lentilly near Lyon with 76 drivers signing in for the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring 10.5T, Touring 13.5T and Formula. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Alexandre Duchet who took the TQ in front of Loic Jasmin and Remi Callens. After the finals the top spots mixed up a bit with Loic taking the day’s win from Alexandre and Remi.
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The Carisma DTMxGQ Cup was held this past weekend at the ACO track in Hong Kong. Cloudy and unpredictable weather was predicted for race day but this did not held the drivers from getting the most out of their mandatory Carisma M40S RTR cars that had to be run with realistic DTM bodyshells, bone-stock Carisma 3000kv brushless systems and GQ hand out tyres. At the end only one A-main was to be held due to heavy rain in the afternoon and it was TQ holder Edward that brought home the win from Dick Wong 2nd and Stick King 3rd.
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Round 1 of the Swiss Electric On-road National Championship was held in Chiasso, in the Italian part of the country. More than 50 drivers signed in for the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Swiss GT and Formula. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Michele Manzo who took the TQ and he would also walk away with the win after the triple A-mains, taking the victory in front of Fabian Widmer and Antonino Mangiaracina.
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The opening round of the Dutch 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring Championship was held at the AMCA track in Apeldoorn over the weekend. Mixed and cold weather conditions made things a bit unpleasant for the drivers and after overnight rain only the first heat was held in dry conditions as rain hit the track again in time for round 2. Daan Jacobs made the best out of the conditions, taking the TQ from Milan Holthuis and Gaston van Kleef in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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