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March 28, 2017

Capricorn welcome back Marc Fischer

Capricorn have announced the return of German frontrunner, Marc Fischer to their electric on-road racing team. After reaching the World Championship A-main in Beijing last August, Marc is ready to be back working together with the Italian company, racing and developing the TE-03 Evo platform through to 2018. Marc has the following to say about the deal:

I want to thank VBC, Victor Law and Carven for the short but good times. Now i am really looking forward to return to Capricorn after the A Main at the Worlds in China. I really want to thank Patrizio Rossi for the chance he gave me to race for him and for Capricorn one more time. My First Race with the TE-03 will be the ETS in Madrid, follow by the Euros, Reedy Race and all other ETS Races which will follow. I signed a contract until 2018 Worlds in South Africa, so I will have the time to prepare and am really happy about it.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

March 28, 2017

Swauger, Burch & De Soto win at Hudy GP

The Hudy GP was held at the GLARC track in Los Angeles over the weekend. The 1/8th class final saw a close battle between Mike Swauger and JJ Wang until a costly mistake by the Chinese-American driver gave some breathing room to Mike, who capitalised and started working to keep the lead until the checkered flag.

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March 28, 2017

BRCA LMP12 National Championships finale – Report

Last weekend saw the final round of the BRCA LMP12 national championships take place at the Chesterfield club in the UK. The final round of the series saw all three championships still up for grabs, with David Spashett, Adam Catchpole, Ollie Payne, Craig Nutting and Aidan Ripley all hoping to claim titles. Saturday saw the 13.5 battle commence, with title favourite David Spashett stamping his authority over qualifying. Although Adam Catchpole and Ollie Payne were able to stay close to David’s Roche over the early stages of each race, David’s pace was relentless, and everyone else made small mistakes. This resulted in David taking pole position by nearly a lap.

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March 28, 2017

Kidis & Kazoglou win at Greek XRS finale

The final round of the Xray Racing Series Greek was held at the Fanatix Racing Track. In the Formula class Kidis took the day’s win from Diamadis in second and Nikola Kopoulos in third. Overall it would be Diamadis who took the title from Kidis and Kritikos. In the 1/12th scale class Kazoglou came out on top at the final round, taking the win from Kritikos Padelis second and Gavriilides third. As for the championship it was Kazoglou who took the winning honours from Kostas and Stratos Moros.

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March 27, 2017

2016/17 Mibosport Cup finale – Report

The final round of the 2016/17 Mibosport Cup was held this past weekend in Hrotovice, Czech Republic with more than 150 drivers competing in the six electric on-road and off-road classes. In the Touring Modified class Martin Hudy took the TQ but it was Zdenko Kunák who won the opening A-main ahead of Kuba Šimurda, Matěj Šulc and Dominic Vogl while Martin Hudy finished seventh with technical issues. Dominic managed to overtake Martin for the top spot in the second A-main and won ahead of Martin and Zdenko Kunák. Martin would then keep the top spot till the end in the third A-main, leaving Zdenko and Dominic behind. As Zdenko and Martin ended tie on points after the A-mains the winner was decided by the tie-breaker and the better qualifying position handed Martin the win while Dominic Vogl ended the day on the final podium spot.

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March 27, 2017

Infinity 1-2 at CETC opening race

After two very busy days of racing, the opening round of the CETC presented by Infinity has come to an end. The Infinity team of Sobue and Matsukura has achieved the best possible result against some very tough competition taking a 1-2 in the modified class. Having sewn up the race win early, Sobue decided to stand and watch A3 from the drivers stand and cheer on his team mate and good friend Matsukura and the former World Champion didn’t disappoint with a blistering run to record the only 28 lap run of the entire event to finish up the event in Guangzhou in the best possible way. Serpent factory driver Viktor Wilck also had a great run in A3 taking 2nd place again and securing himself the final spot on the podium. Having almost collided earlier in the race, while running 2nd and 3rd, Yokomo team mates Naoki Akiyama and Nicolas Lee eventually touched just as the race passed halfway, the accident giving Wilck the chance to get by and dropping the Yokomo drivers to 3rd and 4th which meant Yokomo would miss out on the podium.

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March 27, 2017

Ielasi & Mazzeo win at EFRA GP Series opener

Daniele Ielasi took the win at the first round of the EFRA GP Series in what was a surprising twist of events, the former 1/10 200mm World Champion producing an excellent performance and his package proving to be tough and consistent in a final that saw a lot of drama. The main kicked off with Simon Kurzbuch starting well from pole and never letting anyone come near to his lead, and despite a charging Balestri trying hard to keep his Infinity in contact with the Shepherd, the Swiss managed to open a gap. Behind them it would be Collari, Picco and Ielasi swapping positions with the latter settling into 3rd, Picco 4th and Collari dropped down to 8th with a broken glow plug. Right after the 25 minutes mark Balestri would crash his Infinity into the barriers entering the straight, the heavy contact leaving the Italian with a broken rear left wishbone and promoting the fighting duo of Ielasi and Picco into podium positions, with Vrijelink now 4th.

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March 25, 2017

Kurzbuch & Greiner TQ at EFRA GP Series Rd1

Carrying on the momentum from the end of the last season when he completed his full sweep of the Euro Nitro Series, it was reigning World Champion Simon Kurzbuch to open the 2017 season with a TQ at the first official international race of the year. After topping both free and controlled practice, the Swiss Shepherd driver claimed the first three rounds of qualifying on the RME Cassino track to secure the overall TQ with two attempts to spare, Dario Balestri taking the last two rounds while producing very convincing performances with his Infinity to settle second overall, ahead of ARC’s Andrea Pirani and his Infinity teammate Collari.

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