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June 14, 2016

2016 Texas Electric On–Road Series Rd3 – Report

After a month delay due to torrential weather in Texas, round 3 of 4 of the Texas Electric On–Road Series was held at Hobbytown USA in Austin, Texas this past Sunday. 60 entries would be present between the six classes for some classic grass–roots parking lot racing. Qualifying points from the driver’s best two out of three qualifying rounds would be used to setup the single mains. There was 2 bump–ups from each lower main. The off–camber track and extremely hot conditions would develop a push for most cars, causing drivers to search for steering and rotation. Mod TC would be a continued showdown from round 2 between Brandon McNally and Chris Adams. McNally would earn TQ on his home track by winning two rounds of qualifying over Chris Adams and Andrew Doherty. In the main, a small mistake, clipping a flapper on lap 4, by McNally would let Adams through. From the lead, Adams was able to pull a gap and maintain the lead to the checkered flag over McNally and Kemper. Adams third win of the season results in clinching the Mod TC championship for the 4th year in a row.

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June 13, 2016

Hall & Campfield win at BTCC Rd3

This past weekend the Bedworth circuit in the Midlands played host for the third round of the Schumacher BTCC series. On the run-up to the event the weather forecast was not looking to brilliant, and it would also put a few drivers off attending unfortunately. The Saturday saw many drivers getting their cars up to speed and doing lots of set up preparation. The day started off overcast with light rain but brightened up just after lunch. This gave people the opportunity to prepare and test both their dry cars and also their wet cars.

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June 13, 2016

Mathieu & Billard successful at French 1/8th Nats Rd3

The third round of the French 1/8th On-road Championship was held this past weekend at the Macon track with almost 90 drivers attending in the Elite and National categories. After the qualifiers, Anthony Abisset took the TQ spot in the Elite class in front of Christophe Aygon and Romain Picard while Arnaud Mathieu rounded out the top 4. On Sunday, while rain affected the lower finals during the morning, the semis were run on an almost dry track. Arnaud Mathieu took the win in the semi final B on a mixed dry and wet track while Anthony Abisset won the semi A on a fully dry track, taking the pole position for the main final.

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June 13, 2016

Davide Bertuzzi scores at Awesomatix Workshop Race

The 1st Awesomatix Workshop Race was held at the Remedello asphalt indoor track over the weekend. The 1-day event was held in several classes including Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Formula and in the Stock 13.5T class it was local driver Davide Bertuzzi who took a narrow TQ from Germany’s Max Mächler who lined up in second some 0.5 seconds down. Federico Barbieri completed the top 3 result after the qualifiers. In the finals, Davide won the opening A-main while Max came out fastest in A2, shifting the decision for the overall win to the third and final A-main. A3 then was a pretty tight affair with the pole position holder bringing home the win some 1.3 seconds in front of Max, handing the Italian the overall win from Max with Gabriele completing the top 3 result with pretty solid results in the mains.

Image: Max Mächler

June 13, 2016

Niklas Johansson wins at Swedish Cup

The Swedish Cup was held this past weekend at the SMK Trollhättan club in the three classes of 1/8th and 1/10th Nitro as well as 1/10th Electric Touring. In the 1/8th category, Mikael Fransson would take the TQ but in the 45-minute main final it was Niklas Johansson who took a narrow win of about 5 seconds over Mikael. Bengt Andersson completed the top 3 result some six laps down on the leading pair.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 12, 2016

Neal King wins BRCA 1/8 Circuit Nationals Rd4

Neal King wins BRCA 1/8 Circuit National Rd4

The fourth round of the BRCA 1/8 Circuit National series, took place at the Yorkshire Radio Control Model Car Racing Club, host to the 2013 1/8th scale euros, in stark contrast to round 3 at Adur, this is a fast flowing track where engine, gear box and clutch are critical to a strong performance. During Saturday’s practice the usual top contenders of Mark Green, Tim Wood, Neal King and Andrew Hastings were setting lap times in the high to mid 14 second bracket, which signalled the track was unlikely to be in lap record breaking condition for qualifying and finals following day. After four rounds of qualifying the Nitro A final would line up as follows:

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June 10, 2016

Lukasz Olenczak wins at Polish Formula Nationals Rd2

Round two of the Polish Formula National Championship was held at the Ruda Slaska track. The rules allow to use down to 17.5T motors, boost ESCs and even foam tyres, making for a very mixed car performance throughout the field. At the end Łukasz Oleńczak would take the win from Tomasz Szymański in second and Jan Ruman in third.

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June 10, 2016

Martinelli & Schär win at Swiss IC Track Nats Rd3

Martinelli & Schär win at Swiss IC Track nats Rd3

Round three of the Swiss Nitro On-road Nationals was recently held in Schaffhausen. In the premier 1/8th class Simon Kurzbuch and Silvio Hächler would lead the proceedings at first but in the semifinals things would look a bit different. The first semifinal would be held in dry conditions until the very last minute when it started to rain. Silvio would bring home the win from Mattia Pesenti. The second semi than was run on a wet track with Luca “The orange submarine” Martinelli coming in first while Simon ran into trouble that now allowed him to proceed into the A-main.

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