The 2016 WRC Contest will be held on the 5th of June at the Pista RC Team track in Reggio Emilia. The event will be held in the three classes of Touring Modified, Stock 13.5T and Formula with last year’s race attracting over 70 entries to race on the high-grip asphalt track. This year again some of the fastest Italian drivers will make an appearance and more information about the event can be found here.
The recent JITC Open was held in Jakarta, Indonesia with the event attracting a range of international top drivers such as reigning World Champion Simon Kurzbuch along the likes of Jilles Groskamp, Teemu Leino, Silvio Hächler or Andy Moore. In the 7-minute qualifier it was Simon Kurzbuch who snatched the top spot followed by Jilles Groskamp and Jesse Davis. In the 45 minute A-main final it was a close race in super hot racing conditions and in the end Swiss ARC driver Silvio Hächler was crowned the 2016 Jakarta Open champion, followed by the Infinity drivers Jilles Groskamp and Chavit Sirigupta.
Xray have announced another of their popular Work.Shops. The next one will be held this coming Saturday the 28th of May during the second round of the Czech Nitro On-road Nationals held in Slavkov. Team Xray driver Michal Abrahamek will be on hand to guide NT1 drivers through individual setup questions. More information can be found here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The Marine Parade Radio Control Modellers Club in Singapore played host to the ULTI World Cup this past weekend. The event attracted some of the World’s fastest nitro on-road drivers such as Jilles Groskamp, Andy Moore, Teemo Leinoo and others. In the hour long 1/8th class A-main final, Jilles Groskamp came out successful from Charit in second, who ended the race some 2 laps short of Jilles. Jesse Davis completed podium result in third.
The first round of the East German regionals was held at the Bernau Motodrom. In the Electric Touring 13.5T class Stefan Schulz took the TQ and he easily won the A-main in front of Robert Komfort and Ralph Schmidt. The Formula class had Kai-Oliver Gutschau putting his car on the 1 spot for the finals but it was again Stefan Schulz who came out successful. Kai-O had to settle for second while Uwe Sieber completed the top 3 result. Elsewhere in the 1/8th Nitro On-road class Wilfried Stecker took the day’s win from Kosta Saritsaklis.
Round two of the Swiss Touring Nationals was held at the Schaffhausen track and in the Touring Pro Stock class it was Noah Asendorf (Xray) who grabbed the day’s win from second placed Marco Siegenthaler (HB). In third Marco Balmer (Team Magic), coming from the 4 spot on the grid, rounded out the podium result.
Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]
Steven Cuypers in 1:8 scale class 1, Thomas Reiche in 1:8 class 2 and Melvin Diekmann in 1:10 nitro category are leading in the Western German Championship at halftime after two rounds at Dormagen and Haltern. A total of 61 nitro racers joined the season opener at the challenging track of Dormagen which was hampered by rain on Saturday afternoon during practice as well as on Sunday morning and at the end of the event. At the first championship appearance at Haltern since 2003 only 39 attended a cold and partly wet race weekend at Pentecost. It was the lowest turnout for years in Western Germany caused mainly by a bad weather forecast.
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Last weekend the second round of the French 1/10th Nitro On-road Championship took place in city of Tours in the middle of France. Friday’s practice was affected by rain and also on Saturday some areas remained damp during qualifying. With a comfortable lead it was Basile Concialdi who secured himself the TQ spot with his Team Orion-powered Velox V10. Although Basile faced some problems in the semifinal he still managed to bump up to the final. With some excellent driving Basile soon took over the lead and from that moment on he never looked back. At the end of the 45 minute encounter Concialdi crossed the finishing line some 2 laps in front of Quentin Leroux (Capricorn/Team Orion) with Ahmed Kerfati (KM/Novarossi) completing the podium another lap down.
