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October 7, 2015

Italian Race of Champions – Report

The Italian Race of Champions was held in Leno, Italy in the four classes of Touring Car Modified, Touring Car Stock, 1/10th Pan Car and Formula. As the event started out wet the organisers decided to eliminate the usual round by round qualifying by a super pole race, counting the three fastest consecutive laps. In the Touring Modified class Kyle Branson took the TQ from Dario Balestri. The opening final then had Kyle coming out successful with Alessio Menicucci in second while in A2 Alessio grabbed the win as Kyle and Dario had a coming together. The decisive third A-main had Alessio, Dario and Kyle running into tyre issues but at the end Kyle was able to take the overall win from Alessio Menicucci and Stefan Chodzynski.

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October 7, 2015

Miguel Leiva takes Spanish Nitro Touring B title

The final round of the Spanish Nitro Touring B Championships would decide over the overall title with Miguel Leiva, Antonio J. Gonzalez, and Jonathan Carrillo all having the chance to grab the championship title. Jonathan would run into problems in the main final and was ruled out for the fight for the championship, while Miguel Leiva lead the race with Antonio J, Gonzalez and Agustin Rodriguez behind him. Antonio would lead at some point but a mistake cost him several positions and so Miguel Leiva would come in first to take the championship with Antonio J. Gonzalez taking the vice-championship title.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 7, 2015

Alexander Hagberg wins at ORCA Cup Malaysia

The ORCA Cup Malaysia was recently held at the Kota Raja track in Klang, just outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 2-day event saw the running of four different classes and the attendance of Sweden’s Alexander Hagberg as a special guest. The current EFRA Touring Car European Champion would attend in the Modified Touring class and he was facing some difficulties at first as the bumpy and low-grip track took the better of him, allowing local Azri Amri to take the TQ. In the finals Alex was then able to fight for the win after some drastic setup changes. A1 though didn’t went to plan but the Swede was fighting back in A2 after a mid-race mistake of Azri allowed Alexander to take the win. In the third and decisive final leg Alex was again able to profit of a mistake by Azri, allowing Alexander to take the overall win in the Modified class.

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October 7, 2015

French Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

The fifth and final round of the French Electric On-road Nationals was held in Reding. In the premier class of Touring Car Modified Loic Jasmin (Yokomo) took the day’s win from Team Magic driver Cyril N’Diaye and Xray’s Hugo Ragaut. Jérémy Limoges and Rémi Callens in fourth and fifth respectively rounded out the top 5 result.

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October 6, 2015

Mustafa Alp wins at TORC Championship Rd4

Round four of the TORC Championship was held in Bumod Bursa, Turkey in rather cool weather conditions compared to the previous round. In the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class Mustafa Alp put himself directly into the final thanks to TQing three qualifiers. At the start of the main final Mustafa took off with no problems and he quickly opened a gap to his competitors. Some 25 minutes into the race he came in for a scheduled stop for tyres and at the end Mustafa brought home the win after a very clean run and with an 8 laps margin on runner-up Halit Korpe who suffered from several flameouts during the race. Mert Ekinci would round out the top 3 result.

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October 6, 2015

Lemieux & Ellis win at Halloween Classic

The 21st Annual Halloween Classic was hosted at its home track “The Gate” in Cleveland, Ohio. This race has gone back many years as the warm-up to the Cleveland Indoor Champs and has grown its own prestige over time. The event format was official practice on Friday with three qualifiers on Saturday and one qualifier on Sunday followed by the finals. This year’s race sold out at 220 entries in 90 minutes when the online sign-ups opened. This year it was considered the first race of carpet season for the US so it is fair to say that there was some big anticipation for everyone to get back to carpet racing.

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October 6, 2015

Allas & Arekion take Mauritius On-road Championship

The fifth and final round of the Mauritius Nitro On-road Championship was organised by the Mighty Model Club and held at the Winner’s Speedway. In the 1/10th 200mm class, Clarel Lacour took the TQ and he looked like he would bring home the win in the main final also as he was the only driver to complete 19 laps runs in qualifying. In the final though it was Giovanni Arekion who jumped into the lead at the start followed by Clarel Lacour, John Allas and the rookie Olivier Lebon. John Allas and Olivier Lebon didn’t had the pace to match with Giovanni and Clarel as they went for a different tyre strategy and so Giovanni and Clarel battled for the win in the 30 minute final with Clarel coming out successful following a last lap move on Giovanni. John Allas would round out the podium and with the third place he would score enough points to take the overall championship title from Clarel Lacour and Giovanni Arekion.

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October 3, 2015

Swiss Electric On-road Championship Rd5 – Report

The final round of the 5-race Swiss National Electric On-road Championship was recently held at the Dintikon track. A somewhat low turnout of 36 drivers competed in the four classes of Touring Car Modified, 13.5T Pro Stock, Swiss 200mm GT and Formula 21.5T. Going into the final round the Touring Modified title was still to be decided, while in the other three classes the race was on for the runner-up spots. Saturday started out cold and cloudy and with a low-grip track thanks to some dust form the surrounding fields but both the weather and traction would improve over the day. The practice day concluded with a round of qualifying with the remainder of the qualifiers would be held on Sunday morning.

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