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July 8, 2015

Schumacher BTCC Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the Schumacher BTCC Touring Car series took place at the midlands based club Stafford. The Stafford club is one of the oldest in the country and pulled out all the stops to make the BTCC family of racers as welcome as possible. With some mixed weather about on the Sunday it would make for an interesting days racing with both dry cars and wet cars in use during the day. All the UK’s top modified drivers were out in force getting some valuable knowledge for the BRCA national next weekend. Olly Jefferies took TQ in the Modified class but was pushed hard by Elliott Harper. The final was run in wet conditions and the crowd were treated to an epic battle between Olly and local hot shot Zak Smith. Olly managed to hang on by just 2 tenths of a second ahead of Zack with Elliott third.

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July 8, 2015

Ronald Völker wins at Yokomo Fun Race

The Yokomo Fun Race, organized by Andrea Efficace, was held last weekend in Florence, Italy. The event attracted about 60 drivers with multiple champions and some of the top Italian drivers in attendance to make for an interesting event. Ronald Völker (Yokomo) was the man to beat in the qualifiers and the finals and he came out successful in front of Xray’s Nicola Marrone while Alessandro Ciaccheri (Yokomo) rounded out the podium in 3rd.

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July 8, 2015

Tobias Kerler joins ARC

ARC have announced the signing of Germany’s Tobias Kerler to their nitro on-road team. The former Serpent driver will use the company’s R8.0 car in his upcoming campaign that will see appearances at the ENS, the Euro A in Germany and the German Championship. This is what Tobias has to say about the deal:

First of all I want to say thanks to ARC for the possibility to drive the new ARC R8.0. After a long time in Serpent, which I want to thank also, I wanted to meet new challenges. I heard about the outstanding car and the decision was easy. During construction of the R8.0 I saw that the power train is very smooth and due to the very good quality the building structure was quite simple. In the first test I reached already the times like with my Serpent. In my first race, the 2. LCT run in Rötz, I could undercut my time to 1/10[th of a second]. Now I’m looking forward to work together with the whole ARC team and present the car at the next races [as are the] ENS, Euro A Ettlingen and DM 1/8 Türkheim.

July 7, 2015

F1ItalianSeries GP17 & GP18 – Report

The F1ItalianSeries drivers met at the MiniAutodromo T5 for the final two GP of the 2014/15 season. The fight for the championship title was still on due to the double points rule at the final events and after two nice races with great sportsmanship Antonio Capuano, whose Mercedes caught fire in Q1, was very fast and he ultimately won both the GP 17 and 18 to snatch the overall title. Great performance also from the other competitors for the championship, Magnocavallo, Cardelli and Manciocchi. The team trophy was won by team RedBull of Cardelli and Cutugno. Davide Morgagni (Renault Ing) and Alessandro Bagagli (Mercedes) also showed great performance. The season finale was celebrated by a group dinner with a lottery and a body contest that was won by Roberto Sellani and his beautiful Toro Rosso.

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July 7, 2015

Silvio Hächler wins at Swiss Nitro On-road Nationals

Round four of the Swiss Nitro On-road Nationals was held at the Langenthal track. In the 1/8th class Simon Kurzbuch (Shepherd) took the TQ after the qualifiers but in the final it was newly-signed ARC driver Silvio Hächler who came out fastest in front of Simon. Christophe Pethoud (ARC) completed the podium in 3rd. In the Championship Simon Kurzbuch has now a 4-points lead from Silvio Hächler in 2nd while Mattia Pesenti sits in 3rd.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]

July 7, 2015

Bruno Coelho TQ’s & wins at Portuguese Nats Rd5

Bruno Coelho TQ's & wins at Portuguese Nats Rd5

Round five of the Portuguese Nitro On-road Nationals was held at the Vila Real track, home of the 2016 European Championship B. In the 1/10th 200mm class Xray’s Bruno Coelho got the TQ and he also grabbed an undefeated win thanks to a conservative race without any tyre changes. Behind him the Capricorn duo of Carlos Rodrigues and Andre Goncalves rounded out the top 3 result.

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July 7, 2015

Alexander Hagberg takes Euros warm-up win

The warm-up race for the 2015 EFRA 1/10th 200mm Nitro On-road European Championships was held at the EFMOD track in Izmir, Turkey at an impressive facility with a brand new track. The track is very long, with a laptime of around 25 second and it features quite unforgiving curbs but the asphalt is perfectly flat and provided very good grip with the traction levels coming up pretty high as the track was sugared during practice on Friday, and traction rolling became an issue for many competitors. Due to the EFRA points system Alexander Hagberg (Xray), who posted the fastest run, only qualified in 2nd and thus he had to go through the super pole race for the 2nd to 5th fastest qualifiers with the fastest granted another direct qualifying spot without the need to go through the semifinals. At the end Alex managed to post the fastest lap, narrowly in front of Mustafa Alp, who showed great pace throughout the entire race. In the main final Alexander ran a trouble free race to secure the win in front of Shepherd racer Dirk Wichnewski by about half a lap. Mustafa Alp (Xray) came in 3rd to round out the podium.

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July 7, 2015

David Perez wins at Spanish National Series Rd3

The third round of the Spanish National Series was recently held in Parla near Madrid. David Perez took the TQ in three out of the five qualifiers but Gonzalo Garcia grabbed the overall TQ in the final qualifier by being some four tenth of a second faster. David then stroke back by winning the first two A-mains with Oscar Romero in 2nd and Carlos Ferrando, who rounded out the podium in 3rd.

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