The 2015 China Teenager Nationals were recently held in Guangzhou in several electric on-road and off-road classes. Young Dai Shuxia driving a Yokomo took the TQ and win in the Under 12 Touring Car class ahead of Minhao Lao in 2nd and Haoran Ma in 3rd. In the Under 18 4WD Off-road class Chen Xia Xuan, driving a Yokomo, came out successful after taking the TQ in the qualifiers.
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Round 3 of the Danish Touring Car Championships was held at the challenging track in Vejle. The track offers a huge main straight with a banked corner at the end and a technical and challenging infield. After the practice in the SuperStock class it became clear that the race for the win would be on between at least four drivers. The opening qualifier saw a close battle between Frederik Broloes and Soeren Boy Holst with the latter taking the TQ by 0.03 seconds despite a spin in lap 7. The second round was just as close and this time Steven Olsen joined the fun but he made a mistake in lap 8 and also Soeren decided to visit the grass and he opted to end the qualifiers in order to save the tyres for the final round. The round was then won by Frederik. The third qualifier then saw a 3-way battle for the TQ and at the end it was Soeren who grabbed the pole position for the A-mains from Frederik and Steven.
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Xray will hold a dedicated Work.Shop for NT1 owners from the 11th to 12th of August at the Gimar Speed Park in Reggio Calabria. The workshop will focus on Xray’s 1/10th scale nitro on-road car and it is held by Xray’s own Martin Hudy who will be track side to help drivers making their car setups perfect. Participation is for free and more information can be found here.
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The warm-up race for the 2015 1/5th and 1/8th GT World Cup took place last weekend in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Apart from the two classes of the World Cup, the race also saw 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road racing. In the 1/8th GT Class, Thailand’s Paphon C would take the TQ ahead of local drivers KL Lim and Nick Chong. In the 1/8th class Nelson Lee came out fastest from Alvin Ng.
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Glostrup RC track in Denmark will play host for the Xray Work.Shop Denmark on the 8th and 9th of August. Xray’s Mike Gosvig will sit down with interested Xray owners to provide technical and setup support for the company’s T4, XB4 2WD and 4WD cars. More information can be found here.
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The pilot race of the Tonisport Onroad Series Austria was held at the 1. MRC Wiener Neustadt track in Vienna over the weekend. Despite being scheduled on the weekend before the EFRA 1/10th Electric Off-road European Championships in the UK the event attracted more than 100 drivers including international guests such as Bruo Coelho, Ronald Völker, Yannic Prümper and Marc Rheinard to name just a few. In the Touring Car Modified class Ronald Völker and Bruno Coelho fought for the TQ position with Marc Rheinard also being in the mix. At the end it was Ronald who came out fastest from Bruno and Marc.
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The GP Brazil, the warm-up race for this year’s IFMAR 1/8th Nitro On-road World Championship, was held in Americana City this past weekend. The turnout was pretty low in the 1/8th class as many drivers feared security and immigration issues but according to JJ Wang’s father Rick everything went very smooth, with no issues and no security concerns at all. As for the racing, JJ dominated both the qualifiers and the final by taking the TQ some two laps ahead of Cesar Salvadori and Kazuo Ohara. In the 45-minute main final JJ took the win from Cesar who ended the race some three laps down. Eduardo Geraldelli came in 3rd another five laps down on Cesar to round out the podium.
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Round four of the Dutch 200mm Nitro On-road Nationals was held at the lovely and recently resurfaced Apeldoorn track with 20 drivers in attendance. Saturday was pretty much washed away and this, in combination with a quickly improving track, meant the fastest qualifying times would be counted in the third qualifier and at the end it was Daan Jacobs (Serpent) who posted the only 20-lap run after being in a class of his own. Shepherd driver Roy Bakker recovered from a series of bad qualifyings by putting his car on the 2 spot in the 3rd qualifier, knocking out young Milan Holthuis. Ultimately John Bruis and Pedro Rombouts put their cars on 2nd and 3rd after the qualifiers. The main final then saw a very clever acting Daan who took the win without being really challenged. Behind him the battle for the remaining podium spots was on between Roy, Milan and Pedro. At first Roy dropped down the order only to recover later on but be then fall back again to make way for Milan who qualified through the semi final and was able to ultimately grab the runner-up spot. Pedro would round out the podium after a decent race.
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