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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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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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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The third round of the Dutch Touring Car Nationals was held at the technical Lelystad track in hot weather conditions. Rob Janssen was the man to beat as he made a clean sweep by winning all qualifiers to take the overall TQ and he also went on to win the triple A-mains to take the day’s win from Ronald Arts in 2nd and Mitchell v. Es in 3rd place.
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Round four of the French 1/8th Nitro On-road Nationals was held last weekend at the Marmagne track in the centre of the country in challenging weather conditions with high temperatures and some showers during qualifying. The track offered a pretty low grip level that only bettered during the finals and a technical layout made car setup critical. In the Elite class, Anthony Abisset (Serpent/Picco) took the pole position after the second round of qualifying, 1.6 seconds ahead of Stephane Bouche (Mugen/Max Power) and 3rd placed Adrien Bertin (HB/Team Orion). Those three were the only drivers able to make 17 lap runs during the five minute qualifiers. Unfortunately due to rain the third and fourth round had to be called off.
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The 2015 JMRCA 1/12th Electric On-road Championship was held this past weekend in Fukuoka in the two categories of Modified and Stock. In the Modified class Toto Ebukuro (Yokomo/Yokomo) took the TQ from Yugo Nagashima (CRC/Trinity) and Hideo Kitazawa (Morotech/Trinity). The finals Toto was a bit unlucky as Yugo was able to secure the win in A1 and A2 to take the championship from 4th placed after the qualifiers, Hayato Ishioka (CRC/Trinity). Naoki Akiyama (Yokomo/Yokomo) rounded out the Modified class podium in 3rd.
Source: Kimihiko Yano [kimihiko-yano.jp]| Images: Crest Speedway
The annual Byron Fuels Challenge was held at Leisure Hours Raceway in Joliet, Illinois in the the three classes of 1/8th Nitro On-road, 1/10th 200mm Sedan and 1/8th GT. The event officially kicked off on Friday but the day had to cut short due to bad weather. Qualifying got underway in a very similar format to an IFMAR race with 10 minute qualifiers, points system and one hour mains. In the opening round of the 1/8th class Paolo Morganti had a nice clean run and he was able to TQ that round by a large margin. After a heats of the second round, water started to come up making the track slippery. The track crew was trying to keep it dry but at some point it got really bad and they decided to stop. They came up with the solution to change the layout and since in the process they lost some time sorting this out, they decided to go to a 5 minute qualifying program. The interesting part was that the whole left of the track was different, with really narrow sections and chicanes – a typical EP sedan layout.
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The BRCA have announced its calendar of events for the 2015/16 National championship for 1/12th scale electric LMP cars. The championships will be contested over five indoor rounds on carpet, with each driver’s best 3 scores counting towards their final placing in the series. During the season the Championship will visit several of the established venues, but also a couple of new ones. The venues have been chosen based on their geographic spread, the level of their track and facilities, their previous track record of hosting similar events and of course the feedback we have received from our competitors from last year.
Calendar dates
October 31st – November 1st – West Kent (Tonbridge)
November 21st/22nd – Crewe
December 12th/13th – Tamworth
February 20th/21st – Newbury
March 19th/20th – Leeds (MB Models)
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