The 2nd round of the 2014/15 Florida On-Road Gas State Series was run this past weekend at the Fort Myers track in the three classes of 1/8th Open, 1/10th 200mm Sedan and 1/8th Super GT. The 1/8th class had Paolo Morganti taking an easy win some 6 laps ahead of Fabrizio Martello and Tony Rice with the latter being separated by only 0.9 seconds.
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During last weekend’s 10th edition of the annual Novarossi Trophy held in Gubbio, Italy Dario Balestri took the TQ in the 1/10th 200mm class from local driver Alessio Agostinelli and Alessio Forte. Mario Spiniello completed the top 4 after the qualifiers.
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The 10th Novarossi Trophy was held in Gubbio this past weekend. In the 1/8th nitro on-road class Carmine Raiola came out successful in the 30 minute final. Two laps down Marco Vanni completed the main in 2nd position while Alberto Tedeschi completed the race in 3rd place.
Image: Alberto Tedeschi
The 2014 ORRCA Queensland Electric Onroad Titles where run at the regional holiday resort town of Hervey Bay in Queensland, at the last weekend of September. The date for the event is fixed to coincide with Australian school holidays in order to encourage juniors to participate, and it was great to see a number of young drivers racing in the event. Most drivers had travelled from Brisbane to take part, and there also were quite a few drivers from regional Queensland. Classes that are at the titles run are Modified, 13.5T and 21.5T electric all running on Sorex tires. The Modified class was won by a familiar winner of this event; Hot Bodies driver Jason Dorn (TQ), from Corey Broadstock (Xray) and Brad McDonald (Yokomo).
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The 2nd and final round of the Spanish national federations series was held under changing weather conditions which caused some headache for the pilots of the three classes of Touring Car Modified, Stock and Formula 1. In the Modified class Gonzalo Garcia (Yokomo) took the day’s win from CSO driver Sergio Gomez in 2nd and David Bustos (TOP) in 3rd place. In the overall championship Gonzalo Garcia grabbed the title from runner-up David Bustos (TOP) and David Lara (TOP) in 3rd place.
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This year’s Russian nitro on-road championships took place at the Zarechny track near Penza. Alexander Naumov took the TQ in the 200mm class after the qualifiers and in the final at first it was Vladislav Glebov who took the lead but a few laps later Alexander was able to overtake Vladislav to get into 1st place. Around halftime Alexander had extended his lead to 3 laps and with 10 minutes to go he slowed his pace to save on tyres on the very abrasive track. Despite running out of rubber in the closing stages Alexander Naumov took the win and the championship some 2 laps in front of Vladislav Glebov. Sergei Piskunov completed the podium in 3rd place.
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The 2014 Amsci Indoor National Championship was held at the indoor asphalt track of the Romagnoli Arena. The race started on Saturday afternoon with controlled practice with the four qualifying rounds and the finals would be held on Sunday. The qualifying went to Xray’s Alessio Menicucci who was followed by track owner Michele Romagnoli and Francesco Martini.
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The Malaysia Day GP was held at the KLIRCC track this past weekend. In the 1/8th nitro on-road class Serpent’s Jessel Leong took the TQ honours but in the final Serpent team mate Ben Sew came stroke back to take the win. Jessel came in 2nd while Haji Jursi (Serpent) rounded out the podium in 3rd.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
