The final round of the Spanish 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road championship was held at the Cerdanyola Modelcar track near Barcelona. Qualifying saw European vice-champion Edu F. Escandon taking the TQ honours and setting the fastest lap in front of Juan Hidalgo, with Victor Pelaez and Johny Pastor completing the top 4.
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The 6th round of the Greek Nitro Series was held at the Fanatix track in the northern suburbs of Athens. In the 200mm nitro class Germany’s Thilo Alexander Tödtmann not only took the TQ after the three 7 minute qualifiers but he also smashed the 1/10th track record on the way to the pole position. In the 45 minute final Thilo immediately opened a 5 seconds gap to 10-times Greek champion John Sotiropoulos and even with a safety pitstop for fuel Thilo grabbed the win almost 2 laps ahead with Nikos Karabelas completing the top 3 result.
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KM announce the signing of young Takahata Shoki to their factory team. The 19 years old multiple All Japan nationals A-main finalist will run the company’s nitro on-road cars in this upcoming campaign.
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The Kazuki Endo presented 2014 Speed King Tour stopped at the Rajiten Nagoya indoor tarmac track for the 5th round of this year’s championship. Although current series points leader Akio Sobue and last year’s Speed King Yugo Nagashima were absent this event, a lot of Japanese top drivers attended to grab as much points as possible. Full scale race car driver Hidetoshi Mitsusada showed during the qualifying heats that he is also good at 1/10th scale racing as he won all three qualifying rounds to take the overall TQ in the Modified class with his Yokomo BD7 2014. Junichi Kutsuna came in 2nd and JMRCA 1/10th EP Touring Expert class champion Yusuke Goto rounded out the top 3.
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The Fanatix Racing Track in Athens played host for the 6th round of the Greek Touring Series. The race saw the attendance of Thilo Alexander Tödtmann who came all the way from Germany to attended the race and his efforts payed off as he was in the mix to grab the overall TQ but at the end Georgiadis claimed the pole position 0.2s from Thilo. The finals again had Georgiadis and Thilo fighting for the top spot with the better end for Georgiadis who took the overall win from the German guest with local young gun Niotis completing the top 3 result.
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The 11th and 12th round of the MC-Best nitro on-road championship was held in Aigle, Switzerland. The 11th round started out wet on Saturday but once the sun came out the track dried quickly making for good racing conditions. In the 1/8th class Stephan Eschler took the win from Roland Schläpfer and Marc Heim. The 1/10th class had Martin Wenger ending the day in the 1st spot followed by Marcel Knutti and Monika Ackermann.
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The ETS pilotrace at the World-famous Nürburgring was held last weekend at the track side “Ring Boulevard”. Uwe Rheinard and his crew again did their magic to provide a nice and flowing layout laid out on a new carpet that will be in use in the upcoming season. Also in use was the new Ride hand-out tyre that was tested with very good results. In the Touring Car Modified class a bunch of internationally experienced racers signed in, such as Jan Ratheisky, Yannic Prümper, Dominick Fleischmann or Julian Borowski. After the end of the qualifiers Yannic Prümper put his car on pole position for the finals followed by Marco Kaufmann and Dominik Fleischmann.
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The 3rd round of the 2014 Conrad Touring Car Masters was held at the 2010 IFMAR Worlds track in Burgdorf, Germany. In the Touring Car Modified class David Ehrbar (Serpent) took the win from the Xray duo of Steven Weiss and Uwe Reimers. The Stock class had Tim Benson (Xray) walking away with the win while Daniel Horn (Xray) and Henrik Heitsch (ARC) had to settle for 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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