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September 12, 2014

US Nitro World Cup – Announcement

The 2nd running of the US World Nitro Cup will be held December 4th to 7th at Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida. With last year being a great success, this year’s race has already received commitments from European drivers such as Dario Balestri, Robert Pietch, Kyle Branson and defending 1/8th Champion Alberto Picco, to be in attendance. This year’s qualifiers will be four minute runs instead of five, but the event is keeping its triple “A” main finals format. The race will take place close to all the major Florida attractions such as Disney, Epcot, MGM, Universal Studios etc. and it is open to three classes, Sedan, 1/8th Masters and 1/8th Open. Full details on the event can be downloaded here (PDF).

September 12, 2014

Daan Jacobs wins in Heemstede

The 6th and final round of the Dutch nitro on-road nationals was held at the MACH track in Heemstede. During practice it soon became clear that a lot of drivers were able to pull very fast laps, promising close racing in the qualification and the finals. On Sunday’s qualifying Daan Stuiver was the fastest driver of the National class with three consecutive laps in 48.724 seconds. Daan Jacobs followed behind with 48.777 while Julius Kolff scored a 48.823. Ricardo Hofmeijer completed the top 4 so far.

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September 12, 2014

Alessio Menicucci wins at Roma Shock Champs Rd1

The first round of the Roma Shock Championship was held at the T5 Track in Rome, Italy. In the Touring Car Modified class Alessio Menicucci was the man to beat after scoring a new track record on Saturday. On Sunday the track was a bit dirtier which forced drivers to adjust their car’s setups but it was again Alessio Menicucci who came out successful and who took the win in front of Alessio Valentini and Simone D’Ottavio. Valter Cola and Alessandro Manciocchi rounded out the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 11, 2014

Belgian Touring Car nationals final round – Report

The final round of the Belgium Electric Touring Car nationals was held at the MRCZ track in Zwevegem. Unlike the previous outdoor races this season, the drivers were greeted by sunny weather to make for good racing conditions on the very technical and low-grip parking lot track. After three rounds of qualifying in the EFRA class Olivier Bultynck took the TQ spot from local driver Thomas Stockman and Nick Joosens who completed the top 3.

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September 10, 2014

Martini & Puelo win at LRP Challenge Italy

The penultimate round of the Italian LRP Challenge was held at the Parona track last weekend. The one day event saw the running of a Touring Car Modified, 13.5T blinky and 17.5T blinky class and attracted several Italian top drivers. In the Modified class it was Francesco Martini (Xray) who took the win from Marco Gennari (Xray) in 2nd and Andrea Efficace (Yokomo) in 3rd place. The 13.5T class had Marco Puelo (Xray) walking away with the day’s win ahead of Davide Rabitti (Awesomatix) and Umberto Pernice (Xray).

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September 10, 2014

Daniele Ielasi wins Italian 1/8th on-road Nationals

Daniele Ielasi wins Italian 1/8th on-road championship

Last weekend saw the running of the 3rd round of the Italian nitro on-road championships at the Milazzo track in Sicily. Daniele Ielasi swiftly showed that he was the man to beat during the weekend by setting fast times from the first practice on. After taking the TQ in the Expert class Daniele then went on the win the race in front of Mirko Salemi and Marco Vanni, handing the former World Champion the national title. In the F1 category Gennaro D’Alterio, starting from 2nd on the grid, took the win 3 laps ahead of Gianluca Querze and Nicolas Delia.

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September 10, 2014

Martini & Puelo win at Italian WRC Contest

The Italian Bientina track played host for the recent WRC Contest with many drivers using the event to prepare for the upcoming round of the Italian championships held at this track in mid-September. In the Touring Car Modified class Francesco Martini took the TQ in the first round and used the remaining qualifiers to test various settings. In the Stock class the race was on between Marco Puelo, Tiziano Borgogni, Roberto Fabiano and Andrea Valerio. At the end Marco Puelo was able to take the TQ for the finals.

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September 10, 2014

Zsolt Bajusz wins at Xray Challenge Hungary

During the recent Xray Challenge Hungary, held at the world-famous Hungaroring track, the 1/10 200mm EFRA nitro class was dominated by Zsolt Bajusz. Behind Zsolt there was a nice fight between Hungarian championship leader, Laszlo Kiss-Orban and last year’s nitro Stock class champion, Balazs Bihari. At the end Balazs grabbed the runner-up spot from Laszlo who rounded out the podium.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]