Xray’s Hartmut Rose has taken this year’s Central German 200mm nitro on-road championship title, as part of the qualification for the German nationals. By winning four out of the six rounds Hartmut has also taken his 4th title in a row. Xray teammate David Ranft came in 3rd place.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Last weekend round 5 of the 1/10th British National championships was held at the Cotswold racetrack. Practice on Saturday was stopped three times for heavy rain but come Sunday morning the weather was much better. After 5 rounds of qualifying Joe Kerry took TQ for Touring Car and Glyn Beal for GT. The Touring Cars final was then won by Alex Thurston with Joe Kerry 2nd and John Zotel taking 3rd place. The GT final went to Glyn Beal with Peter Hellawell 2nd and Adam Crosland in 3rd place. The next round will be on 30th and 31st August at the very fast Halifax track.
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The 5th round of the East German regionals was held at the AMC Muehlau track in 1/8th Expert and Hobby classes. In the Expert class final the race was very close until 5 minutes from the end when Daniel Sieber (Shepherd) flamed out and Torsten Müller (Xray) lost a front wheel. This made way for Michael Kammer (Shepherd) who then cruised to the win in front of Daniel and Torsten.
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The Belgian Grand Prix was held at the Model Race Genk track this past weekend. Repeating his top performance from the Dutch 1/8th national round, ran four weeks ago at the same place, Gunther Van Staey outclassed his Belgian fellow drivers by taking both the pole and the win. German Mugen driver Tobias Hepp was the only driver who was able to stay in touch with Gunter but at around halfway into the final Tobias’ engine failed. This allowed Serpent driver Nico Vanwynckel, coming from 3rd, to move up to 2nd. Tim Vogels, 4th after the qualification, completed the podium in 3rd.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The 2014 ROAR paved on-road nationals were held last weekend at the Full Throttle RC Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida, home of this year’s IFMAR electric on-road World Championships. In the Touring Car Modified class it was Rick Hohwart who took the overall TQ from JJ Wang and Andrew Hardman. TC 13.5T non-timing had Scotty Gray securing the TQ spot from Josh Cyrul and Kyle Bergstrom.
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The Xray Adriatic Challenge was held in Tolmin, Slovenia under changing weather conditions with divers from Italy, France, Croatia, Romania and Slovenia. The event started with free practice on Saturday but a light rain shower in the late afternoon brought things to a halt earlier than expected. On Sunday the race started off with electric class qualifying in 1/10th TC Modified and Stock. In the Touring Car finals Matej Miklavec took the win in the Modified class followed by Goran Vignevic and Mattia Greco. The 13.5T Stock class had Jan Popic dominating the finals. He was followed by Stanislav Kokol and Adolfo Ferraioli.
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For the 5th round of the Dutch 1/10th nitro on-road nationals the whole entourage moved to the MRG Genk track in Belgium. It was the first time the Dutch nationals raced on this track and most drivers soon found a good rhythm. In qualification Ricardo Hofmeijer clocked the fastest time with 51.6 seconds for three consecutive laps, handing him the TQ spot for the main final. Behind him both Pedro Rombouts and Daan Stuiver managed to get 51.7 seconds, placing them 2nd and 3rd on the grid respectively. In 4th Roy Bakker took the last direct spot to the main final by achieving a time of 51.8 seconds.
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The 2014 Queensland State Titles were held last weekend at the QRCCRA club located in Brendale, about 15 minutes from Brisbane. In the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Sedan class Jeff Hamon came out successful with his Novarossi-powered Mugen to take this year’s title.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
