Last weekend the final round of the Central German Championship took place at the WMC Wiesbaden track. In the Expert class it was a close fight for the TQ between the Shepherd drivers Oliver Mack, and Freddy Südhoff at his second outing with the Velox V8. After 4 rounds it was Oliver Mack who was on top of the time sheets with less than a second in front of Freddy Südhoff.
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The final race of the Mibosport Summer On-Road Cup 2014 took place at the permanent on-road track in Blansko with over 40 drivers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland in attendance. The TQ holder in the Touring Car Modified class was open till the very last qualifying session. After three sessions, David Nemcek held the prestigious TQ spot as his main rival, Radek Flek had very bad luck due to technical problems followed by a mistake of a marshal, who put another car right into Radek’s racing line, which cost him a broken suspension and a retirement from the qualifying round. Despite all those problems, Radek did not give up and he grabbed the TQ in the last qualifying session with the fastest time of 24 laps in 5:02.438.
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The International Indoor Championships announce that the official spec tire for the 10th Anniversary of the IIC will be the Gravity RC Type C. The tire comes pre-mounted on the marked Gravity RC rim, made from a blend of plastic and polycarbonate, and known to be durable and true. The part number for the tires are GRC130 G-Spec Type C and they are available from your local hobby shop or directly from the Gravity RC website.
Leading in to the Melbourne round of this year’s AOC event, everyone’s pick was former World Champion Andy Moore, who made the trip from the UK to battle it out with Australia’s best. Practice on the Thursday left everyone speechless when Australia’s newest edition to Xray, Jesse Davis was 0.4s a lap faster than the World Champ Andy Moore. Come Friday, the competition got tougher, and VBC Star Ryan Maker was in full contention to take on the WC, and let Jesse Davis know this is his track and he is here to stamp his authority. Qualifying commenced on the Friday night and Ryan Maker was to TQ the first round.
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This past weekend the 4th round of the Danish nitro on-road nationals was held in Odense with Summer-like temperatures but with the weather forecast promising rain on Sunday. In qualifying Martin Lissau was flying and he ultimately took the TQ spot from Rasmus B. Nielsen and Martin N.O. Hansen. On Sunday, just one hour before the main final would be started, a massive thunderstorm came down but this did not kept the drivers from running. The main saw a nice battle between a hard charging Peter Sörensen (Xray) and Claus Ryeskov (Xray), who tried to take it easy. At the end Claus’ strategy paid off as he won the final in front of Peter who went off the track after trying to pull some faster laps. Rasmus B. Nielsen (Shepherd) and Tom Limkilde (Xray) completed the top 4 result.
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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.
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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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