West German nitro onroad championship – Preview

The popular Western German Championship is turning into an international competition for the 2014 season with drivers from six nations are fielding the top-level class 1 in 1/8 scale nitro on-road. When the lights will turn green on Sunday at round one in Dormagen, two-time W.C. finalist and former German Champion Robin D’Hondt from Belgium is on top of the newcomers in the regional championship which comprises four rounds of qualifying for the single event German Nationals on the weekend of the 14th of September at the Munster track in the South of Hamburg. Motonica factory driver D’Hondt is facing a strong challenge from drivers like country-fellow Steven Cuypers (Mugen), John Ermen (Xray) from the Netherlands, Dirk Rischard (Serpent) from Luxembourg or top German drivers like Michael Salven (Serpent), Tobias Hepp (Xray) and Karl-Heinz Meister (Serpent). Others foreign drivers will include Alain Levy (Shepherd) from France and Emil Kostadinov (Mugen) from Bulgaria.

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Vintage Tour 1/8 on-road series – Announcement

Hudy Arena invites everyone to take part at the Vintage Tour 1/8 on-road series which starts at Hudy Arena on the 26th of April. The start of this series will be held at the same weekend when Czech National Championship 1/10 and 1/8 on-road will take place at Hudy Arena. The Vintage Tour is a fun race organised for everyone to give a tribute to the old-school days when drivers hand made their own cars. As such only hand-made cars are allowed at Tour, so grab one of yours vintage cars or one of your first father’s or grandfather’s vintage RC car and come to have fun to Hudy Arena. More information (in Czech language) can be found here.

Rombouts wins at Dutch nitro on-road season opener

The Dutch nitro on-road Nationals started last weekend traditionally at the Real80 Groningen track. In qualification Pedro Rombouts immediately showed a dominant pace with lap times three tens faster over the rest of the field. During the next two round the pace was even better, resulting in a TQ in 48,9 seconds over three conservative laps. Behind Pedro it were Julius Kolff, Milan Holthuis and Daan Stuiver all posting three laps just under 50 seconds.

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Florida Nitro Championship Rd8 – Report

The last race, round number 8, of the Florida Nitro Championship – FORGASS – was held in Arcadia, Florida at the Nuggets Raceway track. The racers had great weather all weekend with lots of sun. All the champions had been determined in Race 7 so this race gave everyone a chance to test, try to go fast and enjoy RC racing at it’s best. Greg Esser, owner of Nuggets, hosted a get together Saturday night at his house that featured Jim Rice’s famous BBQ ribs and a roaring bonfire.

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