March 16, 2014

Marek Cerny wins Open Stock class at LRP TCM

This weekend’s LRP Touring Car Masters saw Xray’s Marek Cerny taking the win in the 10.5T Open Stock class. Marek Cerny found a blistering pace for the very last and deciding qualifier to take overall TQ in front of Oliver Franke (Awesomatix) and fellow Xray driver Jan Ratheisky in 3rd. Marek then went on to take a convincing win in A1 in front of Jan Ratheisky (Xray). In A2 however, Marek was slow off the line due to motor cogging, which handed the win to Franke. Marek made a strong comeback to win A3 and to take the overall win. Marek benefited from a coming together between Franke and Ratheisky. Oliver Franke finished second while Jan Ratheisky completed the podium. Steffen Leinburger (Awesomatix) and Bernhard Bopp (Yokomo) completed the top 5.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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March 15, 2014

LRP TCM 2014 day 2 – Report

Today the remaining four rounds of qualifying were run at this year’s LRP Touring Car Masters in Rüsselsheim. Yesterday had qualifying victories of Ronald Völker in the Masters Class and Oliver Franke in the 10.5T Open Stock Class. The three LRP-HPI Challenge classes were won by Daniel Anthes (17.5T), Patrick Greinke (Classic) and Nico Müller (Rookie). The Masters class showed real close racing in Q2. Taking a look at the best times there where eight drivers between 19.554s and 19.693s. Ronald Völker started first and took the lead closely followed by a bunch of drivers. Freddy Südhoff and Marc Fischer as the first pursuits had issues during their runs. Also Yannic Prümper, who chased Ronald, crashed mid-race. In the end Ronald Völker drove his LRP powered Yokomo to victory. Second place went to Viljami Kutvonen, third to Alexander Hagberg.

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March 15, 2014

LRP TCM 2014 day 1 – Report

Today the 17th running of the LRP Touring Car Master got started in Rüsselsheim, Germany and LPR sent us the following report. Today, two rounds of free practice, two rounds of timed practice and the initial round of qualifying were on the schedule. Free practice in the Masters class saw Marc Fischer ahead of Yannic Prümper and reigning LRP TCM champion Ronald Völker. In Open Stock, Jan Ratheisky confirmed his pace with a gap of one second over 3 consecutive laps to Oliver Franke in second spot.

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March 14, 2014

Martin Hofer wins at Schumacher Trophy

This past weekend the Team LaGang crew around Alberto Montecchi hosted the Trofeo Schumacher Italy, organized by Lorenzo Bigi in the small town that is Scandiano. Hosting an ETS Event back in 2012 the club has built up an amazing facility featuring one of the biggest carpet tracks you’ll find in europe. Being a two day affair, practice on Saturday already highlighted the level of competition that can be found in this area with a lot of guys doing really fast laptimes. The controlled tyre being preglued Sorex that proved to be a perfect decision since they delivered consistent performance throughout more than 10 runs. Qualifiers saw some tough fights but it was Schumacher’s Martin Hofer who managed to grab TQ honors in the Touring Car Modified category. Winning the first two finals convincingly, he wrapped up the overall win, leaving the remaining steps on the podium fully open for final number 3.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

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March 13, 2014

Noton wins 13.5 boosted TC at New Zealand nats

The 13.5T Boosted Touring Car class at the New Zealand on-road nationals had Awesomatix driver Simon Noton walking away with the TQ and win. Awesomatix teammate Jamie Holmes came in second after qualifying in 4th place but subtle setup tweaks and good driving awarded him with the runner-up spot at the end.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

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March 13, 2014

Mario Miranda wins 200mm at Portuguese nats Rd1

The first race of the Portuguese nitro on-road nationals took place last weekend. At first it looked like Bruno Coelho would make a clean sweep in the qualifiers and semifinals but he ran into trouble allowing Mario Miranda to take the pole position for the final. In the main Mario and Bruno had a great battle for the lead and while Bruno looked like he would be the winner Mario was able to squeeze by in the final lap to take the win over his Xray teammate.

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March 12, 2014

Vässmar & Nilsson win at Swedish nationals

Last weekend the Swedish electric on-road Nationals was held in the town of Växjö, in the south central part of Sweden. The race was run in 1/10 Touring Modified and 1/12th scale Modified on a pretty challenging track with some tight 180 degree corners and tricky chicanes. In 1/10 TC most of Sweden’s fast drivers were in attendance. The qualifiers got underway on Saturday after a whole day of free practice on Friday with three out of five rounds to count. In Q1 Magnus Vässmar took the round in front of Niclas Nilsson and Markus Hellquist. Q2 had Niclas taking the round in front of Markus. Q3 was a blueprint of Q1 with the order being Magnus, Niclas and Markus. Q4 went to Niclas with Magnus in 2nd, so for the final round Magnus and Niclas had 2 TQs each. Q5 was run on Sunday morning and some bad driving from Niclas destroyed his chances to take the desired pole position letting Magnus taking the round in front of Markus and Daniel Carlsson securing Magnus the overall TQ.

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March 11, 2014

José Areias wins at Portuguese 1/8th on-road nats Rd1

The first round of the 2014 Portuguese nitro on-road nationals took place at the Sintra track near Lisbon. The weekend started with a low grip track on Saturday and cloudy, partly wet racing on Sunday but culminated in a dry semi and main final that was won by new Capricorn driver José Areias. The 1/8 class podium was completed by Mário Miranda in 2nd and Solange Araujo in 3rd place.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

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