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June 4, 2013

John Ermen wins Dutch on-road nationals Rd3

Last weekend the 3rd round of the Dutch nationals was held on the fast Baanbrakers track in Rucphen. Although the weather forecast predicted showers the contenders finally had warm and sunny weather. In the first round of the NK class it was Gunther v. Staey setting the pace with a 24 lap run and a 7 second gap on local hero John Ermen. He also scored a blistering 12.3s as fastest laptime. Gunther decided to spare his equipment by not driving the other 2 qualification rounds. At the end the four fastest drivers were the only ones with a 24 lap qualification. The fastest was Robing d’Hondt followed by Gunther v. Steay, Sefan Cuypers and John Ermen.

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June 4, 2013

Surface Tension

So, after much discussion, debate and deadline extensions, the 2014 Electric On-Road World Championships was awarded to the USA, and the Full Throttle Speedway in Florida. Personally, I think it is right that ROAR should hold this event – yes, the on-road element in the States isn’t anywhere near as strong as off-road at present, but we often see the ebb and flow of popularity between classes. It’s also a great advertisement to get more people into the on-road classes and, let’s not forget, the event is for the 1/12th class as well as the Touring Car Class. The US is home to many of the smaller 1/12th-producing companies – an excellent opportunity for them to attend that section of the event and again promote their product.

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June 4, 2013

Novarossi Trophy Grenoble – Announcement

On the weekend of the 7th of July Racing Experience France will hold the Novarossi Trophy Grenoble. Run in 1/8th 4WD, 1/8th GT and 1/8th 2WD Classic the race will see the attendance of Adrien Bertin with some other big names to be announced soon. The you can find more information on the event’s Facebook page here and Racing Experience’s website here.

June 4, 2013

Xray Challenge Roma – Report

The Xray Challenge Roma was held at the T5 track in Rome, Italy. Practice on the small and technical track started on Friday with many drivers trying to get a feel and setup for the flat high grip surface. Unfortunately for the organisers and the racers, most of the Saturday was washed away by the ever present rain in Europe these Spring. However the drivers were able to get at least two hours of practice on the Saturday afternoon. This was followed by one of the highlights of the event, the Xray dinner party, held at the track that same night. It was a memorable evening with great food, atmosphere, and even a couple of surprises. The lucky draw was a much appreciated moment as well – with delighted winners.

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June 2, 2013

Green & Dankel claim Euro Nitro Series win

Mark Green and Eric Dankel took the wins at the first ever Euro Nitro Series held at the Hockenheimring in Germany where the winning margin in both the 1:8 and 1:10 Touring finals was just 3-seconds. Green’s first international win for some time, the British ace was joined on the podium by the Mugen of World Champion Robert Pietsch and his Serpent team-mate Michael Salven. Leading the Touring Car final from start to finish Top Qualifier Dankel was surrounded by French drivers on the podium with Basile Concialdi finishing 2nd to making it a Capricorn 1-2 with fellow countryman Michael Derderian driving an Xray in 3rd.

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June 2, 2013

Pietsch & Dankel Top Qualifiers at ENS

Robert Pietsch and Eric Dankel are the Top Qualifiers for the first ever Euro Nitro Series Race, the German duo set to lead away the 12 car A-Main grids later this evening at the Hockenheimring in Germany. While Dankel put pole position for the 45-minute 1:10 Touring final beyond the reach of his rivals in last night’s penultimate qualifier, the number 1 starting position for the 1:8 A-Main was still to play for in this morning’s fifth & final qualifier between Pietsch and Mark Green. In the end despite failing to finish Q5 it was Mugen driver Pietsch who took the honour on tie break thanks to him having a faster TQ run than that of Green, although in the final qualifier Green did post his fastest run of the weekend when he took 2nd behind Serpent team-mate Salven. Having ran a TQ pace in nearly every qualifier Salven was finally able to keep the run clean to claim TQ for the round doing so with the fastest 4-minute run of the event.

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June 2, 2013

Mark Green wins Rd4 of BRCA 200mm Nats

Round 4 of the British 200mm Championship was held at the very tight and technical Adur circuit on the south coast last weekend. The weather was very good with temperatures 20+ degrees over the whole weekend. As Saturday’s practice started the drivers soon discovered that the track was very dusty and had extremely low grip. With many cars circulating the traction did improve, but still remained low for the rest of the weekend. It was Mark Green at the front yet again this season getting down to 15.0 laptimes. Team mates Joe Kerry and Alex Thurston were close behind, with all three drivers being much quicker than the rest. In qualifying it was Mark who took TQ ahead of Joe, with Alex getting 3rd place being the only drivers to achieve 20 laps.

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June 1, 2013

Green & Dankel post a 2nd TQ run

The third round of qualifying for the Euro Nitro Series ‘Pilot Race’ saw Mark Green and Eric Dankel record a second TQ run at the Hockenheimring in Germany. Opening the event, earlier in the day, with a TQ run Green took Q3 from Shepherd’s Lars Hoppe in a round that saw Q2 pace setter Robert Pietsch suffer an engine failure and Michael Salven make yet another costly mistake while on a TQ pace. After a bad start to qualifying, Capricorn’s Dankel backed up his Q2 topping performance with another TQ run again ahead of Dirk Wischnewski who is struggling to find a set-up for the still low traction caused by the rain that effected the event all of yesterday and for the first part of today.

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