Christer Andersson wins Italian GP

On the first weekend of December, R/C Flyers association organized the first Italian GP at the ‘Centro Sportivo’ in Palazzolo sull’oglio approximately 50 Km from Milan. The race attracted 80 drivers divided into 4 different classes, Sport Foam, Sport Rubber, Open Foam and Open Rubber. Among the drivers there were also some guests as Christer Andersson, Simo Ahoniemi from Finland, Toni Rheinard from Germany, Yuri and Gianni Bonetti from Switzerland and top gas car drivers Francesco Tironi and Daniele Ielasi, current 1/10 scale nitro World Champion.

There were 5 round of qualifications for each class and all the main were run three times. After the qualifications the situations in the classes were:

Open rubber
1. Christer Andersson – Associated, LRP – 310 pts
2. Federico Sala – Corally, LRP – 310 pts
3. Toni Rheinard – Tamiya, Speed Passion – 306 pts
4. Michele Romagnoli – Tamiya, Speed Passion
5. Simo Ahoniemi – Corally, GM
6. Alessio Menicucci – Xray, ?
7. Francesco Martini – Xray, Feigao
8. Alessandro Brunelli – TOP, Feigao
9. Maurizio Taddei – ?, LRP
10. Daniele Ielasi – Corally, Speed Passion

Open foam
1. Francesco Martini – Xray, Feigao
2. Daniel Gasparini – Xray, ?
3. Davide Rabitti – Losi, LRP
4. Francesco Tironi – TOP, Speed Passion
5. Yuri Bonetti – Xray, ?
6. Gianni Bonetti – Xray, ?
7. Daniele Monzani – Xray, LRP
8. Stefano Rabitti – Losi, LRP
9. Gianluca Radaelli – Xray, LRP
10. Stefano Moretti – Xray, LRP

Sport rubber
1. Daniel Baldissarri – Schumacher, Novak
2. Fabrizio Batisti – TOP
3. Gabriele Vignolini – ?,?
4. Alessandro Merloni – Xray, ?
5. Giacomo Piavani – Xray, Novak
6. Pacini Alessio – ?,?
7. Enrico Avoni – Xray, LRP
8. Francesco Dori – TOP
9. Leandro Montelatici – ?,?
10. Davide Minissale – Schumacher, ?

Sport foam
1. Christian Pagani – Corally, Novak
2. Samuele Romagnoli – Xray, Lipotech
3. Ivan Buganè – Xray, Lipotech
4. Marco Puleo – Xray, Novak
5. Lorenzo Bigi – Schumacher, Novak
6. Lorenzo Voghera – Xray, ?
7. Luca Esposito – Xray, ?
8. Christian D’alessandro – Losi, ?
9. Roberto Facheris – Xray, ?
10. Robert Goffi – Corally, Novak

The finals for the open modified ran out smoothly for Christer Andersson who took the win in all the legs securing the overall victory. For the remaining two spots on the podium there was a really close fight between Federico Sala, Toni Rheinard and Michele Romagnoli. This is the final standing:

1. Christer Andersson 20pts
2. Michele Romagnoli 17pts
3. Toni Rheinard 17pts
4. Federico Sala 16pts
5. Simo Ahoniemi 15pts
6. Francesco Martini 12pts
7. Alessio Menicucci 12pts
8. Maurizio Taddei 9pts
9. Alessandro Brunelli 6pts
10. Daniele Iealsi 4pts

The three legs of Open foam class were easily won by Xray driver Francesco Martini, who recorded a really fast 21 laps result in the last final.

1. Francesco Martini
2. Davide Rabitti
3. Daniel Gasparini
4. Gianluca Radaelli
5. Gianni Bonetti
6. Stefano Rabitti
7. Stefano Moretti
8. Yuri Bonetti
9. Daniele Monzani
10. Francesco Tironi

The final standings of the open rubber are:

1. Daniel Baldissarri
2. Fabrizio Batisti
3. Gabriele Vignolini
4. Alessio Pacini
5. Giacomo Piavani
6. Alessandro Merloni
7. Francesco Dori
8. Davide Minissale
9. Leandro Montelatici
10. Enrico Avoni

The three legs of Sport foam A final had three different winners. Samuele Romagnoli won round 1, Puleo won round 2 and Christian Pagani won round three.

1. Samuele Romagnoli 19 pts
2. Christian Pagani 19 pts
3. Puleo Marco 18 pts
4. Lorenzo Bigi 13 pts
5. Lorenzo Voghera 13 pts
6. Christian D’alessandro 13 pts
7. Luca Esposito 9 pts
8. Ivan Bugnaè 8 pts
9. Robert Goffi 8 pts
10. Roberto Facheris 8 pts

Thanks to Federico Sala for the report and I. Cantoni for the photos.