The opening round of the Italian 1/8th GT championship, held at the Circuito Carmine Rajola, saw Federico Lazzerini taking the win in the Expert class from teammate Roberto Catanzani. Riccardo Scanziani rounded out the podium in 3rd place.
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During last weekend’s JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals JC’s Rason Ruona sat down with arguably the fastest man on the planet in the RC world, Ryan Maifield, for an in-depth interview. From 1/8th scale to what its like racing at the INS in Tacoma, Maifield shares his thoughts below.
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The EFRA European Championship B warm-up race was held at the Herts Nitro Model Club this past weekend. After fantastic weather on Saturday the organisers were faced with rainy conditions on Sunday but thanks to hard work of both the club and the BRCA the race would continue. Joao Carlos Figueiredo would put his car on pole position for the 45 minute main final but at the end it was Simon Reeves who came out successful after getting into the lead around the 10 minute mark and never looking back. Oliver Currie came in 2nd, some 25 seconds behind the leader while Jon Hazlewood rounded out the podium in 3rd, another 8 seconds down.
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The opening round of the Western division German 1/8th Nitro Off-road qualifiers was held at the Stoppelhopser Oberhausen track. The qualification was won by Marcel Guske who took the TQ from Jörn Neumann and Maik Wiesweg. Unfortunately later the race had to be cancelled due to massive rain pouring down with the ranking after the semifinals seeing Jörn Neumann on the 1st spot, which then handed him the day’s win from Lukas Strothmann and Bart Mullink.
Image: Jörn Neumann
Last weekend the first ever SWorkz Euro Cup was held in Valladolid, Spain with around 55 drivers from Japan, Taiwan, Portugal and Spain in attendance. After 4 rounds of qualifying young Ricardo Monteiro took the overall TQ, leaving driver such as SWorkz star Atsushi Hara and Spanish SWorkz frontrunner Alberto Garcia behind. In the semifinals Alberto was on top of the game, coming in with a one lap margin and he also lead in the opening stages of the 45 minute main final until radio issues forced him to hand the lead to Ricardo with Atsushi in 2nd place. Later Atsushi got under pressure from Carlos Duraes until Hara lost valuable time to radio issues. With only two minutes on the clock Richardo and Carlos battled for the win with the better end for Carlos who crossed the finish line first to take the first ever SWorkz Euro Cup title.
Source: SWorkz [sworkz.com]
Ronald Volker has won the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the win in Austria marking the reigning champion as the first double winner of Season #8. An A3 showdown between the Yokomo driver and Tamiya’s star of the weekend Akio Sobue, Top Qualifier Volker wouldn’t put a wheel wrong to secure the overall win ahead of the Japanese A1 winning driver. Securing third in A3 after team-mate Bruno Coelho crashed on the penultimate lap, Xray’s Alexander Hagberg would complete the podium at the second running of the fahr(T)raum hosted event.
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The second round of the Central German Championship was held at the MC Ettlingen track where the ENS Rd3 as well as the Euros A will be held later this year. Saturday started out with free practice in the morning and right from the start Shepherd factory racer Oliver Mack showed a great performance clocking the fastest lap times with team boss Patrick Schäfer being second fastest. As the weather forecast predicted a lot of rain for Sunday it was decided to run two qualifying rounds on Saturday afternoon. In the first round Oliver had a good run and he took the TQ nearly one lap ahead of fellow Shepherd racer Dennis Weihert. In the second round Oliver had a contact with another car and unfortunately these were the only two runs under dry conditions for the whole weekend so the Expert drivers decided to count the result after qualifying which handed Oliver the win over Dennis Weihert.
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The 15th annual Rocky Cup in Australia attracted nearly 110 drivers and in the Nitro Buggy class it was Aaron Stringer who dominated the qualifying although being chased by Jason Dyckhoff but at the end Aaron took the overall TQ by winning four out of the four qualifiers. Aaron also grabbed the TQ in the Truggy class but a mechanical failure in the final meant an early end of his truck ambitions. After the disappointment of the Truggy final Aaron and his team were keen to make amends and he got a great start in the Buggy final and was followed closely by Jason Dyckhoff. The two drivers battled for 10 minutes with less than 10 seconds between them. However, Dyckhoff made a big mistake that gave Aaron another 7 seconds. After that Aaron started to drive away and he took a comfortable win 1 lap on Jason Dyckhoff in second.
Source: Sweep [sweepracing.com]
