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April 20, 2015

Coelho wins ENS season opener

Coehlo wins ENS season opener

Man of the moment Bruno Coelho has won the opening round of Season #2 of the Euro Nitro Series in Bologna, Italy. Making his ENS debut, the factory Xray driver took victory in the 45-minute encounter over the HB of Jilles Groskamp and his Xray World Champion team-mate Alexander Hagberg. Top Qualifier Teemu Leino’s race would come to a sudden end when having lead the race for 25-minutes the Finn would pull a front corner of his HB as he hit the pitwall as he came in for a scheduled stop. 2014 ENS title front runner Dominic Greiner would suffer a similar faith as he broke the rear suspension on his Serpent 10-minutes into the race.

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April 20, 2015

Vesa Yli takes Finnish 1/12th National Series title

The final round of the Finnish Electric On-Road Nationals saw Vesa Yli taking the day’s win and with it the overall title in the 1/12th scale class which, due to the lack of entries, was not an official Finnish national title this year. Vesa’s V-Dezign team mates Panu and Ari-Pekka Kyykkä came in 2nd and 3rd respectively to round out a great team performance.

Source: V-Dezign [v-dezign.net]

April 20, 2015

Marc Rheinard takes German Indoor Touring Car title

The German Indoor Touring Car Nationals were held this past weekend in Berlin. The qualifiers would see a battle between Marc Rheinard and Yannic Prümper with both ending tie on points and the tie breaker handed Marc the pole position for the triple A-mains. The opening A-main had Marc taking quite a clear win ahead of Yannic Prümper and Christopher Krapp and the TRF driver was also able to grab the victory in A2 to take the overall win and with it the national title. Sitting out the third A-main Marc Rheinard (Tamiya) made way for Yannic Prümper (Yokomo) who cemented his runner-up spot with a win in front of newly signed Tamiya/TRF driver Christopher Krapp who rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Image: Marc Rheinard

April 20, 2015

Michael Derderian wins French 200mm nats Rd1

The first round of this year’s French 200mm Nitro On-Road Nationals was held in Toulouse. After the qualifiers Quentin Leroux (Capricorn/Team Orion) had grabbed the TQ honours in front of Michael Derderian (Xray/Gimar) and Basile Concialdi (KM/Novarossi). The final that saw a nice battle for the lead between Quentin and Michael with the latter being on a different tyre strategy which paid out at the end as he was able to grab the overall win from Quentin, while Basile rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 20, 2015

Osacar Baldo wins Spanish Nitro Buggy opener

The opening round of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Off-Road Nationals was held this past weekend and to the surprise of many the race marked the end of an era. After 9 years of dominating the championship, except for two races were he was hampered by technical issues, Robert Batlle did not win a round of the Spanish 1/8th nationals. Instead round one saw a legit win of Oscar Baldo with whom Robert had some very nice battles until the very last lap. Oscar’s race for the win seemed to be in doubt early in the main when he crashed and dropped to 12th place and even stalled the engine but with a great recovery he managed to get to the top of the field again to fight with Robert and to take the win. Behind Oscar and Robert, Bryan Baldo, who started from the pole position, rounded out the all-Mugen podium in 3rd.

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April 19, 2015

Surikan C. wins at 2015 FEMCA Asia Championship

The 2015 FEMCA Asia Championships were held at the TRC track in Hong Kong this weekend. In the 1/10th 200mm class Surikarn Chaidajsuriya grabbed his 5th FEMCA title by winning the hour long main final 12 laps ahead of Wong Wai Kei. Felix law completed the podium another two laps down.

Image: Surikarn Chaidajsuriya

April 18, 2015

Balestri TQs 1:8 at Euro Nitro Series

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Dario Balestri is the Top Qualifier for the season opening race of the Euro Nitro Series, the Capricorn driver set to start Sunday’s 45-minute Main ahead of host track owner and master of race strategy Lamberto Collari. Going into the sixth round of qualifying it was only Collari who could deny the European Champion from starting on pole but it would be Alberto Picco that would catch them all by surprise as he TQ’d what would become the days final qualifier. A scheduled seventh round of qualifying would be cancelled due to the arrival of rain at the L.Collari RC Raceway. Defending ENS Champion Simon Kurzbuch will line-up 6th for the start of his title defence, two places behind his main 2014 title rival Robert Pietsch.

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April 18, 2015

Leino is Top Qualifier at ENS season opener

Just as he did last year when the Euro Nitro Series kicked off in Melzo, Italy, Teemu Leino is the 1:10 Top Qualifier for Round 1 of the 2015 championship at the L.Collari RC Raceway in Bologna. The HB driver claimed the No.1 starting spot on the grid for tomorrow’s 45-minute final when he took his R10 to its third TQ run of the weekend in the sixth & final round of qualifying. Behind the Finn, Team Xray’s Bruno Coelho secured second overall for his first ENS race start ahead of the Serpent’s of Dominic Greiner and Alessio Mazzeo. For defending champion Eric Dankel his title defence is going to start out in the B-Main, a difficult day meaning he will need to bump up having qualified only 14th overall.

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