The 4th round of the French 200mm nitro on-road championship was held at the Lentilly track near Lyon. In the National class, it was Maxime Legay who took the TQ position in front of Philippe Martineau and Stephane Campourcy while in the Elite class, Leo Arnold had a tremendous third qualifying round to take the overall TQ. Basile Concialdi came in 2nd and Quentin Leroux held the 3rd spot.
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The 4th round of the UK Northwest regional series was held at the Pendle 8th track. The club have recently turned their dirt track into an all-astro track and the sand-covered artificial surface made many drivers struggle but not Stu Wood who took all four qualifying rounds to take the overall TQ. From the start of the A-main, he instantly opened a 10 seconds gap to the 2nd placed driver but he soon after started to experience some electrical glitches and his lead started to close. Stu managed to hold off the 2nd place right to the very last corner and he won the final from Mark Smith and Luke Holdsworth.
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The 2nd round of the RCE Championship was held at the Dirt Paradise off-road track in Nicosia, Cyprus. Despite hot weather conditions many drivers attended and finally it was former champion Andreas Georgiou who took the TQ for the A-final. The championship leader also went on to win the main in front of Andreas Thrasyvoulou in 2nd and Nicholas Zachariades in 3rd. Marios Christodoulou completed the top 4 result.
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The 4th round of the French nitro on-road nationals took place under mixed weather conditions. All qualifiers would be run in dry track conditions and in the 1/8 Elite class it was Anthony Abisset (Serpent) who took TQ in front of Benjamin Brasset (Serpent) and Arnaud Mathieu (Capricorn). In the National class 14 years old Gaetan “Iceman” Nousse (Serpent) outperformed Ludovic Cesar (Serpent) and Benjamin Coulaud (Capricorn).
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Uwe Baldes, Melvin Diekmann, Marco Muscara and Stefan Schumann achieved class wins at round 3 of the Nitro-West-Masters which was held at the Rhein-Ahr-Motodrom in Bad Breisig. With 42 entries and finally 41 competitors attending the number of participants was slightly lower than at the previous rounds in Oberhausen (67) and Dueren (55). But that did not derogate the thrilling racing action and the great atmosphere though. The conditions on Sunday were perfect nearly till the end before some slight rain hit the track during the last ten minutes of the 1/8th main race.
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A qualifying round for the German 1/10th electric off-road nationals was held at the somewhat slippery astro turf track in Gemünden. In the 4WD class Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer took the TQ and win with his Reedy-powered B44.2 from Chris Geier (Yokomo) and Micha Widmaier (Schumacher/CS Electronic).
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This weekend was the 24th running of the annual Belgium GP. The event is very popular, with many people requesting entries, but due to the nature of the event and venue the organisers keep an entry limit of 80 in 2WD and 70 in 4WD, allowing reasonable length days and plenty of track time, with open practice in the days preceding the event. It really is a great event, very relaxed atmosphere and a showcase for RC racing with is location in a public park, where many activities take place over the weekend, drawing in many spectators and drivers from 7 countries.
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Round 4 of the BRCA touring car nationals took place at the fast and flowing Cotswold track located on Kemble airfield, UK. The first three rounds have seen three different winners which meant heading into round four the championship is still wide open. Saturday morning the drivers were greeted with very wet conditions but fortunately it would dry for round one of qualification. Olly Jefferies was able to keep himself close to the top of the time sheets in all of the qualifying rounds to eventually take pole positions after winning three out of five qualifying rounds with Chris Grainger taking second and Elliott Harper in third. Olly would also set the fastest lap and five minute time of the weekend.
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