The 2014 edition of the International Dirt Meeting Greece attracted not only a good amount of national drivers but also some international guests. Run in very hot weather conditions at the Hobby Track Serres the race saw Mugen’s Davide Tortorici taking the win with his TOP-powred buggy from Dimitris Tsigos (Mugen/Ninja) and Kostas Zagorisos (Xray/Alpha).
Source: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]
The 5th running of the Endurance Championship Austria took place at the Tirol Ring in Kematen, Austria, last weekend. A total of nine teams signed in with the AMC Racing Team Tirol grabbing the TQ honours from MRC Zillertal I and The Fantastic 3. Right from the start a battle between four teams arose with the WIN WIN Racing team making a statement and placing themselves in front. Unfortunately for the team of MRC Zillertal I, 2nd after qualifying, an electronic problem forced them to retire with the RC Bike Team, on route for a podium finish, also having to retire. Up front the WIN WIN Racing Team took the win after 1300 laps followed by the Team MARC Unterland with 1278 laps and the AMC Racing Team Tirol with 1255 laps.
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The 3rd round of the Portuguese touring car nationals was halt at the Torres Novas track last weekend. Rain was predicted for practice on Saturday but the day was nice and sunny and even the qualifiers would be run in the dry on Sunday morning but a thunderstorm at around lunchtime forced the organisers to cancel the race and to use the qualifying results to determine the winner. This handed Bruno Coelho the win with the only 19 lap run in qualifying from Helder Silva in 2nd and Jose Pequito in 3rd. Joao Malveiro and Goncalo Alves completed the top 5 result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 4th round of this year’s Swiss 1/8th off-road championship took place in Gland near the Lake Geneva with about 130 entries. The TQ went to Swiss champion and Top 25 Euro driver Jeremy Pittet in front of Robin Frischkopf. At the end of the lower finals the track started to become bumpy and rutted making it not easy for the main finalists, lead by pole position holder Yael Zurfluh and Robin Frischkopf. The 45 minute final was clearly led by Yael with Robin Frischkopf, Joachim Kallen and Jeremy Pittet fighting for 2nd place. Jeremy ran into problems early so the fight for the runner-up spot was on between Joachim and Robin. Both swapped positions several times while being on different fuel strategies. With leader Yael being only a couple of corners in front Robin started to attack near the end of the final but problems while lapping backmarkers cost him dearly and had him falling back to 3rd place. At the end Robin also ran out of fuel but this incident had no further influence on the result. At the end Yael Zurfluh (TLR) took the win from Joachim Kallen (Kyosho) and Robin Frischkopf (Xray).
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Last weekend saw round 2 of the Action Model Centre supported Summer Shootout Series take place in Chesterfield, UK. With 100 entries across 5 different classes it was set to be a top notch event run on a nice track with good grip levels. The LMP12 open modified class saw a small entry of less than 10 cars. However, all of the drivers were of national A-final standard so the racing was still very competitive. 3 drivers battled it out for TQ honours, with Andy Murray eventually coming out on top driving a V-Dezign car ahead of the Reedy-powered Yokomo R12C3 of Mark Stiles and former World Champion David Spashett. These three were split by just 0.35 seconds, so it looked like the final would be a close race.
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The second of only two Western Germany 1/8th off-road regional rounds was run at the Modellfreunde Kürten track. Kyosho’s Carsten Keller was able to take the win in the 40 minute final despite being hindered by a wrong tyre choice. At the end he took the win some two laps ahead of Jan Sievert with Sven Sievert finishing another lap down. Maik Wiesweg and Chris Kammann completed the top 5 result.
Source: Spielzeugautorennfahrer [spielzeugautorennfahrer.de]
The annual Hobbywing Trophy recently took place at the Bientina track in Italy. Francesco Martini took the pole position for the Modified Touring Car class while Tiziano Borgogni put his car on pole in the Stock class. The Mod class finals then saw a clean sweep of Francesco who took the win in all 3 final legs to take the overall win from Matteo Montagnani and Fabricio Manicardi. In the Stock class Tiziano had some issues in the opening A-main but a flawless 2nd and 3rd leg had him taking the overall win from Simone Aleotti and Gabriele Berselli.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 3rd round of the Southern Portuguese 1/8th off-road regionals was held at the Evora track under changing weather conditions that put the drivers and equipment to the test. While the first semifinal could be run under dry conditions with Vasco Rodrigues taking the win, the 2nd semifinal had to be stopped and later on restarted due to rain pouring down creating some mess on the track. The main final then had Flavio Matias leading for the first 15 minutes until a bad tyre choice for the drying conditions hindered Flavio, allowing Vasco to close up. Both battled for the next 10 to 15 minutes but Flavio was not able to hold the pace and this gave Vasco the advantage he needed to win the race. Antonio Peixe grabbed the 2nd spot in front of Flavio Matias who was able to secure the 3rd and final podium spot.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
