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July 2, 2011

European Nitro Challenge report

Last weekend the first European Nitro Challenge was held at the permanent RC track of the RC Team Hockenheim located at the world famous Hockenheim Ring Formula 1 circuit. More than 70 drivers entered the different classes, among them many international top racers like Robert Pietsch, Daniele Ielasi, Ronald Völker and Michael Salven. Different from other events the three fastest consecutive laps were taken for the qualifying ranking while the 4 fastest drivers qualified directly for the final. In the 1/10th Hobby Cup class it was Alex Kempe driving the 3 fastest laps followed by Marcus May, Klaus Lechner and Markus Spaniol. The 1/8th scale Hobby Cup class saw Thilo Tödtmann taking the pole-position in front of Luigi Pili, Norbert Mayrhofer and Benny Endres.

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July 2, 2011

Aigoin tops opening Qualifier in Czech Republic

Yannick Aigoin has set the pace in the opening round of qualifying at the Astra Nitro Cross in the Czech Republic, the TLR driver topping the time sheets ahead of Xray pairing Ales Bayer and Jiri Mara. Defending champion Martin Bayer failed to start his heat after the screw on his steering servo horn came out during the warm-up laps.

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July 1, 2011

Aigoin tops opening day at Astra Nitro Cross

TLR’s Yannick Aigoin has topped the opening day’s action at the 2011 Astra Nitro Cross in the Czech Republic after setting the fastest time in the fourth and final round of practice to get the better of early pace setter and team-mate Martin Bayer. The final practice run saw few drivers improve with the only other front runner to make an improvement being Xray’s Jiri Mara who ended the day with the sixth best time.

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July 1, 2011

Nicolai Lindegaard takes SuperStock Rd2 in Denmark

The 2nd round of the Danish 1/10th touring car championships was last weekend at the well known ‘Rainbow’ Track in Glostrup in Denmark, which hosted the Euros back in 2005. There was 17 SuperStock Drivers and 9 Modified drivers and Xray driver Nicolai Lindegaard sent us this report. On Saturday we did some very small setup changes having tested a lot in the weeks leading up to this race and so the car was fast, very smooth and easy to drive. The grip wasn’t so high but we didn’t change a lot of set-up because we expected more grip on the race day. The track is very nice with a very good flow so we were very excited to the Sunday’s race.

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July 1, 2011

Bayer sets early pace at Astra Nitro Cross

Martin Bayer is setting the early pace at his own race, heading a Losi 1-2 in practice for the 2011 Astra Nitro Cross. The Czech ace topped all three practice rounds but set the fastest three consecutive laps in the second run to topping the similar nVision powered 8ight of Yannick Aigoin. Describing the track conditions as being very similar to that experienced at the Warm-up race for the up coming European Championships, Bayer said he has been using the track time to try a few new ideas in terms of set-up and is pleased with the response.

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July 1, 2011

TLR Super Cup @ Eden Park Raceway

Last weekend saw the famous Eden Park Raceway club host the inaugural TLR Super Cup race meeting. Set to run over the weekend with 2WD, SCT and 4WD Buggy classes, the Super Cup format added a subtle twist to the normal race format with all classes running simultaneously over the two days with controlled practice and three rounds of qualifying on the Saturday and two round of qualifying a 3-leg finals for everyone on the Sunday. After a rather wet and slippery start on the Saturday the second race day saw rising temperatures and the usual suspects continued on good form with Ellis Stafford and Danny McGee battling for the overall TQ position in 2WD and 4WD whilst Chris Brooke looked to have sewn up the SCT qualifying after his performance on the Saturday ahead of Nathan Ralls and team mate Andy Carter.

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July 1, 2011

Fabricio Zamperetti wins Brazilian Light championship

This year’s Brazilian 1/8 scale on-road championship was run in a single event at the Fazenda Vesuvio circuit in Indaiatuba. The qualifying was dominated by Rafael Bob Vieira with Anderson Becheli starting from second, Deiverson Gomes from third and Fabricio Zamperetti starting from fourth position on the grid. Come the final Fabricio Zamperetti secured himself the win and therefore the Brazilian Light championship some four laps ahead of TQ Rafael Bob Vieira, Deiverson Gomes with another lap down and Tiago Amicci who scored 149 laps after the 45 minute final.

Thanks to Fabricio Zamperetti for the report

July 1, 2011

Sonny Ochoa clean sweep at Midwest Nitro series Rd3

This past weekend round three of the Midwest Nitro series made its stop at Raceworld Raceway in Griffith Indiana to a new series record of 150 entries. Raceworld’s track featured a technical layout with many elevation changes. Horizon’s Sonny Ochoa was the man to beat, taking his Losi cars to TQ spot in all three classes he entered. The win though, did not come without a fight in the pro buggy main, as local fast-shoe Randy Carthart put the challenge to Sonny in the first half, only to break a shock and limp, albeit competitively, on three shocks to a 4th place. Second qualifier John Tomljenovic struggled with poor tire choice on his privateer Mugen to salvage a third place after frequent challenges from Scott Shinn’s Mugen. It was Mugen Seiki/JConcepts racer Kevin Bronner with the drive of the day: salvaging his bump-up starting spot to drive a very smart race all the way to 2nd.

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