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September 14, 2018

Martin takes Q2 ahead of Orlowski

Lee Martin has topped the second round of qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series season opener at the Nurburgring. After a close 2nd behind Michal Orlowski in Q1, the Yokomo driver got the better of the reigning champion the second time round becoming the first driver to do 19-laps of the short tight track. Behind, Vice-Champion Neil Cragg improved on his opening attempt to set the third fastest time in front of the Xray’s of Daniel Kobbevik and Bruno Coelho with Jörn Neumann completing the Top 6.

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September 14, 2018

Orlowski takes opening EOS qualifier at Nurburgring

With the Euro Offroad Series back at the legendary full size Nurburgring venue as part of the Blancpain GT Series weekend, Season #8 of the Euro Offroad Series is underway with the opening round of qualifying in Germany going to defending champion Michal Orlowski. The Schumacher driver topped the 2WD times from Yokomo’s Lee Martin despite a messy final minute of qualifying from the Pole who suffered 3-mistakes around the short and tight 16-second lap times track. Managing to almost equal his fastest lap of the 5-minutes on his final lap Orlowski would just pip Martin for the TQ by 0.156 of a second. Behind, Martin Bayer would complete the Top 3 for Xray with team-mate Bruno Coelho breaking a link on his car in the stages of the qualifying while on target for a Top 3 run. Joern Neumann opened the weekend with a P4 run ahead of Team Associated’s Joona Hataanen and former Nurburgring Top Qualifier Neil Cragg.

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September 14, 2018

EOS Season #8 kicks off at ‘Green Hell’

A new season of the Euro Offroad Series kicks off at the ‘Green Hell’ this weekend (14-16 Sept) with the extended six round 8th season of the 1:10 EP Offroad Championship returning to the Nurburgring in Germany. After being abscent from last season’s calendar, the legendary motorsport venue welcomes back the EOS for what will be its fourth visit. Running as part of the full size Blancpain GT Series weekend which will race on the real grand prix track, the event is a truely unique opportunity for RC racers. While iconic car manufacturers battle it out for victory outside, it will be double champion Michal Orlowski who heads the factory RC entry on the indoor carpet track. A 9-times EOS race winner, but never at the Nurburgring, the Schumacher driver will be aiming to take his tally to double digits this weekend and get his title defence off to the best possible start but his rivals have similar ambitions.

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September 13, 2018

Mikael Fransson takes 1/8th Rd4 in Sweden

Last weekend round 4 of the Swedish Nitro On-road Championships were held at Staffanstorps Raceway. In the 1/8th class it was Mikael Fransson who set the pace and took the top qualifier spot, while Oliver Olsson lined up 2nd and Stefan Andersson 3rd. At the start of the 45-minute final Serpent racer Mikael Fransson jumped straight into the lead and held that position to the end of the race. Oliver Olsson, driving a Mugen, missed the start having called a 10 minute time delay managed to work his way back from last position to finish in 2nd place 3 laps behind the winner with Shepherd driver Stefan Andersson finishing in 3rd place.

Thanks to Mikael Olsson for the update.

September 11, 2018

Jason Nugroho claims Indonesian Buggy Nats title

The 3rd round of the Indonesian National Buggy Championships were held last weekend at the famous C-Netic Track in Surabaya, East Java. It was the final round of the National series and a total of 39 drivers attended this event from Jakarta, Bandung, Medan, Batam, Gresik, Madiun, Banjarmasin, Bali, Kendari and local drivers. The race comprised of 6 rounds of 10 minutes qualifying, with the best 4 counting. After 6 rounds of qualifying it was Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) who the TQ honours. In the 60 minute final the top qualifier also took the win followed by Stanley Wangsanegara (HB/OS) in 2nd and Ery Setiawan (Mugen/OS) in 3rd.

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September 11, 2018

Shanghai’s N8 Club – Race Report

This past weekend, the N8 Nitro Racing Club in Shanghai saw 20 drivers come out to compete. N8 is promoting nitro on road racing in China and getting great support from manufacturers all over the world such as Matrix Tires, VP Fuel and Sunpadow Batteries. With a growing interest for nitro racing in Shanghai, N8 has become the premier Nitro RC racing Club in China. Club qualifying and race format promotes interaction and participation between members. Qualifying is an hour long where drivers decide when to set their 3 consecutive fast laps to determine final heats. 2 car bump ups in each mains give drivers a chance to make the A-Main, all mains are 30 minutes. You don’t need to bring your own pitman because mechanics are assigned thru lottery where different members get to teams up with other members every month. The club meets every 6-8 weeks.

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September 10, 2018

Hansen & Stub-Holm take Danish National titles

Last weekend the final round of the Danish Nitro On-road Championship was held at the high speed track of Næstved model Racing club. In the 1/8th class it was Martin N.O Hansen who set the pace, and claimed the TQ spot by winning three qualifying rounds. Henrik Christensen lined up in 2nd and Bo Nielsen had to settle for the 3rd spot after the qualifiers. Going into the 30-minute final Martin N.O looked to be under pressure from Henrik and Bo, as they had set a high pace and were pushing Martin until some traffic that went wrong and left Bo in the grass with a damaged rear tyre, Henrik was still on the same lap as Martin, but was unlucky when he was lapping a slower car, as he ran a little too wide which sent him airborne and damaged his car and body. This allowed Martin N.O Hansen (ARC/Novarossi/Contact) to take the win five laps in front of Henrik Christensen (Shepherd/Novarossi/Contact) in 2nd and Bo Nielsen (Infinity/Kabuto/Ulti) 3rd. That is how they also finished in the championship.

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September 10, 2018

Tamiya Benelux final – Race report

The Tamiya Benelux final is the annual closing race of the Dutch and Belgian championship series. Like the previous years, the race was held at the fast and beautiful track of MAC de Baanbrekers in Rucphen, the Netherlands. The race attracted almost 120 racers, divided in the classes of Fighter (DT03 chassis), Euro Truck (TT01E chassis with truck bodies and Carson cup 16t motor), Euro stock (TT01 or TT02 chassis with Carson cup 540 brushed motor), Euro M-chassis (mostly M07 with Carson cup 16t motor), Euro TW (TA07 with Carson cup 16T motor), F1 (21,5 brushless) and Euro GT (TRF cars with Carson cup 12T motor). Saturday was open for free practice and a 2,5 hours Endurance race with TT01 Mercedes 190 cars. Sunday saw 2 rounds of qualifiers followed by 3 finals of 7 minutes each. Due to the high number of racers and the longer finals, the last final was run at 19pm.

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