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March 27, 2018

Michele Manzo wins Swiss Indoor Champs

The fourth and final round of the Swiss Indoor Championship was held in Holzikon last weekend. In the Touring Modified class Yokomo’s Fabian Widmer took the TQ from Michele Manzo (Yokomo) and Team Magic’s Renato Isler and in the finals Fabian and Michele swapped placed for the win of Michele from Fabian and Renato. Overall in the championship it was also Michele with the win from Fabian and Renato, who rounded out the top 3. Philipp Huber and Marco Balmer (both Team Magic) completed the top 5 results.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

March 27, 2018

RugRacers Rd6 – Report

The final round of the 2017/18 RugRacers series was held this past weekend. With the championship wrapped up for Xray driver, Zak Finlay, the final podium position still up for grabs. Billy Fletcher took his Destiny to FTQ ahead of the 3rd place contender Paul Pinkney with his Schumacher, and Dominic Carters for Awesomatix 3rd. Leg 1 ended early after clipping the 1st corner Billy would retire with damage from the melee, Paul with the win. Leg 2 would see racing all through the field with the shake out seeing Jon Bowdens (Schumacher) take the leg from 5th, Ashley Wiffens (Awesomatix) 2nd and Paul 3rd. This would mean Paul Pinkney took the win ahead of Jon Bowden and Dominic Carter. Overall it was Zak Finlay from Billy Fletcher and Paul Pinkney.

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March 27, 2018

Xray Racing Series Poland Rd5 – Report

The fifth round of the Xray Racing Series Poland was held at the Zatoka Sportu venue in Lodz. The organisers laid out a high speed track and the appearance of the Polish television and a couple of photographers made for a professional atmosphere. The 4WD Buggy class was top qualified by Bartosz Zalewski from Jakub Luczak and Sebastian Migal. In the triple A-mains Zalewski made a couple of mistakes which cost him the win as the top 3 drivers here close together in terms of performance. On the other hand did Luczak show robot-style consistency which awarded him the win as Migal rounded out the top 3 results.

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March 27, 2018

Brian Poliseno wins AMSCI On-road opener

Last weekend saw the running of round 1 of the Italian AMSCI Nitro On-road Nationals with the event being held at the Giardini Naxos area in Sicily. The race organisers decided to hold the entire race on Saturday due to a bad weather forecast for Sunday. This meant lots of stress for the drivers to get their gear dialled and in the end it was Brian Poliseno who made the best out of the conditions, taking the win in the 1/8th class at the opening round of the series.

Source: ARC [arc-rc.org]

March 27, 2018

BRCA LMP12 National Rd6 – Report

Last weekend saw the final two rounds of the BRCA LMP12 national series take place at the Chesterfield track in the north of England. Coming into the last national of the season only one of the three titles had been sewn up, with David Spashett having claimed the 13.5 title with a perfect score at the fourth round in Poole. The Modified championship would see the Roche duo of Spashett and Ollie Payne fighting for the title, and in the Sports Modified class it would be a four way battle for the title between Ben Vincent and Mark Jewitt (Schumacher), Mick Farrell (CRC) and Matt Rice (Associated). Chesterfield are a long established venue for LMP racing and rather unusually laid out a track that was an exact copy of the track raced last year. This meant that from the first heat of qualifying to the last final the track maintained a very equal level of speed. The carpet used was the traditional GT style rug and most drivers seemed very comfortable from the off, with an unlucky few picking up grip-roll as the track evolved.

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March 27, 2018

2018 Canadian Nationals – Report

The 2018 Canadian Carpet Nationals were held at the Seaway Mall in Welland, Ontario last week. With over 500 entries from around the world, it was one of the largest races ever. In the Touring Car Modified Yugo Nagashima, fresh off of his last trip to North America, would do it again. The 2018 Snowbirds champion would end up on top again. He would go to reset his TQ a couple of times during the event and was the man to beat when it was all said and done. Cruising to a comfortable A1 and A2 win over some of the best drivers in North America, it was a display of perfection as he was over 99% consistency through the runs.

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March 27, 2018

Mario Spiniello wins at Italian IC Track opener

The opening round of the Italian IC Track Nationals was held in Giardini Naxos last weekend and in the 1/10th 200mm Touring Expert class it was BMT’s Mario Spiniello who would walk away with the win. Alessandro Occhipinti (Serpent) and Giliberto Salvatore (Capricorn) would round out the podium result in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]

March 26, 2018

Leonardo Valente wins Ospy Team GP

This past weekend the Ospy Team GP was held at the Gussago track in Italy. The event was the warm-up race for the AMSCI Italian Championships that will be held in mid-April and in the Nitro Buggy F1 class it was Leonardo Valente with the win from Mattia Polito and Marco Ravaglia in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]