July 9, 2018

Kurzbuch takes first win of season at ENS Aigen

Simon Kurzbuch has taken his first win of the 2018 Infinity Euro Nitro Series in Austria.  Coming into the weekend with three consecutive ENS wins at the Aigen track, the Shepherd driver continued to add to that tally adding his 10th ENS career win. Capping off the perfect win having TQ’d all four rounds of qualifying, today’s result means the title goes down to the final round in Fiorano in September.  In contrast to the reigning champions successful weekend, for his main title rival & points leader coming into the event it was a 10th place DNF for Dario Balestri.  Starting 3rd, the Infinity driver suffered an early flame out but on his recovery drive he would later clash with Silvio Hachler with his car suffering damage that would end his race.  Pushing Kurzbuch in the first half of the race, Toni Gruber would finish 2nd with Merlin Depta taking advantage of others issue to secure the final podium placing ahead of Lars Hoppe.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.

July 9, 2018

Groskamp leads Infinity 1-2 at ENS Aigen

Jilles Groskamp lead home an Infinity 1-2 at the third round of the Euro Nitro Series in Austria today.  Starting from 4th on the grid, the Dutch driver would win the 45-minute encounter from team-mate Francesco Tironi, benefiting from engine troubles that would strike both Top Qualifier Dominic Greiner and Eric Dankel.  Taking early control of the race, Greiner looked destined for his second win of the season with his team executing a perfect tyre stop but as the Serpent driver rejoined the track his engine cut in the sweeper.  Brought back to the pit lane, it fired up immediately, but again in the sweeper it stopped but again it was fired up without hesitation and third time lucky it kept going for the remainder of the race but it cost the dominant German any chance of the win.  The only driver to really take the fight to Greiner today, Dankel’s race started to come undone when he made contact with Alessio Mazzeo who was exiting the pits but in the end the Mugen driver’s frustration would only get worse with a flame out, contact with a backmarker and finally a broken engine. All the while Groskamp was having a steady race even overcoming a slow tyre stop to take his 2nd ENS career win ahead of Tironi with Mazzeo hanging on to complete the podium ahead of Greiner.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.

July 9, 2018

Rosario Giaimo doubles at EFRA GT Euros

The 2018 EFRA 1/8th scale GT Euros were held at the ARCA track in Madrid, Spain recently and Nitro GT and Electric GT classes it was Rosario Giaimo with the double TQ and win. Rosario took back-to-back titles in the Nitro class while scoring his maiden electric title.

Source: HB Racing [hbracing.com]

July 9, 2018

Alejandro Perez wins in Malaga

The Circuito de Alhaurín track in Malaga, Spain held an off-road race this past weekend and in the hotly contested 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was HB Racing driver, Alejandro Perez with the win. Fellow HB Racing driver Alberto Peláez would come in 2nd as JQRacing’s Miguel Angel Trillo would round out the podium result in 3rd.

Source: JQRacing [jqracing.com]

July 9, 2018

Embling & Tatlow win at Memorial Race

The South Coast RC Club in Clanfield held their Memorial Race Meeting this past weekend. In the 20-minute Nitro Buggy main final it was Jack Embling with the win from Jon Hazlewood, who had the pace to bring home the win, however a tricky final quarter of the race, due to backmarkers, meant he had to settle for 2nd overall. Behind the two it was Graham Alsop on the 3 spot, only four seconds down on Jon. Elsewhere in the Truck class it was James Tatlow with the win.

View the Truggy podium here

July 9, 2018

2018 Nitrocross Cup MAC Brombachsee – Announcement

The second edition of the Nitrocross Cup will be held on the MAC Brombachsee track on the 8th and 9th of September. Formerly planned to taking place at the RCC Coesfeld club the race had to look for a new home because of organisational reasons, with the Brombachsee club happy to step in. The race will be held in 1/8th Buggy and Truggy classes and more information can be found here.

July 9, 2018

Mattia Polito takes 1/8th Buggy Euro B title

The 2018 EFRA 1/8th Nitro Buggy European Championships B were held at the Barcooff track in Barco, Italy over the weekend. Marco Ravaglia secured himself the overall TQ after the qualifiers with Mattia Polito taking 2nd. Behind the two Andrea Trevisan came in 3rd from Eliot Marcon, who also had the pace to snatch the overall TQ, having to settle for 4th. In the 45-minute main final however it was Mattia Polito who would score a popular win some 26 seconds in front ofGiuseppe Tescione on the runner-up spot. Patrick Auvinet Jr. lead a strong group of drivers that was only a lap behind the top 2 with Joachim Kallen, Niko Flamini, Marco Orlando and Eliot Marcon all scoring 72-laps runs. Alessandro Castoldi, Maxime Noble and Dario Gabrielli came in 8th to 10th respectively only two laps down on the leader. Gianmarco Franzolini and Giovanni Camamo rounded out the top 12 with 70 laps, highlighting the very high qualify of the field. In 13th, Alexander Schmitt scored the only DNF of the A-main.

Image: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]

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