June 9, 2018

Groskamp TQ’s second qualifier in Germany

Jilles Groskamp has TQ’d the second round of the qualifying at the Infinity Euro Nitro Series in Germany this morning.  The first of 3 rounds of qualifying on today’s schedule at Minidrom Ettlingen, the Infinity driver kicked off the day by topping the times by 6/10ths of a second from the Xray of Alessio Mazzeo.  Despite running in the second fastest heat Thilo Todtmann would complete the Top 3 finishing ahead of last night’s Q1 pace setter Dominic Greinier, the World Champion having a coming together with Todtmann’s Shepherd team-mate Eduardo Escandon during the 4-minute qualifier. With the 1:10 field ultra competitive this season, last year’s race winner Eric Dankel made it five different manufacturers at the top of the times sheets taking his Mugen to 5th ahead of 2016 winner Teemu Leino.

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June 8, 2018

Balestri TQ’s first qualifier at ENS Germany

Dario Balestri has TQ’d the first round of qualifying at the Infinity Euro Nitro Series in Germany this evening.  The Infinity driver took Q1 ahead of top seed Simon Kurzbuch who suffered a lean engine that would result in him ending up 7/10th of a second off his Italian rival.  Robert Pietsch would complete the Top 3, the Mugen driver only 2/10ths off Kurzbuch’s Shepherd with the gap back to Toni Gruber in fourth a more substantial 1-second.

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June 8, 2018

Greiner takes opening qualifier in Ettlingen

Dominic Greiner has taken the opening 1:10 qualifier at the Infinity Euro Nitro Series second round in Ettlingen, Germany.  The Serpent driver reversed the order of seeding, topping the first of the four qualifiers from Jilles Groskamp with the separation 6/10th at the end of the 4-minutes.  Behind, last year’s winner Eric Dankel carried forward his pace from seeding to again complete the Top 3 ahead of Italian’s Francesco Tironi and Alessio Mazzeo.

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June 8, 2018

Kurzbuch remains benchmark at ENS Germany

Just as he was at the season opener at ENS Netherlands, Simon Kurzbuch is the 1:8 benchmark going into qualifying at Round 2 of the Infinity Euro Nitro Series in Germany.  The Shepherd driver was fastest over 3-consecutive laps around the Minidrom Ettlingen track at the end of controlled practice topping the times from fellow World Champions Dario Balestri and Robert Pietsch. On his first outing of the 2018 season, Toni Gruber would settle into the event with the fourth fastest time with Round 1 find Jeffrey Rietveld fifth fastest ahead of fellow Dutchman Rick Vrielijnck who made it six different brands of cars in the Top 6.

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June 8, 2018

Groskamp tops practice at ENS Germany

Jilles Groskamp has topped practice at Round 2 of the Infinity Euro Nitro Series in Germany.  Winner of the season opener in the Netherlands, the Infinity driver was fastest around the challenging Minidrom Ettlingen track from Dominic Greiner. Groskamp set his fastest 3-laps in the first of the two controlled practices while Greiner found improvement in the final practice round, all drivers reporting overnight rain had changed the track from yesterday’s free practice. On his first outing of the 2018 championship, Eric Dankel made it three different manufacturers at the top of the time sheets ahead of Mugen team-mate Dirk Wischnewski who also missed the season opener.  Behind, Rucphen podium finisher Eduardo Escandon completed the Top 5, the entire field very closely matched with 4/10ths covering the Top 10.

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June 8, 2018

Intense 1:10 battle expected at ENS Germany

After a successful opening round to the 2018 Infinity Euro Nitro Series in the Netherlands last month, Round 2 of the high profile Onroad Nitro Championship is back on familiar asphalt as the world’s best drivers descend on the Minidrom Ettlingen track in Germany this weekend (8-10 June).  With the championship’s debut in Rucphen adding two new winner’s names to the ENS roll of honour, Jilles Groskamp taking 1:10 and Robin D’hondt winning 1:8, Ettlingen is a track which presents its own unique challenges.  The fourth year of inclusion on the ENS calendar, the track has a traditional nitro layout but has one particularly distinct characteristic, a very fine asphalt from the 2014 resurfacing of the track. In terms of winners, in 1:10, the class proving ultra competitive given it is a World Championship year for touring cars, the track has produced a different winner each visit. In 1:8, Simon Kurzbuch has won on the previous two visits with Dario Balestri winning on the track’s first appearance on the ENS calendar in 2015, but with the championship’s 17th race attracting over 110 entries the battle for victory will be as intense as ever.

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June 7, 2018

Green & Nutting win at British Open

Round four of the BRCA 1/8 Circuit Nationals took place down in Kent at the Brookland circuit in a joint meeting with the 1/10 section, around 80 drivers were competing which made for a good atmosphere. The Brookland circuit layout is made up of big straights and hairpins with a chicane in the middle meaning horsepower and good fuel consumption is very important. For this year the circuit was partly resurfaced and much better than the previous years although still quite unforgiving if you touched the high kerbs. Temperatures were high with sunshine throughout the weekend, qualifying used the round by round system for this event with Mark Green (Serpent) taking pole position having found an engine to do five minutes without a fuel stop, ahead of Alex Thurston (Serpent), Tim Wood (Shepherd), Andy Hastings (Shepherd) and John Carr (Shepherd). For the 30-minute final many of the key front runners had technical issues allowing Mark to win by three laps from John Carr and Neal King (Capricorn).

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June 6, 2018

Cutini doubles at South American Off-road Champs

The South American Off-road Championship was held in San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay last weekend. The weekend started off wet but the organisers made their best efforts to ensure good track conditions. Agustin Cutini (Mugen/Novarossi) would double TQ the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes and he also came out on top after the A-main, leaving behind Nicolas Bregante (Xray/Novarossi) and Lucas Pons (Mugen/Ninja) in Buggy while the Truggy podium was completed by Federico Davico (HB Racing/Reds Racing) and Nicolas Bregante (Xray/Novarossi).

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