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May 28, 2018

Mirko Salemi wins at Italian Shepherd Trophy

The 2018 Shepherd Trophy was held at the Racing Mini Car Fiorano track this past weekend. In the premier 1/8th Nitro class it was WRC Racing’s Mirko Salemi with the triple of pole position, fastest lap and win to round out a perfect weekend. Shepherd’s Marco Vanni ended the 30-minute main final a lap down while Serpent racer, Andrea Ciuriante rounded out the podium result in 3rd another two laps down. In the 1/10th class Alessandro Balboni took the win of the A-final in front of Michele Scaglioni and Alessandro Ciaccheri while in the 1/10th Formula category it was Alessandro Bianchi that came out fastest in front of Matteo Berlincioni and Daniel Conte.

Source: WRC [wrc-racing.com] & Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 28, 2018

Lars Hoppe wins North German IC Track regionals Rd2

The second round of the North German IC Track regionals was held at the MAC Hamburg track this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro class 1 competition was tough. With Lars Hoppe, Timo Schröder and Merlin Depta three internationally experienced drivers battling it out for the win. After qualification the two Shepherd drivers Lars and Timo put their cars on the 1 and 2 spot for the finals as Serpent’s Merlin Depta followed in 3rd. In the final Lars slowly pulled away while Timo was able to make a small gap too. After 30 minutes of racing Lars took the win three laps in front of Merlin and Timo, the later unfortunately struggling with several engine flame-outs. In the 1/10th Nitro class Lennart Skornia took the TQ and win in front of Bernd Hasselbring and Kai Bode.

View the 200mm podium here

May 28, 2018

Jamie Clancy takes win at HNMC Memorial Race

The Herts Nitro Model Club held their annual Memorial charity race this past weekend to honour Pete Steven, Stephen Brunsden and Bernard Wija while raising money for the good cause. Kevin Brunsden took the overall TQ in the Nitro Buggy class from Jamie Clancy 2nd and Callum Niblett 3rd. Kevin would start from pole position into the A-main final, however a small bobble on lap 1 had him fall back to 3rd and eventually he would also drop to 4th following a crash. Up front Jamie Clancy held the lead while Kevin was able to recover after switching to risky 10-minute stints. In the end Jamie took the win a lap ahead of Kevin Brunsden as Callum Niblett ended the final in 3rd.

Image: Kevin Brunsden

May 28, 2018

Burak Kilic wins North German Buggy regionals Rd3

The third round of the North German 1/8th Off-road regionals, a qualifying race for the German Nationals, was held at the Kiel track this past weekend. Track conditions were pretty rough with drivers constantly searching for the best setup to manage the 30-minute A-main with as little mishaps as possible. Ultimately it was young Burak Kilic (Agama) who would bring home the win in front of Kyosho’s Marcel Paul. The race for the final podium spot was a very entertaining and hard-fought one with Timo Engelstätter bringing home the final podium spot after some tough but very fair fights with Berkan Kilic (Agama) in the final two laps.

Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the report.

May 28, 2018

Reno Savoya TQs & wins French Elite Buggy Champs Rd3

The Boisset Saint Priest track played host to round 3 of the French 1/8th Elite Buggy Championship over the weekend. TLR’s Renaud Savoya would make the perfect sweep with the overall TQ, pole position after the semi finals and also the overall win, although the main final wasn’t run due to a massive thunderstorm. With the semi results taken to determine the final results it was Team Associated’s Tom Robin on the runner-up spot from HB Racing’s Thomas Musso in 3rd. Kyosho’s Rayan Medjoubi and Xray’s Jerome Aigoin would round out the top 5 results.

Image: Team Losi Racing [tlracing.com]

May 28, 2018

Davide Ongaro takes early Italian Nitro Buggy title

For round 3 of the Italian 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship racers travelled to the Balocco track over the weekend. In the Expert class Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro continued on his great 2018 form with a TQ and win, with the later also secured him the overall title after winning three out of three rounds so far. Davide ended the 45-minute A-main encounter some two laps in front of Xray’s Marco Baruffolo as Mugen Andrea Trevisan came in 3rd, another lap down. Tekno’s Alex Zanchettin lead the best of the rest in 4th.

Source: ModellismoRC [modellismorc.net]

May 28, 2018

Robert Batlle wins challenging Spanish Buggy Nats Rd2

Round 2 of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held this past weekend at the El Alamo track in challenging conditions. Heavy rain in the build-up to the event meant the club had to work hard to make the race happen but ultimately and after using a lot of sawdust to making the track race-worthy, the event would take place. The opening rounds were held on a very muddy track and the qualifiers would see three different winners in the form of Bryan Baldo, Daniel Vega and Juanma Guillen, however due to incidents on and off the track and penalties given after the qualifiers, none of the three would take the overall TQ that was handed to Robert Batlle from Oscar Baldo 2nd and Ricard Monteiro 3rd. Following a couple of controversies after the semifinals, the 45-minute main final would ultimately take place and in the end it was Robert Batlle with a tone-to-tone win one lap ahead of Oscar Baldo as Oscar Navarro rounded out the top 3, some ten seconds short of Baldo.

View the final results here

May 25, 2018

Nitro-West-Masters Rd2 – Report

Round two of six of the Nitro-West-Masters was held at the Haltern track, located in the North of the Ruhr region in Western Germany. 66 drivers meant an impressive entry for the hosting Rallye-Club Haltern club. It was more than only a race weekend because a new tarmac surface on the 234-meter track and a newly-build driver´s rostrum including race-control were dedicated as well as more than 80 people joined the Saturday night party to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Nitro-West-Masters which was initialised by Uwe Baldes back in 2009.

Continue reading the report here