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April 11, 2018

2018 Serpent Cup Australia – Report

Last weekend saw the running of the 2018 Serpent Cup at Sydney’s John Grant International Raceway in Moorebank, NSW, Australia. With big numbers in each of the classes, the racing was hotly contested and humid conditions over three days hosted by the New South Wales Radio Controlled Car Racing Club. Mugen Seiki factory driver Jeff Hamon, competing in 1/8th scale, 200mm Touring and EP Modified over the weekend was the early pace setter in Nitro Tourer taking the TQ ahead of some very fast local drivers. George Karozis displayed a great turn of pace and consistency in qualifying, only to be out qualified at the final attempt by Serpent driver David Chen and the Xray driver Andrew Bardetta in the last round of qualifying on Sunday morning, while Tim Moylan, Ricky Kradolfer and youngster Braydon Stanley (all Mugen) rounded out the top 7 direct spots to the A-main final.

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April 11, 2018

2018 Psycho Nitro Blast – Report

The 2018 edition of the Psycho Nitro Blast was held last weekend with the event now being in its 10th year. One of the most monumental events of the season, that mixes the lines of spectacle and competition, it is never an easy race. The organisers always create one of the most unique track layouts that provides a special experience for all that attend. The track is huge and feature-rich and filled with the signature wood jumps that create consistent jump faces and unimaginable flow. The massive straightaway requires monster horsepower and the large venue requires accuracy and technical precision. Combine with the near 24-hour racing format from Thursday on, the PNB is not just a race, but an RC experience unlike any other.

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April 11, 2018

2018 Nitro-West-Masters – Preview

The popular Nitro-West-Masters nitro on-road racing series is celebrating its tenth anniversary season this year. It all started in 2009 with the first race held at the Dueren track near Aachen. This forthcoming weekend the 2018 season will be launched with round one of six in Bad Breisig, located between Bonn and Koblenz at the river Rhine. Beside Dueren and Oberhausen, Bad Breisig has been part of the race calendar since the initial season 2009.

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April 10, 2018

Czech Open Series Rd1 – Report

The first round of the Czech Open Series took place this past Saturday at the Kolin club in 1/8th Nitro and Electric Buggy classes. Through the whole day it was a fight between Jirka Mara and Max Gotzl for the nitro win. Jirka tested some setups in qualifying and because of that, he ended on P3 behind Jiri Benes and Max. In the semi-final run Jirka secured the 1st place on the grid for the main final. There he showed amazing performance and won the final one lap lead in front of Max.

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April 10, 2018

Toni Gruber wins at Ielasi Tuned Trophy

Last weekend’s Ielasi Tuned Trophy, organised by former World Champion Daniele Ielasi, saw not only the running of an 1/8th IC Track class but also 1/10th 200mm racing. In the Touring class was WRC Racing’s Toni Gruber who came out on top. Toni would loose a bit of time in the opening stages of the 45-minute main final as he opted for a no-tyre-change strategy with the bigger rubber causing some issues, but once the tyres came in he was able to take over the lead and bring home the win some two laps in front of Mugen’s Dirk Wischnewski as Matteo Passetti (Serpent) completed the top 3 podium result.

Image: Toni Gruber

April 10, 2018

Mirko Salemi takes Ielasi Tuned Trophy 1/8th win

The Ielasi Tuned Trophy was held this past weekend at the Melzo track in Italy with 60 racers in attendance. The 1/8th IC track class saw Infinity’s Francesco Tironi taking the overall TQ and he would also lead most of the A-main, however with ten minutes to got a small mistake took meant he would loose the lead, allowing WRC’s Mirko Salemi to take the win from Francesco in 2nd as Massimo Aliprandi (Serpent) came in 3rd to complete the podium result.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

April 9, 2018

Patrick Hofer wins at Swiss 1/8th GP Buggy opener

The opening round of the Swiss 1/8th Nitro Buggy Nationals was held this past weekend and in the Expert class it was HB Racing’s Jeremy Pittet with the TQ from Patrick Hofer (Team Associated) and Christoph Affolter. In the 45-minute A-main it was again the pairing of Jeremy and Patrick who made up the top 2 with the better end for Patrick who, despite an undercut from Jeremy, would bring home the win some five seconds in front of Pittet as HB Racing’s Kevin Zwahlen rounded out the top 3 results.

Image: Patrick Hofer

April 9, 2018

Cristiano Sartor wins CRNS Rd1

The opening round of the Italian CRNS was held at the Fiorano track. In the 1/8th track class it was ARC driver Cristiano Sartor with the win from Capricorn’s Alessandro Merloni 2nd and Xray driver Alessandro Bracci 3rd. Sandro Sammarini and Fabrizio Iori would round out the top 5 results.

View the final results here