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August 21, 2017

Pelle Culmsee takes Danish 1/8th Buggy title

The fourth round of the Danish 1/8th Off-road National Championship was held at Hillerod RC Racing this past weekend. Unsteady weather made things difficult and that’s why the Nitro Buggy race ended early on Sunday after the qualifiers due to rain flooding the track. With round TQs in Q1 and Q2 Pelle Culmsee would take the overall TQ and thus the day’s win that also won him the overall championship as with four straight wins and three TQs out of six races Pelle has a large enough margin on his competitors.

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August 21, 2017

Bloomfield doubles at BRCA Truggy & E8 Nats Rd5

Round five of the BRCA Truggy and E8 Nationals was held at Remote World in Slough this past weekend. Agama’s Darren Bloomfield would make a clean sweep and take the TQ in E-Buggy and also in Nitro Truggy, a class he barely runs. The 12-minute E8 A-main then again saw Darren excel as he took the win some four seconds in front of Kyosho’s Elliott Boots with Jamie Clancy (Team Associated) coming in a distant 3rd, a lap down on the two frontrunners.

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August 19, 2017

Kurzbuch on point with ENS Austria TQ

Simon Kurzbuch is the Top Qualifier at Round 3 of the Euro Nitro Series in Austria. The Shepherd driver secured his third TQ start of the season when, after a delayed start to Day 2 of qualifying at Aigen, due to overnight rain, he was fastest for a third time in Q5. An important bonus championship point for the reigning champion, starting behind him on the grid for the 45-minute A-Main tomorrow will be points leader Bruno Coelho who took Q4. The only other driver to TQ one of the five qualifying rounds, the return of rain causing the cancellation of Q6, Robert Pietsch will line up third ahead of a competitive looking Silvio Hächler. Qualifying fifth, Toni Gruber makes it five different manufacturers at the front end of the grid with Lars Hoppe completing the Top 6.

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August 18, 2017

Pietsch & Coelho post TQ runs in Austria

With the first official day of the Euro Nitro Series third round in Austria starting out looking like a Simon Kurzbuch affair, the second part of the day’s qualifying changed things up as Robert Pietsch and Bruno Coelho posted TQ runs to set the stage for a TQ shoot out tomorrow should the weather permit. Having taken Q1 and Q2, top seed Kurzbuch would make a rare driver error in the third round and Coelho would hit trouble also suffering a big crash while working his way through traffic. This left a much improved Pietsch to TQ ahead of Kurzbuch, Silvio Hächler and Dominic Greiner, Coelho ending up 10th. Suffering a bent chassis in the impact, Coelho would surprise nobody more than himself when due to a lack of time to fit a new one he would take his damaged car to a TQ run in the fastest time of the day. Finishing just 4/100ths of a second ahead of Kurzbuch, to deny him claiming an early TQ championship point, the result sets up a three way battle tomorrow to decide the Top Qualifier. With rain forecast for overnight and the morning, both the organisers and drivers are confident that the remaining two qualifiers can be run.

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August 18, 2017

Kurzbuch in control at ENS Austria as he takes Q1 & 2

Simon Kurzbuch remains in control at ENS Austria with the Shepherd driver taking the opening two rounds of qualifying. Having set the pace in practice at Aigen, the reigning champion would take both qualifier’s ahead of title rival Bruno Coelho, the Xray driver just 2/10ths of a second off in Q1 after hitting traffic late in the run. After a crash with Toni Gruber in Q1, Silvio Hächler completing the Top 3 of the opening qualifier, Robert Pietsch would have a better second attempt setting the third fastest time in Q2 ahead of Gruber, Hächler and Jilles Groskamp.

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August 18, 2017

Kurzbuch tops seeding at ENS Austria

With the newly resurfaced MAV Aigen-Schlägl the venue for the third round of the Euro Nitro Series, it is Simon Kurzbuch who leads a competitive 1:8 field at the end of practice. The Shepherd driver was fastest in both rounds of controlled practice and will go into a busy evening of qualifying as the top seed. With five different manufacturers in the Top 5, Kurzbuch was fastest over 3-consecutive laps from Robert Pietsch, Toni Gruber, Bruno Coelho and Merlin Depta. While a perfect summer day in Aigen, unfortunately the forecast in particular for tomorrow morning is less favourable so the decision has been made to run late and ensure 4 of the 6 scheduled qualifiers get run today in dry conditions.

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August 17, 2017

Coelho & Kurzbuch ready to resume title battle on all new Aigen surface

The Euro Nitro Series enters into the second half of the season this weekend as Aigen in Austria hosts Round 3 of the championship with the main focus of the weekend set to be on the 1:8 title battle between reigning champion Simon Kurzbuch and a surprise 1:8 contender Bruno Coelho. Located high in the Austrian mountains near the German border, this is Aigen’s fourth year on the ENS calendar and since last year’s visit when a new pit area greeted competitors, MAV Aigen have not let up on their commitment to providing racers with a top class facility. This year’s improvement is set to have a far greater direct effect on the racing than previous work with the track having just recently been completely resurfaced with new asphalt. This should make for a more level playing field with the previous surface presenting drivers with the challenge of high tyre wear. For Kurzbuch the track has been a happy hunting ground with the Shepherd driver the winner on the last two visits and second on the inaugural visit behind John Ermen. For Coelho, this will be only his second outing at the track, the Xray driver’s previous 2015 visit netting him fourth in the 1:10 A-Main.

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August 17, 2017

Jean-Pierrick Sartel sweeps French Night Race

The Noeux le Mines track in France played host to the “The Nocturne” 1/8th off-road night race recently. The race format would see two practice and three qualifying rounds followed by three finals for each main with the event kicking off on Saturday afternoon and ending on Sunday afternoon. Classes run were 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th E-Buggy and both categories were swept by Xray’s Jean-Pierrick Sartel who took the Nitro win from TLR’s Jerome Sartel while Felix Kogler (TLR) rounded out the podium in 3rd.

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