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July 18, 2017

Western German IC Track Championships Rd4 – Report

The fourth and final round of the Western German Nitro On-road Championship was held in Velp in the Netherlands. Nearly fifty racers made their entry for the event on the flowing and challenging 260-meter track. On Saturday, everybody was on fire using every single minute for intense practice and preparations. Just when the drivers briefing was held on Sunday morning, it started to drizzle which effected the early rounds of qualifying heats. Most of the drivers opted to do some laps on the slippery track in order to get into the ranking lists but racing at full throttle was on again during round three of the heats.

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July 18, 2017

Mustafa Alp doubles at TORC Nationals Rd3

Round 3 of Turkish TORC Nationals was held at the Efmod track recently in hot and windy weather conditions. Xray’s Mustafa Alp made clean sweeps in the Nitro Touring and Electric Prostock classes to secure the pole positions for the main finals. In the opening two electric A-mains Mustafa never looked back to take dominant win while the battle for the runner-up spot was between young Ahmet and Poyraz. In A1 and A2 Poyraz held the upper hand thanks to fresher tyres but in A3, that Mustafa sat out, Ahmet took the win which equalled the overall 2nd place for him while Poyraz had to settle for 3rd.

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July 18, 2017

Mickael Brandt takes Swedish 200mm title

The Swedish On-road National Championship was recently held at the Örebro track in 1/8th Nitro On-road, 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring and 1/10th Electric Touring categories. In the 200mm class main final Mickael Brandt would immediately open a gap on the field right from the start despite a hard-charging Per-Ola Hard that in turn was chased by Anders Mikkelsen and Petter Solvberg. Shortly before his 4:30 pitstop Mickael’s car ran out of fuel and it looked like everything was lost for Mickael but Per-Ola’s car also stopped while leaving the pits and so Brandt was back in the game. While trying to recover, Mickael made a mistake while passing a car on the main straight which send him further down the field. While making his way up the field again Mickael lost more time due to a flame out but pulling the fastest laps allowed him to gain a lot of places and right before his planned tyre change at half-time he was back in the lead again. Drivers on different tyre strategies mixed things up in the second half of the race but ultimately Mickael was able to bring home the win some two laps in front of Per-Ola Hard while Erika Hellquist rounded out the podium result a couple of laps down.

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July 17, 2017

Jason Nugroho wins Jakarta Buggy Champs Rd3

The third round of the Jakarta Regional Buggy Championship was held at the Graha Raya track in Serpong, West Java. A total of 42 drivers attended the event and after the three rounds of qualifying it was Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) with the TQ position. After the 45-minute A-main things looked a bit different with Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) taking a very narrow win only some 1.3 seconds ahead of Adrian while Chopin Yusuf (TLR/Kabuto) rounded out the top 3 podium result.

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July 17, 2017

Nicolas Bregante successful at ACAR Championship Rd2

The second round of the Argentinean ACAR Championship was recently held in the City of Bragado. In the Pro Buggy class it was Nicolas Bregante with the win from Matias Lence in 2nd and Gianni Lupacciolu 3rd. The Buggy Master class was won by Mauro Lence from Damian Montiel and Alejandro Di Meola while the Open Buggy win went to Federico Bonzas. The 1/8th E-Buggy victory went to Ivo Novelli from Kevin Negruzzi and Damian Montiel Finally in the Truggy class it was Gustavo Alberdi who snatched the top spot.

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July 17, 2017

Nuno Durães wins Portuguese 1/8th IC Track Nats Rd4

The fourth round of the Portuguese 1/8th On-road National Championship recently took place in Maia. After the qualifying José Félix took the overall TQ followed by Nuno Durães and Raul Prata. Right from the start of the main final, José Félix and Nuno Durães found themselves in a nice battle for the first spot, but at the end was once again Nuno Durães (Mugen/Team Orion/Nitrolux/HotRace) who won the main, also scoring the fastest lap, from Pedro Silva (Mugen/O.S./MLC/HotRace) and Solange Araújo (Mugen/Novarossi/Nitrolux/HotRace)

Thanks to Nuno Durães for the report.

July 17, 2017

Yaniv Sivan takes 2017 Israeli League Nitro Buggy title

The 9th and final round of the Israeli League Nitro Series and the 5th round of the Electric Series were held last week at the Negev Speed racing track in super hot weather conditions. Kyosho’s Yaniv Sivan would take the TQ in both classes but in the Nitro Buggy main final it was Ofir Avitan (Mugen) who came out successful after Yaniv suffered two engine flameouts. Tal Siles (Mugen) came in 2nd while Yaniv at least managed to secure the final podium spot. Overall in the championship and with seven of the nine rounds counting it was Yaniv with the victory from Ofir Avitan and Ido Carmon.

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July 17, 2017

Schäfer wins 200mm class at Swiss IC Track Nationals Rd4

The recent round 4 of the Swiss Nitro On-road National Championship was held in Langenthal. While Simon Kurzbuch took the win in the 1/8th class it was Xray’s Michael Schäfer who TQ’d and won the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring category. The TO secured Michael the pole position for the A-main and saved him from having to attend the wet semifinals. At the start of the 30-minute A-main Michael was closely followed by teammate Traugott Schär but a flawless pace and a fast working pit crew kept him on top of things and so he was able to walk away with the win from Traugott in 2nd while Philipp Bühler in 3rd rounded out an all-Xray podium.

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