The opening round of the Italian Nitro On-road National Championship was held at the Fiorano track over the weekend. In the 1/8th Expert class, 9-times World Champion, Infinity’s Lamberto Collari took the win in the highly contested main final with Shepherd’s Marco Vanni coming in 2nd and Infinity’s Dario Balesti rounding out the podium in 3rd.
The opening round of the Portuguese North division regionals was held this past weekend. In the 45-minute main final it was Pedro Miguel Sousa who took the win some two laps in front of Fernando Almeida with Ricardo Abreu completing the top 3 podium result some two seconds short of Fernando.
Source: Maxima Europe [facebook.com]
The second round of the French 1/8th Off-road National Championship was held in Charmes-sur-Rhones over the weekend. TLR’s Renaud Savoya would come out on top after the five rounds of qualifying but it was Jerome Aigoin (Xray/Ultimate) who would start from pole position into the 45-minute main final. Due to smaller issues for both Renaud and Jerome it was Yannick Aigoin (Xray/Ultimate) who capitalised, taking the win one lap ahead of Jerome while Renaud (TLR/RC Concept) had to settle for third overall.
Round one of the East German Nitro On-road regionals was held in Senftenberg on a technical low-grip track. In the 1/8th IC class Toni Gruber (WRC/Novarossi) would take the TQ after the qualifiers in front of the Shepherd/Mikrotek duo of Michael Kammer and Torsten Müller. After the start of the main final Toni took the lead in front of Torsten and Michael. Due to a rain shower shortly before the start of the main the track was pretty difficult to tackle, leading to early mishaps of Toni and later Torsten. Later and due to a thunderstorm the main had to be called a day some 17 minutes into the race, handing Michael Kammer the win from Xray driver Wilfried Stecker with Torsten Müller rounding out the podium.
Thanks to Torsten Müller for the report.
The opening round of the Hungarian On-road Nationals was held at the Pécs track. In the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Modified class Zsolt Bajusz (Xray) was in control of things all day, taking the TQ and pole position for the 30-minute main final and also winning the race after leading the main for most of the time. Peter Taal (Serpent) had to settle for second while Tamas Sagi (Serpent) rounded out the top 3 podium result.
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Italian company Capricorn have announced the return of Kyle Branson to their team. Following a short stint with newcomers Infinity, Kyle will campaign Capricorn cars in 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road as well as in 1/10th electric touring classes at events such as the ENS and the European and World Championships. Kyle says:
I want to thank Patrizio Rossi for welcoming me back to rejoin Capricorn after a short departure. I really look forward to working close with Patrizio and the rest of the team in the future. The first race I will attend will be round 1 of the ENS in May.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
The Hernan Matticoli circuit of La Tablada in Buenos Aires, Argentina will play host to the 27th South American Championships from the 27th to 30th of April. The event already drew sign-ins from countries such as Brazil, Chile Ecuador, Peru, the USA and Argentina and it will see the running of 1/8th on-road, Touring and GT classes. More information and sign-up can be found on the official event website here.
The 2017 season of the popular German Nitro-West-Masters series is about to start this coming weekend. Round one of the series, that mainly visits tracks in the western part of the country, will take place at the fast track Hamm track, home of last year’s EFRA 40+ European Championships and the German Nationals. Already in its ninth season the Nitro-West-Masters cares about the popular 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road classes that got some additional swing with the introduction of the Hobby-Cup Stock engine classes some years ago.
