The Barcooff track in Barco, Emilia-Romagna, Italy held round four of the Italian 1/8th Off-road National Championship over the weekend. In the 45-minute F1 class A-main it was Mattia Menabue who came out successful by taking the win with a 2-lap margin on Adriano Fabianelli in second and Alessio Marini in third. Mirko Belli and Matteo Poletti would round out the top 5 result.
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Round eight of the Czech Open series was held on the bumpy and low grip Mlada Boleslav track. Max Gotzl (Xray) would come out fastest in the opening qualifier but it was Kaja Novotny (Xray) who grabbed the overall TQ after scoring wins in the remaining three rounds and also scoring the fastest time over five minutes. In the semifinals Kaja continued to dominate, taking the pole position for the A-main final in which he would again excel by taking the win from Serpent’s Jiri Mara with Stepan Silhavy (Xray) completing the top 3 podium result. In fifth Max Gotzl grabbed the Junior class win while Petr Javorovsky Sr. in 11th took the Senior class victory.
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Round three of the Portuguese Buggy National Championship was held this past weekend and in the 45-minute main final it was Serpent’s Carlos Duraes who took the win 1 lap ahead of former European Champion, Miguel Matias. Ricardo Monteiro (TLR) completed the top 3 another three laps down. The next and final round will now decide the overall championship.
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Simon Kurzbuch will start on pole position for tomorrow’s third round of the Euro Nitro Series, the Shepherd driver claiming the honour of Top Qualifier for a second time this season when he made it three TQ runs in a row in the third of the five qualifiers. Having set the pace yesterday at the unique Aigen track up in the hills of northern Austria there was no let up in the advantage the World Champion has over his rivals when qualifying started, although in Q4 reigning champion Dario Balestri did close the gap benefiting too from traffic to post his first TQ run. Balestri would also take the final qualifier, Kurzbuch crashing out while on for another TQ round. Robert Pietsch continued to shadow Kurzbuch and Balestri posting the 3rd fastest time in the opening four qualifiers.
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Teemu Leino is the Top Qualifier for the third round of the Euro Nitro Series, the Team Infinity driver dominating the opening three rounds of qualifying at the Austria event to wrap up pole position for tomorrow’s A-Main with two rounds of qualifying still to run. Winner of the Aigen event last year, the Finn has been the class of the 200mm field this weekend with only World Champion Dominic Greiner looking like providing any kind of serious challenge. Having only started his 1:10 campaign at Round 2 of the championship in Germany, where he took a narrow victory over Greiner, today’s TQ earns last year’s championship runner up an important bonus point.
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Simon Kurzbuch has opened qualifying for the 3rd round of the Euro Nitro Series with a TQ run. The Shepherd driver, who topped the time sheets in yesterday’s practice, was over a second & a half faster than Mugen’s Robert Pietsch with Capricorn’s Dario Balestri a similar margin off in third. Behind 1:8 powerhouse trio, ARC’s Lars Hoppe would post the 4th fastest time ahead of Team Infinity driver Carmine Raiola while running Serpent’s new 977 Evo 2, Merlin Depta completed the Top 6.
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Teemu Leino has TQ’d the opening round of 1:10 qualifying at Round 3 of the Euro Nitro Series in Austria. Having dominated practice yesterday, the qualifying top seed would open day 2 of the event by taking the first of the five 4-minute qualifier ahead of Dominic Greiner, the pair the only drivers to make 15-laps runs on the technical Aigen track. Behind them, Mugen’s Eric Dankel would post the third fastest time followed closely by the Capricorn of Thilo Tödtmann.
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It was business as usual for Simon Kurzbuch on the opening day of the Euro Nitro Series in Austria as the points leader topped seeding for qualifying at the third round. The Shepherd driver would set the pace from Dario Balestri although it was the Capricorn driver who would be fastest in the second of the two controlled rounds of practice getting to within 0.038 of a second of Kurzbuch’s CP1 time. Behind the former & current ENS champions, Robert Pietsch would complete the now traditional Top 3 ahead of the ARC trio Lars Hoppe, John Ermen and Round 2 podium finisher Toni Gruber.
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