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August 29, 2016

Griffin Hanna doubles at Southern Off-road Series Rd3

Round three of the Southern Off-road Series was held at the Augusta RC Supercross track this past weekend. In the Nitro Buggy class, Griffin Hanna, coming from the 8 spot on the grid, would take over the lead on lap 3 and from that moment on he never looked back to take the win in the 20-minute encounter from Evan Vail in second and Grayson Thompson in third. In 1/8th E-Buggy Griffin would put his buggy on the TQ spot and he would finish the 10-minute race a lap ahead of runner-up, Dustin Loden while Coty Ingram completed the top 3.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 29, 2016

Desoto & Apolaro score at 2016 Great Lakes Challenge

The 2016 edition of the famous Great Lakes Challenge was held by the One Eighth Racers of Toledo in Northwood, Ohio this past weekend. The 18th annual instalment again attracted some of the country’s fastest nitro on-road racers and in the premier class of 1/8th Open it was Joaquin Desoto Jr. who walked away with the win from veteran racer, Josh Cyrul in one of his rare outings these days while TQ Scott Kimbrow had to settle for third.

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August 29, 2016

Milan Holthuis wins at Dutch 200mm Nationals Rd5

Round five of the Dutch 1/10th 200m Nitro On-road Nationals was held in Utrecht over the weekend. The event started out on a wet track due to rain early in the morning but it would dry up later and the race would be held on a dry track. After the three rounds of qualifying Pedro Rombouts took the NK class TQ from Milan Holthuis and Julius Kloff and in the first of the two 20-minute A-mains it was Milan Holthuis (Capricorn) who came out fastest from Roy Bakker (Shepherd) while the second main was won by Julius Kloff (Serpent). Overall, Milan would walk away with the day’s win due to Julius’ third place in A1. Roy Bakker completed the podium result in third. With Daan Jacobs, who was absent from round five due to being on holiday and who already scored enough points to take the championship, the sixth round will see the fight for the remaining podium spots.

Thanks to Mark Holthuis for the report.

August 29, 2016

Jörn Neumann wins German Nitro Buggy Championships

The MRC Meiningen club played host to the second round of the German Nitro Buggy National Championship this past weekend. The opening event was won by Serpent’s Jörn Neumann but round two was dominated by young Agama driver Burak Kilic who came out fastest in the 40 minute main final one lap ahead of Philipp Guschl (Mugen) while Jörn ended the race some 7 seconds down on Philipp in third. The final podium spot was still enough for Jörn to take the overall title from Burak Kilic while SWorkz’ Micha Widmaier rounded out the National’s top 3 in third.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 29, 2016

Dominic Greiner takes German 200mm National title

Newly-crowned IFMAR 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring Car World Champion, Dominic Greiner (Serpent) was able to take over the momentum to last weekend’s German 200mm Nitro On-road Nationals as he brought home a popular win from Mugen’s Robert Pietsch and Capricorn driver Rico Kröber. Held in Ettlingen in the South of the country, the event’s practice rounds were dominated by Robert Pietsch and the former World and European Champion would also be on top of the timing sheets after the qualifiers, in front of Dominic, but the main final would then see the 2016 World Champion coming out successful some eight seconds in front of Robert while Rico had to settle for third four laps down.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 24, 2016

Simon Kurzbuch takes Swiss 1/8th Nitro On-road title

Last weekend the fifth round of the Swiss 1/8th On-road Championship took place at the Minidrom Sitterdorf. The weather was not the best meaning only one dry round of qualifying could be run. Simon Kurzbuch was the fastest and secured himself the TQ in front of Silvio Hächler. On Sunday the weather improved so was it possible to race all the finals under dry conditions. The main final was dominated once again by Simon who crossed the finishing line in first position some three laps in front of Mattia Pesenti with Remy Hasler completing the podium another two laps down. With four wins out of five races Simon Kurzbuch already secured himself the 2016 overall Swiss Championship title.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

August 23, 2016

Martin Wollanka signs with Hot Race Tyres

Hot Race Tyres have announced the signing of Austrian racer Martin Wollanka to their team. The factory Xray left former long-termn tyre sponsors Pro-Line right before this year’s European Championships and he will be using Hot Race Tyres’ range of competition tyres from now on. Martin has the following to say about the deal:

It was time to chance some things after around 10 years with Pro-Line tires, so I looked for another option. I start to test Hot Race Tyres some months ago and Iwas really impressive how they working fine on my Xray car. I drove very good laptimes and constant too. I was also impressed by the always equal quality of the tires, and the quick adaptation of any condition of the track and temperatures during the races. Nicola showed the potential of its product in on road, now becoming one of the pioneers of the On Road industry, and I want to help him to show it in offroad too! I’m already know it. I’m happy to be part of the Hot Race team.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

August 23, 2016

Henri Fredriksson takes Finnish 1/8th IC Track title

The fourth round of the Finnish 1/8th On-road national series was recently held at the Kuovola track. Good weather allowed a very nice and fair weekend of racing and after the qualifiers it was Teemu Saarinen who started from the top spot into the main final followed by Henri Frederiksson, Tomi Mairue and Tony Raikas. In the first minutes of the main final Teemu pulled away from the field until he hit a slower car. After this incident there was a great battle for the lead between Tomi and Henri. At the end Tomi won the race with Henri Fredriksson in second and Tony Raikas completing the podium. For Henri the second place was good enough to secure himself the 2016 overall Championship title.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]