Novarossi have announced the signing of Dominic Greiner to their on-road team. The former Max Power driver will use the Italian engines to power his Serpent rides in the coming season that will include both national and international appearances.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA recently held their Helloween Fun Race and in the 1/8th Expert Nitro Buggy class Mugen’s Adam Drake would take the TQ and win with his Novarossi-powered buggy. One lap down Brian Givens (HB/Novarossi) would come in second in the 20 minute final while Ronda Drake (Mugen/Rex) rounded out the podium in third.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
Christchurch recently played host for the recent New Zealand Buggy and Truggy National Championships. On Wednesday the track was very wet but the rain did manage to abate overnight and allowed some controlled practice until mid afternoon on Thursday when the skies opened up again and practice was done for the day. Friday there was to be four rounds of qualifying with the best two to count. It was clear from practice their were some fast local guys and a handful of fast Aussies had made the trip over. Friday dawned bright and sunny but very cold. The track was changing at an amazing rate making tire selection critical. After 3 rounds on Friday Aaron Stringer had two TQs for each class which gave him the overall TQ for both classes.
ENS podium finisher and Worlds finalist Andrea Pirani completed a clean sweep at the Fiesta Matrix race held last weekend in Valencia, Spain. Hosted by the AUTET club and with the event planned on three days, worrying weather forecasts for Sunday forced the organisers to compress the whole racing action into Saturday. Andrea took the TQ in every round to start first on the grid, followed by Serpent driver Nacho Lopez and the two locals of Signes Rubio and Revert. “Mr. Matrix” himself, Cristian Boni would start fifth on the grid, going on to take the lead in the 45 minutes final thanks to a mistake by Pirani, an then would stay in the first place until the 24 minute mark, when a bad tyre stop would send him back in fourth position. Pirani’s comeback wouldn’t find any resistance, and Andrea was able to put his WRC back on the top after the tyre stops, and went on to win the race with a two laps lead on the ARC debutant Cristiano Sartor and Cristian Boni, who would round up an all-Italian Podium.
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The third and final round of the Argentinian 1/10th 200mm On-road National Championship was held at the Hernan Matticoli track in Buenos Aires. On Saturday the TQ in the Pro class went to Sebastian Recio (Capricorn/Novarossi) while in the Master class Luciano Capel (Capricorn/Novarossi) came out fastest. In the 45 minute Pro class main final Agustin Cutini (Mugen/Novarossi) would cross the finish line in first place from Nicolas Bregante (Capricorn/Novarossi) and TQ holder Sebastian Recio (Capricorn/Novarossi). With the win Agustin also secured himself the overall title. In the Master class Luciano Capel (Capricorn/Novarossi) would end the 45 minute main final on the top spot from newly crowned Master class champion Marcelo Martin (Capricorn/Novarossi) on the runner-up spot. In third Damian Martin (Capricorn/Novarossi) rounded out the podium.
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Last weekend saw the running of the German Open Indoor Masters as part of the regional Friedrichshafen fair in Southern Germany. The five classes of 1/8th and 1/10th Nitro, 1/8th E Stock and Expert as well as E-Motorcycle attracted around 120 entries to race on the Winternats style asphalt track with wooden track barriers. These would prove to be pretty hard for the vehicles as a small mistake would destroy the car. In the 1/8th Nitro class polesetter Tobias Kerler (ARC/Ielasi Tuned) lead until the 23 minutes mark but a crash would promote Armin Baier (Capricorn/Picco) into the lead and he would take the day’s win from Manuela Raso (Serpent/Max) with Tom Krägefski (Xray/Orcan) rounding out the top 3 result. In the 30 minute final of the 1/10th 200mm class polesetter Domenic Greiner (Serpent/Novarossi) took the win only 1.1 seconds in front of Melvin Diekmann (Shepherd/Orcan). Thilo Tödtmann (Capricorn/Tesla) completed the podium some three laps down.
Thanks to Klaus Lechner for the report.
Blackpool and North West nitro recently hosted the second round of their Winter Series. Due to some rain on the Saturday the track started out muddy and this resulted in a slighter lower turnout than normal but all those that braved it however were rewarded with an awesome track after round 1. In the Nitro Buggy final Ashlee Owen came out successful, although he suffered from a broken rear hub bearing in the closing stages. James Hargreaves came in second, Allan Ward rounded out the top 3 result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Xray have announced the addition of young Czech off-road driver Milan Mudra to their Junior team. Milan is a very talented driver who so far has won a number of titles including the national 1/8th electric Junior Championship. Milan will participate in all major regional and national events as well as some selected international races such as the EOS and he has the following to say:
I want to thanks to Xray for their trust in me and I will do my best to represent the team in the best possible way. Since I have started to race RC cars when I was 10 years it was our Czech driver Martin Bayer who was the iconic racer to me and it was my biggest motivation to work as hard and as professionally as him and dreamed to be part of the Xray factory team. Now the dream came true and I am really thankful for it.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
