The 2015 KO Propo Grand Prix was held this past weekend. In the 1/8th Expert class Brando Cho came out successful from runner-up Ralph Burch. DJ Apolaro would round out the podium result. Behind the three Mike Truhe and Paolo Morganti finished in fourth and fifth respectively.
The BIG Return Race was held at the newly built BIG Hamburg track in Hamburg-Stapelfeld this past weekend. The race was highly anticipated as the traditional club was left without a track for several years due to loosing their old location for various reasons. The event was held in 1/8th Nitro and Electric classes and in the Nitro Buggy category it was Kyosho’s Timo Engelstätter (Kyosho/AKA) who came out successful from Lujas Strothmann (Mugen/AKA) and young Burak Kilic (TLR/Beta). Jan Sievert (Mugen/AKA) and Marcel Paul (SOAR/AKA) rounded out the top 5 result.
The final round of the Greek 1/8th Buggy National Championship was held at the Hobbytech track in Serres. Kyosho driver Papanikolaou took the pole position for the main final in front of Tasos Paparegas (Xray) and Makropoulos (Radiosistemi) and in the main final Tasos brought home the win with a 5 lap margin on Makropoulos. Tasos’ brother John (Xray) would round out the top 3 result. With the win Tasos secured himself another Greek National title in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class.
The final round of the Czech National 1/8th Off-road Championship was held this past weekend at the Horni Jeleni tack. In the Nitro Buggy class Serpent’s Jiri Mara made a clean sweep by taking the TQ after the qualifiers and winning the 30 minute main final in front of Max Gotzl (Xray) in second and Kaja Novotny (Team Durango) in third. The win also handed Jiri the overall championship title from Kaja on the runner-up spot and Max, who rounded out the podium in third place.
View the podium of the final round here
The final round of the North German 1/10th 200mm Nitro On-road regionals was held at the MSC Polizei Braunschweig track. The 30 minute final was won by Rico Kröber (Capricorn) in front of Bernd Hasselbring (Shepherd) while pre-event favorite Kristof Sielaff (KM) ran into trouble as he crashed into another car causing severe damage on his car. The repair cost him about five laps but he was able to recover to a fourth place behind Kai Bode (Serpent) which was enough to take the North German regional title from Rico Kröber and Bernd Hasselbring.
View the championship podium here
After winning three out of four rounds of qualifying today at the third round of the Italian 1/8th Nitro On-road Nationals on the outstanding Cassino track, Alberto Picco took the overall TQ and he will start from the pole position into tomorrow’s 60-minute long final. Behind him, the second spot on the grid was earned by Mirko Salemi, who TQ’d round one and kept his car consistently in the top three spots throughout the day. Third on the grid will be Francesco Tironi, who improved his car round by round until finishing only two seconds behind Picco in the last round despite being forced to refuelling one more time than Alberto. Marco Vanni, the championship leader, will start the fight for his first title from 6th.
The final round of the Swiss 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held in Courgenay Jura, Switzerland with 120 drivers in attendance. The multi surface track made for some spectacular racing with the championship being still open until the final round. Both Patrick Hofer (Team Associated) and Jeremy Pittet (HB) had a change to grab the title and the fight was on right from the first qualifier. Beside Jeremy and Patrick also Ronny Lüber (Team Associated) was in the mix for the day’s win. At the end Patrick put his car on the pole position for the finals followed by Ronny and Jeremy. At the start of the 45-minute A-main Patrick jumped into the lead followed by Jeremy and Ronny. In the closing stages Jeremy attacked Patrick who decided to bring home a secure second place which was enough to win him the overall title from Jeremy. Behind Jeremy and Patrick David Naldini (Kyosho) completed the top 3 result. In the overall championship Ronny Lüber came in third behind Patrick and Jeremy.
Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]
The final round of the Danish 1/8th On-road Championship was held at the Hillerød RC track. Shepherd driver Bo Nielsen finished qualifying in 2nd position behind his teammate Henrik Christensen but in the 30-minute main final it was Kurt Michaelsen who crossed the finish line in first position. The second place of Bo Nielsen was enough for the pre-event championship favourite to claim the Danish National Championship title. Henrik Christensen in 2nd and Jon Pedersen in 3rd place rounded out an all-Shepherd podium in the overall ranking.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
