The opening round of the Czech Nitro On-road Championship was held in Brno in very hot weather conditions. Michal Abrahamek (Xray/O.S.) would take the pole position in the growing 1/8th class. For the 45 minute main final Michal opted to go for softer tyres and 4:30 minute fuel stints and at the end his efforts paid out as he won the main some 3 laps ahead of Jirka Vysin (Xray/O.S.) and Martej Benda (Xray/O.S.).
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round 3 of the Western German Nitro On-road Championships were recently held at the fast Hamm track with a total of 53 drivers in attendance. John Ermen captured his second win in 1/8th Nitro On-road class 1 while his ARC team mate and fellow countryman Benny Ciere celebrated his first victory in 1/8th class 2. In 1/10th scale it was guest driver Dirk Wischnewski (Shepherd) who took the victory from 2nd placed Marc Fischer (Serpent). In 1/8th scale class 1 John Ermen already took his third pole position of his 2015 campaign with his Reds-powered ARC. Only Ermen, Tobias Hepp (Mugen) and Michael Salven (Serpent) were able to complete 20 laps with a superb six seconds advantage for Ermen. But the Dutch racer was lucky to escape some technical troubles during his semifinal to finish third behind Salven and Christian Wurst (Capricorn). The second semifinal went to Hepp followed by Karl-Heinz Meister (Serpent) and Frank Schewiola (Capricorn).
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This past weekend the Miniautodromo Internazionale Mario Rosati in Gubbio, Italy hosted the Hot Race Nitro Cup. Run in the three classes of 1/8th on-road, 1/10th National with free tyres and additive as well as 1/10th World with spec tyres the race attracted a good amount of drivers. The TQ in the 1/8th class went to Jonathan Marchetti (Mugen/Reds) in front of Nicola Marrone (Xray/Max) and Domenico Calce (Serpent/Max). The main final then saw Marchetti carrying on to dominate while Marrone and Calce were forced to retire. This allowed Sandro Sammarini (Serpent/OS) and Enrico Gallorini (Serpent/Max) to grab podium spots in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
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Round 3 of the Portuguese Nitro On-road National Championship was held at the São João da Madeira track in Oporto in the north of the country. The track was recently revived after not being in use for some ten years and due to the surface being pretty green tyre wear would be an issue for both the 1/8th and 1/10th classes. Bruno Coelho was the man to beat in both categories and so he would take the TQ after the qualifiers with a margin of a lap to the 2nd place drivers. In the 1/8th final Bruno’s biggest competitor for the win scored a DNF due to an engine failure only ten laps into the race. From that moment on Coelho was able to cruise to the win with his Xray prototype and despite a total of three tyre changes Bruno won the race some 7 laps in front of 2nd placed Hugo Exposto (Mugen).
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Due to the so far disappointing number of entries for this year’s IFMAR Large Scale World Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, IFMAR have announced the addition of a second class, 1/8th Nitro GT. Held as an open event the “World Cup GT 1/8th” will be run under ROAR and EFRA rules to make for more racing action during the event that will take place from the 4th to 12th of September. With 1/8th GT being an up and coming class in all four blocks the international governing body will review the possible need for a World Championship as it will take a look into the schedule of the large scale class in order to make adjustments to the international schedule as well. The IFMAR announcement can be found after the break and also here (PDF file) where you can also have a look at the technical rules for the 1/8th class event.
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Flash Point Racing Fuel have announced the signing of Adam Drake. Adam has been testing and running Flash Point since February, but has now made it official that he will be running Flash Point Racing Fuel exclusively and will be helping with the development of the fuel and future products.
Source: Flash Point Racing Fuel [flashpointrc.com]
The first Ielasi Tuned Trophy was held at the Pista Leno in Italy this past weekend as Italian frontrunner Daniele Ielasi invited the fastest drivers in Italy to compete in the two classes of 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road. In the 1/8th class it was Mirko Salemi who grabbed the TQ and ultimately the winning honours. Francesco Tironi came in 2nd, Walter Salemi rounded out the top 3 result. In the 200mm Touring class TQ Luca Redaelli came out successful from Manuel Strano in 2nd and Mattia Lorenzetti in 3rd.
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This past weekend the BRCA Truggy and E-Buggy National was held at the new Wakefield track. The team had managed to turn at track from flat to a raceable venue in only 8 weeks with a tiny team of workers. With the track being very loose it was a different experience for the drivers and Elliott Boots was able to make the best of it by coming out fastest in the opening Truggy qualifier. The two other runs weren’t so great for Elliott, breaking the car in round 2 and being stuck in traffic in round 3 and this handed the Jack Embling the pole position for the finals which was further helped by some computer issues. At the start of the 30 minute Jack made a small error over the first jump section allowing Elliott to slip through. From that moment on the Boots controlled the remainder of the final and he was able to finish the main one lap ahead of the 2nd place driver.
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