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May 25, 2015

BRCA 1/8th On-road Nationals Rd3 – Report

The third round of this year’s BRCA 1/8th Circuit National Championship was hosted by the Mendip circuit in Weston Super Mare with the main championship contenders of Green and Wood being in attendance again after ETS and Holiday commitments. In Qualifying, it was Green who had the upper hand all day with the chasing pack consisting of Tim Wood, Neal King and Andy Hastings. The gap between the top 2 was around 4 seconds in 5 minutes which gave Green a good advantage for the finals. Tire wear was very high all weekend since this track is not used much in recent years and would be a big factor in the 30 minute main final.

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May 25, 2015

Eyetard takes French 1/8th On-road Nationals Rd2

Thomas Eyetard takes French 1/8th On-road Nationals Rd2

The 2nd round of the French 1/8th On-road Nationals was held in Marseilles in the South of France. Despite only qualifying 4th and having a bad crash at the start of his semifinal Thomas Eytard was able to take win in the main final. Behind Thomas, who scored his maiden 1/8th nationals win, Jerom Papaconstantinos came in 2nd, Christophe Louis rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 25, 2015

Robert Batlle wins Spanish Nitro Buggy Nats Rd2

Round 2 of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held this past weekend in Ripoll. Mugen’s Robert Batlle took the TQ during Saturday’s qualifiers from Borja Hernandez (Mugen) who was some 6 seconds behind in 2nd place. Oscar Baldo (Mugen) rounded out the top 3 result after the qualifiers. In Saturday’s main final Robert again showed a World-class performance by winning the 45 minute encounter by 2 laps. Behind him, the race was on for the runner-up spot with the 2nd to 7th placed drivers all finishing on the same lap. Ultimately the runner-up spot went to Jaume Figuls (Mugen) who secured the 2nd place only 0.5 seconds in front of Daniel Bernabe (SOAR). Another 1.3 seconds down Juan Carlos Canas (HoBao) completed the top 4 result.

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May 25, 2015

Martin Bayer doubles at Czech 1/8th Off-road Nats Rd1

The first round of the Czech 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held this past weekend at the track of Horni Jeleni. The weather forecast did not look too promising but fortunately the race would take place in dry conditions. New for this year is an updated race format with the Nationals being 1-day events and with the best two drivers after qualifying would directly proceed into the main finals. In the 30 minute main final of the Nitro Buggy class Martin Bayer took the win from Jiri Mara and Jan Zamis.

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May 24, 2015

Yannick Aigoin takes French Nitro Buggy Champs Rd3

The third round of the French Nitro Buggy Championship was held this weekend at the track of Belfort. The 45 minute main final saw a terrific battle between Yannick Aigoin (Xray) and Renaud Savoya (HB) for pretty much the whole time with the better end for Yannick who won the main one lap ahead of Renaud. Jerome Sartel (TLR) rounded out the podium another lap down.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

May 22, 2015

Migneco wins at Maltese National Champs Rd4 & 5

Recently Roberto Migneco managed to dominate both round 4 and 5 of the 1/10 Nitro Touring Maltese National Championship. Driving two flawless finals with tone-to-tone wins he scored the maximum points with the help of his trusted mechanic and pitman Edward. The 6th and final round of the championship will be race in June with Roberto having the best chanced to be crowned as the 2015 champion.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 22, 2015

Danny Bartholomew doubles at Midwest RC Tour Rd2

Round 2 of the Midwest RC Tour was held at Thunder Road Hobbies in E. Moline, IL. A pretty bleak forecast hurt the entry count a little but still had 90 entries spread across Nitro Truggy, E-Buggy and Nitro Buggy. The layout was pretty straight forward with a couple of critical timing jumps. Qualifying was really close but as the 2nd round of qualifying came around the Sun broke thru and the track started changing drastically.

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May 21, 2015

Local Champions Tour Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Local Champions Tour, a new race series in the South of Germany, was held at the Türkheim track in the four on-road classes of 1/8th Nitro and Electric as well as 1/10th Nitro and Electric. Due to a not-so-perfect weather forecast only 31 drivers attended Saturday’s practice and overnight rain made for a wet track on Sunday morning. The track conditions only allowed for two qualifying rounds followed by bump-up finals and triple 15 minute A-mains, a new race format that combines both nitro and electric rules. At the end of the day Tobias won the 1/8th Nitro class from Bastian Gramlich and Alexander Bremberger. The 1/8th Electric class was won by Alex Kestler, the 1/10th Nitro win went to Philipp Kieble and 1/10th Electric had Thomas Werner walking away with the overall victory. Round 2 of the series will be held in Rötz on the 27th and 28th of June.

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