The first round of the Estonian 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at the Tallinn Festival Grounds in Tallinn. The annual grass race was run in the two classes of 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th E-Buggy and in the Nitro class it was Rainer Ressar who took the win from Hendrik Lainemäe in 2nd and Kuldar Ilus in 3rd.
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The Grand Final of the Xray Challenge was held on the outdoor track of the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia. Good mood, fantastic atmosphere, nearly perfect weather conditions and great racing performances from the drivers made for a fantastic event that attracted both local racers and Xray’s international racing team. In the 1/8th Nitro class Tomas Krägefski won the race after a thrilling last lap when he was able to pass Tomas Liptak for the lead. Veteran racer Igor Liptak rounded out the podium in 3rd spot.
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The SG50 Singapore Open Race was held in the three classes of 1/8th GT, 1/8th On-road and 1/10th On-road with a great turnout of national and international racers from Italy, Japan, UK, Thailand, and Australia. In the premier 1/8th On-road class the round 1 and 2 TQs were captured by Nelson Lee while round 3 was basically a race between Carmine Riola, Jesse Davis and Nelson Lee. All three racers were separated by only about 1 second until the final lap and unfortunately, Nelson Lee ran out of fuel and he DNF’d in the last qualifyier resulting in a start from the 7 spot on the grid. Up front Carmine started from pole position into the main and Nelson tried to work his way through the field to make up lost ground. During the second round of fuel stops, Nelson moved up to 4th position and after a mid-race stop for tyres he found himself lapping half a second per lap faster on the larger tyres. He now was in 2nd position and only one lap behind the leader Erwin Luhur. Pushing himself to the limit, Nelson Lee continued to clock fast lap times on the fresh rubber and thanks to swift refuelling, he took over the lead after the last rounds of pit stops to take the win from Erwin and Trin.
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The 2015 ROAR Nitro On road Nationals was held at Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee Florida in the ROAR classes of 1/10 Touring Car and 1/8 Open as well as the two exhibition classes of 1/8 Masters and 1/8 GT. In 1/10th Touring Car the qualifying saw DJ Apolaro on top of the timing sheets in front of Mike Swauger and Paolo Morganti. The top 4 would be rounded out by Paul Lemieux. In 1/8th Open Paolo Morganti took the TQ from DJ Apolaro and Mike Swauger. Vincent Jackson came in 4th. The top 4 would qualified directly to the main finals while the others had to go through the semifinals to proceed to the hour long A-mains.
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The third round of the Cyprus Star Nitro Buggy Championship was held at the AG Metal Track in Limassol in perfect weather conditions. Young Xray driver Andreas Thrasyvoulou was able to take the TQ after the qualifiers and he then went on to win the main final also. Sotiris Taifas (JQProducts) came in 2nd, Simos Tikkis (Kyosho) rounded out the podium in 3rd.
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The second round of the Spanish Nitro On-road Nationals was held at the Asoger Club near Madrid in the classes of 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm. In the 200mm class Nacho Lopez (Serpent) took the overall TQ in front of team mate Victor Palaez after winning four of the five qualifiers. Despite his car feeling not as good in the direct qualifiers practice as in the qualifiers he easily won the main final thanks to some last minute adjustments and a perfect, mistake-free run and swift refuelling. Runner up in the 30-minute final was Adrian Ortiz (Shepherd) in front of 3rd placed Jose Miguel Blanco (Shepherd).
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The second round of the German East division nitro on-road regionals was held in Leipzig. In 1/8th scale class 1 Serpent’s Toni Gruber took the win after coming from 4th on the grid. Toni soon was able to move his way up the field and eventually took over the lead after a mistake of the front runner. Mugen’s Torsten Müller came in 2nd while Rico Kröber (Capricorn) rounded out the podium of the fastest 1/8th class.
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The opening round of the Dutch 1/8th Nitro On-road National Championship was held last weekend at the Real 80 track in Groningen in the North of the Netherlands. The weekend started with free practice on Friday which resumed on Saturday but unfortunately changing weather conditions with some very light rain made for difficult track conditions and a lot of uncertainties in terms of the setup. However on Sunday the weather changed to the better and the race would start as planned. In the 30-minute final of the premier NK class Martin Zevenhoven (Serpent) came out successful from Ad Vissenberg (ARC) and Marcel Schouten who rounded out the podium in 3rd.
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