During last weekend’s FEMCA Asia Championships held at the TRC track in Hong Kong, KM Racing’s Takahaka Shoki grabbed the win in the premier 1/8th scale class some four laps in front of Mugen driver Chui Kai Leung. Wu Zheng Zhong (Serpent) rounded out the podium in 3rd, finishing another 3 laps down.
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The Grand Opening WillSon Track Championship was held at the WillSon track in Denpasar, Bali. The track was designed and built by same track maker as the Cnetic track in Surabaya and thus it offers a fun and challenging layout. Racers from Singapore, Jakarta, Surabaya, Bali, and Medan attended the race with the race format seeing four rounds of 7 minute qualifiers followed by bump-up finals. After the qualifiers Jason Nugroho took the TQ and he started from pole position into the semifinals where he only finished in 3rd place following some issues with traffic. Starting from 3rd into the main final Jason had some more issues with traffic but around the 50 minute mark he was able to take the lead and never looked back to take the win in front of John Agus and Andre Irawan who came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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The recent Philippine Masters, held in Manila, saw Team Associated’s Kyle McBride coming in 1st in the Nitro Buggy class followed by Novarossi teammate Adam Drake (Mugen). In the Truck category Adam Drake came out successful in front of fellow Novarossi driver Clemen Pancho.
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The opening round of the Austrian 1/8th Nitro Buggy Nationals was held at the WMW Fehring track. Dominic Bauer (Mugen) took the TQ after the qualifiers and he went on to win the main final after a hard fought battle with 2nd placed Michael Nalukowy (Kyosho) and 3rd placed Patrick Schweinzer (Mugen). Jürgen Trieb (Mugen) and Hupo Hönigl (Serpent) rounded out the top 5 result.
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A track where back in 1978 a 6-year-old Lamberto Collari would begin a career that has brought him 9-time World Champion titles, today the legend of the sport gave his rivals a master class in how to execute the perfect final as he took victory in the season opener of the Euro Nitro Series. Now owner of the L.Collari RC Raceway, Collari claimed his third ENS win by a full lap over Top Qualifier Dario Balestri with Andrea Pirani completing the podium in Bologna. The honour of best non Italian fell to defending champion Simon Kurzbuch who would finish 5th behind Alberto Picco after a difficult race.
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The first round of this year’s French 200mm Nitro On-Road Nationals was held in Toulouse. After the qualifiers Quentin Leroux (Capricorn/Team Orion) had grabbed the TQ honours in front of Michael Derderian (Xray/Gimar) and Basile Concialdi (KM/Novarossi). The final that saw a nice battle for the lead between Quentin and Michael with the latter being on a different tyre strategy which paid out at the end as he was able to grab the overall win from Quentin, while Basile rounded out the podium in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The opening round of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Off-Road Nationals was held this past weekend and to the surprise of many the race marked the end of an era. After 9 years of dominating the championship, except for two races were he was hampered by technical issues, Robert Batlle did not win a round of the Spanish 1/8th nationals. Instead round one saw a legit win of Oscar Baldo with whom Robert had some very nice battles until the very last lap. Oscar’s race for the win seemed to be in doubt early in the main when he crashed and dropped to 12th place and even stalled the engine but with a great recovery he managed to get to the top of the field again to fight with Robert and to take the win. Behind Oscar and Robert, Bryan Baldo, who started from the pole position, rounded out the all-Mugen podium in 3rd.
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The 2015 FEMCA Asia Championships were held at the TRC track in Hong Kong this weekend. In the 1/10th 200mm class Surikarn Chaidajsuriya grabbed his 5th FEMCA title by winning the hour long main final 12 laps ahead of Wong Wai Kei. Felix law completed the podium another two laps down.
Image: Surikarn Chaidajsuriya
