Last weekend’s Portuguese 1/8th buggy nationals saw Serpent’s Carlos Duraes take the win, having earlier taking the top qualifying spot, in front of TLR driver Ricardo Monteiro. Xray’s Miguel Matias finished 3rd to round out the podium.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The final round of the Austrian 1/8th off-road national championship took place in Graz. Bad weather on Saturday meant the race would actually start on Sunday. In the main final Martin Wollanka (Xray/FX) took the win from tone to tone for a clean sweep of the championship as he won each of the national rounds this year.
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The final round of this year’s BRCA 1/8th nitro buggy nationals took place at Slough Remote World Model Car Club. Kyosho’s Elliott Boots put his Reds-powered buggy on pole position for the 45 minute final in front of TQ Lee Martin (Mugen/Beat) and Neil Cragg (Team Associated/LRP). In the main Neil only managed to turn 3 laps until he had to retire making way for a battle between Lee and Elliott. Both ended the final being separated by only 6 seconds with the better end for Lee. Jack Embling (Mugen/Novarossi) came in 3rd to complete the podium. Graham Alsop (Hot Bodied/Bullitt) finished in 4th position while championship favourite Darren Bloomfield (Agama/Bullitt) had to settle for 5th. In the overall championship Darren then ended tie on points with Lee Martin but a better tie-breaker handed Darren the overall title from Lee in 2nd and Elliott Boots who ended his 2014 BRCA campaign in 3rd overall.
Image: Lee Martin
Last weekend the Halifax Track in Yorkshire hosted the sixth round of the BRCA 1/10th IC Championship. The Saturday free practice started out damp but quickly dried allowing fast laps to be set. Mark Green led the way in the 200mm class with his Serpent 748 Natrix ahead of the European Junior Champion, Alex Thurston, with his Serpent 747. Joe Kerry was very close behind, running his Serpent 748 Natrix for the first time. In the Sports GT class, again Glyn Beal was setting the pace with his new Serpent 748 Natrix with Peter Hellawell and Paul Bellinger his closest competitors with their Serpent cars.
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The official 2014 1/10th 200mm Pre Worlds took place this weekend at the Huge RC circuit in Bangkok, Thailand which will host the Worlds event in November. A small but quality field would attend and it was reigning World Champion Meen Vejrak who took the pole position for KM Racing, to secure the only direct spot in the final ahead of Xray’s Alexander Hagberg, Shepherd’s Jilles Groskamp with Chavit Singupta and Takaaki Shimo completing the top 5. In the first semi final it would be Jilles Groskamp that took the win by 2 laps ahead of HB driver Andy Moore in 2nd with Mongkolpan Lomrose 3rd and US driver JJ Wang (Mugen) in 4th, bumping into the main after a troubled qualifying. In the second semi Hagberg would take the win, his faster time giving him 2nd on the grid behind Meen, with Sinnosuke Yokoyama in 2nd, Suruth V in 3rd, Ongsanit Simaraks 4th with Chavit Sirigupta taking the final main position in 5th. In the final it was Hagberg who jumped into the lead at the start and lead for the first third of the race, in what was very difficult high traction conditions, in front of Groskamp before his car became difficult to driver and started to spin out. This allowed the Dutch driver Groskamp to the front where he could win by 3 laps ahead of Hagberg with Thai driver Mongkolpan Lomrose 2 laps further back in 3rd.
The RC Arena track in Greve, close to Copenhagen, hosted the final round of the Danish nitro on-road nationals. During Saturday’s qualifying Claus Ryeskov took TQ while Rasmus B. Nielsen and Martin Hansen had to settle for 2nd and 3rd respectively. A damp track for the final made the tyre choice difficult and drivers started both with rubber and wet foam tyres. Martin Lissau was one of the rain rubber tyre drivers and at first there was not enough water on the track making things difficult for him. Claus Ryeskov started on wet foams which at first looked like a good decision but some 7 minutes into the final more rain came meaning Martin would start to chase for the lead. As the final went on things got more and more worse and at the end it was only Martin and Claus who tried to keep the engines running. Ultimately Martin took the first place with Claus in tow. Tom Limkilde completed the podium in 3rd. In the 2014 championship Martin Lissau took the title from runner-up Claus Ryeskov and Rasmus B. Nielsen.
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The 2014 Novarossi On-road Trophy was held at the Miniautodromo Jody Scheckter track in Fiorano with the best Italian drivers and some foreign guests in attendance. In the premier 1/8th class Lamberto Collari scored a close win less than 2 seconds in front of Andrea Pirani. Andrea Lorenzi completed the podium in 3rd. Swiss driver Simon Kurzbuch came in 4th, Paolo Morganti from the U.S. rounded out the top 5 result.
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The 7th and final round of the Swiss 1/8th nitro off-road championship took place in the middle of the city of Morges near the lake Geneva. Run on a temporary grass track the race attracted a lot of spectators and around 120 drivers. A mix of high and low speed corners combined with only a few small jumps and a table top made for some close racing. During Saturday’s qualifying Robin Frischkopf TQ’d two rounds out of four and only missed overall TQ to Jeremy Pittet by one point. The 3rd place on Saturday went to Marc Heim.
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