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September 5, 2014

Collari & Redaelli win at Novarossi On-road Trophy

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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September 5, 2014

Swiss 1/8th off-road championship Rd7 – Report

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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September 4, 2014

Mizan wins Malaysian National Championship Rd4

The 4th round of the Malaysian 1/10th scale 200mm National Championship took place at the 3Stone Park GP track in Shah Alam with around 40 drivers in attendance. Top Malaysian Shepherd racer Mizan showed good performance and claimed the TQ with a gap of 3 seconds to Kimie and Baha in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the 45 minute main final Mizan crossed the finish line two laps in front of Kimie with Baha completing the podium another 2 laps down. Scoring the maximum points Mizan extended his lead in the national championship standings with two races to go.

Source: Shepherd [team-sheperd.com]

September 4, 2014

Josh Wheeler doubles at Labor Day Shootout

This past weekend in Chico, CA A-Main Hobbies and The Dirt Racing put on the Labor Day Shootout and the last round of the US Pro Cup. For the US Pro Cup it came down to Ryan Lutz and Josh Wheeler to compete for the title and a $5,000 price. Qualifying started Saturday morning with great weather and the track looking good. In the Truggy class Josh ended up 3rd the first round with Ryan Lutz getting the TQ and Phillip Atondo with 2nd. The second and third round had Wheeler getting the TQ in both rounds which gave him the overall TQ for the Truggy class.

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September 3, 2014

Widmeier wins German 1/8th nitro buggy junior title

Serpent’s newly signed Micha Widmeier has won the 2014 German 1/8th nitro buggy junior title at last weekend’s Munich round of the championship. After coming in 5th a week ago at the first race in Landhut and finishing 18th during the second and final round in Munich last weekend, Micha ended up on a combined 8th place in the overall championship. This result handed him the title as the best junior in the 2014 national championship.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 3, 2014

Xray Challenge Hungary – Announcement

Xray announce the Xray Challenge Hungary for the weekend of the 7th of September. The race will be held at the World-famous Hungaroring track and sees the running of modified and stock 1/10th electric touring car classes as well 1/10th 200mm nitro, 1/8th nitro and 1/5th large scale racing. More information about the race and registration can be found here.

September 3, 2014

Swedish nitro on-road championships – Report

The annual Swedish nitro on-road championships took place at the Staffanstorp Raceway close to Malmö in the South of Sweden. Drivers came from all over Sweden and also some guest drivers from Denmark and Norway made the trip to compete with the best Swedish drivers. Saturday morning started with a dry track despite some rain on Friday evening, but during practice and in the first round of qualifying the rain came back. At the end only the final round of qualifiers would count as a dry round for all drivers.

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September 3, 2014

Rainer Ressar wins 1/8th class at Baltic Champs

This year’s Baltic Championships were held at the Peleka-Cuka track with some of the best racers from the Baltic states in attendance. The 1/8th nitro buggy final was highly affected by the weather conditions that changed massively throughout the whole weekend. In the beginning the race was lead by pole position holder Hendrik Lainemae followed by Taurius Sinkevicius. With the rain coming and going, Rainer Ressar, who fall back early in the race, made the best out of the difficult conditions as he climbed up the field to take the 2nd spot in the closing stages of the final despite a broken wheel due to contact with a concrete track marker. A few laps later 1st place driver Hendirk made an error causing a flameout, handing Rainer the lead. At the end he won the race a lap ahead of Taurius Sinkevicius and Martin Steins, who rounded out the podium in 3rd.

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