Xray’s Hartmut Rose has taken this year’s Central German 200mm nitro on-road championship title, as part of the qualification for the German nationals. By winning four out of the six rounds Hartmut has also taken his 4th title in a row. Xray teammate David Ranft came in 3rd place.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Last weekend round 5 of the 1/10th British National championships was held at the Cotswold racetrack. Practice on Saturday was stopped three times for heavy rain but come Sunday morning the weather was much better. After 5 rounds of qualifying Joe Kerry took TQ for Touring Car and Glyn Beal for GT. The Touring Cars final was then won by Alex Thurston with Joe Kerry 2nd and John Zotel taking 3rd place. The GT final went to Glyn Beal with Peter Hellawell 2nd and Adam Crosland in 3rd place. The next round will be on 30th and 31st August at the very fast Halifax track.
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Round 3 of the CNM Summer Series was held at Revelation Raceway in Montclair, CA. this past weekend. Adam Drake took the victory in Expert Buggy and Expert Truck. In the Buggy class Shaun Kirkman finished 2nd and Mike Acero finished 3rd making it a clean sweep of the podium for TLR, Novarossi, and Pro-Line. In Truck Mike Acero (TLR/Novarossi) finished 2nd and Shane Flores (Agama/Novarossi) came in 3rd.
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Round 5 of the HNMC Summer Series run at Herts Nitro Model Club saw Josh Adams taking the win in the Nitro Buggy class while Steve Carter came out successful in the Nitro Truggy class. Colin Drummond and Phil Saggers completed the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In 1/8th E-Buggy Richard Cousins took the win from Nigel Morris and Ian Fuller.
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The 5th Annual Diabetes Charity race was held at Medina RC Raceway this past Saturday. Run on a new layout the race was also a bit rain affected and at the end Paul Ciccarello who TQ’d and won the E-Buggy, E-Truggy and Nitro Buggy classes while his Serpent team mate Bill Shaybonez was also able to TQ and win 2WD Buggy.
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The 5th round of the East German regionals was held at the AMC Muehlau track in 1/8th Expert and Hobby classes. In the Expert class final the race was very close until 5 minutes from the end when Daniel Sieber (Shepherd) flamed out and Torsten Müller (Xray) lost a front wheel. This made way for Michael Kammer (Shepherd) who then cruised to the win in front of Daniel and Torsten.
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The Belgian Grand Prix was held at the Model Race Genk track this past weekend. Repeating his top performance from the Dutch 1/8th national round, ran four weeks ago at the same place, Gunther Van Staey outclassed his Belgian fellow drivers by taking both the pole and the win. German Mugen driver Tobias Hepp was the only driver who was able to stay in touch with Gunter but at around halfway into the final Tobias’ engine failed. This allowed Serpent driver Nico Vanwynckel, coming from 3rd, to move up to 2nd. Tim Vogels, 4th after the qualification, completed the podium in 3rd.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
North German 1/8th scale front runner Lars Hoppe took convincing wins at last weekend’s division 2 regionals. Lars joined the 1/10th scale class for the first time and scoring some fast runs in the two opening qualifying rounds allowed him to sit out the remaining two rounds to concentrate on 1/8th scale qualifying. At the end the Shepherd racer took the TQ spot in both classes to start the finals from the pole-position.
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