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June 13, 2014

Leino TQ’s opening Hockenheim qualifier

Leino TQ's opening Hockenheim qualifier

Teemu Leino TQ’d the opening 200mm qualifier of the Euro Nitro Series at the Hockenheimring, the HB driver narrowly outpacing Dominic Greiner who was left rueing a mistake that would cost the Serpent driver over 1-second. Leino, who was unavailable for comment having made a speedy return to his hotel after the qualifier, would have a slight incident of his own in the race. On the second lap, the Finn would have a coming together with Ronald Volker, the Mugen driver coming off worst but eventually recovering to take third for the round. For last year’s ENS Pilot race and Round 1 winner Eric Dankel, Q1 would see a DNF for the Capricorn driver due to a broken manifold spring.

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June 13, 2014

Kurzbuch sets pace in Hockenheim

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Euro Nitro Series championship leader Simon Kuzbuch set the pace in the opening 1:8 timed practice at the Hockenheimring in Germany which hosts Round 3 of the new championship. The Team Shepherd driver set the fastest 3-consecutive laps to top the timing sheets from the Mugen’s of Rick Vrielijnck, Robert Pietsch and Italy’s Stefano Solaroli. For Round 2 winner John Ermen it was a tough practice with the Team Xray driver posting on the 15th fastest time.

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June 13, 2014

Greiner tops first timed practice at ENS

Having secured his first Euro Nitro Series win in wet conditions at Round 2 in Austria last month, Serpent’s Dominic Greiner has picked up where he left off by topping the first controlled practice for Round 3 at a very hot & dry Hockenheimring in Germany. Over three consecutive laps, the German, who jointly leads the standings, was the only driver to run a 59-second time with series debutant Ronald Volker and his prototype Mugen the closest challenger almost 3/10th adrift. Capricorn’s Eric Dankel, winner of the season opener, completed the Top 3 followed by HB’s Teemu Leino.

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June 13, 2014

Agustin Cutini wins Argentinian 1/8th off-road champs

The 2nd round of the Argentinian 1/8th off-road championships took place at the city of Cordoba. The TQ in the Pro Nitro Buggy class went to Agustin Cutini who was able to converse his performance in the final, allowing him to take the win in front of Nicolas Bregante and Lucas Pons in 3rd place respectively. By winning the first two rounds Agustin also took the 2014 championship early.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]

June 12, 2014

Raiola & Campourcy win at Trophee Novarossi

The first Novarossi Trophy of the year took place at the Roubie Race Track in Monaco. Especially the 1/8th on-road class was not short of famous European drivers such as reigning Italian champion, Carmine Raiola, reigning Swiss champion, Simon Kurzbuch, Francesco Tironi or Toni Gruber to name just a view. The race format saw 4 qualifying heats and two 20 minutes finals of which the best result counted towards the overall result. At the end it was Carmine Raiola (Xray/Novarossi) who took the overall win with the only 84 laps run while Simon Kurzbuch (Shepherd/Novarossi) had to settle for second despite winning the 2nd A-main but as he was 2 laps short on Carmine’s run in leg 1 he had to settle for the runner-up spot. The podium was completed by Simon’s fellow countryman Silvio Hächler (KM/Novarossi). Francesco Tironi (Shepherd/Novarossi) came in 4th while Toni Gruber (Serpent/Novarossi) completed the top 5 result. In the 1/10th 200mm class it was Stephane Campourcy (Xray/RB) who took the win from Eric Gnemis (Kyosho/O.S.) and Daniel Grosso.

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June 12, 2014

ENS heads to home of German Grand Prix

This weekend (13-15 June) the Euro Nitro Series will take competitors to the home of the German Formula One Grand Prix with Round 3 of the all new onroad nitro championship taking place at the famous Hockenheimring. The only temporary track on the inaugural four race calendar, the venue has played a key role in the creation of the ENS which so far this season has produced 4 different Top Qualifiers and four different race winners. Offering up its annual ‘European Nitro Challenge’ event to be part of the ‘Pilot Series’ run by the ENS organisers last year, it was the success of this that lead to the creation of a full championship for 2014.

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June 11, 2014

Hannes Käufler wins at Baden-Württemberg Cup Rd2

The 2nd round of the popular Baden-Württemberg Cup took place near Stuttgart in Leinfelden-Echterdingen. Hannes Käufler was able to win the nitro buggy class, while his Reds teammate Ralf Dennenmoser finished 3rd.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

June 11, 2014

Swedish nitro on-road nationals Rd2 – Report

The 2nd round of the Swedish nitro on-road nationals was held on the track in Trollhättan near the former and now closed SAAB car factory. Friday afternoon practice was cancelled due to a lot of rain and the track was still wet on Saturday morning which led to no practice being held on the track before the race that saw a total of 5 qualifiers with the best 3 to count, followed by 20 minute semifinals and 45 minute mains. At the end of the 1/8th class final Marcus Lindner took the win from Magnus Bengtsson and Lars Haugen. Christoph Hedlund and Markus Hellquist completed the top 5 result.

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