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April 15, 2014

Tim Wood wins UK 1/8th on-road season opener

The BRCA 1/8th circuit national championship started off at Mendip and with 40 entrants, it was going to be a good start to the season and a very open first meeting with no Branson or Green due to ENS commitments. After arriving at the track and setting up in the pits, the track was dry and allowed most drivers to do some installation laps and some good practice before the scheduled rain arrived. The drivers looking to have good pace was Neal King, Andy North, Andy Hastings and Ashley Gouveia. Soon after Tim Wood had arrived, the rain arrived and disrupted the practice for the remainder of the day. Although the rain stopped and with no wind or sun, the track remained damp all afternoon. The tires to use were damps and these were clearly faster than dry tires when a back to back test was carried out.

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April 15, 2014

Nejc Mihelic wins at Alpe Adria Cup

The first round of the Alpe Adria Cup took place last weekend at the Stöhr-Ring in Graz, Austria. The race saw the attendance of drivers from Slovenia, Hungary, Italy and Austria and was run in 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road classes. In the 1/8th class Jernej Vuga (Xray/Reds) took TQ but he was not able to conserve his performance in the final and finished in 8th position. Up front the race was on between Nejc Mihelic (Motonica/Picco) and Manuel Gremlica (KM/Woldt) and at the end it was Nejc who finished the race some two laps in front of Manuel after the 30 minute long final. Bernd Koller (Mugen/Novarossi) rounded out the podium in 3rd place.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

April 14, 2014

RB Challenge Norway Rd1 – Report

The first race of the six round RB Challenge in Norway was run with 62 drivers attending. The series is run on RB tyres and sees the nine fastest drivers from qualifying proceeding to the final with two drivers from the B-final as bump-ups. The TQ went to Bjorn Ivar Haug (Xray) and once the 40 minute final took off it was clear that the race was on between Bjorn Ivar and Team Associated driver Daniel Kobbevik with both drivers quickly pulling away from the field. 10 minutes into the race and Bjorn made a small mistake allowing Daniel to pass but Bjorn Ivar fought back eventually taking the lead again. Later on Daniel ran into trouble which resulted in three extra pit stops allowing Bjorn to cruise to the win. Daniel Kobbevik finally managed to grab the runner-up spot, Rune Karlsen (Xray) completed the podium.

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April 14, 2014

Ermen, Roemer and Puepke win at West Open Rd1

John Ermen, Philipp Roemer and René Puepke are the winners of the season opener of the Western German Championship, which has turned into a “West Open” with racers from six nations. A total of 59 racers attended the race weekend on the challenging track of MCK Dormagen in the North of Cologne with two racers which did not make it to the start line on Sunday. Close and fair racing in all three categories and perfect conditions at temperatures around 15°C made it an excellent start into the new season.

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April 14, 2014

Balestri & Guida win Italian on-road nats Rd1

Balestri & Calce win at Italian on-road nats Rd1

The first round of the Italian nitro on-road nationals was run this past weekend. In the premiere 1/8th scale class Capricorn’s Dario Balestri took the win from Mimmo Calce (Serpent) who finished only one lap down with Nicola Marrone in 3rd with his BMT. In the 1/8th F1 category the TQ was grabbed by Antonio Calce (Serpent) but the win in the final eventually went to Francesco Guida (Serpent).

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April 14, 2014

Reno Savoya wins French EFRA GP

The French EFRA GP was run in Noeux les Mines last weekend on what the drivers described as a great and technical track laid out by the CARCA club crew. The 3-day race attracted the majority of the French top-level drivers including Xray’s Reno Savoya whose weekend started disastrous as he got a good load of equipment stolen from his road car. Leaving the issues behind he was able to take the overall TQ for the Nitro Buggy final by taking 3 out of the 5 qualifying rounds. The finals then pretty much being a Reno show as he lead for the first 20 minutes, followed by some issues that let him drop in the ranking but he soon recovered to take the win 12 seconds ahead of Jerome Aigoin and Jerome Sartel. Lorenzo Crolla finished 4th with Jean-Pierrick Sartel in tow.

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April 14, 2014

2014 Silver State Nitro Challenge – Report

The 2014 Silver State Nitro Challenge got under way this past weekend in Las Vegas at the Boulder City Track. Run in 1/8th nitro and electric off-road classes as well as electric short course the race attracted the 1/8th scale off-road creme de la creme like Jared Tebo, Adam Drake, Cody King, and Ryan Cavaleri to name just a few. The event, presented by and run on a Joey “The Dirt” Christensen prepared track, also marked the 2nd race of the 5 round U.S. ProCup.

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April 12, 2014

MRRC Raceway 2nd Annual Super Challenge – Report

The 2014 Nitro Season began this past weekend on Long Island, NY at MRRC Raceway for the 2nd annual MRRC Super Challenge. Over 140 entries from NY, NJ, CT, PA, MA and even Canada made the trip to run on the newly built Joey “The Dirt” Christensen layout. Round one of Nitro Buggy qualifying would go to Mugen’s Jerome Treignier from Quebec Canada followed by Associated’s Gunnar Rieck & TLR’s Jay Bless. Round Two would see TLR’s Anthony Mazzara reset the TQ with team mate Stephen Plackis less than 2 seconds behind.

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