Xray’s Marco Rizzo has won the 1/8th Armateur class at the final round of the Swiss nitro on-road nationals. A second place after the qualifiers behind Andy Geisser and in front of Rudi Scherer made for a good position to grab the number one spot in the A final. At the end Marco won the class in front of Andrea Hächler and Noah Asendorf which also secured him the vice championship.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The third round of the Argentinian off-road nationals took place at the Cordoba track. Adrian Castro (Xray/Novarossi) took the win in front of Agustin Cutini (Mugen/Novarossi) and Sebastian Recio (Mugen/Novarossi), who completed the podium.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
Jilles Groskamp is the top seed for qualifying at the 1:8 Onroad World Championships, the Dutch ace again putting his Shepherd top of the time sheets in Japan in the second controlled practice. Groskamp managed 3-laps in a time of 50.330 on the slower track his CP1 time some 8/10ths faster. Continuing to impress, Italy’s Raiola Carmine set the second fastest time in CP2, his Xray just 9/1000th off the European Championship pace. Japanese National Champion Takaaki Shimo, the widely tipped event favourite, posted the third fastest time having struggled in CP1 with a lack of steering.
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Team Shepherd’s Jilles Groskamp got Day 3 of the 1:8 Onroad World Championships off to a flying start as he set the pace in the first of the two rounds of controlled practice. The Dutch ace did a best 3-consecutive lap time of 49.524 over the 10-minute run outpacing by 2/10th of a second Mugen’s Takehiro Terauchi (49.857) and Serpent ‘s Yuya Sahashi. The first sunny morning at the Keitune Racing Speedway since drivers arrived for the event, the warmer opening conditions caught out many drivers most notably pre event favourite Takaaki Shimo who said afterwards he had ‘no steering’ leaving him to post the 7th fastest time.
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Mugen’s Takaaki Shimo topped the final round of free practice bringing Day 2 of the 1:8 Onroad World Championships in Japan to a close. The Pre Worlds race winner managed a time of 49.515 over 3-consecutive laps in the sixth of the day’s 8-minute practice runs followed closely by Serpent’s Tadahiko Sahashi (49.564) and KM Racing’s Keisuke Fukuda (49.803). Overall the fastest time of the day (49.207) was set by Team Shepherd’s Jilles Groskamp in the second of the cooler morning runs while in the final practice the Top European was his team-mate Oliver Mack who posted the 4th fastest time.
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After a wet Summer the popular Herts Nitro Model Club Winter Series round 1 kicked off with the sun shining, warm temperatures and almost 70 racers attending. Qualifying in Nitro Buggy went to Jack Embling (Mugen), the E-Buggy class had Simon Reeves (TLR) taking the top spot and in Truggy Richard Cousins put his Kyosho on top of the field. In the finals Jon Jazlewood (Agama) came in one lap ahead of Simon Reeves (TLR) with Oliver Currie (Agama) completing the podium. In the 15 minute E-Buggy final Simon Reeves (TLR) took the win a lap ahead of Nigel Morris (Serpent) with Philip Michael (Mugen) another two laps down. In the Truggy class Richard Cousins kept everything together to take the win in front of Colin Drummond and James Morl. The next race will take place on the weekend of the 3rd of November.
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Robert Battle walked away with the win at the final round of the Spanish 1/8th Buggy nationals. In the 45 minute final he beat Kyosho driver Luis Ignacio Candel who came in second position, one lap down. Bryan Baldo finished third, Oscar Baldo and Jorge Soler Diaz completed the top 5.
Source: InfoRC [inforc.net]
The recent Benvenuti al Sud race took place at a spectacular track with an elevation difference of 15 metres. The F1 Buggy class saw Mugen’s Davide Tortorici taking TQ and also the race win in front of Mugen team mates Giuliano Giusa and Luigi Tridico. TLR drivers Maurizioi Tinnirello and Francesco Errigo completed the top 5.
Source: VP [vp-racing.com]
