Middle River Hobbies in Maryland played host to the Stock Wars 2015 race this past weekend. In the 1/12th scale Pro class Donny Lia took the TQ with the only 62 lap run and the following A-main would be very close as it saw the top 3 finish only four seconds apart. Donny Lia (TOP/Trinity) would take the win from Johnny Wiita (CRC/Phantom) and Mike Herald Jr. (TOP/Trinity) in second and third respectively.
Source: TOP Racing [top-racing.jp]
Last weekend’s Austrian Nitro On-road National Championship was held at the Salzburg track. The weekend started off dry, cold and partially cloudy and the decision was made to run two qualifying rounds on Saturday as the weather forecast for Sunday wasn’t promising. Unfortunately the remaining rounds on Sunday morning would be held on a wet track and it was Nejc Mihelic (ARC) who made the best out of the conditions as the took the TQ from Herfried Pucher (ARC) in second and Alan Levy (Serpent) in third. The wet final then saw a great fight between the two ARC drivers with both having minor problems but it was Nejc who held the upper hand as he was able to grab the win from Herfried while Alain rounded out the podium in third.
Source: Mihelic Racing Team
The third and fourth round of the F1ItalianSeries again attracted 33 drivers to compete in the GP3 and GP4. The two Ferrari of Magnocavallo and Capuano were the fastest right from the start and they would dominate from Q1 to the end of the GP3 called third round. The only driver able to come close was Manciocchi with his Hesketh design car.
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The recent Nordic Electric On-road Championships saw Viljami Kutvonen taking the TQ in the Touring Modified class from Adrian Berntsen and Magnus Vässmar. Before the opening A-main disaster stroke for the TQ holder as self-inflicted electronic problems denied Viljami to start. Adrian made maximum use of the situation and brought home the win in front of Magnus. A2 then saw a clean start from Viljami and he was able to open a gap on the field. Later in the race Adrian made a mistake that allowed Viljami to cruise to the win. The third and decisive A-main was pretty much the same affair. Kutvonen had a clean start and was able to pull away while Berntsen’s mistake came a bit earlier this time. Viljami slowed down a bit to take things easy but Adrian was able to recover and suddenly was right behind the leader, but Viljami again was able to pull away and to take the win and with it a maiden Nordic Championship title.
Image: Viljami Kutvonen
Xray have released a first teaser for their forthcoming X1 2016 formula car kit. No details are available yet but expect photos, information and the kit itself to surface shortly.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The opening round of the Xray Winter Series Morava was held at the Jedovnice sports hall in the Czech Republic this past weekend with local drivers and guests from abroad in attendance. The event was held in the five classes of Open, Stock 17.5T, Hobby, Formula and GT. In the Touring Open class Oliver Havranek was the man to beat as he won all qualifiers in front of Michal Vitamvas. The opening A-main went to Oliver but an improving Michal stroke back in A2 so the third and final main would decide over the day’s win. With Oliver laying down a flawless run he would take the win in a heartbeat final and with a margin of only 0.5 seconds on Michal so Oliver would take the overall victory from runner-up Michal. Miroslava Jurenka rounded out the podium result.
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This past weekend the China On-road Nationals were held in Fentai, Beijing, host of next year’s Electric World Championships. The event saw drivers from all over China participating in the China national team selection race. In the 190mm Sedan class it was HB team driver Huang Kui Sheng who took the overall win from runner-up Felix Law (MTS) while TOP Racing’s Zhu Xiao Feng finished third. Because Felix being a US citizen, the organisers promoted Feng to joint-second, allowing 11 years old Xray driver Lao Ming Hao to grab the final podium spot. In the 1/12th scale class, Jimmy Qian from Shanghai took the National title.
Source: HPI [hpiracing.net.cn]
The SE QLD Inter Club Series concluded with the sixth and final round held at Meakin Park in Brisbane. In total over 300 drivers attended the series that was held over a six month period, visiting three clubs twice each over the event. Aaron Stringer was leading the series and he only needed to make the A-Main and finish in the top 5 to wrap up the title. Qualifying for the pre-event favourite did not go to plan at all and saw him finish in 30th place. Starting 9th in the C-final Aaron would move his way up through the lower finals and ultimately ended on the 11 spot for the A-final in which he had a blinder of a start and was up to around 6th place after lap 1. The job got much tougher after that and took another 10 minutes or so to round up the next five places. After that it was a battle between Aaron and Darren Perry. Aaron managed to reduce the lead down to under two seconds with about two minutes to go, but it wasn’t to be and Darren took the win with Aaron in second. The runner-up spot was then enough for Aaron to grab the overall title from Darren Perry in second and Sam Perry in third.
Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]
