Round 3 of the East German division Nitro On-road regionals was held in Plauen with a pretty low turnout of drivers. In 1/8th On-road class 1 Toni Gruber took the win from Michael Kammer, coming from the 2 spot on the grid while in the 1/10th 200mm Touring category Toni took the TQ and also the win in the 30 minute final from Knud Ecke in 2nd and Franz Stark in 3rd.
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Brazilian frontrunner Flavio Elias has taken the 2015 South American 1/8th Nitro On-road Championship title in Americana. Already in practise he showed a good performance and clocked fast lap times but in the first two of the five qualifying rounds Flavio had to retire early but with the fastest times in the remaining three rounds he secured himself the pole position and direct qualifying spot for the 45 minute main final. In the early stages of the final Flavio had some difficult laps and he dropped back to 8th position but once he found his groove he was able to climb up the order step by step. In Lap 63 Flavio took over the lead from Sebastian Recio and increased the gap constantly. After 45 minutes he crossed the finishing line in 1st place, some 3 laps in front of Sebastian Recio in 2nd place. The podium was completed by Kazuo Ohara in 3rd position.
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Exotek have a new super trick alloy performance bulkhead for the HPI Sprint 2 4WD touring car available. It is of a heavy duty design that gives the car the precision and strength needed for high power brushless motor speeds. Machined to keep weight at a minimum and then polished and anodised in factory orange the bulkhead not only help to raise the cars performance but also its looks. On top of that the alloy construction adds heat dissipation for the motor plate for cooler running. The set includes quality machined hex M3 hardware and the bulkhead utilises a set screw to hold the hinge pins instead of the stock e-clips. Usable on the front or rear of the car and designed to work with the stock or Exotek chassis as well as the stock shock or Exotek shock towers.
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Last weekend saw the running of the 17th edition of the Kyosho Masters in France. UK’s Elliott Boots would take the TQ and win in front of newly crowned European Champion B, Riccardo Berton and Frenchman Jerome Aigoin.
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Round 3 of the 2015 RC Lemans Series was held in Utrecht, NL over the weekend in the classes of Pro10 Modified and Stock. Following a dry practice day the race day started out wet with the three qualifiers all being run under very severe weather conditions. In the Modified class Tim Altmann grabbed his first pole position of the 2015 season in front of his brother Kai. Tobias Weist, Reinder Wilms and Michael Finger rounded out the top 5 result. In the 10.5T non-boost class Sascha Lennartz took the TQ from Franz-Jakob Reinartz, Roy Pie, Mathijs Hermens and Nick Boon.
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The opening round of the Hobby Cup Austria was held in Loosdorf. Saturday’s practice was called off because of the track being too wet to run on and Sunday started off with four round of qualifying followed by triple A-mains for the 1/8th E-Buggy class. In the finals Bernhard Poinstingl took the win from Jan Kruisz who won the first A-main and was in the lead in A3 but a mistake had him fall back so he eventually finished on the runner-up spot. The 3rd and final podium place was grabbed by Josef Wasacs.
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The 2015 Endurance Championship Austria was held at the Tirol Ring in Austria last Saturday with 8 teams and a total of 24 drivers in attendance. The practice took place on a very wet track and the qualifying started at noon with team MRC Zillertal I (Egger / Gehrig / Stoeckl) putting their car on the pole position in front of the RC Bike Team (Kranewitter / Wäckerle / Feilner) and the team Fahr(t)raum (Klausner / Klausner / Reiser). The actual race, run over 10 hours, started at 1 p.m. on a drying track. The pole setters started off quick but some 13 minutes into the race the hopes for the overall win went up in smoke due to a motor failure. After a 14 minute break the guys managed to get back on track and they would ultimately finish in 4th place with a total of 1055 laps. Up front the team Fahr(t)raum won the race with 1119 laps, only 3 laps in front of the RC Bike Team with the 3rd placed Geisler Racing Team coming in only another lap down after 10 hours.
Thanks to Christian Stöckl for the report.
Round 3 of the Central German Nitro On-road Championships took place in Kirchhain with a total of 44 drivers in attendance despite the weather forecast being not very good. Luckily the main finals could be raced under dry conditions but the race time was shortened to 20 minutes as more rain was predicted. At the start of the 1/8th scale class 1 finale the track was still wet at some places so everybody was driving carefully. Patrick Schäfer had to start from 6th position as he had a technical problem in the single dry qualifier. Lap by lap he moved up the order and after the first round of pit stops he took over the lead from Peter Poldvere. Without looking back he controlled the race from the front crossing the finishing line 2 laps in front of Peter with Alex Schmitt completing the podium another lap down.
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