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Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report Posted: 19 Aug 2019 10:23 AM PDT Round 5 of the Belgian nationals was held at the track of MRG Genk. This track is situated in a motorsport nirvana with a karting and MX track nearby. Because of the dust from the MX track, the grip is low to medium. As it started raining on Saturday already, the grip levels were even lower. Most front runners were already testing their cars on Saturday, because rain was forecasted at least until A-main 2 on Sunday. Modified On Sunday morning however, the rain increased even more. This seemed to reshuffle the cards as strangely enough the grip increased. For Oli, everything went terribly wrong after lap 1 when his electronics got damp. The battle for Q1 was quite close between Mitchell and Florian. Florian set the fastest laptime and when Mitchell also ran into electronic problem, Florian took an easy win from Rico Claeys and Liam Van de Wouwer. In Q2, Mitchell’s Schumacher was the fastest car on the track, but when his Lipo died, the 3-way battle between Mitchell, Florian and Rico became a 2 horse fight. Rico held a narrow lead, but when Florian put the hammer down from lap 8 onwards, he managed to clinch the overall TQ. Liam again came home in third whereas Olivier saw his championship hopes evaporate with yet again an unfortunate DNF due to electronic problems. Q3 was run on a less wet track, and in these conditions Mitchell excelled. He took Q3 in style from Rico, Florian and Liam. Olivier opted not to run in the last qualifier and hoped for dry finals. A1 proved to be a tough one for most competitors. The track was too dry for wet tires but too moist for dry tyres. In the end, the front runners all went for the safe way and opted to race on wet tyres. Rico had a quite bad opening lap, but managed to put some distance between himself and Mitchell afterwards. He pushed hard and came back to within 1 second from Florian who took the win. Mitchell finished in P3. At the start of A2, the track still had some damp patches, but was mostly dry. Still, the tyre choice proved to be a crucial one. Olivier started from P5 and opted for run in slicks. The other drivers were on new tyres. Florian took the holeshot and led lap 1 from Olivier who overtook 3 cars on the first corner! Florian’s car was however better dialed and the youngster took A2 and won the event. Olivier finished in P2, in front of Mitchell, Rico and Liam. Florian opted not to run in A3. Everyone excepted Oli to easily win A3, but his car was too tricky to drive in the still low-grip conditions. Mitchell took a great victory in front of Oli, Rico and Liam. Unfortunately for Olivier, the roof line of his body was found too low at the technical inspection. As the driver already had a first warning, it meant he lost his P3 position to Rico Claeys. The overall ranking was: Florian Joos (Xray), Mitchell Van Es (Awesomatix), Rico Claeys (Xray), Olivier Bultynck (Awesomatix), Liam Van de Wouwer (ARC). By winning his fourth race of the season, Florian Joos also became the 2019 champion, ending Olivier Bultynck’s 11 consecutive title run. At 15 years old, Florian also became the youngest ever Belgian modified champion. Stock Giovanni was determined to win this event however. Just like Vincent, he entered an Awesomatix car for this event in order to gain an extra advantage. In the rain however, most drivers ran their older cars. Vincent has been the man to beat this season. On most tracks and in all the different conditions, he really dominated the field. During the washed out Q1, he dully did the same and won by a massive 7 seconds with his Xray rain car over Stefan Rommens (Yokomo) and Giovanni Moguez (Xray). Vincent’s biggest challenger was Peter De Grande. Peter’s Infinity rain car seemed to be absolutely dialed, but when he made an error, he dropped down to fourth, just in front of young Alexander Van Gansen, Vincent’s younger brother. Q2 was again dominated by Vincent, but this time Stefan as much closer to him. Peter upped his game and finished in P3, just in front of the youngsters Alexander and Niels Degryze (Xray). Giovanni Moguez’s speedo was broken and he opted not to run in Q2. As his car was dialed, Vincent didn’t opt to run in Q3. Stefan Rommens continued to be the best of the rest and won Q3, in front of Giovanni Moguez and Jeremy Deram (Xray). Peter and Niels came home in 4th and 5th respectively. The overall qualifying ranking was Vincent Van Gansen (Xray), Stefan Rommens (Yokomo), Giovanni Moguez (Xray), Peter Degrande (Infinity) and French driver Jeremy Deram (Xray). Jeremy participates at some rounds of the Belgian nats and always does so with great enthusiasm. In the damp first final, Giovanni decided to use his slicks. His strategy seemed to work during his warm up laps, but when the race got underway, the temperature of his tires dropped too much and he had traction problems. At the first lap melée, Stefan Rommens was the biggest victim and he dropped down the order. Out in front, Vincent cruised to an easy victory in front of Giovanni, Jeremy, Peter and Niels. For A2, most drivers decided to use their dry weather cars with slicks. Giovanni passed Vincent and a spectacular duel followed. Vincent was much faster in the long sweeper preceding the straight. He could accelerate much harder, which gave him a higher top speed down the straight. The cars passed each other several times, but the inevitable happened when they touched again and Vincent dropped down the order. He tried everything to pass Stefan Rommens, but he just couldn’t make it stick. Giovanni powered his Awesomatix to the victory, in front of Stevan, Vincent (Awesomatix), Peter (Awesomatix) and Niels (Xray). The third final would be crucial for Giovanni to keep his title hope alive. He started quite well, and when Stefan Rommens lost traction he managed to creep up a spot. Giovanni started pushing hard and crept closer and closer to Vincent. Unfortunately Giovanni put two wheels into the grass and this sent his car spinning. It ended his hopes for the victory. After his first lap mishap, Stefan dropped down the order and finished in P6. P5 went to Peter Degrande with Jeremy taking a crucial P4, just behind young Alexander Van Gansen. The overall ranking was Vincent Van Gansen (Awesomatix), Giovanni Moguez (Awesomatix), Jeremy Deram (Xray), Peter Degrande (Awesomatix) and Stefan Rommens (Yokomo). His fourth victory of the season meant that Vincent also became the 2019 Belgian stock champion with one race to go. F1 In the first wet A main, Liam still had the upper hand, but on the drying track, Kris found some more speed and convincingly won A2 and A3 and clinching his first ever victory in the Belgian nationals. The overall result was Kris Vanbleu (Xray), Liam Van de Wouwer (Xray) and Kenneth Meisters (Tamiya). Fun Jannick dominated the finals and won the overall event. Both Krist and Herman were tied on points, but thanks to a better third final, Krist earned himself the runner up spot in front of Herman, Dieter Stock (Xray) and Claude Gyselinck (Tamiya). Source: David Joos & FBA [fba-rc.be] The post Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report appeared first on Red RC. |
Capricorn RC sign up Alex Thurston Posted: 19 Aug 2019 07:21 AM PDT Capricorn RC have announced the addition of top British driver Alex Thurston to their line-up of international drivers. After seven years with Serpent and achieving some great results, Alex will team up with Kyle Branson (above) to contest the UK Nationals along with major international events. Thurston will continue to race 1/8th and 1/10th scale GP classes as well as some limited 1/10th EP. He had the following to say about the deal: I am super happy to be joining the Capricorn team. I have been very impressed with the drive of the team to improve and progress their products. Capricorn are one of the top leading brands in onroad and I’m proud to be a part of that. I would like to thanks Patrizio Rossi for the opportunity and also Team Serpent for all their support over the years. Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com] The post Capricorn RC sign up Alex Thurston appeared first on Red RC. |
Daniel Kobbevik double at 2019 Norwegian Nationals Posted: 19 Aug 2019 05:20 AM PDT The 2019 Norwegian National Championship was hosted by Racingland SAS in Sandefjord, and unfortunately the weather forecast was horrible. The Club crew did an amazing job to make this race happen, and it was special since the club had been at this location for 33 years, and this was to be the last race held here. Saturday started with a technical meeting in the morning and it was decided to shorten down both classes to 3 qualifiers instead of 5, no semi practices and tighter program and to run the whole event on Sunday. It’s a nice feeling to be at races that all drivers and crew work together. The race was also special since it was time to give out the highest reward it is possible to win in Norway, no matter what sport you do, “The King’s Trophy” and with the weather, and track conditions, it was more open and a lot of things can happen. But Xray Factory driver Daniel Kobbevik, took charge from first qualifier in both classes and TQ’d both 1/8th nitro and 1/8th electric. It was really hard fighting for the next start positions. In Nitro class Rune Karlsen won his semi-B and was going to line up second for the A-main. Daniel won his Semi-A, and would start from pole. The main started with Daniel pulling away slowly from the start, and building up a bigger and bigger gap, Rune Karlsen was going steady second, but was caught up in the fight with Vincent Ruger and Danny Kwiatkowski. But the last 10 minutes it was a crazy fight between Vincent and Danny. They changed positions several times and it was really good entertainment. And how they handled the situation with Daniel catching them and they had to let him go was amazing to watch. Really high quality driving, In the end Daniel had a solid lead and won with 3 laps. Vincent managed to take second with his XB8 and Danny came third. Vincent is a 15 year old youngster that is one of the biggest talents in Norway, and getting faster and faster and more and more stable in his driving, so future is looking good. 1/8 IC Buggy Results In the electric class it was same three drivers that ended on podium. Daniel had TQ, Vincent starting from second with his XB8 and Torbjorn Doler starting third. After two finals Daniel already had the win in the books, so third final was going to give the rest of podium. Danny and Vincent had one second and third each, it was a close fight, but Vincent won A3 and secured second on the podium. 1/8 E Buggy Results Huge thanks to Robin Houmb and Eddy Pedersen (Racingland). Source: Xray [teamxray.com] The post Daniel Kobbevik double at 2019 Norwegian Nationals appeared first on Red RC. |
2019/20 XRS Slovakia – Announcement Posted: 19 Aug 2019 04:57 AM PDT Xray have announced the 2019/20 Xray Racing Series Slovakia. The 6-race series kicks off on the weekend of the 12th of October and runs through to March with all rounds held at the Hudy Arena in Trencin. Open to onroad and offroad classes, there are races for 1/10th TC Mod & Stock 13.5, 1/10th & 1/12th pan car, Formula 21.5, 1/12th GT and 1/10th FWD as we as 2wd and 4wd buggy, truck class and 1/10th truggy. Source: Xray [teamxray.com] The post 2019/20 XRS Slovakia – Announcement appeared first on Red RC. |
Dominic Greiner dominates 1/10th Nitro Euros Posted: 19 Aug 2019 02:11 AM PDT The 2019 EFRA 1/10th Nitro European Championships were held last week at the Mini Car Club Turkheim track in the south of Germany. Qualifying would see complete domination from Serpent driver Dominic Greiner, the former World Champion taking all rounds of qualifying at what is his home track to secure the pole position for the 45 minute main final. Behind the German, Dario Balestri was the best of the rest, the Infinity driver heading the Mugen of fellow 1/8th World Champion Robert Pietsch with the Xray of Alessio Mazzeo and Shepherd of Patrick Nahr completing the top 5, those 4 drivers going into super pole. Following some tuning and engine issues in the Super pole event for Balestri and Mazzeo it would be Pietsch that would come out on top and take the final direct place in the main final with everyone else needing to battle it out in the Semi finals for the remaining 8 places. In semi final A it was Teemu Leino who would head an Infinity 1-2-3 with Jilles Groskamp and Balestri securing their place in the main show with Shepherd team mates Eduardo Escandon and Nahr also coming through from the faster Semi A. In Semi B Francesco Tironi took the win in front of Mazzeo with the Shepherd of Thilo Todtmann taking 3rd to line up 10th and last on the grid in the final. In the main final itself it was again another dominant showing from Greiner who, aided by quick pitstops from long time mechanic Thomas Gunsel, was able to take the win some two laps up on his nearest rival. Dario Balestri would progress his way through the field to take the runner up spot, while his team mate and fellow Italian Francesco Tironi would complete the podium in 3rd, just edging out Pietsch who would have to settle for 4th. Main final results Image: MCC Turkehim [facebook.com] The post Dominic Greiner dominates 1/10th Nitro Euros appeared first on Red RC. |
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