Chassis – ARC R8.0 2016
Engine – Reds WCS
Fuel – Brilliant RC
Tires (handout) – HotRace
Radio/Servo – Sanwa/Savox
Body – Blitz TS030
Remarks – Seeded fourth after yesterday’s controlled practice, German ARC driver Lars Hoppe is driving the 2016 version of the R8.0 here in Aigen. His car features low friction transmission parts, aluminium lightweight wheel axles and rear CVDs.
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Chassis – Shepherd Velox V8 “Oli Mack Edition”
Engine – Novarossi Mito WC Ceramic
Fuel – Meccafuel
Tires (handout) – HotRace
Radio/Servo – Futaba
Body – Xtreme Aerodynamics R18 Flat
Remarks – Reigning World Champion Simon Kurzbuch has topped the times in free practice here in Aigen driving the “Oliver Mack” version of the V8. His car is equipped with hard suspension plastics, aluminium wheel axles and a prototype gearbox that is lighter than the standard version and uses a 0.8 pitch. In order to add some steering without changing the good balance of the car he is also using the “Flat” version of the Xtreme Aerodynamics R18 bodyshell.
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Chassis – Mugen MRX-6
Engine – Picco “Otto”
Fuel – Maxima
Tires (handout) – HotRace
Radio/Servo – Sanwa
Body – Xtreme Aerodynamics R18
Remarks – 2011 World Champion Robert Pietsch is racing a nearly standard version of the MRX-6 at Round 3 of the Euro Nitro Series in Aigen. The only option present on the German’s car being a set of low friction pulleys. In terms of set-up, with the Austrian track’s surface being rougher than other tracks, he has tried to maximise the steering using softer shock oils and a smaller front sway bar than usual.
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Steven Cuypers will line up for his first Euro Nitro Series A-Main this evening, the Mugen driver doing so by winning the B-Main at Round 2 in Ettlingen, Germany. Starting from 5th on the grid the former European B Champion would win the quarter hour final by just 8/10ths of a second from the ARC of Silvio Hachler who led for most of the early part of the race. A well loaded race after the rain shortened qualifying meant the grid was determined by a single round, drivers having got to only complete 2 qualifiers between the rain showers. Battling for a bump up position, one casualty of the race would be Robert Pietsch, the Mugen designer retiring after an off with one and a half minutes to go. The race would also mark the end of the event for Francesco Tironi, the Infinity driver only 1.9-seconds off Hachler at the finish.
After the rain yesterday Cuypers said he ‘wasn’t confident about (his) set-up’ for the race but the conditions and his MRX6 ‘all fell into place’ with his car ‘very good’. Considering the risk of trying to get 5-minutes from his Picco engine he said it was safer to go 4-minutes as he could also push for the entire race with this strategy adding ‘it worked out’. Looking to his first A-Main appearance, the Belgian said he is aiming to finish in the Top 5. No stranger to A-Main finals at the ENS, Hachler said he had a lot of pressure from Pietsch until the former World Champion touched the curb adding ‘after that it was easy’. Admitting to being ‘a little surprised by Cuypers (pace)’, the 24-year-old said first place didn’t matter and now that he is in the Main event ‘a podium finish would be cool’.
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Just as he did at the season opener, World Champion Alexander Hagberg has booked a place in the Main event at Round 2 of the Euro Nitro Series by winning the B-Main. The Swede, who found himself 14th at the end of the truncated qualifying, would start 4th on the grid for the shortened 15-minute encounter but it was his team-mate Tom Krägefski’s fuel strategy that would allow the Xray/Orcan pairing into the A-Main. Starting from pole, Rene Püpke initially led from Infinity driver Andy Moore until a mistake dropped the German out of contention. Moore would now lead but with an extra stop to do this played into Hagberg’s hands. While Hagberg would pull clear at the front, Moore now had to contend with Krägefski but a slight bobble would be enough to let the German passed for second spot. While the British driver would fight back over the closing laps, Krägefski had enough in hand to book his place in the final.
After the race, Hagberg said, ‘we had good fuel consumption and having to do only two stops gave us the upper hand’. Posting one of the slowest laps of the race, he added, ‘I was not the fastest but did enough to bump up and now we need to make changes for final. Let’s see how it works out’. Krägefski said ‘we were not sure about the fuel strategy. It was a gamble but it paid off’. He continued, ‘When I had a gap I had to be very smooth. We had the engine very lean, I don’t think we can run the same way in the final’.
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Chassis – Serpent 748 ‘Natrix’ TQ
Engine – Novarossi Mito .12 C
Fuel – Runner Time
Tires (handout) – Enneti
Radio/Servo – Futaba
Body – SRC Spark
Remarks – Top qualifier here in Ettlingen last year, German Serpent driver Dominic Greiner is running the TQ version of the 748 Natrix. His car features a brass suspension bracket that adds weight to the front end, aluminium roll bar ball studs and titanium screws, while the big bore shocks are taken from the electric Serpent touring car.
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