The first leg of the Italian Nationals was held on May 13-15 at Green Park Track in Palazzolo sullâ™Oglio. Team XRAY was lead by our 1/8 gas star and Italian XRAY distributor Fabio Domanin. We met on Friday morning at the track, and we had planned to test several motors that day as well as refine our set-up for the track conditions. The cars were performing very well so we were confident of a good result.
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To our dismay, on Saturday morning we found the track flooded by a persistent rain, so the organizers decided to cancel the 3 qualification rounds that were scheduled for Saturday, and re-schedule everything for Sunday: 4 qualification rounds and finals.
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With a very tight time schedule the qualifications went through with two unfortunate rounds for me and a good performance of Niky Duina, who grabbed 2nd position on the grid in the expert class. I was 9th due the two bad rounds which in the round-by-round system moved me down the grid.
Starting Grid Expert Class:
1. Sala Federico 2. Duina Niki XRAY T1FKâ™05
3. Feni Dario
4. Simari Andrea
5. Giglioli Silvano
6. Torreggiani Luca
7. Costanzo Christian
8. Bigi Lorenzo 9. de Liguori Giuseppe XRAY T1FKâ™05
10. Manciocchi Alessandro
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In the Expert class we had Federico Sala that convincingly won all three finals in front of all the others who hard battled for the forthcoming positions. At the end it was Silvano Gilioli who captured 2nd place in front of Niki Duina. These are the final positions after 3 finals in all classes
Expert Class Final:
1. Sala Federico
2. Giglioli Silvano 3. Duina Niki XRAY T1FKâ™05
4. Feni Dario
5. Bigi Lorenzo
6. Manciocchi Alessandro 7. de Liguori Giuseppe XRAY T1FKâ™05
8. Torreggiani Luca
9. Simari Andrea
10. Costanzo Christian
Senior Class:
1. Doveri Marco
2. Ricca Massimiliano
3. Sala Michele
4. Pasquini Paolo
5. Michieli Max
6. Clerici Andrea
7. Pittino Alberto
8. Rutigliani Francesco
9. Bertulazzi Mauro
10. Chiodini Massimo
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Junior Class:
1. Mattusi Daniele
2. Pagani Christian
3. Pozzo Gianluca
4. Pesaresi Fabrizio
5. Bambace Andrea
6. Bighetti Marco
7. Drago
8. Malanchini Marco
9. Lamera Alessandro
10. Riva Enrico
So the first leg is gone, and we are happy about the car performance.
With some better luck we may have achieved a more satisfying result, we still have to work on motors and batteries to take advantage of the FKâ™05 performance. We now look forward to the next race to be held in July at the track in Florence.
