Rain stops play at Worlds Warm-up
The Worlds warm-up race took place last weekend in Burgdorf, home to this year’s 1/10th ISTC and 1/12th IFMAR World Championships. Entries were low, but there were a lot of Japanese drivers in attendance including ETS Rd5 winner Atsushi Hara, Shin Adachi and a large team from Yokomo including Hayato Matsuzaki. Qualifying went the way of Ronald Volker, the runner up at the last Worlds in Thailand, winning 4 of the 6 rounds of qualifying to start ahead of team mate Hayato Matsuzaki, who won the other 2 rounds. Jilles Groskamp, Andy Moore, Alexander Hagberg, Takehiro Yamauchi, Shin Adachi, Atsushi Hara, Christopher Krapp and Freddy Sudhoff completed the A-finalists. Sunday’s finals day was a complete wash out, raining all day which meant that almost no drivers ventured onto the track. In the A-main Alexander Hagberg was the only person to go on track and so claimed the ‘victory’, based on the qualifying order Volker took 2nd and Matsuzaki was gifted 3rd. Full results can be found here.
Image: Inside TY [insidety.exblog.jp]
Monday, May 31, 2010
The RC Factory in Ohio
We were contacted by the people behind the RC Factory a new indoor off-road race facility opening 30 minutes south of Columbus in Jeffersonville, OH. The track is 80X150, made from the best Ohio top soil and built and maintained by Curt Schlichter, former of CRCRC, and is being built to suit all classes. Set in a 60,000 sq ft all concrete facility, with all concrete pitting area which is separated from the track area meaning no fumes and no noise. Full restroom facilities, blacktop parking and in future a concessions stand. They plan to be running a Saturday nitro program and a Sunday electric race program year round and be open for practice everyday. The grand opening will be Friday July 2nd and if you have any questions you can contact curt.schlichter@yahoo.com or call 740-572-3152.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Patrick Belltrallo wins Rd2 in Luxembourg
Round 2 of the Luxembourg 1/8th scale nationals was held this weekend on the fast LMCC track in Luxembourg. On Sunday it was dry but the track was still a bit slippery at some points due to the rain the night before, which caused one or two serious crashes. The 30-minute main final saw Motonica racer Patrick Belltrallo cross the finishing line in first position, followed by Jerome Hirtziger driving a Kyosho in 2nd and Libar Laurent with a Serpent in 3rd.
Thanks to Raymond Libar for the update.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Alberto Tedeschi is crowned European B Champion
Alberto Tedeschi has been crowned champion following an exciting race at the European 1/8th scale ‘B’ Championships in Monaco today. With saw some tough battles in all the finals, the race finally had its 10 starters for the 45 minute main final. The first semi finals started with a cloudy sky, but after lunchtime the sun came up and from those two races the following drivers bumped up, with both Sabrina Lechner and Maximilian Federmann coming from the quarter finals
Continue reading the report here
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Protoform launch new website
Our site sponsors Protoform have been in touch to let us know about the launch of their all new website. RacePF.com will help bring the Protoform brand to the fore having only been part of the larger Pro-Line site in the past. The site has only just launched this weekend but almost all the content is in place so be sure to check it out here.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Sweep Racing WackyTacky bottles
After much feed back from their customers Sweep Racing have introduced their new WackyTacky bottle for their line of tire sauces. These bottles are easily refillable and feature a handy applicator to give the user a simple and efficient way to apply the additive to their tires. These bottle will be sold in sets of three for their X1, X2 and X3 sauce set and are available now.
Source: Sweep Racing [sweepracing.com]
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Xray News Round-up
Here we have this weeks round up of product releases and race reports from our site sponsors Xray. Our summary includes everything published by the Slovakian manufacturer on their own website in the past week, so if you didn’t find the time to visit, be sure to read on. This weeks round up includes the following stories.
- New XB808 Shock Piston Set 8-Hole (1.2, 1.3mm) & 10-Hole (1.1mm)
- NT1 Podium Finish at European Championship B
- T3 Triple Win at Swiss Championship R3
- T3 Wins Pro Stock at ETS R4 in Netherlands
- XT8 Wins the Irish 1/8 Off-Road National Championship R2
- NT1 at South Australian GP On-road State Titles 2010
- NT1 Dominates the Austrian Championship R2 in Graz
- Report from XRAY Czech Challenge in Trenčín
- NT1 Double Podium Finish at 2010 Singapore GP On-road Challenge
- XB808 Dominates the Portuguese South Regional Championship R2
Click here to view the round-up
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Andrea Lorenzi claims pole at Euro ‘B’ in Monaco
The final two rounds of qualifying have taken place at the European 1/8th scale B Championships in Monaco. After a wet night, the rain starting yesterday evening at about 20.00 hours, the track is dry again for round 3 of qualifying with the sky a little bit cloudy and temperatures about 20-24 degrees. No changes at the top as the laptimes are not fast enough to drive 30 laps at the moment. The only one coming very close in heat 10 was Andrea Lorenzi, driving 29 laps in 7.00.578.
Continue reading the report here
Saturday, May 29, 2010
