Monday, November 6, 2006
Yannick Aigoin wins the GP International De Pierrefeu Categories - Events, Gas, Off Road, International, Racing - comments closed
As we reported yesterday Xray/RB racer Yannik Aigoin has won the GP International De Pierrefeu held in France. This international event attracted over 110 racers and saw the European Champion win by two laps ahead of a close battle for 2nd place between Julian Lattanzio and Renaud Savoya. After 45 minutes only 2 tenths of a second seperated the two drivers and in the end it was Julian that took the position with Renaud in third.
You can view the results sheets and a lot more pictures from the event here.
Image: V.A.M.P. [97339.aceboard.fr]
Sunday, November 5, 2006
Quick racing results update Categories - Events, Racing - comments closed
Just a quick update before we get the full results and images for 2 events that took place this weekend. The first up is the ‘AMT Cup Modellbau Bodensee’ indoor event held in Friedrichshafen, Germany. This event for 1/10th 200mm attracted racers from Germany, Holland and Austria and was won by Austrian Serpent racer Daniel Tomaschko with his 720. Daniel had qualified 4th for the event which saw fellow Austrian driver Gerhard Kandelhart take the pole position for the main event.
The ‘GP International De Pierrefeu’ was also held this weekened in France and this off road event saw top racers from around Europe competing for the win but in the end it was European Champion Yannick Aigoin who took the win driving his Xray XB8.
Results from France
1. Y. Aigoin
2. Lattanzio
3. Savoya
4. Farina
5. J. Aigoin
6. Boero
7. Sartel
8. Tortorici
9. Bertin
10. Rodriguez
Results and images to follow for these events
1/10th scale World Champion Keisuke Fukuda has won the 2006 Japanese 1/8th Scale National Championships. Starting his Mugen/Ninja from 2nd on the grid Keisuke managed to take the win by a full lap ahead of Takaaki Shimo to claim his first 1/8th National title. Second placed Shimo for Kyosho had a 4 lap advantage over the third place racer 由留木一也 after the 45 minute final. Pole position man Tadahiko Sahashi had problems in the race, as did Tanaka who went out after 15 minutes.
You can view the final results here and you can view some more pictures here (day 1), here (day 2) and here (finals).
Image: Hokusei [www12.ocn.ne.jp/~hokusei]
Saturday, November 4, 2006
Paolo Morganti wins the US Open Fuel Sedan Champs Categories - Events, Gas, On Road, International, Racing - comments closed
Paolo Morganti (old pic once more), driving a Serpent 720, has won the US Open Fuel Sedan Championships held this weekend at the Kissimmee track in Florida. With the results taken from three 20 minute main finals of which the best 2 counted, consistency was the order of the day. Pole position man Paolo had trouble in his first round, after some mechanical problem, fought back in the second and third rounds to take 2 wins. Michael Salven who had won the 1st round managed a 2nd in the second round and another 2nd in the final round to take 2nd overall, whilst Chris Tosolini who also had problems in the 1st round fought back with a 3rd place finish in the second round and an unfortunate 3rd position in the third round, after flaming out whilst close to Paolo in 2nd position, to take third overall at the event.
Check out the final mains results here (PDF).
Results from Live RC [liverc.com] Image: Pdub [pdubracing.com]
Young Japanese driver, and 1/10th National Champion, Tadahiko Sahashi has taken the TQ spot for this years Japanese 1/8th scale Nationals being held at the Hokusei circuit in Japan. The Serpent 960 driver moved up from 3rd overnight to take the pole ahead of 1/10th World Champion Keisuke Fukuda driving a Mugen in 2nd. In 3rd is the current Japanese 1/8th National champion Takaaki Shimo for Kyosho with the older brother of Tadahiko and also Serpent racer Sukenari Sahashi in 4th. Overnight pole man Masao Tanaka slipped to 5th having not managed to improve on his round 1 qualifying time.
You can download the full results in Japanese here (PDF).
The finals take place tomorrow with the main final itself starting at 14.10 local time. We will give you the results as we get them.
CRC dominate 1/12th at the Halloween Classic Categories - CRC, Events, Electric On Road, Cars, Products - comments closed
Something that seemed to slip our radar, mainly due to my lack of knowledge with regards 1/12th scale, is the fact that the all new CRC (Calandra Racing Concepts) Carpet Knife Generation X kicked ass at the Halloween Classic in Cleveland. While we only brought you the Touring modified results, it seemed that the real racing at this event was happening in the comeback class, 1/12th. Mark Smyka TQ’d and won in the 19T class, whilst in modified it was Mike Blackstock who took the TQ and the win.
Head on over to CRC for the full report.
Friday, November 3, 2006
Paolo Morganti TQ at Kissimmee Categories - Events, Gas, On Road, International, Racing - comments closedPaolo Morganti (another old picture) has TQ’d the US Open Fuel Sedan Championships being held this weekend at the Kissimmee track in Florida. Paolo, driving a Serpent 720 dominated the qualifyng, having benefited from a lot of track time at last weekends Regional event held at the same track, which he won. In second position was German driver Michael Salven, the only European at the event with DJ Apolaro in third followed by young ‘Serpent Development Driver’ Scotty Gray in 4th, making a complete block out at the front for Serpents new 720 chassis. In fifth position we saw current US national champion and World Championship top qualifier Chris Tosolini driving a Kyosho.
The weather was starting to look bad as qualifying drew to a close and with the finals due for tomorrow everyone will be hoping they dont need to make use of the spare day on Sunday to run the mains.
Full qualifyng results after the jump… (more…)
Tanaka heads qualifying at Japanese Nats Categories - Events, Gas, On Road, National, Racing - comments closed
After 2 rounds of qualifying for the 1/8th scale Japanese Nationals being held at the Hokusei Circuit in Japan, Masao Tanaka heads the leaderboard. The Kawahara driver, and Worlds finalist, is in 1st position just ahead of current Japanese national champion and Worlds finalist, Takaaki Shimo. In the next two spots are the Sahashi brothers with younger Tadahiko in 3rd, the Japanese 1/10th national champion just ahead of his brother Sukenari. World 1/10th scale champion Keisuke Fukuda is just outside the top 4 in fifth position with the top 6 racers doing 17 lap runs on this 340 meter long track.
Qualifying continues tomorrow and we will bring you the news as we get it.
Image: Kawahara [kawahara-racing.co.jp]
