Hara TQ’s opening qualifier at Andernach
Atsushi Hara has TQ’d the opening qualifier at the sixth & final round of the 2009/10 Xenon Racing backed Euro Touring Series. Reverting to the set-up he ran this morning, the Japanese ace topped the time sheets in Andernach ahead of World Champion Marc Rheinard and his own Hot Bodies team-mate Andy Moore. Having to pass both Rheinard and Moore during the run, the 2008 Andernach Top Qualifier & race winner finished over 1.7 seconds faster than the German despite an overshot on the penultimate lap after he out braked himself in front of the drivers’ rostrum.
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Friday, July 16, 2010
Wilck heads Hara after P3 at ETS Rd6
Viktor Wilck is setting the pace in practice for the sixth and final round of the Xenon Racing back Euro Touring Series here in Andernach. The Swede is fastest over three consecutive laps and also over the full five minutes around the Andernach track which is running a slightly different layout to that used last year. Behind the factory Tamiya driver is the Hot Bodies pairing of Atsushi Hara and Andy Moore.
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Friday, July 16, 2010
Neil Diver wins BRCA 1/8th Nats Rd5
The 5th round of this years national championship was held at the Adur circuit in Brighton. The track was built only a couple of years ago with the club doing a fantastic job in providing a very challenging facility in which the drivers have to quickly adapt to since it is the smoothest and tightest track in the country. The track layout is actually formed on a small area of continuous tarmac, originally marked out using heavy duty rope but this is now revised to include Astroturf over timber contour boards and also profiled concrete kerbs at potential cross over positions.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Kenny & Bickerstaff win Much More UK GP Rd2
The Much-More Racing UK GP visited the Ballymoney track in Northern Ireland last weekend for the second round of a three round GP series which has already taken in Stonehaven in Scotland and concludes at the Carlisle track in North West England on August 13th to 15th. Despite missing the pole grid position, it was local driver Graham Kenny (Schumacher) who won the first of the two leg A final in the Pro Stock class which every driver competed in on the Saturday. Rain interrupted the second leg and it was Scott Kenny that took the win in leg two but Graham’s fourth place rewarded him with the overall title ahead of Keith Dempsey and Mark Gilliland.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Drake wins buggy at Monster Energy SS Rd1
Revelation Raceway hosted round 1 of the Monster Energy Summer Series last Saturday with the one day event consisting of three rounds of qualifying and the main events. In the 1/8th buggy class Adam Drake TQ’d with his Novarossi powered Losi 8ight 2.0 buggy, followed by teammate Matt Schreffler also running a Novarossi powered Losi 8ight 2.0, while Colby Poh started third on the grid with his Mugen buggy. In the final Matt used the option line to move past Adam at the start of lap one, but Adam was able to get back into the lead before the end of lap one and never looked back. The Drake won the 20 minute final by more than a lap over Colby Poh and Matt Schreffler finished third. Adam and Matt used Losi’s green compound Kingpin G2’s for qualifying and the final.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Mikie Klausner takes Rd4 in Austria
Last weekend saw the 4th round from 6 of the Austrian 1:8 Onroad championship take place at the SFMAV track near Salzburg. Very hot, perfect weather, with more than 35° air temperature and more than 50° track temperature helped produce some very hot racing action. Already in practice it looked like Mugen/Novarossi driver Mikie Klausner would dominate this event again, like the 3 events prior. With the fastest practice time, fastest lap time and winning all qualifying heats, Mikie would easily take the pole position.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Buerge wins in West Germany, Hepp takes title
The final battle for points of the 1/10 scale nitro on-road Western German Championship at Oberhausen saw Sebastian Buerge winning for the first time this season. But even with a victory the 2009 champion couldn’t avoid that Tobias Hepp, finishing third behind Andreas Weyhoven, captured the 2010 title and the prestigious starting number “1” for the 2011 season. In the Kyosho World Cup (KWC) group West local hero Werner Vogel earned his second win and the title in the GP-Race class while Holger Wittek took the title in GP-Sport.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Renaud Savoya makes it 3 in a row
Three is a magic number and today Renaud ‘The Shark’ Savoya entered the sport’s history books as he notched up his third consecutive EFRA 1:8 Off Road European Championship. The 30th running of these championships, the French ace won here in Portugal from Robert Batlle, the man whom he took the title from back in 2008. Having struggled by his standards in qualifying, ending up only fourth, Savoya bounced back on the day it counted most.
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
