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July 5, 2013

2013 FEMCA Championships – Announcement

2013 FEMCA Championships - Announcement

The Car Modelling Association of China have contacted us to invite everyone to the 2013 FEMCA Championships for 1/8th buggy and 1/10th ISTC which takes place in Beijing from the 18th to the 28th of August. The organisers are putting in a huge effort to make this an amazing race with a new purpose built facility for offroad located in the Fengtai Sports Center, which hosted many major sports events including the softball during the Olympics, as well as the already existing tarmac onroad track which previously hosted the Beijing International RC Invitational. Together with Masami Hirosaka, Trevor Reid and Charlie Siribodhi from FEMCA they will ensure that this a well run event. China is still an emerging market for RC and believe it or not this will be one of the first major Championships to be held on the mainland. Entries are open right now, and there are already some major names confirmed, and Red RC will be in attendance to cover the event. For more details you can visit the official event website here or view the stage 1 & 2 reports here.

July 5, 2013

2nd KM World Cup & Zac Cup – Announcement

KM Racing announce the second KM World Cup & ZAC Cup. The race will take place on this year’s IFMAR 1/8th nitro on-road track in Japan from the 30th of August to the 1st of September and is the last chance for competitors to hit the track before it will be closed until the World Championships. The race is run in 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm and open to any chassis brand. International stars such as Adrien Bertin, Meen V., Dario Balestri and Keisuke Fukuda already signed in. More information can be found here very soon.

July 5, 2013

Juanito Hidalgo wins 200mm at Spanish nats Rd3

The third round of the Spanish nitro on-road nationals took place at the track of San Adrian. With a perfect weather forecast everyone was set for a great race that could also decide the 2013 championship. It was Serpent driver Victor Pelaez who was very fast in Friday’s practice and he also took TQ on Saturday by less than 0.02 seconds. Third placed after qualifying was Jonhathan Pastor followed by Rodri Pahissa, all separated by only 0.6 seconds.

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July 5, 2013

Sami Munck wins Finnish nitro touring nats Rd3

Sami Munck wins Finnish nitro touring nats Rd3 and Teemu Saarinen secures Nationals series win

The PKSRCA club hosted the third round of the Finnish nitro on-road champs in Helsinki. Drivers were greeted with overcast weather on Saturday morning and everybody was hoping for a dry day, but just a few minutes before the controlled practice skies opened and there was heavy rain for some hours. This meant no practice for the drivers and the first two rounds of qualifying were a waiting game to see if the weather would improve. Thanks to the organising club whose volunteers did an excellent job on drying the track before Q3 drivers started to get some results on the board on damp conditions. In Q4 on an almost dry track Teemu Saarinen was able to secure TQ in front of local driver Jari Valkola.

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July 5, 2013

Manuel Henriet wins at Belgian nationals Rd4

For the fourth race of the season the Belgian electric touring car racers travelled to the track of MRG next to the famous karting track of Genk. In the EFRA class it was Manuel Henriet (Awesomatix) who took the TQ honours. Olivier Bultynck was second and last year’s winner Nick Joosens took the third place on the grid. Come the first A final Manuel took the lead followed by Olivier and Nick. Manuel was driving on the edge and Olivier was trying hard to find a gap to overtake. Every spectator was enjoying this fair fight between the two drivers. It was a fight over the full five minutes and they never touched each other. At the end Manuel took the win just in front of Olivier and Nick.

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July 4, 2013

Simon Balk wins Mid-German regionals Rd2

The second round of the Mid-German nitro on-road regionals took place in Ettlingen. The event was planned as a two day affair, but unfortunately there was heavy rain on Saturday and no driver had a chance to complete even one lap in dry conditions, but come Sunday the rain stopped and the sun came out. Qualifications started right after one round of practice and it was Simon Balk who took TQ followed by Hartmut Rose, Holger Kraft and Dennis Sting who rounded up the all-Xray top 4. The low traction made for high tyre wear and everyone in the main final was unsure about the right tyre strategy. Simon Balk opted for a change around the 15 minutes mark but the remainder of the field tried to bring home the cars on one set of tyres. After the start, Simon was able to pull away quickly and build a big gap on the rest of the field, which was necessary for his strategy. After a fast tyre change, Simon had a comfortable lead in front of Hartmut Rose and Dennis Sting, who was fighting with Michael Holla directly behind him. At the last corner of the race, a wheel nut came off and sadly Dennis lost his third position handing Michael Holla the remaining podium spot.

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July 4, 2013

On the Grapevine – Kirchberg

My latest travels took me back to Austria, this time for the concluding round of the two race Euro Nitro Series ‘Pilot Series’. I don’t make any apologies for the fact that onroad nitro racing is my favorite class as it was the accidental discovery of a small club of 1:8 Onroad club racing in a car park over 25-years ago that got me and my father, and then my brother, hooked on a sport that myself & my brother now have the pleasure of calling our occupation. It took a number of months of hard saving and ultimately a rather big contribution from my father to get started out with a second-hand Associated RC250 (younger readers may need to Google this high tech chassis!). Unfortunately after only a few races my Super Tigre engine, originally designed for use in an rc airplane, expired when the ends of the crank decided to have a falling out and split. With my short but very enjoyable r/c involvement now in serious jeopardy, the engine failure would actually prove to be a key moment in my professional life as with no money to buy a new one I turned to the idea of sponsorship. Picking up the Golden Pages (an Irish business directory), on my third call I struck gold with full size car battery company Exide agreeing to sponsor me a new engine and from this moment I took a keen interest in the area of sponsorship and public relations as I typed up a report, had photographs developed and posted them (no e-mail back then) to Exide and my growing list of sponsors. The experienced gained from doing this lead me to being asked to help a friend, who raced karts, to write a report for a local paper and from there I ended up working professionally in 1:1 motorsport for over 15-years before going full circle and returning to RC racing when I was asked to do some press work for VRC and Serpent in 2004. The 1:10 200mm European Championships in Madrid in 2007 would the be first event Red RC ever would attend and report on, so you can see why I will always have a close affection for onroad nitro.

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July 4, 2013

Dutch electric on-road nationals Rd3 – Report

The third round of the 2013 Dutch Nationals took place in Utrecht on the big and flowing track of RACO2000. In the touring car Modified class it was Chris van der Hagen who took TQ in front of Sidney Blokker and Robert Krens. Due to electrical problems of Chris, Sidney won the first A final in front of Robert and Gerrit-Jan Toeters. The second final saw a battle between Sidney and Robert, both on new tyres, but after a small mistake of Robert it was Sidney who won the final again in front of Robert. Johan Ackermans took the third spot. The last final saw a super fast Sidney again who won in front of Johan and Chris.

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