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November 20, 2012

Spashett dominates BRCA 1/12th scale Nats Rd2

Horizon Hobby UK’s David Spashett continued his dominant start to the 2012/13 BRCA 1/12th Scale Nationals by winning both the stock and modified classes at round 2 of the championship. David looked to be in imperious form and cruised to TQ in the 10.5 blinky stock class on Saturday driving a chassis that he has had designed and manufactured himself using Associated suspension parts. At times the Serpent S120 LTX of Chris Kerswell looked like mounting a serious challenge, but despite showing good pace Chris was unable to topple David from the top spot. Mick Farrell was driving the new CRC Xti for the first time at this event and lined up 3rd on the grid ahead of the Associated of Matt White and Mark Stiles, also driving a CRC Xti. Mark looked to have 3rd in the bag during the last qualifier but a late tangle with a back marker dropped him to 5th in the qualifying list.

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November 20, 2012

Tebo dominates JConcepts Winter Indoor Shootout

The JConcepts Winter Indoor Shootout was held this past weekend at Fastlane R/C Raceway in Kansas City, MO. This would be the home track for Kyosho/Team Orion’s Jared Tebo. For this event, Tebo designed the track layout and helped with track maintenance all weekend long. This years event brought in an impressive 248 entries. In the Modified Truck Class, it was Kyosho/Team Orion’s Jared Tebo who would dominate qualifying by TQ’ing all 4 rounds to take the overall TQ.

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November 20, 2012

Sweep UK Rug Racers series Rd2 report

Racers hit the carpet once more for round 2 of the Sweep UK Rug Racers series. With almost maximum capacity across Touring and GT12 (as well as a very good attendance of 1/12th Circuit drivers) the day would be a busy one. 13.5T qualifying and Ashley Wiffen (Schumacher Mi4cxl) was on top spot after round 1 with 26/ 307.81. Behind him Jimmy Maddison was on form and looking good for a top spot with Colin Gardner showing some good early pace in 3rd. Ashley would improve his time by 5 second in round 2 with fellow Schumacher team mate, and last year’s champ, Paul Pinkney now moving to second spot on another 26 lap run. Jimmy would also improve to 26 to stay in there with 3rd spot. The track was getting ever quicker, and with it Jimmy put in a blistering 27/ 306.16 in round 3 to top the table ahead of Paul and Ashley both on 27 laps as well. It was clear that to be in the A-main a 27 or fast 26 would be needed. Ashley set to it and was pulling out everything to take pole, and he did with a 27/ 301.79 . Paul improved on his time to go 2nd a few seconds shy of Ashley, with Jimmy in 3rd spot with his round 3 time.

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November 20, 2012

2012 Italian Charity Race – Announcement

Following the great success of last year’s Charity race at the RC Landia permanent carpet track in Italy, the organisers are happy to announce the Charity Race 2012, “We love Emilia”, to be held on their new CRC carpet from the 8th to 9th of December. Having raised more than EUR 5000 last year, this year’s amount will go towards the financing the Maternity ward of the Scandiano Hospital that needs new equipments for the diagnosis of newborn babies. This year, thanks to ToniSport, Xray and Yokomo, they will have competing Marc Rheinard, Ronald Volker, Alexander Hagberg, Vicktor Wilck, Yannic Prumper, Eric Dankel, Martin Hudy, Sandro Kuriger, Rene Klockner, David Ehrbar and Anna Wysgol. Also attending will be the best drivers from all over Italy such as European front runners Francesco Martini, Alessio Menicucci, Alessandro Brunelli and Michele Romagnoli for a weekdend of fun, charity, good food and racing. For anyone interested in competing, feel free to contact Toni Rheinard (info@tonisport.de) or Davide Sillingardi (silla@treskafamily.com).

November 19, 2012

Pinkney & Hart win EWS Rd2

Round 2 of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend. Despite low temperatures outside, the fully heated indoor tennis centre facility left most spending the day in t-shirts and the large carpet circuit offering high levels of grip from the start. The format for the series is five qualifying rounds, with the best 3 to count, and single leg finals. In the Super Stock 13.5 class, the five rounds of qualifying produced some incredibly close racing, with positions between the top drivers often changing lap-by-lap.

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November 17, 2012

V is for victory, Meen is World Champion

KM Racing’s Meen Vejrak, or as he is more commonly referred to as Meen V, is the 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Champion, the Thai driving becoming the country’s second ever IFMAR World Champion after a stunning performance at the RC Addict track in Bangkok saw him win the rain shortened race from HB’s Atsushi Hara and Capricorns’s Francesco Tironi. For Top Qualifier Teemu Leino engine issues ended what was looking like a dominant run for the rapid Finn who would eventually crash out 7-minutes before the race ended 56 minutes into the scheduled 1-hour distance.

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November 17, 2012

Mibosport Cup Rd2 report

The second out of eight races of the 2012/13 Mibosport Cup attracted 117 drivers from five countries including some of Europe’s top drivers such as Martin Bayer, Zdenko Kunák and Marek Černý. The Mibosport Cup takes place in the same place as the ETS in January. The race was held in a variety of electric classes such as 2WD and 4WD buggy, Formula, Yokomo GT, Stock 17.5T and Modified TC. In the TC Modified class 33 drivers fought for the victory and the battle for TQ was on between Zdenko Kunák, Zdeněk Hamák, Jiří Mára and Marek Černý . In the second and third final Zdenko Kunák was able to secure the top position on the podium followed by Zdeněk Hamák and Jiří Mára.

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November 17, 2012

Galicia Indoor Series report

Ponteareas, Spain saw a round of the Galicia Indoor Series for electric touring cars and M-class mini chassis. The indoor carpet track was modelled after the one that was used at the Italian ETS encounter with the event being well organized by Iñigo Ledo and Andrés Gonzalez. In the touring car modified class, Helder Silva was the man to beat, he topped the first three rounds of qualifying and took TQ for the A-main final. Damian Garcia lined up second and the duo was followed closely by Javier Hidalgo in 3rd and Jorge Simões in 4th. Both drivers had a good pace but were not able to retain the times over the five minutes qualifiers.

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