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July 14, 2011

Hang wins KM World Cup selection race Rd1

The first round of the Hong Kong & Macau Selection Race for the 2012 KM World Cup took place last weekend at the ACO Racing track. Qualifying had to be halted after two rounds due to a heavy downpour but not before KM Group Development Dept. Manager & H-K1 designer Hung Cheung Hang was leading away and made the best lap of the qualify round with 23.133 sec and the only 26 lap run, where the second car was the Shepherd team driver Michael with 25 laps and 23.453 sec best time. Third position was the famous Hong Kong driver Samuel Chiu, who had enjoyed more than 30 years of RC racing and is still capable of competing with the yound guys, who running an Xray made 25 laps with 23.537 best time. The fourth place driver was track manager Leung Wing Wah, who was driving a H-K1 and managed to also make a very fast lap time of 23.259 sec but had a little crash in the second qualifier with Samuel which lost him the second place in qualifying. Since all KM Cup race is following the IFMAR race system then those four drivers were straight into the A-main and no need to race the semi-finals.

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July 14, 2011

Hupo Hönigl dominates 2011 IROC

The 4th annual International Race of Champions (IROC) was held by the MAC-Inzell and Hupo Hönigl put on a show as he carried away the top prize in every class with his DESC410R, DEX410 and DEX210 prototype. The 4WD Short Course class showed once again that the DESC410R is a force to be reckoned with as it dominated in the first 6 positions, and 7 cars in the final. Hupo Honigl had this report on the race:

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July 14, 2011

Felix Law wins FT Cup in China

Last weekend in Guangzhou, China, IN-hobby & a local track hosted a 1/10 nitro & 1/10 electric touring car race called the FT Cup. Hot Bodies driver Felix Law from the United States, dominated the Electric side of the event. Driving the HB TCX he was able to use the 1st round of qualifying to dominate the competition running a 16 laps in 5 minutes & 3 seconds. The closest driver was Fai Ho from Hong Kong driving the Serpent S411 who was 5 second behind.

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July 12, 2011

Video – HRH Shootout 2wd Modified A-main

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnXjB3mRbIQ[/youtube]

Following our coverage of the 2011 Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout that took place last weekend, we have uploaded a video showing all the action from the 2wd Modified A-main which you can view above.

July 12, 2011

Daniel Reckward wins Swiss EFRA GP

Last weekend saw the EFRA GP for 1/8 Buggy held in Oberbüren, Switzerland. As the drivers arrived on Friday morning, a very big tent awaited them with space for all the drivers and the restaurant area. It rained the night before and so the track was wet but in good condition. From 10am till 6pm the drivers could run four practice round to get familiar with the track. On Saturday morning the track was wet again but no rain for the last practice round, however just before the start of the first Qualifying round it began to rain. The rain stayed for the whole first round of qualifying and it was Dominique Gross (Serpent/Ninja/JConcepts) from Switzerland who was fasted, second was Roman Kummer (Agama/TechnoPower/VP-Pro) from Switzerland, 5 seconds behind, and third Hannes Käufler (TLR/nVision/Losi) from Germany.

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July 12, 2011

Jesse Munn wins SC at Northwest Championship Tour

Venom Factory Pilot Jesse Munn took both the TQ and the overall victory this past weekend at the Northwest Championship Tour round three in Burlington, WA. Jesse was running Venom LiPo battery packs in his Gambler SC truck. Throughout open SC qualifying, Jesse’s Venom Gambler was pulling faster laps than any other trucks in the field. The first A main, Jesse pushed took the win in a close battle, while the second main was a different story when Jesse put in a dominating performance to clinch the overall victory.

Source: Venom [venom-group.com]

July 12, 2011

Cuypers heads all Belgian podium at Dutch Nats Rd4

Last weekend was the 4th round of the Dutch 1/8 onroad nationals, this time on the 2011 1/10 EC-B track, the Baanbrekers in Rucphen. With good weather, a lot of rubber on the track from the EC-B and 45 drivers on the fastest track in Holland it promised to be a very good race and it didn’t disappoint. Steven Cuypers was in very good shape the whole weekend and showed that by taking the top spot after the 1st round of qualifying followed by John Ermen, Robin d’Hondt, Gunther v. Steay. Finally after 3 rounds it was Rick V taking the pole followed by Steven Cuypers just half a second back, with Robin d’Hondt and Ilia v. Gastel completing the top 4. Both Robin and Ilia had an extra handicap by starting in the lowest heat with much slower drivers because their listing in this years ranking, Ilia had a collision in the 1st heat damaging his car a lot but managed a direct main final place with the other 2 sessions.

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July 12, 2011

Bowie Ginting wins Rd5 of Indonesian Nationals

The 5th round of the Indonesian EP National Championship was held last weekend in Sunter International Speedway. 40 drivers attended the race with Hot sunny weather during the qualifying rounds. In the Stock Touring class, it was Bowie Ginting who took the TQ spot with the brand new Serpent S411, with a time of 20 laps @ 5.08. Suwardi Suliandy followed in 2nd with his TOP Photon, 2 seconds behind Bowie. Teddy Syach (Tamiya), Chandra Yosef (Xray) and Rama Tribudiman (Tamiya) completed the top 5 qualifying of stock touring while Chester Thamrin placed his Tamiya FF-03 Pro on the TQ spot for the FWD class.

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