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March 23, 2013

Menicucci takes Italian UISP League title

Francesco Martini reports on the recent UISP League race in Italy. ‘For the first time, this year the Italian league UISP was split in two days with 5 qualifying round by round: three on Saturday afternoon and two on Sunday followed by the finals. This new formula has allowed us to have free practice on Saturday morning in order to make the drivers try the tires and start to see the values on the tracks. Until the morning the signs were good and our T4 seemed to have something more than the others in all categories.

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March 22, 2013

Prumper & Vogel take German Indoor titles

At the weekend of 16th to 17th March 2013, the 2013 German TC Championship took place in Geilenkirchen and Marco Kaufmann penned this report. To get some track time prior the race on the small and technical high demanding track and to compensate the home advantage of many drivers the Team Xray Germany already traveled on Thursday. After the first practice we were working on the setup. The T4 worked perfectly, so I was able to get 3rd position on the grid for the A-Mains. The latitude of the track was so tight at some sections, that it was difficult to overtake another driver side by side and also in an accurate way. So you had to wait until the driver in front of you made a mistake.

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March 22, 2013

Josh Cyrul triple at 2013 ROAR Nationals

Last weekend saw the best racers in the USA attend the 2013 ROAR Carpet On Road Nationals held in Horsham Pennsylvania. In the Modified TC class Josh Cyrul, driving the new Team ARC R10 chassis, set the early TQ pace for drivers to chase. From the start of the buzzer Josh drove his ARC R10 to the finish line never looking back giving him his first 2013 TC Modified Roar National Title ahead of Ralph Burch and Andrew Ellis.

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March 22, 2013

Grosse & Knapp take ROAR 1/12th titles

CRC are reporting that North Dakota driver, Randy Grosse (RG1), took his Gen-X 10LE to a ROAR National title in the World GT class last weekend winning A2 and A3. Team mate Andrew Knapp took another ROAR National Championship taking the 1:12th scale 13.5 class with the CRC Xti car. The driver from Grand Rapids took the TQ spot as well totally dominating the event. His teammate RG1 also ran strong in 13.5 taking his CRC Xti to a 1-2 sweep.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

March 21, 2013

Spashett double at BRCA 1/12th Nats Rd5

David Spashett continued his near dominance of the 2012/13 BRCA 1/12th Scale Nationals at round 5 of the 6 event series in Stafford last weekend. In the 10.5 blinky stock class on Saturday, David took TQ by the slender margin of 0.2 seconds ahead of Team Associated/Reedy factory driver Olly Jefferies who made a one-off return to this years championship at Stafford. Mark Stiles lined up 3rd on the grid for the A final driving an LRP/Reedy powered CRC with Olly’s team mate Zak Smith and the Serpent of Chris Kerswell completing the top-5.

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March 21, 2013

Adrian Berntsen takes Norwegian Indoor title

Last weekend saw the 2013 Indoor Norwegian Championship was held at the new permanent indoor facility at Mustit Raceway in Moss. The race saw 59 drivers attending participating in 1:10 modified, 1:12th scale (modified) and the three support classes (1:10 World GT, 1:10 Pro Stock and Formula F1) After 5 rounds of qualifying with only the best run to count, Adrian Berntsen was able to take the TQ with 29 laps @ 5:00:248 in front of team mate Petter Berntsen who claimed 2nd spot on the grid with a 29 lap run @ 4:04:881. After some very close finishes with 1,5 seconds separating 3rd and 7th! position on the grid, Oskar Fjeld got himself the 3rd spot for the finals.

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March 20, 2013

Jean-Yves Konigs wins at Belgium Winter trophy

The final round of the Belgium Winter Tropgy was held at the Black Country Arena last weekend. In the 4WD buggy class the title was up between Jean-Yves Konigs (Schumacher) and Cedric Nikell (Team Durango), both only separated by 8 points after four race weekends. None of the two drivers was able to secure the day’s race win but a fourth place just behind Cedric was enough for Jean-Yves to secure the championship title. Frederic Fontaine (Xray XB4) finished third overall behind Cedric with Jean-Michel Taijmans completing the top 4.

Thanks to Jean-Yves Konigs for sending the report.

March 20, 2013

David Ronnefalk wins Swedish VBC Cup

Last weekend saw the final round of the Swedish VBC Cup that was arranged by Borås MRK. The main classes are 1/10 2WD and 4WD buggy who are driven on indoor carpet. The series was held over the course of six weekends with four rounds counting for the final rankings. The 2WD title was up between Kyosho’s David Ronnefalk and Team Associated/Advanced driver Niclas Månsson who were equal on points after the sixth round. The time keeper therefore decided to have a ‘Death Race’ between David and Niclas that was ultimately won by David handing him the overall series title in the 2WD class. David tried to copy his good pace for the 4WD final but struggled with setup meaning ‘only’ as second place on Sunday but the runner-up spot was good enough to win the 4WD class also meaning a clean sweep and therefore the ‘Supercup’ title for the young Swede.

Thanks to Pierre Ronnefalk for sending the report.