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June 9, 2011

ETS heads outdoors as Apeldoorn hosts Round 5

The Yokomo Euro Touring Series gets back underway this weekend following a three month break with the beautiful Apeldoorn track in the Netherlands hosting the fifth round and first outdoor race of the 2010/11 season. Making a return to the ETS having previously held the Dutch round during the 2008/09 series, over 200 drivers will compete at Apeldoorn including two time champion Jilles Groskamp who took victory on the last visit to the track en route to successfully defending the inaugural ETS title.

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June 8, 2011

Hungarian Offroad Championships Rd3 report

Last weekend the 3rd round of the Hungarian Offroad Championship was held in Apaj, a small village about 50km’s from the capital city of Budapest. The event was organised by RCOR, the biggiest Hungarian RC club. They prepared well for this event, once again they arranged permanent marshals so drivers did not need to help after their heats which was quite good news in the very hot weather, around 35°C, and huge dust. Trackside buffet was taking care all of our dining needs. Their track is very versatile, it has all kind of jumps (table, double, triple, step-down) and corners (sweeper, harpin, chicane) especially the long high-speed banked corner after the main straight where you can make your laptime with a big brave heart or sky rocket the car on the ruts into the fence.

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June 8, 2011

Azri Amri wins round 2 of MNC 2011

The second round of the Malaysian National Championship (MNC) was held recently at the Kota Raja track in Klang, where FEMCA 2005 was held. The track was just lightly refurbished with a thin layer of tarmac being laid, with the island being rebuilt and new paint on the track, it is set to be a very exciting race. This round is again a tough fight for all racers, the track is a mixture of semi-technical and high speed, with a straight of about 150ft, it calls for good balance of top speed as well as torque out of the corners in the infield.

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June 8, 2011

Yuichi Kanai wins Team C Buggy Cup

The Team C Buggy Cup was hosted by TZ Racing Track Beijing this past weekend and attracted more than 70 drivers from Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China including Japanese former World Champion Yuichi Kanai. It was Kanai who TQ’d and won the one hour A-main, leading from the first lap. The 2nd spot went to Lam with his TP powered Durango, with Li in 3rd with his GO powered MBX6. In the electric buggy class, Team C driver Tommy took an easy win with his T8E in the 8 minutes final.

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June 6, 2011

Hupo Honigl wins Euros Warmup in Pau

The 2011 10th off road European Championships is being held in Pao, Southern France at the ‘Mini Racing Club Palois’ track. This years ‘Euros warmup’ even, a chance for competitors to gain some experience before the main event, coincided with the 4th round of the 2011 French National series as both events ran together in Pao last weekend. Hupo Honigl and Martin Kriel made the trip over together but had to miss most of Fridays open practice due to their travel arrangements – and this being first time out for Kriel with the prototype 2WD DEX210, it was a steep learning curve. Hupo Honigl however quickly established his dominance in 2WD with the prototype DEX210 2WD buggy, taking every single qualifier and A finals for the win.

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June 4, 2011

Marc Rheinard wins Reedy Race of Champions

The Reedy Race of Champions was held last weekend at Nor-Cal hobbies in Union City, CA. Featuring a unique racing format with a grueling 8 rounds of heat races normally consisting of 4 rounds of racing per day., all races began with random starting position and ended with points associated to each driver for their finish position. The overall winner was determined by the lowest tally of the best out of 6 finishes as drivers were able to throw out their worst (highest) 2 scores. This year the weather did not cooperate with the four rounds of heats per day. On day one, the rain delayed a few heats and then washed out round 4 leaving day two for 5 rounds of competition instead of the normal four. Team Thunder Power RC’s newest signing Marc Rheinard, driving a Tamiya TRF417 battled his way to the Championship title, while his Thunder Power RC team mate Victor Wilck kept the pressure on to finish 2nd. Former World Champion Atsushi Hara, driving a Hot Bodies TCX took 3rd.

Source: Thunder Power RC [thunderpowerrc.com]

June 3, 2011

Ben Ellis does double at Memorial Day Shootout

Over the past weekend Indy RC Raceway and Hobbies hosted the second annual “Memorial Day Shootout” and Ben Ellis made this report. The one day event brought over 120 entries from around the tri-state area to compete at the premier Midwest facility located on the south side of Indianapolis, IN. The race format was two rounds of rocket round qualification, with single 7 minute A-mains. Qualifying was as close as one could hope for with myself and Team Associated driver Adam Rayls and Jacob Robins trading the TQ back and fourth in 2wd Mod Buggy, Mod Truck, and 2WD Pro SC.

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June 3, 2011

Miguel & Cosme win Rd3 in Portugal

Last weekend saw the Portuguese Nationals head to the Torres Novas track for round 3 of the series. In the Modified Class the outcome stayed the same as in the last 2 rounds, with Hugo Miguel taking the win and Helder Silva as the runner up. The pair were followed closely by João Miguel Martinho. In the Stock Class Bernardo Cosme, running at his home track, didn’t give anyone a chance, taking TQ and the overall win, beating almost every track record on the way. Fernando Cardoso got second and Mário Coelho was third. Championship leader Jorge Simões couldn’t do any better than 4th.

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