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May 9, 2010

Tom Cockerill wins 2wd at Robinhood Raceway

oOple are reporting that Tom Cockerill, driving the Schumacher Cougar SV, took the win at the second round of the 2010 BRCA 10th off road national series held at Robinhood Raceway. Tom shared qualifying bragging rights equally with Tamiya’s Lee Martin, with both drivers taking two of the four rounds. Tom’s faster time put him on pole however and Tom took the win in the opening two legs to secure victory. Lee Martin took the third leg and finished 2nd overall with Danny McGee driving for Losi third with his XXXCR2 mid motor car.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

May 7, 2010

Wouter Wynen joins Vampire Racing

Multiple Belgium Champion Wouter Wynen has joined Vampire Racing. The 2009 Euro B finalist and winner of the Belgium GP at Kampenhout, is going to use the complete Vampire Racing product range including their racing LiPo batteries. Wouter has already won the second round of this year’s Belgium 2wd championship and Vampire Racing are confident that using their products he can continue that success for the rest of the season.

Source: Vampire Racing [vampire-racing.com]

May 5, 2010

Philippe Tschupp wins Stock class at Swiss Rd2

The 2nd round of the Swiss touring car nationals took place at the Islikon indoor track in the north of the country this past weekend. In the stock class it was Top Racing driver Philippe Tschupp that claimed the TQ spot ahead of team mate Florian Hauser in 2nd with Philipp Hagnauer in 3rd. The finals when the way of the pole man Tschupp, who was able to win 2 finals to secure the win with Hagnauer taking the runner up spot and Stuzt Beni taking 3rd.

Source: HS Online Distribution [hsonlinedistribution.com]

May 5, 2010

RMC Wien Euros track pics

RMC Wien, the organisers of this year’s 1/10th electric off road Euros in Traiskirchen, Austria, were in touch to show of photos of their brand new track. Replacing their old, mainly dirt track, the new layout incorporates a lot more jumps and is covered in large areas with astro turf. Ready in time for next weeks warm up race, the main event will run from the 23rd to the 28th of August.

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May 4, 2010

Frank Root wins at JBRL Electric Rd3

Frank Root reports that the Jimmy Babcock Racing League was back in session last Sunday, and with only 2 weeks since the last round, everyone were all still in electric mode and ready to go. Hot Rod Hobbies, home of the Off-Road Shootout, hosted round 3 and with the traditional high bite blue-groove and a fresh smooth layout, the cars would be flying. The layout was one of my all-time favorites, fast and flowing, yet still technically challenging. The signature to the track was the flat out banked turn at the end of the front straight, where just about all drivers would ride the top of the bank at full throttle with smiles on their faces.

Continue reading the report here

May 4, 2010

Tresrey Off-road series Rd2

Round 2 of the Tresrey Off-road series was held last Sunday at the TRS circuit in Matsusaka-city, Japan. 54 racers joined the event, making it the best attended race that the TRS circuit ever had for an off-road event with 49 entrants in the 2WD class and 44 in the 4WD class. In qualifying it was Takashi Nobuhara to managed to take TQ for both the 2WD and 4WD classes. In 2WD, Nobuhara won the race from the pole, with Hideki Nakajima taking 2nd and Noriyuki Kawashima 3rd. Team Durango/Speed Passion Japan team driver Minoru Utsugi was 8th in qualifying and finished 4th in the final. There were 13 Durango DEX410s in the 4WD class and 5 of them made the A final. Team Durango/Speed Passion Japan team driver Kazuki Sasatsu started from 3rd position and eventually won the race ahead of Kyoji Minagawa, with Team Durango Japan local support driver Akihiro Yasuda in 3rd. Minoru Utsugi finished 5th, Akira Ema finished 7th and Satoshi Kawano finished 10th driving DEX410s. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big draw prize draw which included two DEX410R kit exchange tickets, Axial kits and Speed Passion ESCs and motors.

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May 3, 2010

Grainger takes Rd1 of BTCC

The 2010 Schumacher BTCC championship got underway over the weekend with round one at the Mendip circuit, the race was seen as a major warm up for the forthcoming BRCA national meeting which takes place at the Somerset track in a few weeks time. Nearly all the big names in modified were in attendance including national champion Chris Grainger and ex BTCC champions Olly Jefferies and Elliott Harper. It was Chris Grainger that showed he still had the pace from last year and set FTD in modified ahead of Elliott Harper. In Pro Stock it was Xray driver Ricky Copsey that led the A final grid ahead of Adam Meakin and Matt Quinlisk. This years BTCC has a 13.5 stock class and it was Jake Williams who took the top spot for the A final in this class.

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May 2, 2010

Ronald Volker wins German 1/12th Nationals

The 2010 German 1/12th electric Championship was held over the weekend of 23-25th April at the high-traction and permanent racetrack in Schermbeck. Following qualification it was multiple European A-main finalist and Serpent/LRP driver Markus Mobers on the TQ spot followed by touring car World Champion Marc Rheinard in 2nd with his Associated/SP combo and in 3rd recent German TC indoor champion Ronald Völker with his Associated/LRP ride. As the finals got underway, it was Völker and Rheinard who got the best starts and they were the only ones to still have the chance for the overall win heading in to the last and decisive 3rd leg of the finals. As the tone went off for the start of the last final, Ronald had his chances of another title in 2010 significantly decreased as he got taken-out on the first lap. But Ronald never gave up and with great driving Ronald slowly started to close the gap to the leaders and with 2 min to go he managed to close up and pass Marc Rheinard for the lead and the overall championship. Marc Rheinard took 2nd overall, with Marc Fisher ending up in 3rd for Corally/GM.

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