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August 15, 2009

Marc Rheinard takes European 4wd buggy title

Current Touring car World Champion Marc Rheinard has taken his first major off road title today after winning the 4wd class in Bilbao, Spain. Making the final in the 2wd class earlier in the week, the German faired better with the Tamiya TRF511X by taking the TQ spot after winning the final 3 qualifiers to start ahead of Neil Cragg in 2nd, with Tamiya team mate Viktor Wilck starting 3rd. In the finals Marc would easily win leg 1 ahead of Wilck, who would be later DQ’d for a technical infringement and so it would be Hupo Honigl taking 2nd and Neil Cragg 3rd. Leg 2 went the way of Associated racer Cragg, who finished 4 seconds clear of team mate Lee Martin in 2nd, with Marc Rheinard in 3rd, leaving both he and Cragg on equal points going into the final leg. The 3rd leg saw Rheinard win in the fastest time of the 3 legs, ahead of Wilck in 2nd and Cragg 3rd, giving Marc the overall title, ahead of Cragg in 2nd, with Hupo Honigl backing up his 2wd title earlier in the week with 3rd overall.

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Source: oOple [oople.com]

August 13, 2009

South African Electric Nats Rd4

The 4th round of the South African Electric National Championships were held this past weekend at the brand new Welkom RC Club facility. This facility located about 2.5 hours south of Johannesburg was the dream of Antonio Caroli, Antonio the SA distributor for ATS Tires, Team Wave and Castle Creations has always wanted to have a first class venue available to not only the drivers in South Africa but also the world. He has worked tirelessly on the facility to ensure that every detail was taken care of and the track was prepared for the grand opening event.

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August 12, 2009

Hupo Honigl wins 2wd European title

Austrian driver Hupo Honigl has added another European title to his CV after winning the 2wd event today in Bilbao, Spain. Having qualified 2nd behind multiple British Champion Ellis Stafford, the pairing had an intense battle in the 2nd leg after a mistake in the leg 1 by the X-Factory driver gifted Honigl the round win. With the overall on the line, the race to the flag in leg 2 went down to the wire, but Hupo could hold on and take his 2nd leg win and take the European title, with Stafford eventually ending up in 2nd, while Lee Martin took the final podium spot after a win in the 3rd leg.

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Source: oOple [oople.com]

August 10, 2009

Styger & De Sousa win African Cup EP Off Road

The IFMAR Pre Worlds combined with the 1st African Cup EP Off Road event took place last weekend with few but very enthusiastic drivers taking part. Held over two days, the event saw 4 rounds of qualifying take place on the Saturday and 3 rounds for the finals on Sunday. The track was completed just in time for this event and so this race was the inaugural event. The 2 wheel drive class was first to start the event with average lap times of 18.10 to start with, dropping further with the TQ taken this class with 16.797, while the quickest lap going to Gary Styger was just over 15.3sec. The 4 wheel drive class followed in the order of the race event and began with 19.917 second laps with TQ being 15.919, with the quickest lap going to Guilherme De Sousa at 15.427. The finals were run over 3 legs and in the 2wd class it was Gary Styger that took the win from Stefan Fourie and Kenny Morey, each driver with a leg win a piece, while in 4wd it was Guilherme De Sousa that would emerge victorious, taking a clean sweep of all legs, to take the overall win ahead of Stefan Fourie and Kenny Morey.

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August 8, 2009

Marcus Luebke wins German EP Truck Nats

Last weekend the Stock and Modified German Electric Off-Road Truck Nationals were hosted in Trier by the Team Turtles Trier club, the same club that hosted the 2008 German Electric Off-Road 4WD Nationals. Team Losi Racing’s factory driver and worlds A-finalist Marcus Luebke set the pace in the modified class and secured the pole position in the finals with five consecutive qualifying wins with his XXX-T CR Truck. The modified A-final saw a 1-2-3 line-up of Losi drivers Marcus Luebke, Kim Sitensky (2004, 2005 & 2008 German Truck Champion) and Juergen Kropp (2006 German Truck Champion & Swiss Truck Champion). The finals were run on Sunday in rainy conditions and Marcus won all three A-finals to secure his 6th German Electric Off-Road National title.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

August 6, 2009

Freddy Sudhoff joins LRP team

Front running European electric and gas racer Freddy Sudhoff has joined the LRP team. The current 1/10th scale 200mm European B Champion made his debut for the German company at last weeks European EP Touring car Championships in Luxembourg. Freddy will use the complete LRP product line in his Xray chassis including speed controls, motors, batteries, chargers, dischargers, power supply and accessories. His next race will be the German Championships where he will be joined by the current team of Ronald Völker, Steven Weiß and Dirk Wischnewski.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

August 4, 2009

Cragg & McGee win Stotfold Nationals

oOple are reporting on last weekend’s 5th round of the BRCA 1/10th off road Nationals that took place at the Stotfold track and Saturday’s 2wd event saw Danny McGee take a convincing TQ after qualifying. Mistakes in the first leg allowed Lee Martin loose for a clear victory but Danny secured the win by taking a scrappy second leg and dominating the third leg, marching off from the pack for an easy victory. Following his win in Saturdays 2WD event, Danny McGee got off to a good start in the 4wd class on Sunday by taking the first round with his Losi XX4. It wasn’t to be however and like the previous meeting, despite taking a round of qualifying Danny didn’t manage to make the A final. Kevin Lee lined up on pole for the A final but after three scrappy legs which saw three different winners, it was Neil Cragg that took the win.

Expect a full report on oOple soon.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

August 2, 2009

Groskamp is European Champion

‘I have been second so many times, finally I am first’, was how your new European Electric Touring Car Champion Jilles Groskamp summed up his victory here in Luxembourg. Having been a Top Qualifier on two previous occasions at the EFRA Championships, the factory Tamiya/Speedpassion driver made it third time lucky, converting his pole position into victory with wins in Leg 2 & 3. Starting the third leg, with four drivers still in contention for the 2009 title, the Dutch ace lead from start to finish but said another bad set of tyres had made his car loose. Still managing to set the fastest lap of the race, Groskamp believes he would have had his work cut out if outgoing champion Marc Rheinard and 2007 Champion Ronald Volker had not controversially come together on lap 6.

Read the full report on our event site here.