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October 8, 2009

Czech Grand Prix – Announcement

The organisers of the Czech GP, Lestr Models together with Mibosport, have been in touch to let us know about the International electric touring car event that takes place from the 6th to the 8th of November. With the event run as the Grand Prix Prague in recent years, a name change and change of venue to Moravian city Hrotovice sees a fresh new beginning for this race. In view of the fact that the third round of the Euro Touring Series will take place at the same venue in late January they have adjusted the rules in a such way that this event could also become a warm-up for the ETS race and consequently they are going to use Xenon Max 32 tyres for all classes and Speed Passion Competition 3.0 13,5T motors for the Pro Stock class.

For more information about the Czech GP, and how to enter, visit the event site here.

October 8, 2009

BRCA Micro Nationals Rd1 Report

After the 6 month summer break, normal micro racing service resumed at Leighton Buzzard for Round 1 of the BRCA Micro Nationals. 68 drivers descended upon the quiet Brooklands School venue to see whether 2008 Champions Mark Stiles and Horizon Hobby’s John Timberlake would be able to retain their 4WD and 2WD crowns respectively.

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October 7, 2009

Martin Achter crowned 2wd World Champion

Having qualified on pole position, securing the position with another leg win in qualifying today, Martin Achter of Germany is the new 2wd World Champion. In an event only attended by 17 drivers it was actually Craig Laughton that won the first leg of the final but Achter, driving an Associated B4, responded by going out and winning both second and third legs with very cool driving. Craig ended up as runner up with Albert Claassons taking 3rd, with the top 3 unchanged from how they qualified. The 4wd class gets underway tomorrow with practice, where Martin will begin as favourite once more, driving the new Durango DEX410.

Source: TRAP [trap.co.za]

October 7, 2009

Azri Amri wins Malaysian Nationals Rd3

Round 3 of the Malaysian National Championship (MNC) took place recently at the usual venue at Titiwangsa Track in the heart of kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Its been a few months since round 2 and there have been quite a number of changes to the drivers line up and the big news is of course the return of Azri Amri to the electric touring scene who is now driving for Team ORCA Racing with his Yokomo BD5. The other driver who has made a switch is Mr. Jackie Siow, the 2008 MNC Overall Champion and now driving for Team ORCA and Xray. The weather is as usual, not too sunny in the morning and all racers were hoping that the weather would hold up long enough to be able to complete the full race distance as there was a tendency to rain in the afternoon in Malaysia. The first qualifying saw Azri, Jackie and Tamiya driver Norazam finish the qualifying in those positions and as the weather got better, the sun came out and warrmed the track slightly and thus prevented any of the drivers to better their times in later rounds.

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October 6, 2009

Mobers does double at European Pan Series Rd1

The opening round of the European Pan Series for 1/12th scale took place last weekend in Germany and saw just over 40 drivers competing in both the Pro Stock and Modified classes, with the former being the most popular. Serpent driver Markus Mobers, one of the series organisers, took the top qualifying spot in both classes and would go on to win both classes with European Stock class Champion Marc Fisher taking the runner up spot both times. In the Pro Stock class it was Vesa Yli that took the 3rd spot, while in the modified class it was Daniel Sieber that was 3rd. Interestingly Mobers was testing a new prototype S120 link car in the Modified class, while retaining the T-bar for Pro Stock.

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October 3, 2009

2010 Snowbird Nationals – Update

The organizers of the 2010 Snowbird Nationals were in contact again to let everyone know that the 16th annual ‘Speed Week’ racing schedule is now posted. Featuring the first ‘RC Racing Golf Tournament’ and the first pre-race ‘Pool Party’ with band this year, both help kick off a great week of racing action. The ‘birds are 115 days away and the r/c world is counting down. Over 15 event sponsors are locked in and coming with their teams with more details to be finalized soon. Be sure to reserve your rooms now. Expect classes to be posted any day.

Check out the schedule at the official Snowbirds site here.

September 30, 2009

Caipang wins KSA National Race 2009

The 3rd Annual Ramadan National race took place in Riyadh, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last weekend. The electric touring car race saw Alessandro Caipang Jr take the top qualifying spot with his Speedpassion powered Serpent S400. The finals went Alessandro’s way as well and he could win from the Tamiya pairing of Rolando Binas and Mike Messina.

September 30, 2009

Nordman & Ausfelt takes Norwegian National finals

Last weekend saw the final round of the Norwegian Nationals for 1/10th 2WD and 4WD buggy held in Oslo “Hvervenbukta”, Norway. In 2WD PerErik Nordman showed he was on the pace as he took TQ honors after putting a fast round together in the first round of qualifying. As the track got slower through the day due to the surface being really soft, PerErik’s time proved unbeatable. The finals was extremely exciting as the track conditions made it really hard for the drivers to put a 7 minute run together without mistakes. After plenty of exciting racing in the finals with leaders changing throughout the 7 minute heats, PerErik took the overall win ahead of Ole Steen Karlsen and Kjell-Gunnar Guttormsen.

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