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April 19, 2009

International Touring Car Race Luxembourg

The RCCM in Luxembourg have announced that they will run an international touring car race prior to the 2009 European Championships for electric touring cars which will be hosted by the LMCC on the same track in July. The race will be held from the 12th to the 14th of June and is open to modified touring car as well as other support classes. The track, with its world famous Laguna Seca style chicane in which the track drops in elevation, offers the driver plenty more challenges throughout its 310 meters length. Entries for this event are now open. Please note that this is not the official warm up race for the 2009 Euros on the same track, that event will be held 2 weeks later.

For more information, visit the club website here.

April 12, 2009

Vekemans & Bultynck take Belgian Nats Rd1

The first race of the season 2009 Belgian TC Nationals was held last weekend at the MRCC indoor carpet track in the little town of Chatelineau near Charleroi, and there were 47 drivers in attendance. In the Superstock class, which uses 10.5 LRP/Nosram brushless motor their were 30 participants and after qualification, it was the new man Geoffrey Vekemans who took the pole position. In the first a-main leg Geoffrey Vekemans led from start till finish, Stephane Roufosse came in 2nd and Cédric Gils 3rd. The second final was won by Alain Sonval, who started fifth on the grid, and running in the lead after a crash from Geoffrey Vekemans. Nick Logie took 2nd and Geoffrey Vekemans 3rd. Geoffrey Vekemans took the 3rd leg in front of Stephane Roufosse and Alain Sonval, which gave Geoffrey, in front of Alain Sonval and third place Stephane Roufosse.

April 6, 2009

Karlsen takes Norwegian Stock Nationals

This past weekend saw the final race in the Norwegian national series take place in Spydeberg. The track presented was large and had a nice flowing layout, and it was an open race for the championship with several drivers in with a chance to take the title in all the classes. In stock, Jarle Karlsen (Xray), who has been the fastest driver this season, was once again the man to beat by dominating qualifying and taking all 3 finals to win in front of Roger Larsen (Xray) in 2nd and Leif T Stensrod (Tamiya) in 3rd spot. In 1/12th scale, Helge Johannesen (CRC) was the best driver this weekend, winning from Adrian Berntsen (Xray) and Lars Haugen (CRC), in 2nd and 3rd respectively, while in touring modified it was Adrian Berntsen (Xray) who was the fastest this weekend, followed by Helge Johannessen (Kyosho) in 2nd and youngster Petter Berntsen (Xray) in 3rd, who just started racing modified this winter after taking the step up from stock.

Source: Modellbil [modellbil.net]

March 31, 2009

Tommy Bergfeldt takes MSEC series title

The final leg of the 2008-09 MSEC series was run in Eskilstuna last weekend, on the beautiful Outokumpu track. This was the last race to be run on the Outokumpu track since its contract had expired, it’s been some great years on this excellent venue. In this deciding race it was a thrilling fight between DHI Cup Champion Tommy Bergfeldt and Edwin Sunesson from the first qualifying heat to the last final on Sunday. Tommy got the TQ spot with 0.6 seconds between him and Edwin, Kenneth Malkusson qualified 3rd, 5 seconds behind.

March 31, 2009

Martin & Cragg win 2009 Players race

Our friends oOple have a detailed report on the three day ‘The Players’ race held last weekend in Worksop and was run to a Reedy style format for the top drivers who’d qualified earlier in the event. Neil Cragg set the early pace, winning all his 2WD and 4WD ‘Players’ races on Saturday but Lee Martin took the top spot away from Neil Cragg in 2WD with an impressive series of wins on Sunday to seal a well earned Victory. 4WD went down to the wire, with Associated’s Neil Cragg & Hot Bodies Adam Skelding on equal points going into the final round. By virtue of his faster time, Neil Cragg sat on top and only Skelding could steal the victory from him. It wasn’t to be however as the two were drawn in the same race and Adam simply couldn’t match Neils pace, as he went on to set an even faster time.

View the full report here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

March 30, 2009

Rheinard is 2009 LRP Masters Champion

The annual LRP Touring car masters race took place last weekend in Eppelheim, Germany and attracted some of the big names in the industry to compete in the 89 strong Masters class for modified drivers. Qualification saw reigning World Champion easily claim the TQ spot after 3 of 4 rounds to line up ahead of Tamiya/SpeedPassion team mate Jilles Groskamp in 2nd, with Hot Bodies/LRP racer, and Vice World Champion, Ronald Volker 3rd. In the finals it was pretty straight forward for Marc, who won A-main leg 1 by nearly 2 seconds in front of team mate Viktor Wilck in 2nd, Xray driver Freddy Südhoff taking 3rd and a recovering Volker in 4th. In A-main leg 2 Marc once again lead away with Groskamp following and Volker in 3rd, pushing the Dutch man the whole way. Despite intense pressure, this was how it ended and Marc was declared 2009 Champion with 1 leg left to run. In the final leg it didn’t go so well for the new Champion, who after only 2 laps made a mistake which dropped him down the order. This allowed Viktor, Jilles and Ronald to battle for the final leg win with Viktor leading the pack and the two behind battling it out for position. Ronald, after some big pressure, finally made a move and got passed the Dutch man, but trying to retake position the pair touched and Jilles regained 2nd, which was how it stayed giving Wilck, the new Swedish Champion, the overall runner up spot, with ETS Champion Jilles Groskamp taking 3rd, for a repeat of last year’s Tamiya/SpeedPassion lock out of the podium.

Click here to see the final standings

March 27, 2009

Max Kuenning takes ROAR 1/12th Stock title

We already reported on the Modified classes from last weekend’s ROAR Carpet Nationals held at the Gate in Cleveland, but we have now received a report from the event’s largest class, the hotly contested 1/12th scale stock class. After four rounds of qualifying it was the Calandra Racing Concepts team that took the top 3 spots, with Tom Firsching taking the TQ spot position ahead of Max Kuenning and Dave Johnson, qualifying 2nd and 3rd. In the Triple A-main format, each driver had a great chance to win the event overall with Johnson won the first A-main (A1) from 3rd on the grid with Tom 2nd and Max 3rd, while in A2, Max took the win with Tom 3rd. The final leg saw a titanic battle between Tom and Max, with the lead swapping 2 or 3 times. While leading, neither driver could shake his rival as the 2 broke away from the pack. In the end Max was able to wrestle the win with Tom hot on his tail.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

March 24, 2009

Lemieux & Blackstock take ROAR Carpet Mod titles

The 2009 ROAR Electric Carpet Nationals took place last week at the Gate in Cleveland Ohio and the race attracted 284 entrants. In the blue ribboned Modified classes it was Paul Lemieux that took the win from pole position with his Trinity powered Xray ahead of young Associated racer Keven Herbert in 2nd and Josh Cyrul, driving the self designed TOP Racing Photon, in 3rd spot. In 1/12th Modified it was Associated racer Mike Blackstock that won, in a close battle with CEFX designer Josh Cyrul who ended the day in 2nd, while Serpent racer Paul Ciccarello took 3rd spot.

Full final results can be found here.

Image: RC50 [rc50.com]