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January 31, 2009

Groskamp & Honigl TQ Indoor Euros

This week sees the first ever EFRA Indoor European Championships for 1/10th electric touring cars take place in the old Fiat factory building in Turino, Italy, run alongside the annual 1/12th scale Euros. With 80 racers in attendance, the race is held inside the biggest shopping mall in the city, and has been attracting hundreds of visitors every day who pass by the track which is situated in a 14 x 30 meter area, making for a very technical & challenging layout that doesn’t offer much room for overtaking.

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January 28, 2009

F1 RCGP Round 1 report

Formula 1 racing is big again in Japan and so top Japanese racer Hideo Kitizawa organised a 10 round Championship for the class called F1 RCGP. The first round took place last weekend at the Nexter Circuit in Fukuoka and the drivers were greeted with snow, which actually prevented a lot of the racers getting to the track so instead of the 68 racers that had booked in, only 37 made it to the circuit. The series open to 2 classes, one with Mabuchi 540 (F1) motors and one with 30T motors (F1 GP), wile both classes use the control Zen F1 foam tire. Qualifying was held over 4 minute runs with the finals made up of 8 minutes and only the F1 GP class would be counting towards the final standings, with 5 from the 10 rounds counting. In the F1GP class it was Daiyu Kobayashi, who started from 2nd on the grid, who managed to cope with the wet conditions best to beat the pole man, and former Japanese 1:10 2wd buggy champion, Shinya Kimura to become the winner of the 1st round of the F1 RCGP race. Shimonabe Jyunichi took 2nd while Shinya Kimura dropped back to third by the end of the race.

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January 25, 2009

Tommy Bergfeldt takes MSEC Rd3

We received a report from the third round of the MSEC 08-09, held in Eskilstuna on the same layout as the Friendship race last December. DHI Cup winner Tommy Bergfeldt took TQ in Modified and won all of the triple A-mains, finishing ahead of Edwin Sunesson, who was the only driver who could reach Tommy in the finals. In Stock it was young Markus Elmerfors that took the TQ and went on to win all A-mains, impressive as usual to see Markus drive even under the hardest of pressure. The 1:12th scale saw an even race between Mackan Göransson, Magnus Hedlund and Maxx Rosén and a few more with Mackan G took a surprising win. Per-Erik Nordman was the one to beat in offroad, with very steady driving he won the first 2 finals.

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January 24, 2009

Groskamp & Vd Berg win MACH Challenge

Last weekend saw the 1/12th scale MACH Challenge race held on the same track that will host the 1/12th European Stock Championships from the 27th of February to the 1st of March. In the modified class it was Jilles Groskamp that took the win for CRC from Olivier Bultnick in 2nd and Joey Sorber 3rd. The Stock saw the TQ spot and win go to 1/12th debutant Hugo van den Berg, with fellow Xray driver Bart Wubben in 2nd, while Daan Jacobs was 3rd, just finishing in front of former European Champion Erik Jonk who took 4th.

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January 23, 2009

Jared Tebo wins CRCRC 4wd Mod class

Kyosho America are reporting on the CRCRC race in Columbus, Ohio in which their team driver Jared Tebo, in his first race with the Lazer ZX5 FS, TQ’ed and won the 4WD modified title. In his debut with the Ultima RB5 and prototype Ultima RB5T, Tebo also qualified and finished second in both classes, a notable achievement given that this was the first time he’d never driven any of these vehicles in competition. Dan Griffin won the 2WD stock class driving an Ultima RB5 buggy.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

January 22, 2009

Protoform Cup – Announcement

Protoform Cup - Announcement

CML Racing, together with Protoform, have announced the Protoform Cup, and indoor electric event to be run on the 25th and 26th of April at the Maritime Raceway in Kent, England. Expected to attract many top on road racers from both the UK and Europe, it will be open to Pro Mod, Stock 10.5, World GT and 1/12th scale classes, with entry opening later this week.

Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]

January 22, 2009

Truman wins Petit RC Race 4wd class

Tony Truman wins Petit RC Race 4wd class

Having already covered the 2wd class at last weekend’s 3rd annual PetitRC race, held at the Maritime Raceway venue in the UK, Team Orion have the report on the 4wd class. Qualifying saw Hot Bodies driver Tony Truman lay down a mistake free run in round 3 to TQ the event by 4 seconds. In the finals Tony finished 2nd in leg 1 after after a little mistake cost him the win, but had a better run in leg 2 to win unchallenged. In the 3rd leg, a mistake dropped Tony back to 4th, but he was able to get his head down and work his way back to 2nd, which was enough to take the win, ahead of 2wd winner Lee Martin and Simon Moss in 3rd.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

January 21, 2009

2009 Golden State Off road Champs

Team Tekin are reporting on their success at the 2009 Golden State Offroad champs held at Lakeport Hobbies, CA. Team driver Phillip Atondo TQ’d and went on to win in the 2wd Open class and continued with his winning ways by TQing and winning Mod truck. There was also success for Tekin in the hotly contested 4wd mod class as team driver Kevin Jelich took the win after qualifying 2nd behind AE driver Frank Root.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]