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July 31, 2008

Rheinard tops first timed practice

Tamiya driver Marc Rheinard has topped the time sheets for the first of the timed practice runs here at the 2008 Euros in Vila Real, Spain. Posting a time of 17 laps in 05:10.830 the German was 2/10th faster than fellow countryman and defending champion Ronald Volker over the 5 minute run. The 2008 European 1:12 Champion, Rheinard said his TRF416 was pretty good but he will run a fresh car in the last run of the day.

Check out the full coverage on our event site here.

July 31, 2008

Euros 1:10 – New in the pits

Corally RDX Phi prototype parts

A quick look through the pits here in Vila Real have revealed a number of new products being run and tested by some of the top drivers. Corally racer Marc Fisher from Germany is running some new prototype parts on his RDX Phi. There are new rear uprights that have 1mm lower top mounting points, also the front steering blocks have received some attention together with the new servo saver part that has simpler to adjust Ackermann.

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July 31, 2008

Southport Nationals report by oOple

Our friends at oOple are reporting on the recently held Southport National, the penultimate in the 2008 BRCA National series, which saw the 2WD title decided early, with another TQ and win for Ellis Stafford driving the XFactory X6. Ellis was in command and took three qualifying rounds to take the TQ, and won the second and third A final legs to take the meeting, and with the valuable points secure the 2WD championship title in the process. Neil Cragg had a surprise up his sleeve in the 4WD event, the new Yokomo B-Max4 had made it after all. After Yokomo flew around the world to deliver the car the Thursday before the event, Neil didn’t hold back, taking all four rounds of qualifying and the first two A final legs. Only a win from Lee Martin in leg three with Cragg second, stopped a ‘total domination’ from the Craggster.

Read the full report here, including lots of great photos and interviews.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

July 31, 2008

Euros 1/10th Second Practice update

Elliot Harper

Second practice for the 2008 EFRA 1:10 EP Touring Euros has been run here in Vila Real but with no official timing the picture of who is doing what is still uncertain as drivers continuing to still settle themselves in. Elliot Harper, winner of the Warm-Up Race back in June, says it is a lot hotter and as a result the track characteristics are very different now. The emerging UK talent, who just took his first British National win two weeks ago, says his Nosram powered Xray is working well but with the extra heat it is going off slightly at the end of the run. Harper will make a few changes to fine tune the car for the first of the two timed runs this afternoon.

Check out the full coverage on our event site here.

July 31, 2008

Euros 1/10th – Practice update

Jilles Groskamp

Drivers have had their first official practice run at the 2008 EFRA Euros here in Vila Real with most drivers reporting an incident free run. Jilles Groskamp suffered the biggest drama of the morning when he lost a front wheel off his Tamiya. ‘I adjusted the front camber just before my run and when I put on my front wheels I tightened the nuts by hand and then afterwards forgot to do them up properly. It was a novice error but then I am a novice driver.’ With all four wheels on his car, the Dutch racer said his car felt pretty OK.

Check out the full coverage on our event site here.

July 30, 2008

Hodapp takes victory at JBRL Rd5

Kyosho and Slingshot Batteries have been in contact to report victories in Modified 2WD and Truck classes at round 5 of the series at Freedom Park in Camarillo, CA. Hodapp piloted his Kyosho RB5 to the win from the 3rd spot on the grid. Patience paid off for Hodapp as he followed the leaders for the first half of the race and then seeing a passing opportunity Hodapp made his move and never looked back as the rest of the field battled for precious series points. In the truck class, Hodapp started from the 2nd qualifying position with his prototype Kyosho truck and he again played it safe and followed the leader for several laps until his chance came a few laps into the main event. Once in the lead position, Hodapp never looked back crossing the line and taking the victory first time out with the truck.

Source: Slingshot [slingshotbatteries.com]

July 29, 2008

Matsukura dominates Japanese Nationals

Last weekend saw the JMRCA Japanese electric buggy Nationals take place at the indoor Yatabe Arena track. With 220 drivers in attendance, the competition was going to be hot and in the 2wd class it was current 4wd National Champion Naoto Matsukura that took the top spot for Yokomo, having started from pole position, to win ahead of Satoshi Maezumi, racing and X-Factory X-6, in 2nd and Shin Adachi with the Kyosho Ultima RB5 in 3rd. In the 4wd class it was again Matsukura that took the win, to complete a dominant performance in recent events for the new B-Max4 buggy, finishing in front of Shin Adachi with the Lazer ZX-5 in 2nd, with Tamiya rounding out the podium.

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July 20, 2008

Jason Shim wins Keningau Fun Race

We received a brief report from the Keningau Fun Race for 1/10th scale cars that took place last weekend in Malaysia. Top Qualifier from the heats went to Serpent S400 driver David Voo but with some technical issues at the track, it took some time before the finals could be run. The 2 finals that were run saw the overall win go to another Serpent driver, Jason Shim, who won from 2nd placed Hot Bodies driver Raphael Chiew, while KS Chu rounded out the top 3, also for Serpent.