Following in the foot steps of his Tamiya team mate Jilles Groskamp, Viktor Wilck has signed a deal to use Speed Passion motors for the rest of the season, with an option for 2009. Formerly running with the Team Orion units, the Swedish driver who won the DHI Cup earlier this year, was using the new motors for the first time at last weekends LRP race in which he finished in 3rd position.
Following on from the oOple report from Saturday’s 2wd class at the BRCA National Indoor series in Worksop, comes the results from the 4wd class that was held on Sunday. With 94 racers participating, including 2 of the new Schumacher Cat SX buggies, it was National Champion Lee Martin that took the TQ spot ahead of Saturday’s 2wd winner Neil Cragg in 2nd and X-Factory racer Ellis Stafford in 3rd. Following some really close racing, which meant 4 racers were still in contention for the overall win going into the 3rd leg of the A-final, it was Ellis Stafford that came out on top, just ahead of Lee Martin in 2nd and Richard Lowe taking 3rd.
Read the full report here.
Source: oOple [oople.com]
Jimmy over at oOple has been reporting from the National Indoor Finals, which is the climax of the indoor racing season, with drivers having qualified primarily by racing the indoor regionals. The venue for the 2007/8 indoor finals is the excellent Worksop venue, which has been one of the most popular indoor venues over the winter season. Qualifying for Saturday’s 2wd event saw Neil Cragg on the top spot followed by Danny McGee and Ellis Stafford in 2nd and 3rd and in the 3 leg finals is was Cragg who was on top in all of them taking the overall with ease from his Associated team mate Lee Martin in 2nd and Losi driver Danny McGee rounding out the podium in 3rd.
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Source: oOple [oople.com]
Tamiya factory driver, and former World Champion, Marc Rheinard has taken the LRP Masters title this weekend in Eppelheim, Germany. Qualifying for the Masters class saw the pole position also go to the German racer who placed his TRF416 ahead of his 2 team mates, Viktor Wilck from Sweden and Jilles Groskamp from Holland, with last years winner Juho Levanen in 4th. The finals saw a dominant performance by the pole man, Marc taking the win in the frst 2 finals to claim the overall title before the last round of finals were run. The 3rd leg was won by Groskamp, the ETS Rd2 winner, helped by a little mistake from Rheinard allowing him into the lead, the result allowing him to take the runner up spot, just in front of Wilck in 3rd, giving Tamiya the complete podium.
Source: LRP [lrp.cc]
The final race of the 2008 1/12th National series was run last weekend by the Chesterfield Auto Racing Society, who were celebrating their 25th anniversary as a National Host this year. Newly crowned Mod Champion Andy Griffiths, who was sitting on 4th position in qualifying overnight, just managed to secure pole position for the final in Sundays final round, with HB team mate Mick Farrell lining up in 2nd position. Andy managed to get away cleanly in all three finals, and went on to take a relatively comfortable victory in each race to secure top spot at the meeting with a perfect score, his 5th win from 6 rounds.
Source: Mirage [mirageracing.com]
Serpent are reporting on the final, and title deciding round, of the South Swedish Indoor Championship (SSIC) that took place at the Malmö indoor track last weekend where the Serpent S400 of Team Serpent Sweden driver Niclas Nilsson enjoyed victory to become the overall Champion in Modified EP Touring. On the large but tight high traction track Nilsson was able to take TQ as well as setting some of the fastest lap times ever run on the Malmö track en route to the overall victory. Daniel Carlsson finished runner up with Rasmus Thulin completing the podium.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The weekend gone saw the best on road electric racers in America get together at the Hobby Town, Hobby Plex in Omaha, Nebraska for the ROAR Carpet Nationals. The blue ribboned classes were the TC and 1/12th mod classes but there was many more classes supported at the this event in both scales. In Touring Mod, it was Xray racers Paul LeMieux and Barry Baker that were the men to beat throughout the event, qualifying 1 and 2 and then going on to take the top steps of the podium with Paul winning from Barry and Mike Dumas finishing in 3rd spot. In the 1/12th scale it was another great race for Mike Dumas, the Speed Merchant racer was top qualifier and managed to win 2 of the 3 A-mains to take the win in front of Paul Ciccarello in 2nd with Josh Cyrul rounding out the top 3.
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The 1:12 German Nationals were held last weekend in Oldendorf, Germany and it was top Team Corally driver Marc Fischer that TQ’d and won the Modified National title with his SP12X. After coming home 2nd in leg 1 he took the win in the 2nd A-final by 5 seconds and in the 3rd A-final by 7 seconds to take the title ahead of Markus Mobers and Steven Weiss. In the stock class is was another Team Corally driver Jan Asmer that won the National title, beating TQ man Andre Efler to 2nd with Mike Niemann claiming 3rd.
Source: Corally [corally.com]
