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May 27, 2013

Loic Jasmin wins Rd3 in France

Last weekend at the Nantes track in the west of France the 3rd round of the French 1/10th TC nationals took place under perfect racing conditions. Qualifying in the modified class saw Yokomo driver and Worlds finalist Loic Jasmin take the pole position and in the final he would have a good battle with Xray driver Hugo Ragaut with Loic coming out on top with the win ahead of Ragaut in 2nd and Yokomo driver Maxime Favrelle in 3rd. In the stock 10.5 class Thomas Vigneron was the winner in front of Nicolas Schwendimann and Jerome Parmentier in 2nd and 3rd.

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May 27, 2013

Martin & Cragg score at EPR

The third round of the BRCA 1/10th buggy nationals took place at the Eden Park Raceway this past weekend. The weather plays a major role in Europe this Spring and the event’s Friday made no exceptions with plenty of the wet stuff pouring down bringing practice to a halt. Saturday however started bright and it was Schumacher’s Simon Moss who took TQ followed by Neil Cragg (Team Associated/Centro) and Lee Martin (Tamiya/Vega). The finals had the usual madness to offer and it was Lee Martin whose wins in A1 and A3 got him the overall win in the 2WD class followed by Simon Moss and Neil Cragg.

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May 27, 2013

Sven Stoffels wins RC LeMans Series Rd2

The second round of the RC LeMans series took place at the MACH Heemstede track in the Netherlands. Although the weather forecast predicted rain the race was run in dry conditions and after Sunday morning’s qualifying it was Sven Soffels who took TQ in front of Tobias Weist and Rene Fischer. The first A final saw a clean win by Sven with Frank Büsener and Marcel Ellissen in tow. In the second final Frank looked like the winner until the very last lap when both Rene and Marcel stormed past. Come A final number three Sven was up to his game again, he took off and never looked back taking the win with Rene and Frank in second and third place. These positions also meant the final standings of round number two.

Thanks for Frank Büsener for sending the report.

May 27, 2013

Team Wild 13 win 24h race in Luxembourg

Since 1999, ETS, EOS & ENS front man Uwe Rheinard has organized his legendary 24h race for 1:10 electric rc cars. Since the beginning Uwe trusted in the Tamiya-plastic-chassis, starting with FWD Chassis FF01 and up to today with the TT01 chassis. Only for one year the teams had to use a foreign car, but at the end it showed, that Tamiya chassis was the best choice. from the start teams from Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria and Luxembourg traveled to five different tracks in Germany to enjoy that awesome endurance-race. A maximum of 7 drivers in each team is allowed which means that every year from 112 up to 168 drivers travel hundreds of kilometers to be part of the longest night in the RC Car scene.

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May 27, 2013

Rheinard wins 2013 Reedy TC Race of Champions

The 2013 Reedy Touring car Race of Champions took place over the weekend at Norcal Hobbies near San Francisco. A very low entry meant only 14 driver competed in the invitational part this year, however there was a lot of talent in the field including last year’s winner Viktor Wilck, recent ETS Rd4 winner Marc Rheinard as well as Christopher Krapp making his first visit to the USA and Akio Sobue coming from Japan, as well as the main top guns from North America. The invite class is heads up racing over 8 rounds with your 2 worst scores dropped. 3-time World Champion Marc Rheinard was the class of the field, the former Reedy Race winner taking 5 wins to seal the 2013 title, while Tamiya team mates Viktor Wilck and Akio Sobue took 3 wins a piece to take 2nd and 3rd respectively and give Tamiya the complete podium. Christopher Krapp and Paul Lemieux completed the top 5.

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May 24, 2013

Vicente Eres wins Spanish Federation Champs Rd1

Last weekend the first race of the Spanish Federation Championship in Electric Touring Modified and Stock categories was held at the Villareal Nitro 15 club in the south of Spain, host of the 2008 European Championships. With a total of 45 entries, this event was run under fantastic weather and a friendly atmosphere. The race was dominated in both classes by the veteran driver Vicente Eres who took the wins from pole position in the stock class and from second in modified.

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May 21, 2013

P.Y. Tang wins Johor Indoor Carpet Masters

The Johor Indoor Carpet Master 2013 was held recently at Pontian, a small town in the south western Peninsula of Malaysia an this report come from P.Y. Tang. ‘Organized by Mr. Ken Ng, a local resident and Xray driver, the event was very successful attracting over 80 entries with many fast drivers attending from the Peninsula Malaysia, East Malaysia and Singapore. Open Brushless 13.5T took center stage as two other classes 1:12 Pan and 1:10 FF was cancelled. The carpet track was newly prepared in a school’s open-air multi-purpose hall on Thursday and the layout was very technical which was similar to the 2012 LRP TCM. No practice was allowed until Friday, with 2 control practice and 4 qualifying rounds on Saturday, followed by 1 more qualifying round and 3 finals on Sunday. As asphalt races are more common in this region, the JICM carpet race attracted many drivers and was a must-go event.

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May 21, 2013

Mario Rigert wins Rd1 of Swiss TC Nationals

The first round of the Swiss Nationals was held on the very nice race track in Schaffhausen. The drivers had to deal with unpredictable weather conditions over the whole weekend. After two dry and two wet qualifying rounds, it was Mario Rigert who secured pole position in modified class in front of Michele Manzo and Florian Hauser. All three finals which could be raced under dry conditions saw a start to finish victory for Mario Rigert. Second and third place overall went to Fabian Widmer and Florian Hauser.

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