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October 4, 2012

Hettrich & Wahl win at BaWü Cup

The BaWü Cup in Konstanz in the South of Germany was one of the first carpet races of the 2012/2013 season and a great opportunity for many teams to try out new parts for the upcoming ETS race in Mühlheim Kerlich. The organizers tried a new track layout for this year with a technical section at the first part of the lap and a more open and flowing part for the remainder of the lap. The new layout was well accepted by the drivers and made for some challenges when setting up the cars. In the stock blinky mode class it was T-Shox team-drivers Tobias Vogel, who won the German Stock Championship, and also Valentin Hettrich who showed a strong practice and also qualifying pace. Valentin took the last two rounds of qualifying and also the TQ spot for the finals. For the A-mains Tobias got the car better and better using the same setup Valentin was using. Valentin was on a roll and took the first two A-mains in style. Tobias however did not give up and took the win in the third and last A-main.

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October 4, 2012

Manuel Singer wins Austrian Championship

The track at St. Paul hosted the fifth and last run of the Austrian nitro on-road nationals. After qualifying Manuel Huber took TQ followed by Xray team mate Gerhard Kandelhart with Leonardo Varga in third place. With Kurt Hubeny and Manuel Singer, who suffered from a practice crash that cost him two qualifying rounds, two more Xray drivers made it into the top 5. After the semi finals Manuel Huber took pole position for the final with Manuel Singer behind. Gerhard Kandelhart started from third and Kurt Hubeny from fourth position. Come the 45 minutes final positions started to shift as some drivers ran into trouble with traction rolling in the beginning stages, but in the end it was Manuel Huber who took the win chased by Xray team mates Manuel Singer, Gerhard Kandelhart, Kurt Hubeny, Gernot Baumgartner and Franz Engel. The runner up sport for Singer also meant the overall win in the championship for the young man. Fourth placed Kurt Hubeny became vice champion.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 4, 2012

Nick Vasquez wins Michigan State champs series

The last round of the Michigan State Champs Series the battle was between Nick Vasquez, Scott Rapoport, Caleb Henry and Mike Raaz. Nick already claimed the 2012 title in the 1/8th electric buggy class and When the dust settled Scott Rapoport would take first place with Nick Vasquez in second and Caleb Henry in third place.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]

October 3, 2012

Mark Green wins Rd6 of BRCA 1/8th nationals

Round 8 of the 2012 national championship was our second visit of the year to the Cotswold circuit near Cirencester. The weather was set to be good all weekend which would be the only fully dry weekend of the year so far. With an entry list over 40 drivers provided 5 qualification heats of 4 rounds to determine the final line ups. The Main championship contenders were on display aiming to gain the upper hand ahead of a potential title decider in 2 weeks at Mendip. The current situation is that 3 times champion Tim Wood currently leads the way and is now aiming to better his worst score in the 6 from 9 events to count format. The remaining 2 drivers with a chance to snatch the title are Mark Green and Kyle Branson, who have missed racers due to European commitments during the year. The pre-event favourite by many was Kyle Branson who as showed consistently very fast pace throughout the season culminating in 4 TQ’s from 7 to date but with only 1 win due to bad luck in finals whilst clearly in the lead. Mark Green on the other hand was also confident of a good result this weekend.

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October 3, 2012

Tommy Hinz wins Truck at KBRL Rd2

This past weekend brought the second round of the Kenny Brosh Racing League. With just over 245 entries, the day was completely action packed. The day started off with open practice from 8-10, and then 2 rounds of qualifying were to begin. The 1st round started off with the Stadium Truck class which had 5 heats. As the track got a groove, Green Pressure Points were the ticket on the good ole T4.1. Moving throughout qualifying, Modified 2wd Buggy came onto the track. Once again, Green Pressure Points were phenomenal. Round 2 came and everyone was stunned at how good the JConcepts Pressure Points were working. Mod truck had Trevor Clement on pole ahead of Tommy Hinz in 2nd and Brian Kinwald 3rd.

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October 3, 2012

Heremans takes Belgian title as Mesker wins final

Driving smoothly and consistently, Stefan Mesker (above) drove his X Factory X-6 Squared mid-motor buggy to a solid win in the final round of the B.N.K. Championship at Bergschenhoek near Rotterdam. Mesker took all three rounds of qualifying by five seconds or more, good for the TQ position on the grid. He then took a wire-to-wire win in A1. In A2, with 2 laps remaining, Mesker made a mistake allowing Bryan Van Rijnberk to get past and Mesker finished second. A3 was another wire-to-wire win for Stefan. The BNK Series takes in 7 races at different venues across Belgium and Holland, then awards two Championships, one for each nation. This year’s Belgian Championship goes to Bruno ‘Elvo’ Heremans with his X-6 Squared. X Factory drivers won five of the seven races, with Wouter Wynen taking three, Elvo one, and Mesker the last round. Heremans combined his win with five third-place finishes to take the Belgian crown.

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October 2, 2012

Giorgio de Felici wins Italian 1/10th 200mm title

The 3rd and final round of the Italian 1/10th 200mm National championships was held at the Gubbio track last weekend. The race was won by Capricorn Novarossi driver Giorgio de Felici ahead of KM Novarossi driver Dario Balestri in 2nd and Giuseppe D’angelo in 3rd driving the GiMar powered Xray. The win was enough to secure the 2012 National title for de Felici and Capricorn, the Italian company also winning the F1 class with Davide Stefanizzi and the F2 class with Generoso Mazza.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

October 2, 2012

Mark Lim double at Singapore NOOB Nationals

The NOOB Singapore Open Buggy 2012 series drew to a close last weekend at the RaceWorks Arena as racers gathered to celebrate the completion of another great season of 1/10 electric buggy racing. This years nationals that started in February and spanned 8 months drew over 50 racers who competed in 6 rounds of racing where the best 4 results counted towards their final standings. In the hotly contested 2WD class, the season began with Mark “BC” Lim, Kum Yew and Tein taking rounds 1, 2 and 3 respectively to keep the title race wide open. However, BC went on to win rounds 4, 5 and 6 with his Tamiya TRF201 to take the overall 2WD title for a third year running with the minimum 4 series points. Finishing a very close second with 8 points was Kum Yew and Tein completed the podium with 12 points.

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