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June 10, 2010

Martin Bayer does double at 1/5th Euros Warm-up

The warm-up race for the 2010 1/5 Scale Formula one and Touring car European championship took place at Slavkov, Brno in the Czech Republic last weekend and it attracted all the big name drivers in these categories. The race in the formula one category was to be a one man show with 1/8th scale buggy ace Martin Bayer driving the RS5 winning the race by 5 laps ahead of team mates Jeffrey van Wijk and Clark Wohlert in 2nd and 3rd. In the touring car category it was also a win for RS5 driver Martin Bayer with a superb drive, followed by former European Champion Mathieu Briere with the FG, with 9 tenths of a second gap on third place finisher Cedric Prevot also with FG.

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June 9, 2010

Erik Demuth wins Rd1 of the Brazilian 1/5th Nats

The first round of this year’s Brazilian 1/5th scale National championship was held at the Clube Conesul in Portão Rio Grande do Sul Brasil. The track was very cold on the Saturday morning and the times slow, but after some qualifying rounds the lap times came down with Erik Demuth with his FG/Abbate Racing car made the best time on the track followed by Renato Brentato, Rui Vlademir and Stener completing the top 4 qualifiers to the final. The Main final scheduled to begin at 15:00 hours saw turmoil after problems with race timing saw the start of race being canceled. At the second start, Erik Demuth kept the lead until the finish. Renato Brentano who started second dropped down the order after a first corner crash but recovered to finish in second place. The third place went to Stener who was running his new car for the first time in this race and has already achieved great results. Young 8 year old racer Nicolas Lucae finished the race in an impressive 5th place showing that he will be one of the strong names for the future in Brazil.

View the final results here

June 9, 2010

Michael Klausner wins Rd3 in Austria

Last weekend saw the 3rd leg of the Austrian 1/8th on road nationals held at the MBC-RPA track in Vienna-Aspern. Again perfect weather and a good racing atmosphere greeted the drivers at this difficult and dangerous American style track. Already during practice Mugen/Novarossi driver Mikie Klausner was setting the pace with several unofficial improvements (16.40 sec) of the official track record (16.65 sec). In qualifying the lap record was improved to a new absolute best of 16.27 by Klausner who was easily the top qualifier followed by Motonica/Picco driver Herfried Pucher and Serpent/Max driver Patrick Wendy.

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June 9, 2010

Giuseppe D’angelo wins Italian 1/10th Rd2

The 2nd round of the Italian 1/10th touring car championships was run last weekend in Messina, host of the 2005 1/8th scale World Championships. In Saturday’s qualifying it was young Biagio Spataro that took the pole position in front of Giuseppe D’angelo in 2nd, with Francesco Tironi taking 3rd. In Sunday’s hour long main final it was Mugen/Reds racer D’Angelo who led most of the race on his way to the win, followed by the Mugen/Sirio of Tironi in 2nd with Xray/Max driver Giorgio De Felici taking 3rd.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

June 9, 2010

Race for a Cure – Announcement

Race for a Cure is an event taking place at Goshen Fair Grounds in Goshen CT from the 17th to 20th of June, which will help raise money and awareness for the American Cancer Society. A 4 day event it sees practice on Thursday with both 2wd & 4wd Short Course only running on Friday, 1/8th nitro & electric buggy on Saturday and 1/5th scale buggy & truck on Sunday. All classes get 3 rounds of qualifying and mains and the event is limited to 100 entries per day. Making it a fun day for all the family the fairgrounds are also hosting a bigger event called the Goshen Stampede where there are all kinds of cool things going on with full scale trucks, farm animals, fireworks and live music. The race entry form can be found here (PDF).

June 8, 2010

Duarte Faria wins Rd3 of Portuguese regionals

Last Sunday the third round of the Portuguese Regional’s was held in the Circuito Automodelismo do Funchal. The Half Final’s A and B were quite dramatic with lots of crashes and two drivers having radio problems resulting in several retirements. In the main final Mugen Driver Luis Cortez was on pole followed by Serpent driver Duarte Faria, they were racing in their own league, switching the lead between them, at the final stage of the race Luis Cortez lost 2nd gear and Duarte Faria managed to win the race with a one lap lead. Xray Driver Duarte Vasconcelos took the 3rd position of the podium with a very solid run.

Thanks to Paulo Rodrigues for the report.

June 8, 2010

David Spashett wins Rd3 of 1/8th BRCA nats

The 3rd round of this years BRCA 1/8th scale on road championships was held at the Brooklands raceway in Kent and with a turn out of over 40 drivers, it was looking like a strong weekends racing but the weather forecast for Sunday was for rain, however thankfully the drivers were treated to sunshine. David Spashett decided to come out of retirement for a one off appearance with a standard spec JP powered Velox V8 chassis and even after 5 years of not racing 1/8th scale, he was soon back in the groove with some very consistent lap times and apexing every track corner to perfection.

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June 8, 2010

Asian EP Buggy Party 2010 Rd1

The first selection race of the ‘Asian EP Buggy Party’ was held in the AJ RC Arena in ZhongShan, China on the at the weekend. Due to a change of date, it was clashing with other races and so the turn out was lower than expected, however everyone that went enjoyed a great day of racing with great gifts coming from Speed Passion and JConcepts, together with new decal makers Infinity. The race was held with three 5 minutes qualifies and three 8 minutes finals. TQ in 2wd went to John Ho, who was running the new Schumacher Cougar SV, but in the final it was Antony Kwok driving a self made prototype Losi mid motor conversion XXX-M that won the A-main. Team C driver Cup Yuk Shuen, with the newly release TC-04, grabbed the hotly contested TQ spot for 4WD, while the final again provided a thrilling race with Team Durango Driver John Ho taking the final victory. All the A-main winners were using Speed Passion V3 motors, while everyone ran the JConcepts control tire.

View the final results here