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May 31, 2010

Peter Harder wins Rd2 in Denmark

This weekend saw the second round of the Danish 1/8th off road Nationals take place at the tight and technical SOS track, south of Copenhagen. The weather forecast showed a lot of rain, but qualification was dry and due to a new and tight time schedule, that saw a 30 minutes final instead of the normal 45 minute one, it could have been worse. When the final stopped more heavy rain started. In the final Peter Harder picked up where he left off in round 1 by taking the win with his Novarossi powered Xray ahead of Martin Hansen for Kyosho in 2nd and Tim Culmsee with a HongNor in 3rd.

Source: North TQ [northtq.com]

May 31, 2010

Rain stops play at Worlds Warm-up

The Worlds warm-up race took place last weekend in Burgdorf, home to this year’s 1/10th ISTC and 1/12th IFMAR World Championships. Entries were low, but there were a lot of Japanese drivers in attendance including ETS Rd5 winner Atsushi Hara, Shin Adachi and a large team from Yokomo including Hayato Matsuzaki. Qualifying went the way of Ronald Volker, the runner up at the last Worlds in Thailand, winning 4 of the 6 rounds of qualifying to start ahead of team mate Hayato Matsuzaki, who won the other 2 rounds. Jilles Groskamp, Andy Moore, Alexander Hagberg, Takehiro Yamauchi, Shin Adachi, Atsushi Hara, Christopher Krapp and Freddy Sudhoff completed the A-finalists. Sunday’s finals day was a complete wash out, raining all day which meant that almost no drivers ventured onto the track. In the A-main Alexander Hagberg was the only person to go on track and so claimed the ‘victory’, based on the qualifying order Volker took 2nd and Matsuzaki was gifted 3rd. Full results can be found here.

Image: Inside TY [insidety.exblog.jp]

May 31, 2010

Patrick Belltrallo wins Rd2 in Luxembourg

Round 2 of the Luxembourg 1/8th scale nationals was held this weekend on the fast LMCC track in Luxembourg. On Sunday it was dry but the track was still a bit slippery at some points due to the rain the night before, which caused one or two serious crashes. The 30-minute main final saw Motonica racer Patrick Belltrallo cross the finishing line in first position, followed by Jerome Hirtziger driving a Kyosho in 2nd and Libar Laurent with a Serpent in 3rd.

Thanks to Raymond Libar for the update.

May 30, 2010

Alberto Tedeschi is crowned European B Champion

Alberto Tedeschi has been crowned champion following an exciting race at the European 1/8th scale ‘B’ Championships in Monaco today. With saw some tough battles in all the finals, the race finally had its 10 starters for the 45 minute main final. The first semi finals started with a cloudy sky, but after lunchtime the sun came up and from those two races the following drivers bumped up, with both Sabrina Lechner and Maximilian Federmann coming from the quarter finals

Continue reading the report here

May 29, 2010

Andrea Lorenzi claims pole at Euro ‘B’ in Monaco

The final two rounds of qualifying have taken place at the European 1/8th scale B Championships in Monaco. After a wet night, the rain starting yesterday evening at about 20.00 hours, the track is dry again for round 3 of qualifying with the sky a little bit cloudy and temperatures about 20-24 degrees. No changes at the top as the laptimes are not fast enough to drive 30 laps at the moment. The only one coming very close in heat 10 was Andrea Lorenzi, driving 29 laps in 7.00.578.

Continue reading the report here

May 29, 2010

Tim Wood on provisional pole in Monaco

The European B Championships for 1/8th scale on road take place this week at in Monaco, at the FMM track in the hills above the principality. Thursday evening saw the opening ceremony take place and after 4 days of free practice all the teams entered the track in their National shirts under the sound of their National Anthem. 13 Countries have come to this event with drivers from Austria, Belgium, Germany, England, Ireland, France, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Poland, Russia and Monaco in attendance.

Continue reading the report here

May 27, 2010

Reedy Race of Champions – Preview

The Reedy Race of Champions has long time been a favorite race of mine to watch, for as it seemed that no other race would go on around the country and all eyes were on this race. As we know in the past this most prestigious race has been held at the Tamiya facility headquartered in Sunny Aliso Viejo California and its time there has always been a great race to watch and participate.

Continue reading the preview here

May 26, 2010

Pietsch & Dankel win Rd3 of South German Nationals

Last weekend saw the third race of the South German Championship held at the MAC Nürnberg and with fine weather all weekend it attracted a lot of racers. In the 1:10 class it was Robert Pietsch who took the race win followed by Michael Heinrich in 2nd and Nobuhiro Kanabe in 3rd. In the 1:8 class Eric Dankel took the win, 2nd was Nicolai Bähr and 3rd Manuel Dietrich.

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