July 11, 2007

D’Hondt wins Belgian 1/8th Nats Rd4

Robin D'Hondt wins Belgian 1/8th Nats Rd4

The fourth round of the Belgian 1/8th scale National Championships was run at the Bierset track over the weekend and it was newly crowned Benelux Champion Robin D’Hondt that proved he was the class of the field by taking the win ahead of Serpent team mate Steven Cuypers in 2nd with Eric Vandereyt in 3rd. Serpent have the full race report from D’Hondt on their website, which you can check out here.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]


July 11, 2007

Sebastian Wartelle wins French EFRA GP

Sebastian Wartelle wins French EFRA GP

Last weekend the Auto Model Club Ampuis played host to the 2007 French EFRA GP for 200mm and apart from a few foreign drivers the event was very much an all French affair. Qualifying, which was held in dry conditions, saw Kyosho driver Adrien Bertin set both a new individual lap record and overall 5 minute qualifying record, to take the pole position ahead of B.A. Arnaldi in 2nd and Belgian driver Jérôme Renaux in 3rd. Unfortunately for race day the rain came down and this put a bit of a dampener on proceedings but the race went ahead anyway and it Kyosho driver Sébastien Wartelle that took the win, by a lap, from 2nd placed Adrien Bertin with 3rd spot going to the Renaud Monin.

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July 11, 2007

Josh Cyrul wins 2007 ARCOR World Championships

Josh Cyrul wins 2007 ARCOR World Champs

Team Orion driver, Josh Cyrul has won the 2007 ARCOR World Championships held recently at Freddies Hobbies asphalt oval track, in Ohio. This was the first running of the World Championships for this oval racing class, and it was top US driver Josh Cyrul, using his Revolution V2 Oscar Special 7 turn motor, that took the win in the brushed class. We also have a few videos from the event to show the stress that these motors have to put up with during such an event, that sees the cars racing flat out for 4 minutes at high speeds.

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July 11, 2007

Hickerson & Eckert win FSORS Rd8

Hickerson & Eckert win FSORS Rd8

We received a report from top CEN racer Gene Hickerson from the 8th round of the the FSORS, which is one of the largest series in the USA, that sees 6 of the 8 rounds count towards the Championship. This final round of the series was hosted by the Hurricane R/C Club in Tampa and this round attracted 152 entries in both buggy and truggy classes.

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July 10, 2007

Cristiani & Smacchi win Trofeo Novarossi

Cristiani wins Trofeo Novarossi

Last weekend at the fast Fiorano track in Italy, close the Ferrari test track, was the 2007 running of the Trofeo Novarossi for 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm cars. The race was attended by a lot of fast Italian drivers who were also joined Japanese Motonica racer Masao Tanaka and current European B Champion Jernej Vuga amongst others. After qualifying, which was run on Saturday night and Sunday morning, it was local Serpent ace, Andrea Cristiani, that took the pole position ahead of Mugen driver Stefano Solaroli with Italian National round 3 winner Dario Balestri in third and Andrea Pirani rounding out the top 4.

The start of the 30 minute main saw some problems for Balestri which dropped him down the order meaning he had to go on a recovery drive, while the leading group pulled away. Cristiani was hardly pressured throughout the race, despite Balestri setting blistering lap times trying to recover, and could take the win by 1 lap from Solaroli in 2nd with another Serpent in 3rd driven by Giordano Agostinelli. The 1/10th scale race saw a win for Giorgio Smacchi who finished 3 laps ahead of the following pairing of Rocco Ania and Andrea Zucchi, who finished in 2nd and 3rd, only 3 seconds apart.

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July 10, 2007

Mueller takes Rd4 of Swiss 1/8th Nats

Mueller takes Rd4 of Swiss 1/8th Nats

Last weekend saw the 4th round of the Swiss 1/8th scale Championship take place on the Lostallo track, host of this months European 1/8th scale Championships, and our man Mattia Pesenti was once again in action with his Novarossi powered Motonica and he has provided us with this report.

Saturday was a really warm day, about 35 degrees, good traction but not so many drivers maybe because of holiday. The biggest problem for all was the fuel comsuption and everybody work on it with different mufflers, harder tyres, etc. Personally I tried 4 or 5 different types of muffler and manifolds but the problem was: LESS fuel consumption LESS power!

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July 9, 2007

2007 HPI Winter Champs – Video

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Following on from our brief report last Saturday from the previous weekends HPI Challenge held at the Sydney On Road Model Car Club comes the video compilation from that event. The race was won by Mugen racer Chris Reade and you can view the action from the A-main in the video above.

Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]


July 9, 2007

Great Lakes Championship Series Rd3

Great Lakes Championship Series Rd3

We received a report from round 3 of the Great Lake Championships hosted by Gatineau Radio Control Club. In the pre race drama that unfolded GRC was forced to move locations from their track in Quebec. City officials decided at the last minute that a new location was in store but neglected to take into consideration the plans already developed. However Lee from Radio Active Hobbies came to the rescue and offered his track “weekend warrior raceway” in Desoronto Ontario.

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