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March 12, 2013

John Sotiropoulos wins Greek season opener

The Greek National Championship got underway last weekend and it was John Sotiropoulos that dominated the race at the FRT track with his Serpent 747. Saturday practice showed that Sotiropoulos had strong pace as he set the pace with his Max Powered Serpent. That speed carried through to qualifying on Sunday as he TQ’d the event ahead of Shepherd’s top two challengers. Starting the final from pole position Sotiropoulos had perfect start and showed great pace and once the race had settled the Serpent driver started to extend his lead eventually crossing the line some three laps clear of 2nd placed Capricorn driver Vangelis Totomis and another 3 laps clear of 3nd placed also Capricorn driver Nick Karabelas after 45-minutes of racing.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 12, 2013

Alexander Hagberg re-signs with Team Orcan

Team Orcan have announced that following a successful first year of driving for their team and making the main final at the World Championships, Alexander Hagberg has decided to extend his deal with the German company. The Swedish Xray driver had this to say:

It has been a pleasure to work with Mr. Bertram Kessler of SMI-Motorsport. His experience and professionalism has helped a lot over the last year. I am confident that I can accomplish even better results in the near future. I will be running Orcan engines, mufflers, fuel and accessories.

Source: Orcan [orcan.de]

March 11, 2013

Xray Challenge Grand Final – Announcement

Xray have been in touch to invite racers to the grand final of the European Xray Challenge. The race will take place at the weekend of the 5th of May at the Hudy Racing Arena in a total of six different classes including stock, super stock and modified touring cars, 1/10th nitro touring, F1 and GT pan cars. In the touring classes only Xray touring cars are allowed to run with the tires being hand-out tires supplied by the organizers. Click here to find all details.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 6, 2013

Dario Balestri takes Rd1 of Italian Nationals

The opening round of the Italian 1/10th 200mm Nationals were held last weekend in Acquaviva delle Fonti. Qualifying would see KM Racing driver Dario Balestri head the timing sheets in front of Alessio Mazzeo and Alessio Forte. However before the finals could be run the father of one of the racers had a serious medical emergency and had to be rushed to hospital and so along with the agreement of all the drivers the race director made the decision to stop the race and declare the results based on qualifying.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

March 6, 2013

Oscar Cabezas wins Spanish season opener

This past weekend saw the first race of the Spanish nationals take place in Almussafes and Nacho Lopez sent this report. We were quite confident before the race, because we had a really good setup. However the weather forecast was not so good everything could happens. This year in Spain we have two direct finalists to increase the emotion of the heats. So it was important to achieve at least a second place to avoid the semifinals.

Continue reading the report here

March 6, 2013

2013 Euro Contest – Announcement

2013 Euro Contest - Announcement

The organisers of the Euro Contest have been in touch to promote what they believe will be one of best races in Europe on the newly rebuilt US style track of ‘Barco Off’ which is one of the best Italian offroad tracks. The race will be open to 2 buggy classes, Pro (F1) and Open (F2) as well as the brushless class and will once again feature Superpole competition as well as Last Chance Qualifiers not to forget the DJ set, music, cocktail party, girls and much more. The event will run from the 21st to the 23rd of June and entry is now open here.

March 5, 2013

International GP series – Announcement

International GP series - Announcement

The organisers of the new Italian race series ‘International GP’ were in touch to promote their 4 round championship. Supported by many of the main Italian RC Car brands the series kicks off this weekend in Fiorano before making 3 more stops, ending in September. Catering for 1/8th and 1/10th gas onroad, entries are open to everyone and its not too late to take part in the opening round. For more information on the race series, visit the official site here.

March 5, 2013

Rico Kröber re-signs to Team Orcan

Orcan have announced that their team driver Rico Kröber has re-signed for the upcoming season. He will use and develop the Orcan Nitro products especially the Orcan GT3-MH engine as well as the Orcan fuel. Rico will drive Orcan products at German national races, German Championship and the European Championship in Austria this season. He had this to say about the deal:

I am proud to be a member of the Orcan Team and I am looking confident into the future and to the next races because of the professional work with Bertram Kessler during the last years. We have developed a lot of new ideas which we will bring 2013 at the racetrack.

Source: Orcan [orcan.de]