The first round of the HNMC Winter series at the Herts Nitro Model Club saw wins of Elliot Boots in the nitro buggy and Harry Phillips in the nitro truggy class. Kevin Brunsden and Simon Reeves are the names of the second and third placed buggy driver while Simon Miller and Colin Drummond took two and three in the truggy class. The next round of the nitro series is set for the first weekend of November.
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Capricorn have announced that they have signed multiple World Champion Marc Rheinard to race their Lab C02 1/10th 200mm car in a one off deal for the 200mm World Championships in Bangkok next month. Following a test session in Italy recently the German driver inked the deal which sees him return to the class for the first time since finishing 3rd in Houston 2 years ago. With the factory Tamiya driver confirmed it will mean for the first time that all ISTC Electric World Champions will be competing at this event with Jilles Groskamp (Capricorn), Andy Moore (HB), Atsushi Hara (HB) and Surikarn C. (Xray) all confirmed for what should be an exciting race.
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The Xray Asia Challenge 2012 was held at the RC Addict track in Bangkok, Thailand. This was the first time in many years that Xray arranged this kind of event in Asia and thus it was expected to become a great success. More than 100 entries in 1:10 electric and 1:10 nitro touring car classes was a strong field with lots of local and international talent. As the 2012 IFMAR World Championships will be held at this same track, it was also a great opportunity to get some track time and prepare for that important race. Most of the Xray factory team were in attendance with their NT1 cars. Some of the European team drivers even joined both categories.
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The fifth and final round of the Danish nitro on-road champs took place at the famous track of Odense. Claus Ryeskov already secured the championship by winning the previous four rounds. After the qualifying rounds it was once again Claus Ryeskov taking TQ ahead of Micheal Johnson and Thomas Mortensen. Martin Christensen was attending the final round for the first time in many years, setting very fast lap times in qualifying but he had a bit of bad luck in the qualifiers and would have to start from fourth position.
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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.
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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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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.
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The last round of the Spanish championship was held in Gijon, northern Spain. With the weather forecast not good, the rain was going to be a problem. The title was still open and to be decided between 3 drivers, Nacho López (Serpent-Max-Matrix), Sergio Montesinos (Mugen Novarossi-Enneti) and Oscar Cabezas (Motonica-Novarossi-Enneti). The first 2 have have been on the podium all season, while Oscar had won the last 2 races. On Friday the drivers could not train due to the rain while on Saturday the track remained wet until the beginning of the qualifying heats, the grip improving throughout the day. The best heat was the last one which saw Oscar Cabezas take the pole position.
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