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May 20, 2010

Mark Green continues winning form at BRCA Rd2

The second round of this years BRCA 1/8th circuit national championship was located at the famous Wombwell circuit, which is part of a large Karting complex. This track is loved by all the drivers since it contains a combination of slow and fast flowing corners which is a joy to drive when driven on the edge. The weather forecast did not look too good for Sunday, but thankfully it was a dry weekend. With time restrictions in place due to the noise levels, the Committee decided to run open practice with a lunch break. This made the track at times very congested with a lot of fast cars easily catching up the slower cars and damage was inevitable.

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May 20, 2010

Adam Drake wins ROAR Nationals warm-up

Last week drivers from all over the US and Canada attended the 2010 ROAR 1/8th Nationals warm-up race at the Colorado Fast Track, including Jared Tebo, Ryan Cavalieri, Ryan Mayfield, Mike Truhe, Adam Drake, Taylor James, Travis Amezcua, Ty Tessman, Josh Wheeler, Jesse Robbers, Cody King, Dustin Evans, and Lars Johnson. The track is located at 6,200 ft above sea level and offered the drivers very technical and flowing layout. Defending ROAR National Champion Adam Drake took home the win for Losi/Novarossi in the 45 minute buggy final by one lap over Hot Bodies driver Ty Tessman and Ryan Mayfield for Associated.

May 19, 2010

Swauger dominates Motonica Grand Prix

Protoform sent us a brief report on the recent Motonica Grand Prix in Las Vegas, where Mugen/Novarossi team driver Mike Swauger was able to TQ both the 200mm gas sedan class as well as the 1/8th on-road class. He then capped this performance with a big win in both categories as well, using the new P56 shell to great effect in the sedan class.

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May 18, 2010

Easy win for Michael Salven in Western Germany

Michael Salven took an easy win at round two of the Western German Championship 1/8 held at Dueren close to the Belgian and Dutch border. Following an incident of Serpent fellow Tobias Hepp in the first lap which caused a short pit stop and a 44 seconds lap time, Salven was never under pressure during the 40 minutes final. Even the handsome crowd saw excellent racing with very fast laps by Salven and Hepp, the 16 years old local hero couldn’t close the gap and came in second three laps down. Third place on the podium went to Mugen/Sirio racer Christian Wurst who lost four laps on Hepp but had an advantage of two laps over Frank Schewiola (Serpent/Novarossi). During the four heats only Salven with his Mega powered 966 and Hepp powered by Novarossi did 21 laps with Salven taking TQ just 1.221 seconds ahead of Hepp while the young talent achieved a new lap record with 14,178 seconds (Salven 14,241s).

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May 18, 2010

Jernej Vuga to run Hot Race Tyres

Current European 1/8th scale Champion Jernej Vuga has announced a deal with Hot Race Tyres, having previously raced for ATS. The Slovenian Mugen/Novarossi driver will race the Italian made tires all season including the Euros in Italy as he aims to defend his title he won in Valencia Spain in 2008. Jernej, who is currently heading up his own business Top RC, has also announced that he has inked a deal to run Roga fuel for the new season.

May 17, 2010

Oscar Cabezas wins Spanish 1/8th Nats in Valencia

The second round for 1/8 Spanish Nationals was held at the Autet track, near Valencia, host of the 2008 European Championships. With nice sunny weather, it was Motonica driver Óscar Cabezas that TQ’d followed by local ace Nacho López and Sergio Montesinos. The Main Final was a really close fight between Cabezas and López. with the last ten minutes really exciting. In the end it was Óscar Cabezas that finished in first place, followed by Nacho López only 2 seconds behind and Sergio Montesinos in 3rd. With his victory, Óscar takes the provisional leadership in the overall classification heading into the next round at the Valladolid track on July 25th.

Source: Merlin Fuel [merlinfuel.com]

May 16, 2010

Mathieu Wullyamoz is European ‘B’ Champion

French top qualifier Mathieu Wullyamoz has taken the European 1/10th 200mm ‘B’ title for Capricorn in Lostallo, Switzerland following a recovery drive after a bumpy start for the pack. Dropping down the order after being hit on Lap 1 Mathieu was able to dig deep and retake the lead at the mid way point and once up front was able to control the pace for the final 15 minutes. Knowing that his competitors needed to change tires he felt he could keep a solid pace by preserving his tires and not making a stop.

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May 16, 2010

Adrian Bernsten wins Rd1 of Norwegian Nats

Adrian Bernsten sent us a report from the first race of the Norwegian National Outdoor Series that was held last weekend in Spydeberg on Spydeberg Raceways beautiful facility. The practice started already on Friday, with 26 drivers present at the track. Throughout the practice it was me that could set the fastest lap times, with Helge Johannesen and my uncle Stig Berntsen closely behind. I had a good feeling before the race, since I’ve had a lot of practice there and have been the fastest. On Saturday we could also have some testing before the race, but then I got big radio problems. This continued on the first 2 qualification rounds as well, without finding out what the problem was. So before the 3rd and last qualification rounds we changed the receiver and created a new module on my radio. The problem was solved and I could drive my only, and the last qualification round without any problems. I also put the TQ run, with 7 seconds in front of Tom Erik Haaversen which claimed the 2nd spot, with Georg Ellingsen in 3rd and with Helge Johannesen claiming the last place to go directly to the main final.

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