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May 11, 2010

Victory for Merlin Depta at RCCM Cup

Last weekend the first round of the RCCM Cup took place on the Hildesheim track in Germany. With no opportunity to practice for the 31 starters prior to the event due to rain, the first practice heats got going on Saturday morning. Following qualification Merlin Depta took pole position with his Max powered Serpent 733. Right from the start of the final Depta pulled away and ran easily for 30 minutes finishing 7 laps in front of eventual second placed finisher Thomas Einbeck, with fellow Kyosho driver Dirk Müller in 3rd. This was the first race with the Serpent 733 for Merlin, who had never before raced in a 1/10 scale class.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

May 11, 2010

Schäfer & Weihert take victory in Wiesbaden

This past weekend the first German Championship Central Qualifier 2010 was held at the nice track of Wiesbaden, where the European Championship B will take place in 2011. The race attracted 45 drivers in total, among them were Shepherd factory driver Oliver Mack and Shepherd front man Patrick Schäfer. Both were starting in the 1/8th scale expert class as well as the 1/10th scale 200mm class.

Continue reading the report here

May 11, 2010

2nd Annual Novarossi Challenge – Announcement

The organizers of the 2nd Annual Novarossi Challenge have been in touch to let everyone know about this event which will be run from the 2nd-4th July 2010. Held at the Controlfreakz Raceway in Chaplin, Connecticut. Factory driver Joaquin Desoto, Dj Apolaro, Paolo Morganti, Paul Ciccarrello and Chris Tosolini will be in attendance. Technical seminars about chassis, tire and clutch tuning are scheduled throughout the event. The racing action features the following classes 1/8 open, 200mm Nitro Sedan and GT Open.

For more information about this event go here.

May 11, 2010

Drake takes buggy & truggy win at JBRL Rd2

Round 2 of the JBRL Nitro Series was this past weekend at Revelation Raceway and attracted 200 entries. The track was fun and flowing, it made for incredible racing. The Buggy final saw Adam Drake in his Novarossi powered 8ight 2.0 start from pole but a small mistake on lap one caused Drake to fall back a few spots. Within a couple of laps Adam was battling up front with Mark Pavidis for the lead before Mark made a mistake and Adam took over the lead and started to pull away from the field. The race looked to be in the bag, but a fueling mistake in the pits caused a flameout to Drake’s car, his pit man was able to get him fired and out of the pits without giving up the lead. Drake won the final followed by Pavidis in second, and Castellano in third. In the Truggy final, Drake once again had TQ’d and was followed closely by Cody King. The pair checked out and stretched a lead on the rest of the field. Adam’s pit strategy forced Cody to push hard to make up time and seemed to cause him to make too many mistakes. Drake took home the victory, followed by Cody King in second and Drew Moller in third.

May 10, 2010

Robin d’Hondt wins Dutch 2nd round

Round 2 of the Dutch 1/8th scale nationals was held last weekend on the fast MAC de Baanbrekers track in Rucphen, and fast it was, on the Saturday the fast guys like Van Gastel, d’Hondt, Ermen and Rick V were driving laps under 13.0 seconds giving an example how the competition will be. On Sunday it was dry but the track was still a bit slippery at some points because of the rain the night before which caused a lot of braking problems and one or two serious crashes and the track was for sure not as fast as on Saturday.

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May 10, 2010

Barry Pettit does double in Alabama

JConcepts are reporting that the Shelby County RC Raceway Dash for Cash was held this past weekend in Harpersville, Alabama, just past the Talledega Raceway. Alabama is packed with dedicated racers and competitors. The great weather lasted throughout the day and allowed the track to groove and provide great traction. After 3 rounds of qualifying the mains were set for 45 minutes of red clay battle in the buggy and truggy classes. Mugen Seiki/JConcepts driver Barry Pettit was able to finish on the top step of the podium in both races, after some challenging racing from the fast Alabama crowd.

Source: JConcepts [jconceptsracing.net]

May 10, 2010

Marco Mueller takes Rd2 in Switzerland

Last weekend saw the second round of Swiss 1/8th scale National Championship take place in Aigle, on a very technical track, renamed this year the Sebastien Buemi Circuit and factory Motonica racer Mattia Pesenti sent us this report. Saturday morning we had just 30-45 minutes to practice because the track was wet and in the afternoon we started with the qualifying rounds. I had a perfect car and I had a really good feeling with it and had the pole position for the first two rounds before round 1 winner Shasa Lackner had a really fast round doing 24 laps in 7’17’’ leaving myself and Marco Mueller in 2nd and 3rd with 23 laps.

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May 6, 2010

Martin Lissau wins Danish National opener

Last weekend the first round of the Danish Nationals took place at the Odense RC MiniRace track. Martin Lissau was present to compete the first time with the Shepherd Velox V10 and with limited possibilities for practice because of the rain he went into the first round of qualifying and set a new track record on his way to clocking the fastest time. Right after, the rain arrived again and the rest of the qualifying was canceled. The finals were scheduled for Sunday and finally the track was dry. Right from the start of the final Martin pulled away and never looked back, running flawlessly for 30 minutes to cross the line in first position ahead of Claus Rygeskov in 2nd and Martin Hansen in 3rd. In the 1/8th scale class Henrik Christensen had the lead from the start to the end to take victory in front of fellow Shepherd racer Hans Andersen in 2nd, with John Jessen 3rd.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]