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April 7, 2010

Steele & Campbell take Irish Nats Rd1 victory

A perfect Easter Sunday saw the opening round of the 2010 Irish Onroad National Championship take place at the St.Annes track in Dublin where it was to be Shepherd’s day in terms of collecting the main silverware. In the 1:10 200mm Touring class it was reigning champion Chris Steele who narrowly claimed the TQ honours with his Velox V10 over the Serpent 733 of Keith Dempsey. The early part of the race saw the Top 3 pull clear of the field but both Demspey and 3rd place qualifier Chris Lawlor were to hit trouble allowing Steele to cruise to the win. Second spot would go to Robert Boylan who produced a really impressive and solid drive at the controls of his Serpent 733. Recovering from his earlier problems and recording the fastest lap of the race Lawlor managed to get his Kyosho back up to third to claim the final step on the podium.

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April 5, 2010

Rain affects Nitro West Masters opener at Oberhausen

Rain has washed away the opener of the Nitro West Masters held on the Easter weekend at Oberhausen. Track was wet all Saturday so only a very few racers went out to check rain tyres and their wet set-up. On Sunday morning the track wasn’t dry either but hope came up during the second heats when the track dried up slightly but a few moments later new rain arrived. Finally it was decided in a second drivers briefing during lunch break to count the race following the heats ranking in the 1/8 and 1/10 scale nitro classes.

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April 4, 2010

Robin D’hondt to run Gi-Mar engines

Italian company Gi-Mar, whom we introduced for the first time at the Toy Fair back in early February, have announced that front running Belgian driver Robin D’hondt will join their team in a 2 year deal. The World and European Championship finalist, will use the JP Calandreau developed MIG series motors and exhaust systems in his Motonica chassis as part of the deal.

Source: Gi-Mar [jpgimar.com]

April 3, 2010

Nordic Champs/Euros Warmup – Announcement

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Väst-8 Gothenburg, one of Sweden’s largest R/C-racing clubs, proudly presents the 7th EFRA European Championship for 1/10th scale I.C 200mm touring cars. Spring is turning to summer and the clock is ticking towards one of the highlights of the whole season. With 150 racers attending the EC-A, ready to fight for the title of European champion, the organisers believe this race that will set a new standard to future EFRA Events. The hottest starting field with several European Champions and World Champions from different classes, spread over 22 nations, the competition can’t be much tougher than this. The official website to both the Euros and the Nordic Championship is where they’ll be publishing news weekly with updates and happenings. The entry form to the Warmup & Nordic Championship can be found here, while the invitation to the Warm-up is online at the EC-website. There is also a Facebook group and YouTube videos published, just search for “EC-2010 Gothenburg” on each website.

April 1, 2010

Tom & Jochen Wiesner join Team SMI

SMI Motorsport have announced that father and son team, Tom and Jochen Wiesner, have both made the switch to use Xray cars, Hudy accessories as well as the complete SMI / Orcan range including engines, fuel and maintenance products. They will both compete regionally, in the Mid division (Hessencup), as well as in the German championship in Sand and Fischach. Both, Tom and Jochen Wiesner, are very experienced and successful racers and had the following to say about the deal:

We are confident in the products and their quality and wish a lot success and good cooperation with the very successful SMI Team.

Source: SMI [smi-motorsport.de]

April 1, 2010

Serpent Nitro Tour Fiorano report

The Serpent Nitro Tour kicked off in Fiorano last weekend and Shepherd driver and race runner up Simon Kurzbuch sent us this report. Me, my family and Rolf Suter from RA Speed Switzerland went last weekend with well prepared cars to Fiorano (Italy) and had an excellent roll-out on the first international race in the 1/8 scale season 2010.

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March 31, 2010

Team Shepherd confirm Marc Rheinard for 2010

Shepherd are announcing that one of the world’s best rc-car drivers joins their team for the upcoming season. Marc Rheinard, 2-times IFMAR World Champion, 3-times EFRA European Champion and multi German National Champion, has decided to use the Shepherd Velox V10 at this years World Championship in Houston as well as at the European Championship in Goteborg. He will part of the Shepherd factory team to support them with all his racing experience. Marc had the following to say:

I’m really happy to be a part of the Shepherd Team for the upcoming season. It will be nice for me to work together with world class drivers like the reigning World Champion Daniele Ielasi, the former Worlds TQ driver Jilles Groskamp and all the other drivers in the team. I’m pretty sure that the support from Shepherd will be the best I can get and we are looking forward to have some good results at the Worlds and the Euros this year.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

March 30, 2010

Matrix Tires sign Raimondo Gilletti

Matrix racing tires have announced that Raimondo Gilletti will join their already impressive team for the 2010 season. The Italian factory Team Magic/Novarossi driver will use Matrix tires in all of this year’s Italian National championship rounds as well as during the 1/10th 200mm World Championships that take place this summer in the USA. Raimondo’s 2010 campaign is also supported by Savox and Dynamic Fuel.

Source: Matrix Tires [matrixtires.it]