Rodrigo Pahissa wins Spanish 200mm Rd5 takes title

The 5th and final round for Spanish 1/10 200mm took place last weekend in Madrid at Club ARCA Track. It was an extremely interesting round, since the overall title fight was really tight involving more than 10 drivers with a real chance to win the National title. The weekend looked great for racing, sunny and over 24ºC and over 80 drivers were in attendance. The Saturday qualifying round showed a close fight for the TQ, with the Top 3 almost in the same laptime with a tight duel between the Pahissa Brothers.

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Wurst and Buerge win at NRW Challenge Rd3

Motonica team driver Christian Wurst in the 1/8 nitro class and Mugen racer Sebastian Buerge in the 1/10 200mm nitro class are the winner of the third and ultimate round of the new NRW Challenge (NRW = German State North Rhine-Westphalia) which was held at the track of the MCC Rhein-Ahr at Bad Breisig, located at the Rhine river between Bonn and Koblenz. The 254 meter track offered a good grip level and also the weather conditions were quite good with temperatures up to twelve degrees Celsius for this late outdoor racing action which would have deserved some more entries.

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Fernando Ruiz wins Copa Federal

During the 3rd of the Argentinean Nationals also the 1st Copa Federal was held. This new 3-port racing class was introduced this year for the first time. It was Shepherd racer Fernando Ruiz who dominated this single event championship. During qualifying he claimed the pole-position for the final with the fastest laps of all competitors and on Sunday he could defend his 1st place a the start and never looked back. Without any mistake he won the first Copa Federal ahead of Serpent racer Alejandro Kovácsy in 2nd and Kyosho driver Gonzalo Viel in 3rd.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

Recio wraps up Argentinian title with Rd3 win

Last weekend saw the third round of the 1/8th scale Campeonato Argentino take place in Córdoba, host track of the 2007 World Championships. Pole position for the race went to Mugen/Sirio driver Sebastián Recio, who converted his starting position into the win. Runner up on the day was team mate Agustín Cutini with third place going to Serpent driver Francisco Rinaldi. After this race the Championship standings saw Sebastián Recio take the title followed by Agustín Cutini, with Juan Ignacio Matticoli in 3rd.

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Branson wins BRCA 1/8th Rd9, Wood retains title

Round 9 of the Championship was held at the Cotswold circuit which is located on the Kemble Airfield. A good turn was expected for this the championship decider. This season, the battle for top honours was between the Serpent drivers of Wood, Hicklin and Green. With Green winning 4 of the previous rounds but having to count a very low score, required him to win this race and hope that Wood is out of the top 3 and Hicklin does not finish higher than 3rd. The remaining drivers had to push hard to try and disrupt the overall outcome above.

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Nejc Mihelic claims 2009 Slovenian title

Nejc Mihelic has claimed the 2009 Slovenian 1/8th scale title following victory in the last round of the National series at the Tolmin track last weekend. With most of the best Slovenian racers in attendance from both nitro and electric classes and with dry weather for the whole weekend it was going to be a great race. After 3 rounds of qualifying Nejc Mihelic TQ’d with his Motonica P81/Picco and in the final he secured the win by 4 laps in front of 2nd placed Uros Kozlina and Amadeo Domenico in 3rd spot. Nejc Mihelic took the title by winning all 5 rounds of this year’s Championship.