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May 22, 2007

Steffen Culmsee wins Rd2 Danish TT Nats

Last weekend saw the 2nd round of the Danish championship held at the SOS track south of Copenhagen. Qualifying saw Xray racer Peter Harder take the top spot while Hong Nor racer Tim Culmsee lined up 2nd with his brother CEN driver Steffen Culmsee ending up in 3rd. The final saw a close fight between Steffen and Peter for the full 30 minutes with Tim only 5 secinds behind until his engine flamed out dropping him back and giving Steffen the chance to shake Peter of. Pushing hard the CEN driver could break away and take the win, with Peter Harder dropping back to 3rd in the closing stages, allowing Kyosho racer Lars Alex up to 2nd.

Source: Race RC [racerc.dk] / CEN [cenracing.com]

May 22, 2007

Jon Hazlewood wins Truggy Pro Rd1

Our partners Neo Buggy have a report from the first round of the UK Truggy Pro Championships that took place last weekend at the MaxBashing track near Guildford in the south of England. Xray XT8 driver Jon Hazlewood, set the TQ time in qualifying, smashing the lap record on the way, qualifying ahead of 2nd place Matt Perry driving for Losi with Kyosho driver Tommy Chung lining up 3rd. At the start of the 30 minute A final, Matt Perry took the holeshot but only until lap 3 when Graham Alsop driving for HoBao took over at the front, while pole man Jon Hazlewood, who had started badly, was now at the rear of the field. By lap 10 however Jon had recovered, and aided by and engine flame out from Alsop, could take the lead on lap 20 from which he never looked back, winning the race convincingly on lap 51 in front of 2nd placed Alsop, more than a lap down, while HoBao racer John Holmes took 3rd.

Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]

May 22, 2007

BRCA Touring Rubber and Truck class Rd3

Report by Mark Christopher – The weekend of 13th and 14th May saw racers attend the fantastic Cotswold track, where they were greeted to a dry Saturday for open practice. Conditions cahnged however and Sunday saw the racers and crew welcomed by a cool damp morning and as everyone was setting up their pit areas the rain began to fall, leaving a damp slippery surface.

In the rubber class Mathew Thompson set TQ with his Serpent 720 showing his local knowledge of the track while in the trucks Craig Nutting got a clean run with his Team Magic car. By the end of round two of qualifying the rain was now showing no mercy and the track was covered in water, due to the design of the Cotswold track there were no deep puddles. Even so many drivers decided to wait for the finals and only a few ventured out to do a few laps to check their water proofing and tyre choice.

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May 22, 2007

Robert Batlle wins Ripoll race

Spanish HoBao racer Robert Batlle has won the latest round of the Championship of Catalunya which was held last weekend at the Ripoll circuit. Batlle won ahead of Crono racer Adrian Hernandez who came home in 2nd place while Mugen driver Carlos Pinenda ended the race in 3rd.

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May 21, 2007

Darren Johnson wins BRCA 200mm Rd3

The third round of the British 1/10th 200mm Nationals took place last weekend at the fast flowing Halifax track and while Saturday saw only wet weather practise, for Sunday it was dry with the grip soming up, but only on the racing line. Spanish EFRA GP winner Darren Johnson took TQ running the new Team Magic G4+, just ahead of Serpent racer Mark Green with Chris Slater in 3rd. At the start of the main final everyone got away clean but Green had to pit early for an engine adjustment which left Darren leading closely followed by Mark Gilliland. Unfortunately Mark Gilliland had problems at his first fuel stop, so that put him down the order. Whilst the others had their troubles, Darren had a clean race which gave the Team Magic G4+ a debut win at the BRCA Nats, closely followed by Mark Green with young and impressive Kyle Branson in 3rd.

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May 21, 2007

Guy De Weerd wins Rd2 Belgian TT Nats

Rd2 Belgian Nats

Last weekend in Belgium at the BBTTC club, hosts of the recent EFRA GP, the second round of the 1/8 TT Belgian National Championships was run in changing conditions. We dont have qualifying results but the race was won by Losi 8ight racer Guy De Weerd, with round 1 winner Raphael Robert racing for HoBao in second while the 3rd place went to Xray racer Cedric Nickell.

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May 21, 2007

Pro Line Nitro Max Challenge

Last weekend saw the Pro Line Nitro Max Challenge take place at the Dirt race park in California and was attended by all the major teams making this a very competitive event. The event attracted over 180 entrants and so it was a busy weekend of racing and after qualifying the TQ racers were Losi racer Adam Drake in 1/10th truck, HoBao racer Jeremy Kortz in truggy and Adam Drake once again in buggy.

The buggy main saw some close racing but was an unlucky event for The Drake who came home 4th, with Team Associated driver Ryan Cavalieri taking a big win for the new RC8 ahead of Kyosho racer Cody King in 2nd with Jammin racer Chad Bradley in 3rd, the top 3 drivers all on the same lap. The truggy main saw a closer battle up front, but once again the pole sitter didn’t fair well, finishing down in 12th, while Billy Fischer took the win ahead of Philip Atondo in a close 2nd with another 3rd position for Chad Bradley. The 1/10th Truck saw a win for pole man Adam Drake who kept it together to take the win for Losi ahead of the Associated pairing of Ryan Cavalieri and Ryan Maifield who finished in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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May 21, 2007

Maarten van Lierop wins Rd2 of Dutch 200mm Nationals

Rd2 of Dutch 200mm Nationals

The second round of the Dutch 1/10th 200mm Nationals was run last weekend at the ultra fast Rucphen track, host of the first 2 rounds of the Dutch 1/8th scale National championship. Qualifying saw Serpent driver Jordy Blok take the top spot, but as the rain started to fall very few drivers decided to take part in the semi finals with only 4 racers running the first semi final and only 2 starting the 2nd semi final, meaning everyone had a good chance to make it through to the main event.

The start of the main final was delayed and due to the rain stopping, the track started to dry up but only it was only round 1 podium finisher Maarten van Lierop, driving for Xray, that took the gamble on a full dry weather setup which at the start of the final didnt look like it would pay off. As the track dried even more he started to turn decent laps and could then take the lead, eventually winning by 9 laps ahead of the Serpent duo of Ruud Schuitmaker and Bas Geurds who came home in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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