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May 14, 2007

Daniele Ielasi wins Rd2 Italian Nationals

Last weekend in Italy at the fast Fiorano track, close to the Ferrari test track, the second round of the Italian Nationals took place and in qualifying it was young Serpent racer Andrea Cristiani that took the TQ with Mugen driver, and round 1 winner, Alberto Picco lining up in 2nd with Lamberto Collari in 3rd for Kyosho. The race was an hour long, and so endurance was as important as speed and in the end it was Daniele Ielasi, who had won his semi final to make it into the main, that took the win by 1 lap ahead of Alberto Picco, while pole man Andrea Cristiani finished in 3rd position, 5 laps back, after some pit lane and engine problems but still managed to set the fastest race lap.

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May 14, 2007

Pesenti takes Rd2 of Swiss 1/8th Nats

Last weekend saw the 2nd round of the Swiss Championship take place in Wallisellen, near Zurich, the same track which held the EC-B 1/8 in the 1998. Our man Mattia Pesenti was in action at the event, as he was in round 1, driving his Novarossi powered Motonica and has provided us with this report.

We started with the qualifying rounds on Saturday after dinner, I had some problems with my engine so I had to change it. I did my best round in the last round, until that I was 7th and after the last round I was in the Top 4.

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May 13, 2007

Jerome Aigoin wins French EFRA GP

French Kyosho driver Jerome Aigoin has carried through his quick pace from qualifying into the main race, to win todays top final at the French EFRA GP, held at this years European Championship track in Auxerre. Jerome only lined up in 3rd position after a finishing 3rd in the fastest semi final but he had the pace when it mattered and could take the lead which he could extended to almost 1 lap, to win ahead of fellow French racer Renaud Savoya driving a Mugen. The final podium spot went to Italian Crono racer, and current Italian National Champion, Davide Tortorici who was only 5 seconds behind Savoya while the Mugen of Daniel Vega came home 4th. Pole position sitter after the semis was current European Champion Yannick Aigoin who came home 12th and was the only non finisher, running into trouble at 25 minutes, which ended his race.

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May 12, 2007

Jerome Aigoin TQ’s French EFRA GP

Jerome Aigoin TQ's French EFRA GP

French Kyosho racer Jerome Aigoin has taken the top qualifying spot for tomorrows main race at this weekends French EFRA GP in Auxerre. Aigoin led home a French domination of the top qualifying spots with the exception of Mugen racer Borja Hernandez of Spain who came home in 2nd position. Jeromes brother, current European Champion, Yannick Aigoin brought his Xray home in 3rd with the first of the French made Piktor buggys in 4th, driven by Sebasian Leonard.

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May 11, 2007

French EFRA GP, Auxerre – Friday

French EFRA GP - Friday

This weekend sees the French EFRA GP for 1/8th scale buggies take place at this years European Championship track in Auxerre and so the event is seen as a warmup for this event and so has attracted the top drivers from around Europe. Controlled practice was done today and leading the timesheets from the start is current European Champion, Yannick Aigoin driving for Xray with Crono driver, and current Italian Champion, Davide Tortorici in 2nd position while team mate Jerome Sartel of France is in 3rd. Qualifying will be run tomorrow and we hope to bring you an end of day report, but in the meantime check out some videos from todays action below.

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May 9, 2007

Xray NT1 & Mugen MTX4 of Beat & Dankel

Xray NT1 of Walti Beat

Yesterday our partners, RC Infos, showed us some close up pictures that they had taken at the EC B’s in Roeselare, of the winning Serpent 720 of Alessio Mazzeo. Today as a follow up they have added 2 more picture sets from the same event, first off showing the Mugen MTX4 of event runner up Erik Dankel, which you can see is also pretty much standard, with only some small optional parts added such as the alu receiver box and alu servo horn. Walti Beat, the 4th placed qualifer and eventual 5th placed finisher, drove the new Xray NT1 (above) and his car was also pretty much standard, albeit nice and neat.

View the Xray NT1 here and the Mugen MTX4 here.

Source: RC Infos [rcinfos.com]

May 8, 2007

The Serpent 720 of Alessio Mazzeo

Our partners RC Infos have a nice set of closeup shots from the Serpent 720 of European B Championship winner, Alessio Mazzeo. In the photos you can see closeups of he has configured his Serpent 720 and see that its not much different to anyone elses, with no special optional parts on board, except of course for the super quick Max motor that propelled this car around the Roeselare track.

Check out the photos here.

Source: RC Infos [rcinfos.com]

May 8, 2007

ACT State Titles – Semi Final Video

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We have already brought you a video from the main final of the ACT State Titles race, and now thanks to our partners Rube Dude, we have another video from that race, this time of the hard fought odd Semi final.

Here is an action packed video of the hard fought Odd Semis at the 2007 ACT State Titles!! You can see how much you have to fight to get into the mains right here!! PHEWWWW!!!!

Rube Dude have been hard at work lately and also have a build review of the new 1/10 HongNor .5 Truggy, which you can see here.

Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]