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July 26, 2013

Mark Green is 1/8th Euro A top qualifier

Mark Green is the top qualifier at the 2013 1/8th European A Championships in Halifax. The Serpent driver pulled everything he had out of the bag in the last round of qualifying to take the TQ by 0.14 seconds from Capricorn’s Dario Balestri who held the accolade after the first 4 rounds. With Balestri fastest in the first qualifier, Jilles Groskamp topped the 2nd round with a run of 21 laps in 313.00 seconds ahead of Balestri and Green. With the clock approaching 12:00 at the time of the run, the track proved to be too slow. In the 3rd round, Mark Green took his serpent to the fastest time ahead of Capricorn’s Daniele Ielasi and Mugen’s Kyle Branson. Posting a time of 21 laps in 314.18 seconds, Green again proved that the track was too slow. After the lunch break Round 4 commenced and again Groskamp posted the fastest time to improve by around a second ahead of Dario Balestri and Mark Green hinting ever so slightly that the track was picking up pace as the sun started to go down. With almost every heat prior to the top heat going faster in the final round, the stage was set for something special to come. Dario Balestri would lead for the majority of the heat only for Mark Green to close him down and take the round on the last lap to the joy of the crowd. The stage is set for an exciting set of finals tomorrow.

View the final qualifying results here

July 26, 2013

Hara, Kanai & Vejrak confirmed for FEMCA Champs

2013 FEMCA Championships - Announcement

The organisers of this year’s FEMCA Championships for 1/8th buggy and 1/10th ISTC in Beijing, China, which take place from the to the 18th to the 28th of August, have been in contact to tell us that they have confirmed entries from 3 World Champions. Firstly former World 1/8th Offroad World Champions Atsushi Hara along with Yuichi Kanai will be in attendance, while current 1/10th scale World Champion Meen Vejrak will also attend. The offroad event will be held on a new permanent facility and Red RC will be attending the offroad portion of the event to cover it live. Entries are still open and you can find out more information here.

July 23, 2013

1/10th Buggy World Championship tyres announced

This year’s IFMAR 1/10th Buggy World Championship at the A Main Hobbies’ Silver Dollar R/C Raceway will be run on Pro-Line Suburbs 2.0 and Scrubs X2 compound tyres, A Main Hobbies announce. The #8213-002 Suburbs rear tyre will be run in both the 2WD and 4WD class with the 4WD class also using the #8214-002 Scrubs front tyre. The two have to be used with stock foam inserts. Tyres will be available at A Main Hobbies’ Silver Dollar R/C Raceway during the event. Find more information here.

July 21, 2013

Volker is Champion

Ronald Volker is the 2012/13 Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion. The German clinched his third consecutive title by securing his first ever asphalt win in the World famous championship with another tone to tone victory in the second leg of the A-Main at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia. The result sees the factory Yokomo driver become the most crowned ETS driver having shared the honour for the past 12-months with reigning World Champion Jilles Groskamp who was champion of the first two seasons of the series. Despite shadowing Volker throughout the second 5-minute main, Marc Rheinard, the 2009/10 Champion, couldn’t catch his arch rival declaring afterwards that the ‘championship wasn’t lost here but at the start of the season’, the Tamiya ace failing to make the podium at the opening three races of the season.