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October 11, 2012

Reno Savoya wins Sweep Challenge

The 2012 Sweep Challenge took place at a small red clay and US-style track in Koraa with nearly 130 drivers from Indonesia, Malaysia and Korea in attendance. Xray and Sweep team driver Reno Savoya, just coming back from the 2012 World warm-up race in Argentina, also made the trip in order to help the local Xray drivers with setup. Reno went to TQ all qualifying rounds and was well prepared for the night time main final but on the tone the Frenchman ran into trouble by crashing too much and being stuck in traffic. This allowed Dani Choi to open a gab at the front of the pack but Reno was pushing and able to take the lead around the 20 minutes mark. Thanks to 10 minutes fuel stints he was able to retain the lead and to win the 40 minutes final very close from lapping the second place finisher.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 10, 2012

Volker, Hebert & Haynes win big at IIC

For the 8th year in succession, the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada was the site of the International Indoor Championships. The event, put on and announced by the one and only Scotty Ernst, attracted some of the top on-road drivers from around the world and featured over 350 entries in total. After 2 days of controlled practice, on track action heated up on Thursday with 2 of the 4 rounds of qualifying, the single fastest round determining grid positions. Right out of the box, Protoform team drivers Ronald Volker and Keven Hebert established themselves as the drivers to beat in the event’s 2 marquee classes, Touring Car Modified and 1/12th scale modified. Friday’s 2 final rounds of qualifying saw Protoform drivers TQ in 7 different classes of racing. Josh Cyrul and Mike Dumas, two fixtures in the American on-road scene the past decade, paced World GT racing the Protoform Sophia GT race body.

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October 9, 2012

Sven Stoffels wins RC Le Mans series final race

The sevenths and final race of the 2012 RC Le Mans series took place in Belgium at the track of the Model Race Genk. 25 racers from three nations competed in the final race of the season under a clear blue sky and in low temperatures. Sven Stoffels from Germany tool TQ after three qualifying heats, followed by Frank Büsener and Rene Fischer. The three also kept their positions after the finals. Winner of the B-final was Alexander Steinkau with Hermens Mathijs taking the C-final. The 2013 season opener of the RC Le Mans series that is run with Pro10 cars will take place at the EVCM track in Velp, the Netherlands.

Thanks to Frank Büsener for the report.

October 8, 2012

Record entry for ETS season opener

This weekend (Oct 12-14) the Yokomo Euro Touring Series descends on Muelheim-Kaerlich in Germany for the opening round of the world famous electric touring car championship’s sixth season with a record 316 entries signed up for what will be the 28th running of an event in the series created by Uwe Rheinard and Scotty Ernst. With Yokomo as title sponsor for a third consecutive season, it is the Japanese company’s star driver and reigning back to back champion Ronald Volker who heads the world class entry with all of last season’s five winners back to try lay claim to the prestigious title.

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October 8, 2012

Baier & Günther win Octoberfest Cup in Türkheim

Last weekend the MCC Türkheim hosted their annual Octoberfest Cup for 1/10th and 1/8th scale nitro on-road classes. This year, the cup attracted some fast drivers from Switzerland as well. On Saturday the weather was great for practice and the first four qualifying rounds took place on a fast that allowed for very fast times. After the first qualifiers the top three positions went to Maximilian Vogl, Silvio Hächler and Sabrina Lechner in 1/8th class 1, Alexander Bremberger, Jürgen Horzella, and Maximilian Günther in class 2 and Dominic Greiner, Klaus Kramer and Julian Gaisbauer in 1/10th 200mm.

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October 8, 2012

Cockerill & Valtier win French Cup 2012

The French Cup 2012 took place in Maisons-Alfort near to Paris at AEC Model Club this weekend. Tom Cockerill and Lloyd Storey came over from England to support the French Schumacher Team. Tom and Lloyd also took first and second place in 4WD with Armand Lantheaume completing the all-Schumacher podium. In 2WD, Ludovic Valtier (Team Associated) won the title follow by Ahmed Kerfati (Kyosho). Thomas Vogel completed the podium with his TLR22.

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October 8, 2012

Josh Cyrul wins at 2012 IIC

Josh Cyrul continued his dominance over the Expert 10.5 World GT category with another win at the 2012 International Indoor Championships in Las Vegas. Only joining forces with Viper R/C Solutions one month ago, Josh’s VTX1 powered CEFX Griffin 10 blasted into the TQ position in the final round of qualifying. Josh used the pole position to his advantage, catapulting off the line and dominating the five minute race. Second place went to Mike Dumas with Pete D Angelo in third position.

Source: Viper [viper-rc.com]   

October 5, 2012

Marc Rheinard joins Capricorn for Thailand Worlds

Capricorn have announced that they have signed multiple World Champion Marc Rheinard to race their Lab C02 1/10th 200mm car in a one off deal for the 200mm World Championships in Bangkok next month. Following a test session in Italy recently the German driver inked the deal which sees him return to the class for the first time since finishing 3rd in Houston 2 years ago. With the factory Tamiya driver confirmed it will mean for the first time that all ISTC Electric World Champions will be competing at this event with Jilles Groskamp (Capricorn), Andy Moore (HB), Atsushi Hara (HB) and Surikarn C. (Xray) all confirmed for what should be an exciting race.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]