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June 9, 2012

Pietsch & Dankel top Q1 in Germany

In the first round of qualifying for the European Nitro Challenge at the Hockenheimring in Germany it was Mugen’s Robert Pietsch and Capricorn’s Erik Dankel who set the fastest time over the 7-minute heat to claim the provisional TQ in 1:8 and 1:10 respectively. For defending champions Michael Salven (1:8) and Patrick Schafer (1:10) it was a tough opening qualifier. Salven had a steering rod come off on his Serpent 966 while Schafer suffered a stripped first gear on his Shepherd Velox V10.

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June 8, 2012

World Champions top practice at Hockenheim

Practice for the second running of the European Nitro Challenge has been completed at the Hockeneimring in Germany with World Champions laying early claim on the event with current 1:8 World Champion Robert Pietsch quickest of the 1:8 runners and former 1:10 World Champion Daniele Ielasi fastest in the 200mm touring car class. Having originally scheduled 6 timed practice runs race organisers added at seventh round in which both drivers produced their fastest three consecutive laps to become top seeds for qualifying tomorrow.

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June 8, 2012

Pietsch & Wischnewski set early pace at ENC

After four rounds of practice at the European Nitro Challenge which is taking place in Germany this weekend it is pre-event favourites Robert Pietsch and Dirk Wischnewski who are setting the pace around the Hockenheimring track where a capacity entry are set to do battle to become champions of the second running of the Shepherd Micro Racing created event. Located right behind the grandstand, that on the weekend of the full size German F1 Grand Prix would give spectators the perfect view of Sebastien Vettel and co. coming onto the main straight, the track is not your traditional European style track but more similar to what American’s would be used to racing on.

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June 7, 2012

2012 Nordic championships – Announcements

The 2012 Nordic championships for electric offroad will this year be held in Northern Finland from the 18th to 19th August, next to city of Oulu. The race is run as a 2 day event, 2wd on Saturday and 4wd on Sunday and is also round 3 of the Finnish national series which means some exceptions to rules compared to EFRA. The race format consists of 2 rounds of controlled practice, 4 rounds of qualifying (2/4 counts by points) and 3x A mains and 2x lower mains both days. Full event details can be found here.

June 7, 2012

2012 Inzeller Race of Champions – Announcement

The organisers of the 2012 IRoC, Inzeller Race of Champions, were in touch to tell us about this year’s event which is run from the 23rd to the 24th of June in Inzell, Germany. The 6th running of the event it is open to 1/0th electric offroad and more specifically 2wd & 4wd buggy and 2wd and 4wd SC classes. With a drivers party on Friday night and a qualifying heat run under floodlights, the event has already attracted entries from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with last year’s winner Hupo Honigl along with Martin Kreil already signed in. Find out more information here.

June 5, 2012

Alessio Mazzeo wins Cassino International race

The Circuit Lamberto Collari in Cassino was the host last weekend to top drivers from across Europe including Pietsch, Wischnewski, Spataro, Balestri, Tironi and others, as they took the opportunity to test ahead of August’s 1/10th 200mm Euros on the same track. Qualifying was dominated by KM driver Dario Balestri followed by another Italian driver Biagio Spataro in 2nd while reigning 1/8th scale World Champion Robert Pietsch was 3rd. On Sunday the two semi-finals were won by Serpent driver Alessio Mazzeo and Xray driver Dirk Wischnewski while problems for Pietsch, Spataro and Balestri in the semis meant they failed to make the final. After an initial battle in the main final between Mazzeo and Wischnewski, it was the Max powered Serpent 747 of Mazzeo that took the win followed by Francesco Tironi (Capricorn) in 2nd and Claudio Culoma (Xray) 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 4, 2012

Robert Batlle wins RC Show 2012

The First Edition of RC Show 2012 took place last weekend at the Fuencarral Track in Spain. With typical Spanish sunny weather, this Open International event brought the top national drivers in this category as well as those from other countries. RC Show´12 was a three day event, with controlled practice on Friday, qualifying on Saturday and the mains on Sunday. Also on Saturday evening after the qualification rounds, Mike Truhe and Kevin Gahan from TLR put on a great exhibition with the Losi 5T while Spanish pilot Julio Memba also put on a 3D helicopter exhibition for the crowds. Portuguese driver Miguel Matias topped qualifying and was TQ on Saturday but after Sunday’s semi finals it was the Spanish driver and current European champion Robert Batlle who put his Mugen in the top position and would go on to win, followed by TLR´s Mike Truhe with Agama driver Dani Vega completing the podium.

Source: Coches RC [cochesrc.com]

June 4, 2012

Bella & Carlessi wins Trofeo Shepherd

The second Trofeo Shepherd race took place at the Miniautodromo Black Tarmac in the North of Italy. On Mesero’s international track the racing series is a regular visitor with a lot of Shepherd drivers in attendance enjoying a nice event with a lot of prizes for everyone. In the 1/8 category the trophy was won by Sara Bella, runner-up was Simone Pausini and third place went to Andrea Novati. In the 1/10 category Stefano Carlessi crossed the finishing line in first position followed by Maurizio De Simon on second position and Mattia Lorenzetti in third.

View the 1/10th podium here