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December 1, 2010

Mike Haynes wins Cleveland Indoor Champs

Sweep Racing USA’s very own Mike Haynes took the Mod Sedan win at the 31st annual Cleveland Indoor Champs. After qualifying in third place on mains day Mike was in prime spot to start as Paul Lemieux and Keven Herbert had been battling it out during qualifying. They continued in the finals where they left off and at about the 2 minute mark they tangled which let Mike take the lead. Mike was able to defend the lead for 4 full minutes under hard pressure from Keven Herbert and while Keven seemed to have the faster car Mike clearly was a man on a mission closing the door hard many times on Keven. Mike was also on the podium in 2 other highly contested classes with 2nd in Superstock sedan and 2nd in 13.5 12th.

Source: Sweep Racing [sweepracingusa.com]

December 1, 2010

Joern Neumann wins Horizon Nitrocross

The first Horizon Nitrocross were held from last weekend in Quakenbrueck and with 163 entries from Germany, Italy, UK and Czech Republic it was a large success. The famous Quakenbrueck track is indoor, but temperatures are the same as outdoor and it was around 0° degrees the whole weekend. Friday was practice, Saturday saw one more round of practice and then 4 rounds of Qualifying, with the best 2 rounds to count. Martin Bayer TQ’d the Buggy class ahead of Jorn Neumann and Riccardo Rabitti. Sunday was finals day and in the semi finals Carsten Keller had the fastest time and would start the final from Pole Position. The Final was 40 minutes and in the first minutes Carsten, Riccardo and Jorn battled for position. Then Jorn took the lead and never looked back winning by 2 laps in front of 2nd placed Carsten Keller and Riccardo Rabitti in 3rd.

Thanks to Joern Neumann for the report.

November 30, 2010

Bittydesign Contest 2011 – Announcement

Italian company Bittydesign have announced that the 2011 running of the off road contest will take place from the 6th to the 8th of May. Already in its 3rd year, last year’s event was a big success and they hope to improve on that again this year. Expect more details to be released in the coming months.

View videos from last year’s event here

November 29, 2010

Yokomo Euro Touring Series Rd2 videos now online

Following some connection issues at the track in Hrotovice, Czech Republic, all the A-main videos from both the Modified and Pro Stock classes of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series Round 2 are now online.

Check out all the videos here.

November 29, 2010

Neo11 – Race Announcement

Neo Buggy & DXR have announced that the Neo Race for 2011, Neo11, will be held 22nd to 25th of April 2011, the 6th running of the race and 5th at the Harper Adams indoor facility. The timetable will be similar to the last event, a 4 day format is planned with practice on Friday 22nd, six rounds of qualifying on Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th finishing off with finals on the Monday (25th). Qualifying will use 7 minute heats and the best four rounds from six will count. After the Dash4Cash success at Neo2010 the organizers plan to add a few more ‘special races’ to the schedule which should provide entertainment every day. The entry date will be announced soon.

Further details can be found on the official site here.

November 29, 2010

Salven & Chiu win Xceed TRS Asia Cup

The 3rd annual Xceed TRS Asia Cup was held in Shanghai, China just a weekend ago with over 50 drivers from 13 countries participating. In the 1/8 class, it was Michael Salven who took TQ and the win over second place Suruth from Thailand, while in third was Howard Zuo from Taiwan. In the 1/10 Sedan class, Samual Chiu of Hong Kong driving his NT-1 battled TQ Wang Hai Feng from China to win by only 1.1 seconds. Both drivers exchanged the race lead over 15 times in the 30 minute final. Wang Hai Feng drove a Mugen MTX4 and is China’s number one electric touring car driver in this his very first nitro race. In third place was Per-ola Hard from Sweden.

View the sedan podium here

November 28, 2010

Volker & Dankel make it 2 out of 2

Ronald Volker and Eric Dankel remain the men to beat in the 2010/11 Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the German drivers making it 2 out of 2 here in the Czech Republic. Like in Kastellaun both drivers started from pole position and although they were made to work much harder this time round they leave Hrotovice with the perfect score in their respective championship standings.

View our complete event coverage here.

November 28, 2010

Volker takes first Leg in Hrotovice

Top Qualifier Ronald Volker has won the opening leg of the Xenon Modified A Mains in what was a pretty uneventful race. The Yokomo driver got out of shape over the dots at the first corner but managed to stay in front despite Marc Rheinard’s best efforts throughout the race, the pair finishing well clear of third placed Freddy Sudhoff.

View our complete event coverage here.