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June 10, 2010

Martin Bayer does double at 1/5th Euros Warm-up

The warm-up race for the 2010 1/5 Scale Formula one and Touring car European championship took place at Slavkov, Brno in the Czech Republic last weekend and it attracted all the big name drivers in these categories. The race in the formula one category was to be a one man show with 1/8th scale buggy ace Martin Bayer driving the RS5 winning the race by 5 laps ahead of team mates Jeffrey van Wijk and Clark Wohlert in 2nd and 3rd. In the touring car category it was also a win for RS5 driver Martin Bayer with a superb drive, followed by former European Champion Mathieu Briere with the FG, with 9 tenths of a second gap on third place finisher Cedric Prevot also with FG.

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June 9, 2010

Christensen & Fransson wins Nordic Champs in Gothenburg

The Nordic Championship in the IC-Track classes took place in Gothenburg last weekend, also used as the Euros warm up race for the 1/10th scale class. 65 drivers attended the race, 45 in the 1:10th IC-200 and 20 racers in the 1:8 IC Track. In the entry list were several big names listed, including the current European Champion Dirk Wischnewski. With perfect weather conditions and good traction on the asphalt, the race begun on Saturday morning. In the 1:10th class, Dirk set the TQ-pace from the first round, who together with Hagberg, were the only drivers to complete 28 laps in the qualification.

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June 7, 2010

Eric Albano wins 17.5 class at RROC

TOP Racing is reporting that team driver Eric Albano has won the Reedy Race of Champions in the 17.5 class. The Reedy Race was held over Memorial Day weekend at Norcal Hobbies,(25 minutes south of San Francisco, California. Eric TQ’d and won the division using a TOP Racing Photon. The TOP Photon had a podium finish in each of the open classes. James Arluck secured the 2nd spot in the 13.5 class and Jesse Stark finished 3rd in the Open Modified class. This is the third year in a row that TOP has won a class at the Reedy Race. Starting in 2008 Kevin Jelich TQ’d and won open modified, in 2009 EJ Evans TQ’d and won both the 13.5 and 17.5 classes using the Photon.

Source: TOP [topracingusa.com]

June 5, 2010

German 1/10th EFRA GP – Announcement

MC-Ettlingen e.V. in Germany have been in touch to tell us that they are hosting the German 1/10th EFRA GP from the 18th to 20th of June. The track has previously hosted a number of large international events, including the 1/5th scale touring car World Championships back in 2001 as well as more recently the German Nationals for a number of different classes. Registration is now open and you can find out more information about the event and place your entry on the official event site here.

May 31, 2010

Paul Lemieux wins Reedy ROC

Last weekend saw the Reedy Race of Champions run at NorCal Hobbies Raceway in Union City close to San Francisco. The highlight of this annual event is the Invitational class which pitches the top invited drivers to battle it out head to head in a series of races with points awarded for finishing position in each race. Your best 6 of 8 results count and the driver with lowest number wins. This year’s race attracted current World Champion Marc Rheinard, together with TRF team mate Viktor Wilck, as well as Juho Levanen and Thomas Pumpler from Europe. The US was also well represented with Paul Lemieux, Josh Cyrul and Tyler Vik, along with Canadian Keven Hebert in attendance. A strong series of races for both Wilck and Lemieux saw them heading the table after the first day with 3 wins and a 2nd place a piece with Rheinard sitting in 3rd with 3 wins and a 3rd spot. On the Sunday Lemieux carried on where he left off with 3 more wins and a 3rd spot to take the Invitational class win, ahead of Levanen in 2nd with 3 wins and a 2nd place on the final day, while Rheinard took 3rd spot overall with a win two 2nd’s and a 3rd spot on the Sunday. That 3rd place in his last final was to be decider, having passed Paul for the lead the World Champ made a rare mistake, clipping a curb and hitting the outside wall which allowed both Paul and Juho through and any chance of victory slip out of his grasp.

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May 31, 2010

EFRA 1/10 GP Italy – Announcement

The guys at the Black Tarmac track in Mesero, Milan in Italy were in contact to promote the EFRA GP that they will be hosting from the 17th to the 19th of September. Open for 1/10th scale 200mm chassis, it will of course be run to EFRA rules and use the familiar EFRA GP format. Entry for the event is open and you can sign up at the official event site here.

May 31, 2010

Rain stops play at Worlds Warm-up

The Worlds warm-up race took place last weekend in Burgdorf, home to this year’s 1/10th ISTC and 1/12th IFMAR World Championships. Entries were low, but there were a lot of Japanese drivers in attendance including ETS Rd5 winner Atsushi Hara, Shin Adachi and a large team from Yokomo including Hayato Matsuzaki. Qualifying went the way of Ronald Volker, the runner up at the last Worlds in Thailand, winning 4 of the 6 rounds of qualifying to start ahead of team mate Hayato Matsuzaki, who won the other 2 rounds. Jilles Groskamp, Andy Moore, Alexander Hagberg, Takehiro Yamauchi, Shin Adachi, Atsushi Hara, Christopher Krapp and Freddy Sudhoff completed the A-finalists. Sunday’s finals day was a complete wash out, raining all day which meant that almost no drivers ventured onto the track. In the A-main Alexander Hagberg was the only person to go on track and so claimed the ‘victory’, based on the qualifying order Volker took 2nd and Matsuzaki was gifted 3rd. Full results can be found here.

Image: Inside TY [insidety.exblog.jp]

May 30, 2010

Alberto Tedeschi is crowned European B Champion

Alberto Tedeschi has been crowned champion following an exciting race at the European 1/8th scale ‘B’ Championships in Monaco today. With saw some tough battles in all the finals, the race finally had its 10 starters for the 45 minute main final. The first semi finals started with a cloudy sky, but after lunchtime the sun came up and from those two races the following drivers bumped up, with both Sabrina Lechner and Maximilian Federmann coming from the quarter finals

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