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June 15, 2010

Ilia van Gastel dominates Dutch EFRA GP

Last weekend saw the EFRA Grand Prix 1/8 IC on road run at the beautiful AMCA track in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. A relatively low attendance of drivers for a GP, but with plenty of famous names of European top drivers attending it was sure to be very close racing for everybody and a highly competitive event. TQ went to Belgium driver Ilia van Gastel ahead of Serpent team mate Michael Salven, with Rick Vrielijnck in 3rd for Mugen and Oliver Mack taking the final direct qualifying position for Shepherd in 4th. The Fastest lap time of the event was done by Belgian race Gunther van Staey, a 14.078 seconds, which he did in qualifying round 3 on Saturday afternoon.

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June 15, 2010

Nordman & Ronnefalk claim Nordic titles

Last weekend saw the Nordic Championships take place in 1/10th 2WD and 4WD buggy at the Radøy raceway in Norway, not too far from Bergen. The race featured a really strong field with champions from Norway, Sweden and Finland in contention.2WD kicked off with a wet track making the standings a little unexpected initially, but with a drying track for the final two rounds the results really changed as PerErik Nordman came into shape with his Kyosho Ultima RB-5 SP2 and won the last two of the 4 rounds of qualifying making him the top qualifier.

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June 14, 2010

Christer Andersson signs for Capricorn

Capricorn RC have announced that front running electric touring driver Christer Andersson has signed a 2 year deal with the Italian company to run their LAB-C01 200mm has chassis. The Finnish driver will race the car this year at the World Championships in Houston, Texas, as well as the European Championships in Sweden later in the summer.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

June 13, 2010

Ricardo Monteiro wins European ‘B’ buggy title

Our friends over at Neo Buggy are reporting that Portuguese driver Ricardo Monteiro has claimed the win at the 2010 European ‘B’ Championships in Valladolid, Spain this weekend. In qualifying it was Spanish racer Patxi Penas that took the top spot but problems in the semi final meant he wouldn’t bump up. While wet earlier in the event, conditions on Sunday were perfect and in the main final there was a strong battle between pole man Bryan Baldo and Monteiro, but issues for Baldo saw him retire, leaving the way free for Losi/RB man Monteiro to win by 20 seconds ahead of Xray/RB driver Carlos Durães in 2nd, with Mugen/Ninja Adrien Perez in 3rd a further 9 seconds back.

Source: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net]

June 10, 2010

Robert Pietsch wins trofeo Novarossi

The Trofeo Novarossi took place last weekend at the famous Fiorano track in Italy. The weather forecast was more than good with around 30° sunshine the whole weekend and around 70 drivers attended the race, which was perfectly organized by Minicar Fiorano Team. Victory in the 1/8th scale class went to Robert Pietsch, who was running the all new self designed MRX5 car from Mugen, with second place going to Mugen team mates Christian Cavicchioli and Eric Dankel in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. In the 1:10th class it was Walter Ossola that won followed by Vidotto Roberto in 2nd and Massimiliano Vadese in 3rd.

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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]