Last weekend saw the European 40 plus Championships take place in Madrid, Spain at the ARCA track. Qualifying saw French driver Jacky Mouton take the pole position and in the 45 minute final Jacky was able to take the win by 3 laps ahead of Luis Martinez, who was just 6 seconds in front of 3rd placed Jose Aldudo.
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The inaugural Irish Grand Prix was held over the weekend at the St.Annes track in Dublin where Keith Demspey took double victory winning both the 1:10 Electric and Nitro categories. Heading the entry for the event hosted by the country’s main onroad club, ORCA, was reigning British Champion Kyle Branson who duly went onto TQ the 1:10 nitro class with his factory Sirio powered Serpent. Unfortunately rain arrived after the first round of qualifying and the remainder of the racing would be run on a wet track.
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The first Xray Challenge in the nitro class where only NT1 cars were allowed to start was held in the Hong Kong. The race was held on August 15-16, 2009 at the big track situated approximately 60km from Honk Kong City. Drivers from Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Macau, China, Indonesia, Philippines, United Kingdom, and Slovakia participated in this race whose main purpose was to have fun and enjoy racing. Juraj and Martin Hudy attended the race to provide support to all Xray NT1 owners at the race. In total, the race was attended by almost 120 NT1 drivers. This number was fantastic mainly because all drivers used only one brand of car. The race was organized by Honk Kong distributor World Model.
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The annual African Cup was held recently in SA with the host track being completed only a week before the event, ensuring that the local competitors didnt have any home track advantage. As usual practice was Thursday and Friday afternoon only with qualifiers on the Saturday and finals on the Sunday. This year Zac Ryan and Craig Laughton from Australia joined a total of 75 local drivers to test their racing talents against others in gas Buggy, Truggy and Monster truck classes.
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The MRC Models Race 09 is the first international electric buggy race to be held in Russia and takes place at the Pilot track in Moscow. Supported by hobby shop MicroRC.ru, hobby company MRCmodels.com and printing company Cherry Pie, the event will run from the 10th to the 13th of September. The use of LiPo packs is allowed and there is a control tire which will be the JConcepts Double Dee. Entry is open to all and further details can be found by e-mailing the organisers here (e-mail).
The 2010 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Touring Car World championship will permit the use of LiPo batteries after agreement was reached at the IFMAR AGM between EFRA, who proposed the rule, and ROAR, who already permit the new generation power in their National Championship. Held during the 1:8 Onroad World Championships in Switzerland last week there was talk ahead of the electric section meeting that EFRA and ROAR could not agree on the dimensions of the LiPo packs as the European Federation proposed a smaller pack than those already permitted by the Americans, who since allowing LiPo have built up a list of 120 approved packs for racing. Gladly the two federations put the best interests of the racer first and on Saturday morning IFMAR Vice-President Dawn Sanchez confirmed to Red RC that LiPo will be permitted for the 2010 Worlds. Full details of the exact ruling on the LiPo packs which will be published shortly on the IFMAR website. The use of LiPo batteries has been adopted by most national federations and hopefully EFRA will add continuity to the sport at their AGM in November by approving LiPo for next year’s European Touring Car Championships.
Held in Mäntsälä in Finland, this year’s Rebellion Race will be the warm up event for the 2010 European Indoor Championships (25-28/02/2010) and will be held from the 23rd to the 25th of October. The track is located 45km from Helsinki’s main airport and the 19 x 30 metre track area will use Calandra Racing Concepts HD carpet, the same being used at next months IIC race in Vegas. Running with LiPo batteries, the event is open to a maximum of 120 drivers and entry is based on a first come first served basis.
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The weather forced us to wait a day longer than originally planned but today we got to witness another great World title drive from the master of 1:8 Onroad racing Lamberto Collari and see just why he is the greatest 1:8 driver off all time. Starting the one hour final from second, the Italian drove the perfect race taking his ninth title 20-years on from when he claimed his very first World Championship. Taking the challenge to Top Qualifier, and the only true dangerman, Robert Pietsch in the opening part of the race Collari hit cruise control once he had forced problems on the German. In the end the Kyosho/Novarossi driver took a very comfortable two lap winning margin over American Mike Swauger who came out top of the biggest battle of the race to claim second over former Champion Adrien Bertin.
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