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October 2, 2012

Mark Lim double at Singapore NOOB Nationals

The NOOB Singapore Open Buggy 2012 series drew to a close last weekend at the RaceWorks Arena as racers gathered to celebrate the completion of another great season of 1/10 electric buggy racing. This years nationals that started in February and spanned 8 months drew over 50 racers who competed in 6 rounds of racing where the best 4 results counted towards their final standings. In the hotly contested 2WD class, the season began with Mark “BC” Lim, Kum Yew and Tein taking rounds 1, 2 and 3 respectively to keep the title race wide open. However, BC went on to win rounds 4, 5 and 6 with his Tamiya TRF201 to take the overall 2WD title for a third year running with the minimum 4 series points. Finishing a very close second with 8 points was Kum Yew and Tein completed the podium with 12 points.

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October 2, 2012

Elliot Harper wins Polish indoor season opener

Last weekend saw the new season’s first big carpet TC race in Poland held in Michalowice, close to Warsaw. Attracting over 50 drivers, many racers used this race as good practice prior to the ETS opener later this month in Germany. In the Modified class factory Tamiya driver Elliott Harper, who came from UK especially for this event, dominated proceedings. Harper took the TQ after winning 3 from 4 qualifying heats, while behind Harper it was hard battle for the second spot between Michal Orlowski and Piotr Okonski. The second spot eventually went to Orlowski and the third to Okonski. In the finals Harper secured the overall victory when he won all 3 finals, while second place went to Orlowski and third to Okonski. In the Pro Stock class Tamiya also dominated. The overall race victory went to Blazej Chlodzinski in front of Staszek Bak, who was second, with third place going to Pawel Staszewski.

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October 2, 2012

Montesinos wins Spanish finale Cabezas takes title

The last round of the Spanish championship was held in Gijon, northern Spain. With the weather forecast not good, the rain was going to be a problem. The title was still open and to be decided between 3 drivers, Nacho López (Serpent-Max-Matrix), Sergio Montesinos (Mugen Novarossi-Enneti) and Oscar Cabezas (Motonica-Novarossi-Enneti). The first 2 have have been on the podium all season, while Oscar had won the last 2 races. On Friday the drivers could not train due to the rain while on Saturday the track remained wet until the beginning of the qualifying heats, the grip improving throughout the day. The best heat was the last one which saw Oscar Cabezas take the pole position.

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October 1, 2012

Peter Jovanovic double at Australian Nationals

The Australian AARCMCC National IC titles Championships were held at the QRCCRA Brendale track in Brisbane, over 4 days last weekend. The event attracted drivers from New Zealand and locations in Australia nearly 4000 kilometres away, with nearly 100 entries in total. Timed practice was made on Thursday, with qualifying and lower finals on Friday and Saturday and finals on Sunday. In the 1/10th class Capricorn driver Peter Jovanovic started from TQ position and was never headed winning from local driver Jeff Hamon (Mugen) in 2nd and another local Jason Dorn (Xray) in 3rd. The 1/8th scale class was also won by Peter Jovanovic from TQ position, with Jeff Hamon (Mugen) again 2nd and Glenn Breugem (Mugen) in 3rd. Jeff had a better start than Peter, but Peter took the lead not long after and was never headed after that.

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September 30, 2012

Carlos Pineda wins Spanish 2wd title

Last weekend the final round of the Spanish 1/10 2wd nationals was held in Barcelona and three drivers were still in with a chance for the title, Zacarias Villalba, Carlos Pineda and Enrique Fuciños, all three needing the victory. Pineda dominated all 8 rounds of practice but Villalba changed up the situation winning the first two rounds of qualifying then Pineda reacted and won the third and fourth meaning they must fight for the TQ in the final round. Carlos pushed very hard and made the best time of the weekend with 11 laps in 5:02, Zacarias was on the next heat and tried to push very hard but one mistake ended his chance for the TQ. The third place went to David Escudero. Fuciños missed the cut for the A-main and lost his chance for the title.

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September 25, 2012

Daniel & Jörn win German electric off-road nats

Last weekend the first ever 1/8th scale electric buggy and truggy national championships were held at the MRC Senden club in Southern Germany. Being an open championship the race attracted drivers from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein. The race weekend started with perfect weather conditions and a track surfaces that started to show signs of blue groove but come Saturday the weather turned to the worst as heavy rain converted the track into a mud puddle. As the weather forecast promised sun and warmer temperatures for Sunday the race director cancelled all activities – read: the four qualifying rounds – on Saturday in favour of two quick qualifiers on Sunday morning.

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September 24, 2012

Scotty Grey wins Forgass season opener

The 36th Annual Forgass Nitro On-Road Series took place at the Homestead/Miami Speedway. With the temperatures being very hot and humid the first race of the new season was a hard one for the drivers as well as for the material but the extreme conditions didn’t bother Team Shepherd driver Scotty Gray and his newly updated Shepherd Velox V10 “tweleve” who dominated the qualifying. The 30 minutes final began with Scotty starting from pole position and pulled away quickly. With swift fuel stops he was able to further increase the gap and at the end he crossed the finish line in first position. The next race will be held at Nuggets Ranch Raceway in Arcadia (FL) followed by the ROAR Fuel On-Road Nationals at the same place from the 17th to 21st of October.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

September 24, 2012

Mattias Johnasson wins Swedish Summer Series final

The final round of the Swedish Summer Series was held at the Orebro RC Club in rainy weather conditions. In qualifying Mattias Johansson (Xray) was the fastest man in the extreme conditions followed by Andreas Johansson (Serpent), and Morgan Flodin (Xray). In the finals the rain started to cause problems for many drivers with many retirements as the result. In the first A final Mattias Johansson pulled away from the field leaving Eddie Lundin (Xray) and Andreas Johannsen behind. Mattias also went on to win the second leg followed by John Lara (Xray) and again Andreas Johannson. With Mattias having won the first two rounds only the second and third sport on the podium was up for grabs and it was Andreas Johannson who took the runner up spot in the end with John Lara finishing in third place.

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