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June 21, 2012

Chris Cristo wins Race For A Cure in Goshen

Last weekend Pin Stop Hobbies presented the Race For A Cure at the Goshen Connecticut Fairgrounds. The race was held in the center of the fairgrounds during the Goshen Stampede, which is a large fair with a rodeo, demolition derby, truck pulling, carnival rides and concerts; more than 10,000 people attended during the three days. The R/C track was built in a grassy area in the middle of everything, with dirt jumps and grass on the level parts of the track, so the fair attendees were constantly watching R/C action. X Factory Team driver Chris Cristo TQ’d and won 1/10 Stadium Truck with his X-60. Cristo took three of the four qualifiers and won the first two A Mains to sew up the title.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

June 20, 2012

Daan Jacobs wins Dutch 200mm Rd3

The 3rd round of the Dutch nationals 1/10 scale was held in the centre of the Netherlands at the Utrecht club Raco2000 and Daan Jacobs wrote the following report. “The track from Raco2000 is fast and bumpy, so the shocks of the car are really important on this track. You want your car stable and consistent on the bumps and also keep corner speed in your car. During Saturday we saw a lot of drivers driving consistent laps under 16 seconds with the fastest lap times of 15,6 seconds, so it promised to be close for the race on Sunday.

Continue reading the report here

June 20, 2012

Mark Green wins 200mm Rd4 in Colchester

For the 4th round of the British 200mm Championship we visited the very tight Colchester circuit. The forecast for the weekend wasn’t looking that good with rain predicted for Saturday and Sunday. As everyone arrived in the morning, they were surprised to see sunshine and a dry track. The real problem for the drivers was the wind. Having an open top rostrum means that drivers feel the full effects of the weather, and the wind was that strong it was pushing the drivers back. At the end of Saturdays practice, Mark Green was some way ahead of everyone else having managed to get down to a 13.7 lap time. Not for the first time this year at one of our circuits, Mark had set a new lap record with the Serpent 747. The nearest challenger to Mark was Joe Kerry although nearly 0.5 seconds back. Matthew Cook, Alex Thurston, and Simon Wood were just behind Joe on the timesheets, all running very similar lap times.

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June 19, 2012

Helge Johannessen wins 200mm Rd3 in Norway

Round 3 of the 200mm IC Track Norwegian Nationals was held in beautiful Valdres with the weather forecast for this weekend was rain. On Saturday during qualifying it was raining heavily and it was Helge Johannessen that took the pole position in front of current Norwegian Champion Georg Ellingsen. In the final it stopped raining for a while, but that wouldn’t last long. Georg and Helge were battling for the first place when Georg choose to change tires on lap 92. Helge gained a lead of 3 laps and maintained it to the finish. After technical control of the cars. We found out the both Helge and Georg had driven so hard on their rubber rain tires that they was totally useless and almost driving on the rim.

Vie the final standings here

June 18, 2012

Fjeldvar & Johannessen wins Rd3 in Norway

The third round of the Norwegian Nationals was held in Volbu in Valdres. The track is one of the most spectacular in Norway with a height difference between the lowest and highest point on the track of almost 4 meters. It rained all day on Saturday so there was no practice on the track but when everyone woke up on Sunday morning the track was still a little wet, but with some help from the sun, the track dried up pretty quick. In the first qualification heat the track it was a little wet in some places. In the Stock class Espen Fjeldvar was dominating in the 2 last qualification heats on the dry surface. Espen was clearly the fastest guy on the track with laptimes more than 0.5 second faster than the rest with his TQ time.

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June 18, 2012

Papanikolaou double at the 2012 ElectroChamps

The second edition of the annual ElectroChamps electric off road race is now history and was another success with almost 60 cars attending this year’s two-day event held last weekend in Athens. For this year although there were no International drivers participating the event which was hosted in a brand new dirt track especially built for the race. On Saturday (2wd day) both buggies and Short Course were racing in three different heats. In open buggy class it was Kyosho driver John Papanikolaou that dominated the event becoming the first ever Greek ElectroChampion. Second was the Greek 2wd Champion Nicolas Floudas with his well prepared TLR22 and third was Jim Amaxas being the best mid motor 2wd buggy of the day with his C4.1.

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June 18, 2012

Olly Jefferies wins BRCA TC Nats Rd2

Round 2 of the 2012 BRCA Touring Car Championship saw victory for Associated team driver Olly Jefferies, second place went to the Schumacher of Colin Price with Serpents Chris Kerswell completing the podium. Tricky conditions on Saturday saw drivers battling with a gusting wind but the West London track thankfully stayed dry, with two TQ runs on Saturday Olly headed the overnight leader board but on Sunday the advantage seemed to swing toward the Schumacher of Chris Grainger but in the final last round of qualifying Olly took TQ. Elsewhere round one winner Andy Moore was struggling and failed to make the A main with his Hot Bodies.

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June 17, 2012

Ramella wraps up French National class title

Young talent Cedric Ramella took the win of the 4th round of the French 1/8th scale on road nationals in Marseille last weekend. The Serpent/Novarossi driver already won round 2 of the ‘National’ class in Ampuis and round 3 in Grenoble and is already French Champion with one round left to be run. Having struggled in qualification he changed to a safer driving style in the semi and the A-main and it paid off. He lead immediately and kept an eye on local racer Reza Khelili till the last pit stop. Then he pushed a bit harder and put a lap between them. This result cements a great year for Cedric who was already in the top ten at the Euro B’s in Thionville. In the Elite class Anthony Abisset finished 3rd and is still in with a chance for the championship title with young Christophe Louis.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]