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May 28, 2012

Wang Hai Feng wins Spec R Cup

The Spec R Cup was run recently but due to a sudden rain storm, the race had to be relocated to RCI, an asphalt indoor track, at the last minute. It was both a surprise and a challenge to all drivers as they had to set up their cars to avoid traction rolling. Because of this T.O.P. driver Wang Hai Feng gave up his target of getting TQ and instead moved onto a different strategy. He used the qualifying runs to try to setup his car to avoid traction rolling. In his final round of qualifying he almost got his car as fast as the TQ driver Ding Fang Jie.

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May 25, 2012

Mike Gosvig double at Danish Nats Rd1

Danish Nationals round 1 was held in the very nice track in Glostrup, host for the 2005 Euros. The classes in the Danish nationals are Pro stock, modified and Funny Racing where they drive with Tamiya M05/M06 2wd cars. In this outdoor season, the nationals has chosen 13.5T blinky mode and that was the right speed and all drivers had the same speed around the track. The tires was Sorex 36R with yellow insert, and that was perfect for the weather in Denmark.

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May 25, 2012

Lucas Sanford wins JBRL Rd4

Round 4 of the 2012 JBRL electric series is in the books and so is another TQ and 1st place finish for the new Tekno RC EB48 1/8th Electric Buggy. The event held at Pegasus Hobbies in southern California drew nearly 240 entries. In the 1/8th Electric class Tekno RC driver Lucas Sanford was dialed in from the beginning. He TQ’d both rounds of qualifying and went on to finish the main in 1st place with ease. Using his indoor setup from SDRC and only changing out the shock fluid when the sun went down to accommodate for temperature proved the new Tekno RC EB48 platform is a consistent performer in many conditions.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]

May 25, 2012

Thomas Stockman wins Belgian TC Nats Rd4

The fourth round of the Belgian TC Nationals was held at RCR in Roeselare last weekend. There was heavy rain expected but the weather turned out dry. This tear’s Efra class is turning out to be a battle between Thomas Stockman and Olivier Bultynck for the title. Thomas, always strong on the track of RCR, drove two strong qualifications but in the last run Olivier put himself on the pole. Thomas was on the second spot and a surprising Rico Claeys on third place.

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May 24, 2012

Super Grand Prix One F1 RC league finale

The Super Grand Prix One (SGP1) F1 RC league concluded its first inaugural season in China with great success. Over the course of 6 months with 6 rounds of intense racing, the final round saw 3 drivers with the mathematical probability to take the grand championship title. At the end, JJ Wang of Team HPI-A was crowned the Grand Champion with AI Luo of Team RW Lotus coming in second, and Dom Xu of Team JW-FGX finishing the season in third. SGP1 will be hosting Japan’s F1RCGP teams next month in Shanghai to kick off SGP1 season two, which will see all teams powered by Dualsky as the league’s main sponsor.

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May 24, 2012

2012 Super Cup Spring Session Rd3 report

This was the second attempt to run round 3 of the 2012 Spring Super Cup Series. Back in March they were able to get things started but before we could complete the first round of qualifying the skies opened up and our racing was done for the weekend. The days leading up to this make-up race were not looking promising. The normal 40% chance of showers on Saturday and some very heavy rains hit the area earlier in the week had some nervous that we would not see a Round 3. With some amazing work by the Hurricane R/C track crew and several volunteers they were able to get the track repaired and in decent shape for Friday practice. Saturday’s weather was next to perfect, a little warm but we stayed dry all day. The track came around and everyone had a great day of racing once again.

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May 24, 2012

Andrea Pirani wins Italian Shepherd Trophy

The first Italian Shepherd Trophy 2012 took place at the beautiful track of Fiorano with drivers from all over Italy attending the 2-days event. Among the 90 participants were many top racers like Daniele Ielasi, Lamberto Collari, Michele Romagnoli, Andrea Pirani and the Salemi brothers which resulted in a very high level of competition. At the start of the 30 minutes main final Pirani jumped from 4th to 2nd position behind his teammate Romagnoli. After a few minutes Romagnoli made contact with a backmarker and dropped down the order. Pirani took over the lead and never looked back winning two laps in front of the Salemi brothers.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 22, 2012

North German Rd1 wins for Schröder & Herniksen

The first round of the North German Championship took place in Hamburg under perfect weather conditions with 35 racers in attendance. For Team Shepherd it was a great weekend with victories in the 1/8th scale expert class as well as in the 1/10th scale class. In the 1/8th scale class it was was a close fight between the 2011 Euro B finalists Lars Hoppe and Timo Schröder, both driving with a Shepherd Velox V8 “eleven”. At the start of the final Hoppe’s engine stalled and Schröder took over the lead. But lap by lap Hoppe closed the gap and took over the lead after some minutes. Unfortunately he suffered again some problems and dropped back to 5th position by the middle of the race. Again Hoppe caught up brilliantly but the gap to Schröder was too big this time. He managed to get back to second position and crossed the finishing line one lap behind Schröder who drove a flawless race.

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