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August 15, 2010

Graversen & Madsen take Danish TC titles

Tamiya Denmark are reporting on their success at the Danish 1/10th touring car National Championships. In the Super stock class it was Carsten Madsen who managed to take the overall championship, 6 points clear of second placed driver Morten Iversen. In the modified class, it was Steen Graversen who took the title. In the 5 races this season, Steen took 5 TQs and 5 overall wins. In 2nd and 3rd in the standings it was Danni Eyde-Nielsen and Nicolai Sorensen who in the summer break both have changed to the Tamiya brand.

View the points standings here

August 15, 2010

Tom Cockerill wins BRCA 2wd title

oOple are reporting that in a closely fought 2wd championship, Tom Cockerill took the overall win in the 2010 BRCA National series at the very last final of the day at the final meeting of the year held at Stotfold yesterday. It wasn’t the way Tom would have liked to take the championship, sitting in the B final and marshalling the A, but Tom got to watch the proceedings. Ellis Stafford would need to win the meeting to snatch it away from Tom and with one win a piece between Ellis and Kevin Lee, it was down to the last leg of the A to decide the overall championship positions. Kevin Lee walked away from the rest to take the victory and this meant the title went to Cockerill and sponsors Schumacher and Speed Passion.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

August 13, 2010

Tim Wood takes Rd6 of British 1/8th Nats

The 6th round of the BRCA 1/8th scale Nationals saw a second visit to the Mendip circuit at Western super Mare. The usual man to beat, Mark Green was again absent due to concentrating on the up and coming 200mm European Championships in Sweden. Team Serpent however had reinforcements in the form of Kyle Branson after jetting back from the 200mm Worlds the previous weekend. This made the team Sirio driver a hot favourite to have a good result, similar to his win at Cotsword in October 2009. The main suspects all arrived early Saturday morning to run in engines and find the ideal setup. The weather however, prevented any racing in the morning since it rained heavy for a short period and it required 3 hours for the grip to return. A strong contingent of racers arrived from Ireland which also increased the competition at the top.

Continue reading the report here

August 11, 2010

Dave Ehrlich wins 1/12th 17.5 ROAR title

Norcal Hobbies in California hosted the 2010 ROAR Paved Nationals on their awesome paved road course. The track layout was very challenging and the surface super smooth. With high grip and low tire wear, Norcal was an absolute perfect facility for this event. At this year’s event, 1:12th scale, World GT and Touring cars would compete for National titles. In World GT, Washington state’s own Dave Ehrlich took his CRC Gen-X 10 to a dominant T.Q after 4 rounds of qualifying, while in 1:12th 17.5, Dave took his CRC Gen-XL to a dominant win from TQ position. His Gen-XL was equipped with ROAR, European and World Champion winning products available from CRC, first the Black Art R8C racing body and secondly CRC Pro Cut tires.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

August 10, 2010

Ilia van Gastel wins Dutch 1/8th Nats Rd4

Last weekend saw the 4th round of the Dutch 1/8 nationals run on the very small and tricky track of MBC de Sluis in Gouda. Due to holidays and some other reasons there was only 41 drivers. The weather forecast for the race day did predict some rain but in the morning the racers were presented with a drying track while the rest of the day was perfect dry weather. In the NK class it was Rick V taking the pole with his new MRX5 folowed by John Ermen, Ilia v. Gastel and Robin d’Hondt. At the start of the main final the engine of Rick V was a bit slow and so John could take the lead helped by Rick V going off the track in the first corner. After getting back on track and a following a quick check in the pits he was one lap behind in 10th place but managed to work his way up to finally finish in 3rd place behind Ermen, with van Gastel taking the win.

Continue reading the report here

August 10, 2010

Shook & Burt wins ROAR National titles

Tekin are reporting that their RS was the speedo of choice at the ROAR Paved Nationals last weekend, with over 70% of the entire race group using the Tekin RS line of ESC’s. Brian Shook would lock down the first ROAR title in Expert WGT using a Tekin RS. Brian had a flawless run in A3 to secure his ROAR title. Mark Burt travelled all the way from Florida to attend the ROAR Paved Nats and was rewarded for his hard work, TQ’ing the highly competitive Expert TC 17.5 class. With stiff competition from Martin Crisp, Cory Harpke, James Arluck, and EJ Evans, Mark locked it down in A3 with a near faultless run securing the National Title.

View the 17.5 podium here

August 9, 2010

Herfried Pucher wins Rd5 of 1/8th Austrian Nats

Round 5 of the Austrian 1/8th scale on road Championships was held last weekend at the MAV Aigen track, in the north of Austria, with the weather forecast predicting heavy rain for Saturday and sunny conditions for Sunday’s race. Due to the weather no one tested on Saturday and on Sunday Morning, drivers were greeted by damp conditions for the first qualifying series, but the track was dry by round 2. From the start it was Herfried Pucher with his Picco powered Motonica P81 that set the pace managing to take a comfortable TQ with the only 26 laps run, in front of Mike Klausner who had dominating the previous rounds, with Patrick Wendy in 3rd.

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August 5, 2010

Asia EP Buggy Championship China Rd2

The 2nd round of the Asia EP Buggy Championship China Selection was held last weekend at Shanghai United Raceway. The weather was good, the track was big and the layout was very challenging with plenty of technical turns, a long straight and a pair of banked corners. Due to the dry conditions in the build up to the race the ground was very dry and hard and the track condition was a bit dusty with medium grip surface in the dry. All racers in 4WD & 2WD class were only allowed to use one set of tyres for the entire day’s 3 qualifiers and finals. The 4wd final was won by TQ John Ho, driving a Durango DEX410 ahead of Luo Yong Sheng in 2nd and Beckham in 3rd. It would be Beckham that took the win in the 2wd class with his Team C TC02 ahead of the Schumacher pairing of John Ho and Liu Nan. Round 3 of the series will be again held at Shanghai United Racewa in September.

Click here for the final results