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July 13, 2010

Mikie Klausner takes Rd4 in Austria

Last weekend saw the 4th round from 6 of the Austrian 1:8 Onroad championship take place at the SFMAV track near Salzburg. Very hot, perfect weather, with more than 35° air temperature and more than 50° track temperature helped produce some very hot racing action. Already in practice it looked like Mugen/Novarossi driver Mikie Klausner would dominate this event again, like the 3 events prior. With the fastest practice time, fastest lap time and winning all qualifying heats, Mikie would easily take the pole position.

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July 13, 2010

Buerge wins in West Germany, Hepp takes title

The final battle for points of the 1/10 scale nitro on-road Western German Championship at Oberhausen saw Sebastian Buerge winning for the first time this season. But even with a victory the 2009 champion couldn’t avoid that Tobias Hepp, finishing third behind Andreas Weyhoven, captured the 2010 title and the prestigious starting number “1” for the 2011 season. In the Kyosho World Cup (KWC) group West local hero Werner Vogel earned his second win and the title in the GP-Race class while Holger Wittek took the title in GP-Sport.

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July 9, 2010

Claus Ryeskov wins Rd3 of Danish Nats

The 3rd round of the Danish National was held on the last weekend of June and great weather greeted the competitors in Næstved on Zealand. After qualification it was Martin Lissau on pole followed by Martin Hansen 2nd and Claus Ryeskov in 3rd. The start of the finals saw Lissau, Hansen and Ryeskov maintain their starting order. Before the first fuel stop Hansen has overtaken Lissau after he went too wide into the corner after the straight. Just before the second refueling the leader ran out of fuel and it cost him two laps. Lissau was again leading the race and maintained it for most of the race , but suddenly there was a big bang. Lissau had battery problems and had driven straight into a post, destroying the car and putting him out of the race. Hansen ran out of full several more times and this meant that Ryeskov could drive safely home and win the race with Martin Hansen holding on for 2nd and Thomas Larsen in 3rd.

Thanks to Claus Ryeskov for the report.

July 7, 2010

Johnathan Dobney wins Rd5 of British Nationals

The 5th round of the BRCA British 1/10th 200mm Nationals took place over the weekend and National Champion Kyle Branson sent us this report. The weather for Saturday was good, with around 60 drivers entered over the 4 class’s we were sure to get some good traction. My car was good for most of Saturday, at the start there was a little lack of traction but that was sure to come up, I made a few adjustments to my car to make it a little better during the day and I managed to set the fastest lap on Saturday with Johnathan Dobney not too far behind, there was a couple of drivers that had a little issue with traction roll but my car seemed to be fine. On Sunday the weather was fine in the morning with a fair bit of cloud in the sky, Qualifying was underway and in the first round my car felt a little better than the previous day, I got TQ 6 seconds ahead of Johnathan Dobney in second and Joe Kerry in third. In the second round I managed to improve my time by 4 seconds again ahead of Johnathan in second around 6 seconds behind still, in the third and final round I managed to improve on my time a little more to around 1 second, this put me on TQ 7 seconds ahead of Johnathan in second and John Zottl in third.

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July 6, 2010

Henriques wins Portuguese EP TC Championship Rd3

Round 3 of the Portuguese EP TC Championships was run in Torres Novas last weekend with 29 drivers attending the meeting. In the Modified class, it was Francisco Henriques (above) got the top spot at the end of the finals, but it was a very close race with the winner decided at the last corner of the last A final. Hugo Miguel took 2nd and Nuno Gancho was 3rd. In the Stock Class, it was Bernardo Cosme that emerged the winner followed by Ricardo Gama and Bruno Castela.

Source: Jorge Simões

July 5, 2010

Nicholas Delia takes IRMCC Championship title

The last weekend of June saw the final race of the Maltese season, the IRMCC Cup. This was an Open race to all club members in both A and B classes for Nitro 1/10th scale. The IRMCC Club closed the season by presenting trophies followed by a BBQ on site in a very friendly environment amongst all members. The race was won by Mugen driver Nicholas Delia, followed by Shepherd driver Gustave Cuschieri in 2nd and Ramon Cassar for Kyosho in 3rd. Championship trophies were also presented for the main series which consisted of 9 races of which best 8 would count. Nicholas Delia took the title in the A class winning 6 races with 2 races in 2nd and taking 6 pole positions to wrap it up. Karl Fench took 2nd overall and Ian Micallef 3rd.

Source: Simon Models Racing Team

July 4, 2010

Maxim Claes wins Rd3 of Dutch Nationals

The 3rd round of the Dutch 1/10th scale gas nationals took place last weekend on the small and technical MBC de Sluis track. A nice sunny weekend greeted all the drivers and in the main NK class it was Belgian racer Maxim Claes that took the win by a lap in front of Remy Moller in 3nd and Arco de Jong in 3rd. This final had to be restarted following a timing computer failure, but everything worked well 2nd time around and Maxim showed great pace to take the win. In the Nomac class it was Janwillem Gons that took the win by 3 seconds in front Rik Meijeren with Rob Kruijssen 2 laps back in 3rd. The 1/8th scale promo class saw the win go to Ruud Knoester with Frederik Haaxman and Mario Gerssen completing the podium.

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July 1, 2010

Swauger & Morganti win Byron Fuels On-Road Challenge

Byron Fuel Team Drivers Mike Swauger and Paolo Morganti took first place in 1/8 4WD and 1/10 Sedan at the 6th Annual Byron Fuels On-Road Challenge held last weekend at Leisure Hours Raceway in Joliet, Illinois. Mike Lyday took 1st place in the Spec GT Class. Of 9 podium positions in the 3 classes, Byron Fuel dominated all but one position and that was 2nd place Sedan. Byron Fuels hosts this on-road classic annually and while attracting world class drivers from coast to coast, it has traditionally provided a venue where our average club racer can drive alongside world champions.

View the sedan podium here