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June 15, 2010

Tosolini & Lemieux take ROAR Fuel Titles

The ROAR fuel on road Nationals took place last week in Lincoln, Nebraska and the race was open to 1/8th scale and 1/10th scale sedan. In the 1/8th class it was Worlds runner up Mike Swauger that took the pole position for Mugen, ahead of Serpent racer Chris Tosolini in 2nd, Ralph Burch 3rd and Scott Kimbrow in 4th. In the race it was Tosolini that emerged on top, winning the 45 minute race by 2 laps from Serpent team mate Scott Kimbrow in 2nd and Mike Swauger in 3rd. In the sedan class it was Xray racer Ralph Burch who sat on pole, with Serpent racer Paolo Morganti in 2nd, Paul Lemiuex in 3rd and Mike Swauger completing the top 4. In the race both Morganti and Burch hit trouble leaving Lemieux to take the National title for Xray, a lap clear of Mike Swauger for Mugen in 2nd and Chris Tosolini for Serpent taking 3rd only 3 seconds back. The 1/8th Masters class saw the win for Rick Davis, running the Serpent 966 in front of Larry Barnett in 2nd and Harry Hananouchi in 3rd.

View the final results here

June 15, 2010

Volta takes all at French 1/8th Nats Rd4

Last weekend the 4th round of the French Championship took place near the small village of Reding, Lorraine. In total about 60 drivers attend the event under perfect weather conditions. Again Shepherd driver Richard Volta showed a good performance and clocked the fastest laptimes. With his Velox V8 he secured himself the pole-position the fourth time in a row at national championship races. As the tyre wear was very high a good strategy was the key to the victory. Volta decided to change tyres twice and it perfectly worked. After 45 minutes he crossed the finishing line in first position two laps in front of Anthony Abisset and Stéphane Riccobono another lap down. With his second victory in a row he increased his lead in the French Championship with only one race to go.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 14, 2010

Harper & Hart win BRCA TC Nats Rd2

Round two of this seasons BRCA 1:10 Electric touring car championship took place over the weekend at the superb Cotswold track in picturesque Gloucestershire. In the Super Touring Class Elliott Harper broke Chris Grainger’s strangle hold on the domestic UK series with a TQ and win, while in the Pro Stock class James Hart took the win for Schumacher.

Continue reading the report here

June 13, 2010

Masao Tanaka wins Japanese 1/8th Nationals

The Japanese 1/8th scale on road gas Nationals were held this weekend at Keitune Speedway in Ichihara. A relatively low attendance of 52 drivers, but with plenty of quality in the pack it was sure to be a tough race for everyone. Qualifying went the way of Takahiro Terauchi, taking the pole position by 2 seconds after 6 rounds to line up ahead of Hideo Kitizawa in 2nd and Masao Tanaka in 3rd. The final saw problems for pole man Terauchi, who would end the race in 10th position, while up front Tanaka would drive a clean race to pull off the race win crossing the line 8 seconds in front of Ken Furukawa in 2nd and Takeshi taking 3rd.

Source: JMRCA [jmrca.jp]

June 9, 2010

Erik Demuth wins Rd1 of the Brazilian 1/5th Nats

The first round of this year’s Brazilian 1/5th scale National championship was held at the Clube Conesul in Portão Rio Grande do Sul Brasil. The track was very cold on the Saturday morning and the times slow, but after some qualifying rounds the lap times came down with Erik Demuth with his FG/Abbate Racing car made the best time on the track followed by Renato Brentato, Rui Vlademir and Stener completing the top 4 qualifiers to the final. The Main final scheduled to begin at 15:00 hours saw turmoil after problems with race timing saw the start of race being canceled. At the second start, Erik Demuth kept the lead until the finish. Renato Brentano who started second dropped down the order after a first corner crash but recovered to finish in second place. The third place went to Stener who was running his new car for the first time in this race and has already achieved great results. Young 8 year old racer Nicolas Lucae finished the race in an impressive 5th place showing that he will be one of the strong names for the future in Brazil.

View the final results here

June 9, 2010

Michael Klausner wins Rd3 in Austria

Last weekend saw the 3rd leg of the Austrian 1/8th on road nationals held at the MBC-RPA track in Vienna-Aspern. Again perfect weather and a good racing atmosphere greeted the drivers at this difficult and dangerous American style track. Already during practice Mugen/Novarossi driver Mikie Klausner was setting the pace with several unofficial improvements (16.40 sec) of the official track record (16.65 sec). In qualifying the lap record was improved to a new absolute best of 16.27 by Klausner who was easily the top qualifier followed by Motonica/Picco driver Herfried Pucher and Serpent/Max driver Patrick Wendy.

Continue reading the report here

June 9, 2010

Giuseppe D’angelo wins Italian 1/10th Rd2

The 2nd round of the Italian 1/10th touring car championships was run last weekend in Messina, host of the 2005 1/8th scale World Championships. In Saturday’s qualifying it was young Biagio Spataro that took the pole position in front of Giuseppe D’angelo in 2nd, with Francesco Tironi taking 3rd. In Sunday’s hour long main final it was Mugen/Reds racer D’Angelo who led most of the race on his way to the win, followed by the Mugen/Sirio of Tironi in 2nd with Xray/Max driver Giorgio De Felici taking 3rd.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

June 8, 2010

Duarte Faria wins Rd3 of Portuguese regionals

Last Sunday the third round of the Portuguese Regional’s was held in the Circuito Automodelismo do Funchal. The Half Final’s A and B were quite dramatic with lots of crashes and two drivers having radio problems resulting in several retirements. In the main final Mugen Driver Luis Cortez was on pole followed by Serpent driver Duarte Faria, they were racing in their own league, switching the lead between them, at the final stage of the race Luis Cortez lost 2nd gear and Duarte Faria managed to win the race with a one lap lead. Xray Driver Duarte Vasconcelos took the 3rd position of the podium with a very solid run.

Thanks to Paulo Rodrigues for the report.