Luis Cortez wins Portuguese Regionals Rd4

Last Sunday the fourth round of the Portuguese Regional’s was held in the Circuito Automodelismo do Funchal. In the Main Final the hot temperatures meant that the engines would not last the 5 minutes for refueling and the track asphalt was at 68º Celsius, so tire wear was the big issue, Mugen Driver Luis Cortez was on pole and needed the victory to become regional champion, Serpent Driver and Defending champion Duarte Faria was starting from 9th position. Ten minutes into the race and the two drivers were fighting for the lead and the championship, with drama a few laps later when Duarte Faria had a flame out and lost some time. Luis Cortez also made a mistake and the fight was on again until 2 laps from the end, Duarte Faria run out of rear tires, meaning that Mugen Driver Luis Cortez was the winner of the event and the championship with one round to go, Faria took second and Team Magic Driver Mário Oliveira in 3rd.

Enrico Burato wins AMSCI Classic championship

The 2010 Italian AMSCI 1/8th Classic National championships were held last weekend at the Road Race Riccione track under sweltering conditions, with the temperature never dropping below 34C. After four rounds of qualifying it was Paolo Gaggiola that took the pole position in front of Ometto Nicola i 2nd and Enrico Burato taking 3rd. In the final it was Burato that would come through for the win, setting a new track record to finish 3 laps ahead of Ometto in 2nd, with Paolo a further 2 laps back in 3rd.

Source: Road Race Riccione [roadracericcione.com]

Neil Diver wins BRCA 1/8th Nats Rd5

The 5th round of this years national championship was held at the Adur circuit in Brighton. The track was built only a couple of years ago with the club doing a fantastic job in providing a very challenging facility in which the drivers have to quickly adapt to since it is the smoothest and tightest track in the country. The track layout is actually formed on a small area of continuous tarmac, originally marked out using heavy duty rope but this is now revised to include Astroturf over timber contour boards and also profiled concrete kerbs at potential cross over positions.

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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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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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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.

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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