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May 12, 2010

Richard Volta takes Rd3 in France

Last weekend the 3rd round of the French Nationals was held at the Circuit Carole in Aulnay near Paris. In total 60 drivers attended the race, among them was former European B Champion and Team Shepherd driver Richard Volta. In qualifying he showed an excellent performance clocking the fastest lap and being the only driver to reach 25 laps. The final was a close affair. At the start Volta could defend his first position and increased his lead in the following minutes, but unfortunately after the tire change he had a collision and for the rest of the race his Velox was a little bit unstable. But he fought really hard and defended his lead until the finishing line. Christophe Louis followed on the second place only 0,7 sec behind, Gerald Colinet finished on 3rd place 2 laps down.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 11, 2010

Simões & Silva take Rd2 in Portugal

Round 2 of the Portuguese EP TCC 2010 was run last week at the huge track of Maia, near Oporto. Qualification got underway with the track a little damp, but as the morning ended the track was dry and the finals were all in almost perfect conditions. Because of the weather some of the drivers chose not to take the trip to Maia, so only 22 drivers showed up. In the Stock class, it was Jorge Simões that took the TQ spot, followed by Bruno Castela and Bernardo Cosme. In the finals, Jorge converted his TQ into overall victory followed by Bruno Castela in 2nd and Bernardo Cosme in 3rd. In the Modified class, Helder Silva at his home track didn’t give a chance to anyone and got TQ and the overall win. Rúben Francisco got 2nd and Hugo Miguel was 3rd.

View the final results here

May 11, 2010

Schäfer & Weihert take victory in Wiesbaden

This past weekend the first German Championship Central Qualifier 2010 was held at the nice track of Wiesbaden, where the European Championship B will take place in 2011. The race attracted 45 drivers in total, among them were Shepherd factory driver Oliver Mack and Shepherd front man Patrick Schäfer. Both were starting in the 1/8th scale expert class as well as the 1/10th scale 200mm class.

Continue reading the report here

May 10, 2010

Robin d’Hondt wins Dutch 2nd round

Round 2 of the Dutch 1/8th scale nationals was held last weekend on the fast MAC de Baanbrekers track in Rucphen, and fast it was, on the Saturday the fast guys like Van Gastel, d’Hondt, Ermen and Rick V were driving laps under 13.0 seconds giving an example how the competition will be. On Sunday it was dry but the track was still a bit slippery at some points because of the rain the night before which caused a lot of braking problems and one or two serious crashes and the track was for sure not as fast as on Saturday.

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May 10, 2010

Marco Mueller takes Rd2 in Switzerland

Last weekend saw the second round of Swiss 1/8th scale National Championship take place in Aigle, on a very technical track, renamed this year the Sebastien Buemi Circuit and factory Motonica racer Mattia Pesenti sent us this report. Saturday morning we had just 30-45 minutes to practice because the track was wet and in the afternoon we started with the qualifying rounds. I had a perfect car and I had a really good feeling with it and had the pole position for the first two rounds before round 1 winner Shasa Lackner had a really fast round doing 24 laps in 7’17’’ leaving myself and Marco Mueller in 2nd and 3rd with 23 laps.

Continue reading the report here

May 10, 2010

Lee Martin takes 4wd National Rd2 win

oOple are reporting that Lee Martin took his second 4WD national win of the 2010 season at the second round of the series held at the Robinhood Raceway. Lee won the opening round of qualifying but it was Paul Bradby that dominated the rest of the days qualifying by taking the next three rounds with his Associated car to take the TQ spot in front of Lee Martin and James Heliwell. Lee took the opening leg of the A final after Paul Bradby had a car problem while in the lead and had to retire on lap 6. Paul fought back to win leg two so things went to the final leg. Lee and Paul fought hard for the full 5 minutes, swapping the lead several times before Lee managed to take the leg and with it the win. Bradby finished second overall and Tom Cockerill, winner of the 2wd round, third. Expect a full report on oOple soon.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

May 10, 2010

Strenge & Beck win NE German Regional

Team Durango are reporting that their very own Gerd Strenge, chief designer of the DEX410, took the win at the National qualifier at the weekend. After qualifying 2nd, Gerd dominated the final taking the win in the hotly contested NE regional race. Stock specialist and Multiple German champion Ebi Beck TQ’d and also won the stock class in style with his DEX410.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

May 9, 2010

Tom Cockerill wins 2wd at Robinhood Raceway

oOple are reporting that Tom Cockerill, driving the Schumacher Cougar SV, took the win at the second round of the 2010 BRCA 10th off road national series held at Robinhood Raceway. Tom shared qualifying bragging rights equally with Tamiya’s Lee Martin, with both drivers taking two of the four rounds. Tom’s faster time put him on pole however and Tom took the win in the opening two legs to secure victory. Lee Martin took the third leg and finished 2nd overall with Danny McGee driving for Losi third with his XXXCR2 mid motor car.

Source: oOple [oople.com]