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November 12, 2009

Award Ceremony at West Nitro Brunch

In a ceremonious environment 38 impressive trophies were presented to the best of the 2009 NRW Challenge and the 2009 Western German Championship. Around 60 rc drivers, wives and girlfriends attended the “West Nitro Brunch” held at Oberhausen last Sunday. It has been the first time that such a prize giving ceremony was held for both on road categories 1/8 and 1/10 in Western Germany. Finally, this award has been an astonishing success. The atmosphere was excellent with lots of exciting “nitro talks” and consequently all participants have asked to repeat the “West Nitro Brunch” again in 2010.

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November 12, 2009

Thomas Desmaries wins 2009 French Cup

The French National Cup for 1/10th scale gas took place recently in Normandy in the North of France. After qualifying, it was Mugen Seiki driver Thomas Desmaries that took the pole position ahead of Kyosho driver Nicolas Bougnoteau in 2nd and Basile Concialdi driving the Xray NT1 lining up in 3rd position. In the final, there was a race long battle up front with Desmaries or Concialdi inseparable after 45 minutes of racing. In the end the race was won by Thomas Desmaries, only 2 seconds clear of second place Basile Concialdi, with the last step of the podium going to Mickael Derderian.

November 11, 2009

Indonesian 1/10th EP TC Nationals report

The Indonesian 1/10th EP TC National Championship was held on the BE Mall Carpet track, Bandung last weekend. The race ran with 2 class, Modified and Stock 23T / 11.5 BL and the race format consisted of three 5 minute qualifying sessions for both classes, three 5 minute finals for Modified and three 7 minute finals for the Stock class. Most of the drivers used foam tires with 35 shore for stock class and rubber tyres with 24 shore for the modified class. It was young Xray driver Bowie and experienced Tamiya racer Wato that took the TQ spot in Stock and Modified class respectively. The finals saw Rudy Budiharjo win the Stock class over Bowie Ginting in 2nd and Chandra Yosef in 3rd spot while Albert took the modified win in front of Suwardi Suliandy with Bowie Ginting 3rd for an all Xray podium.

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November 11, 2009

Esbri & David wins Spanish TC Nats Rd4

The 4th and final round of the Spanish touring car National Championship took place last weekend, at Carcaixent near Valencia. In qualifying Schumacher driver Marc Esbri took pole position in the modified class and team mate Vicente David took pole in the 10.5 class. Marc Esbri convincingly won the first 2 mod finals to take the overall victory, and also the 2009 modified touring Spanish championship. Vicente David also won 2 finals to take the overall win in the 10.5 stock class and took 3rd in the championship.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

November 11, 2009

Drake and Fisher take RC Pro National titles

Adam Drake has been in contact to tell us about last weekend’s RC Pro finals held last weekend in Alvarado, Texas, which we already briefly touched on with a report from the buggy class. The event played host to nearly 300 drivers from around the US and Team Losi had a great weekend with Adam Drake TQing three out of four rounds in 1/8th buggy and 1/8th truck while Billy Fischer TQ’ed the 1/8th Electric class. The Drake won the 60 minute 1/8th truck final and finished 2nd in buggy behind Ryan Cavalieri and there results were enough to crown Adam Drake the 2009 RC Pro International Champions in Pro Buggy and Pro Truggy, while Billy Fischer took the 1/8th electric title.

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November 10, 2009

Rodriguez & Méndez win final round of Puerto Rico Nats

The final round of the Puerto Rico Nitro On Road Series was held last Sunday at Barceloneta RC Track. In the Sedan Class Mugen driver Juan Rodriguez TQ’d the event and went on to win the hour long main after a good battle with team mate Andy Báez who finished in second with Tori Santiago finish in third driving an NT1. In the 1/8 scale class it was was Fernando Méndez who took the TQ spot and would win the 30 minutes race, Mugen Driver Andy Báez finish in second and Edgar Tirado finish in third driving a Serpent. This race was especially important as it would decide the 2009 Puerto Rico NOS Championship standing.

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November 10, 2009

Marc Fisher wins West German 1/12th Regional

Last weekend saw the latest 1/12th regional race take place in Schermbeck in the very West of Germany. Qualifying saw Daniel Sieber take the win in Heat 1 ahead of Markus Mobers, while in the 2nd heat Corally driver and European Stock spec champion Marc Fisher put down the quickest time, setting a new track record and a new qualifying round record. In the final heat Marc was trying some new tires and again managed to break both records that he had just set in the previous heat. In the finals Fisher took the lead in the first final and steadily pulled away, but at the 6 minute mark and while nearly a lap up on the 2nd place Mobers, his batteries lost power and he was out. With no problems in the final 2 heats Marc could easily power ahead to victory and with it the overall race win, with Markus Mobers in 2nd and Daniel Sieber in 3rd.

Source: GM Racing [gm-racing.de]

November 9, 2009

Ryan Cavalieri claims buggy win at RC Pro Finals

From regional entrants all over the country, the R/C Pro Finals brings together racers from nine different regions including the hot beds like the South, East and the top Pros from the West division. Racers accumulate points in their region and then take those points to the finals in Alvarado, TX to compete against each other for the overall championship. Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri, racing out of the West division, traveled to the Lone Star state in hopes of claiming a double victory with his RC8B and RC8T. With only two opportunities to score points for the final, Cavalieri came in to the event down on points to others who competed in multiple or weaker divisions than the “Pro” heavy, West division.

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