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May 26, 2009

Todd & Baird take Rd1 honours in Ireland

The opening round of the RCCAOI Irish National 1:8 Off Road Championships took place over the weekend at the well presented Navan Nitro Nuts Astroturf track where superb sunny conditions greeted the 40+ strong entry. In Qualifying it was Alan Bickerstaff, better known for his electric touring car exploits, that secured pole after TQ’ing 3 of the four rounds of qualifying with his Associated RC8. Second on the grid went to Team Xray’s Barkley Abernethy, who TQ’d the opening qualifier. Next up was Losi team driver Michael Todd followed by defending Champion Mark Harron and his Hot Bodies with Crono’s David Curtis and Kyosho’s Gary Baird completing the top 6 on the grid.

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May 25, 2009

Renaud Savoya takes Rd3 in France

The 3rd round of the French off road National Championship was held last weekend at the Horbourg-Wihr track, situated close to the German border in the east of the country. Qualifying went the way of the Euros Warmup winner Yannick Aigoin driving his Novarossi powered Losi, just edging out current European Champion and winner of round 2, Renaud Savoya with his RB powered Mugen chassis. Problems in the semi final however meant that Yannick couldnt make the main final, while Jérôme Aigoin upheld the family name to take the pole position for the main final in front of Savoya. Following the 1 hour long final it was Renaud that would come out on top, a lap ahead of 2nd place finisher Jérôme Sartel racing for Xray, while Jérôme Aigoin had to settle for 3rd, a lap further back.

Source: RC Mag [rcmag.com]

May 25, 2009

Dennis Fadtke takes first round in Poland

The opening round of the Polish Outdoor Touring car cup took place last weekend. In the modified class it was German driver Dennis Fadtke that took the win ahead of Morris Individo in 2nd, with Filip Zaremba taking 3rd spot. In the Junior Class DTM it was Michal Orlowski that took the win, while the Class Spec victory went to Stanislaw Pyrka.

May 24, 2009

Andy Báez dominates Rd5 in Puerto Rico

The 5th round of the Puerto Rico NOS Series Championship was run recently at the Barceloneta track. In the 1/8th scale class it was Mugen Team driver Andy Báez who TQ’d and led the 30 minutes main from beginning to end, taking the victory ahead of his Mugen team mate Fernando Méndez in 2nd, with Amaury Alvarez driving a Kyosho Evola M3 taking 3rd. In the sedan class it was again Andy on TQ for Mugen and he once again took the win in the 40 minutes race. In 2nd place was Mugen team mate Fernando Mendez who recovered to hold the position after having problems at the beginning of the race, while in 3rd place was Norberto Rodríguez with an excellent drive with his Xray NT1, denying championship leader Juan Rodriguez of a podium finish. In the 1/10 outlaw class, Serpent driver Edgar Tirado easily took the first position, winning from Brian Ramos, who after having a difficult start took 2nd, with lady Mugen Driver Zobeida Ocasio taking it easy to finish in 3rd position at the end of the 35 minutes main.

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May 20, 2009

Pedro Rombouts wins Rd2 Dutch 10th Nats

Round 2 of the Dutch 1/10th scale Nationals took place over the weekend at the quick Baanbrekers track in Ruchphen, who put on another well organised event. Weather was very mixed all weekend with rain early in the day meaning everyone skipped the 1st qualifier and only went out in the 2nd and 3rd, with some rain falling again after, but for the finals it was dry. Qualifying for the NK class went the way of local driver Pedro Rombouts, well ahead of Jurgen Geerlings in 2nd, Ricardo van Dam and Maarten van Lierop rounding out the top 4. In the Nomac class Davy Geraets took pole position and in the 1/8th promo series Paul Conradi took top spot. The NK class saw a very good final with pole man Rombouts the fastest guy on the track but some mistakes throughout the 30 minute final allowed Euro B podium finisher Daan Jacobs through to the lead. Pedro didn’t give up and closed the gap into the leader every lap over the last 5 minutes, getting within striking distance on the last 4 corners and pulling off the move on the very last corner to win by 0.007 of a second from Daan, with Maarten van Lierop 3rd. The Nomac class was won by Emiel Lensink from Theun Zoethout and Martijn Aarden, while in the Promo class it was Luigi Pili from Ron Veger and Wesley van Silfhout.

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May 19, 2009

Cuypers & Renaux win Belgian Nats Rd2

The 2nd round of the 1/8th & 1/10th IC Track Belgian National Championships took place over the weekend at the Mini circuit “Ville de Luxembourg”. On Saturday during the practice the weather conditions where quite good, windy and cold but dry, but during the night there where thunderstorms so the track was wet on Sunday morning meaning a lot of drivers didn’t drive the first qualifying round. In the 1/8th class it was Steven Cuypers with his Mugen/Sirio that took the pole followed by Gunther Van Staey in 2nd place, Tom Smolderen in 3rd and Daan Haling taking the last direct spot in 4th.

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May 19, 2009

Sabrina Lechner wins German Regional race

The latest round of the Southern German regionals took place last weekend in Anberg under warm and dry conditions. Qualifying went the way of Robert Pietsch who took TQ ahead of Christoph Pietsch, Mirco Thalheimer and Michael Heinrich. Moving up from the semi final was Serpent IDM driver Sabrina Lechner, who following the immediate start of the race had moved up to 3rd and after another few corners had got up to 2nd spot and was challenging race leader Christoph Pietsch. For the next 15 minutes the two drivers swapped places several times until Sabrina was able to open a small gap. Christoph got hit in the rear twice and had to give up 2nd place to Thomas Günsel, which gave Lechner some air to breath and bring home the win.

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May 18, 2009

Moore & Westwood take BRCA TC Rd1

The first round of this years BRCA touring car nationals took place at the weekend at the popular and technical West London track, a swirling wind causing problems for all the drivers on day one and threw away all the pre race testing and data. Early pace setter was defending champion Chris Grainger with his new Schumacher Mi4 but he was being chased hard by Xray star Elliott Harper and Associated’s Olly Jefferies, while in the pro Stock class Rob West was the class of the field with his older Schumacher Mi3.

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