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July 13, 2009

Dennis Fadtke wins Rd3 in Poland

Last weekend saw the third qualifying round of the Polish National Championships take place in Warsaw. The track is located on a former military airport and still used by small aircraft, so every five minutes there was planes flying over at very low level coming in to land. Saturday’s running was canceled due to rain and so all the racing would take place on Sunday, which was the right decision as the sun was shining when the 60 racers took to the track. Dennis Fadtke secured the TQ spot in qualifying and after the three leg finals it was again Dennis who would take the win from Morris Indovino and Patryk Raczynski, with a special mention for seven year old Michal Orlowski who took 6th spot.

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July 13, 2009

Robin D’Hondt wins German National title

Robin D´Hondt has won the German Championship 2008/2009 1/8 nitro on-road at Hildesheim south of Hanover. In an exciting 40 minutes final the Motonica and Novarossi team driver gained a three lap advantage over pole setter Robert Pietsch (Mugen). The third place on the podium was captured by E.C. (B) finalist Toni Gruber (Serpent). In the class 2 final Mugen racer Maximilian Feldermann caught the title in a nail-biting finish with Shepherd driver Maximilian Vogl close behind. Third place went to local hero Thomas Ploeger (Serpent).

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July 12, 2009

Robert Pietsch TQs German Nationals

Mugen and Novarossi team driver Robert Pietsch has taken the pole position for the German 1/8 on-road Championship 2008/09 held this weekend on the 260 meter track of AMC Hildesheim south of Hanover. Beside the former champion, Motonica team driver Robin D´Hondt from Belgium as well as the Shepherd duo Eric Dankel and Patrick Schaefer completed the top 4 which are directly qualified for the 40 minutes final on Sunday afternoon. Like the three days before, rain also affected the day of qualification with five rounds of five minutes heats. Only the first round was run on a dry track and it started to rain before the last but one group of round two.

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July 11, 2009

German Nationals still affected by rain

After three days the German Nationals 2008/2009 (1/8 on-road) are still a rainy affair. Following the rainy weather at the first day of unofficial practice on Wednesday the weather continued to be contrary but with more dry periods on Thursday. Nearly all of the 88 competitors were present and tried to catch any single lap on the challenging 260 meter track of the AMC Hildesheim located south of Hanover. Weather turned to the worse on Friday, the first official day of the one event decision for the German 1/8 crown.

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July 9, 2009

German Nationals 1/8 at Hildesheim

This coming weekend the German Nationals 1/8 on-road will take place at Hildesheim starting officially on Friday (heats on Saturday, finals on Sunday) with two days of free practice since Wednesday. A total of 88 drivers, 47 in class 1 and 41 in class 2, have made their entry for the one-event decision on the 260 meter track of the AMC Hildesheim located south of Hanover. Unfortunately the weather forecast isn´t the best. practice day one when already most of the drivers were present was an extreme mixture of rain and sun – when the track had tried up already and the first cars went out for some laps rain came back.

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July 8, 2009

Nydegger takes Rd4 in Switzerland

Last weekend saw the 4th round of the Swiss 1/8th scale Nationals held in Sitterdorf. A nice track with little grip, it was Shasa Lackner who started of fastest in qualifying, taking the first 2 rounds and setting a new lap record of 14.404, and the only one doing 29 laps in 7mins. In the third round Marco Mueller took the pole position away from him and in the last round, Mattia Pesenti took 3rd with a 29 Lap wun with a new lap record of 14.402.

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July 8, 2009

Logie & Bultynck win Belgian Nats Rd3

The 3rd round of the Belgian Championships went to the marvellous Marchienne-au-Pont track, near Charleroi, with sunny weather greeting the drivers for most of the two days. In the Superstock class it was Nick Logie who won in the first two qualifications and took pole, followed by championship leaderGeoffrey Vekemans with Marc Tebaldi in 3rd. The first final was a walk over for Nick Logie, despite making a little mistake he could take victory in front of Marc Tebaldi and Renaud Gysemberg. The second final was very close with Nick taking over the lead closely followed by Marc Tebaldi with the pair battling till the end with Nick winning once again. The third final, which was not necessary for Nick who had already wrapped up the overall, saw him make a little mistake that allowed Marc Tebaldi to take the lead and go on to win in front of Stephane Roufosse and Nick Logie. Nick Logie was overall winner in front of Marc Tebaldi and Renaud Gysemberg.

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July 7, 2009

Steven Weiss wins German Regionals Rd1

The first qualification round for the German Championship, middle and west division, was held at the Motodrom Raceway in Andernach last weekend. There were 57 racers entered for the race, with 17 in the Modified class including Marc and Toni Rheinard, Marc Fischer, Yannik Prümper and Steven Weis, and 40 in the Stock class. The conditions were very good for this race and following qualifying it was Team Xray driver Steven Weiss who won 3 of the 4 Heats to take the Pole Position in the Modified class. In the A final Steven Weiss continued his domination, taking two straight wins to take the overall win ahead of the Tamiya Driver Yannik Prümper and Corally Driver Marc Fischer.

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