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October 1, 2008

Alberto Garcia retains Spanish titles

LRP Team Driver Alberto Garcia has done it again, winning 2wd and 4wd at the Spanish Championship, thereby securing 8 x 1/10th Spanish Offroad National titles with LRP in 4 years. The Spanish Nationals were held the weekend of 27-28th September at the track of Bilbao City and all the fastest drivers from Spain including Garcia and new LRP team driver Borja Hernandez took part at the biggest EP off road event of the year in a fight for both titles. In 4wd which was held on Saturday it was Alberto Garcia who dominated the race already from the beginning by winning 4 out of 5 qualifying rounds to take TQ. Alberto went on to secure the 4wd Spanish Championship title by winning all 3 A-finals with 2nd place going to Hernandez. Going into 2wd on Sunday it was again to be a successful day for Alberto, placing first in all three A-finals again to become the 2008 2wd Spanish Champion with Hernandez once again taking 2nd.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

September 30, 2008

Hudy takes win, Liptak takes title

The final round of the Slovakian Nationals was held over the weekend at AutoRC-Trnava track in Trnava, Slovakia. The race was TQ’d and won by Worlds podium finisher Martin Hudy, but as the Xray driver was unable to participate in earlier rounds of the series the overall title went to one of the oldest RC drivers in the country, Igor Liptak who finished the race in 2nd place, while Tono Sloboda took 3rd.

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September 30, 2008

Dankel takes South German 1/8th title

Following our report from the 1/10th scale South German Championship that was held on the track of the RCMSC Greuthof, the 1/8th scale racers were also in action. In qualifying Shepherd Velox race Erik Dankel was the only driver to do 31 laps and he improved the track record by 9.4 seconds. Local hero Manuel Dietrich secured the 2nd position for the final, with Shepherd driver Christian Dussinger lining up 3rd. The main final was dominated by Dankel from start to the finish and was constantly able to increase his lead and was even able to save some tires for the last minutes. Behind him it was Christian Dussinger who could secure the 2nd position and with this result the victory in the amateur class, while Bernhard Hummel rounded out the top 3.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

September 30, 2008

Francesco Tironi wins Italian Open UISP

The 1/10th scale Open gas UISP event was held recently at the Melzo circuit in the north of the country with racers at this event able to use Can-Am style shells. Qualifying was dominated by Francesco Tironi who took pole position by 7 seconds and was the only driver to hit 18 laps, with Cristian Costanzo lining up 2nd, Guido Barbera 3rd and Walter Ossola 4th. In the 45 minute final, Tironi was pushed all the way by Barbera who was able to stay on the lead lap till the end finishing 12 seconds behind the winner Tironi, while Walter Ossola took 3rd, 2 laps down on the leading pair.

Source: Automodellismo [automodellismo.net]

September 30, 2008

Schumacher Indoor Off Road Masters Rd1

Schumacher Indoor Off Road Masters Rd 1

oOple have a report from the first round of the 2008/9 Schumacher Indoor Off Road Masters event held in Worksop last weekend. 137 drivers turned up to race over the course of the day, 57 in 2WD and 80 in 4WD, making this one of the most popular electric off-road series around. Tom Yardy destroyed the opposition in 2WD running the Associated B4, Tom won three of the four qualifiers and pulled away from the field in the A final, while Simon Moss gave the Schumacher Cat a good outing and its first major ‘Lipo chassis’ victory in the 4WD class in a close fought battle to the line.

View the full report here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

September 29, 2008

Joel Myrberg wins South German IS Rd1

Germany’s biggest indoor series, the Bawü cup, ran the first indoor race of the season at the very nice high traction track in Konstanz this last weekend. The race attracted over 70 drivers across all classes, including drivers from 3 different countries including German National A-main finisher Peter Deggelman, Swedish Champion Joel Myrberg, Swiss Champion Sacha Lnenicka and various team drivers from LRP, GM, Robitronic and Corally. The Expert Mod class saw Team Associated and LRP team driver Joel Myrberg set TQ in all 5 qualifying rounds and later he went on to win 2 finals to secure the win in front of 2nd placed Lenicka, while in the stock class GM team driver Daniel Wohlgemuth dominated the race taking TQ and following it up with the win in the first 2 finals.

September 29, 2008

Sabrina Lechner wins South German title

We received a brief report from the South German Championships that were held last weekend in Greuthof, which was won by super quick female racer Sabrina Lechner. The young German IDM / Kyosho team driver drove a tactical race starting from 4th position. After 10 minutes she managed to move up to 3rd spot and could take the lead at the 20 minute mark when the top 2 drivers pitted. Sabrina maintained her lead to take the 2008 1/10th South German title in front of Mugen racer Armin Baier in 2nd and Patrick Nähr driving an Xray in 3rd.

Source: Scuderia-Fun-and-Drive [scuderia-fun-and-drive.com]

September 28, 2008

Hirosaka takes Japanese National title

The Japanese Electric touring car Nationals were held this weekend, once more at the Yatabe Arena indoor tarmac track. Qualifying for the expert class saw the pole position go to Yokomo racer Masami Hirosaka, ahead of current 2wd World Champion Hayato Matsuzaki in 2nd and recently crowned 1/8th buggy World Champion Atsushi Hara in 3rd. In the finals Masami had the perfect run, winning the first 2 finals to claim the title and sat out the 3rd, which was won by by Matsuzaki which when combined with his 2nd place in leg 2 was enough to give him the runner up spot for Hot Bodies ahead of his team mate Hara who took 3rd.

Source: HPI [cyclone12-blog.com]