Serpent supported youngster Tobis Hepp has won the fourth round of the 2008/2009 Western German Championship in class 1 of 1/8 scale which was held at Bad Breisig in the south of the former capital Bonn. It was a victory in style with a five lap advantage in the 30 minutes finale race over Frank Schewiola, the winner of round three, and Ralf Vahrenkamp. So the podium was completely in the hand of Serpent, Mega engines and Xceed tyres.
The Polish Indoor Touring car Championships took place over last weekend in Warsaw and saw more than 140 drivers fight it out for the Polish title. In qualifying it was German Tamiya racer Dennis Fadtke that took the top qualifying spot from locals Lukasz Kowalcyk and Morris Indivino, both also driving a Tamiya. The finals saw an unchallenged win for Fadtke to claim the title, with Morris Indivino claiming 2nd ahead of Lukasz Kowalcyk in 3rd.
We have already covered the Modified results from last weekend’s German Indoor Nationals that was run in Althenstett. In the stock class qualifying it was Xray driver Eric Dankel that took the pole position in front of team mate, and winner of the Polish ETS round, Meik Niemann in 2nd, with Matthias Lang lining up 3rd. In the finals, Dankel was able to win all 3 legs easily to take the Indoor Stock title, while behind there was a good battle between Matthias Lang, Meik Niemann and Martin Schmidt for the final podium spots. With some good team spirit, it was Lang that claimed the runner up spot ahead of Niemann in 3rd, for an all Xray podium.
Round 2 of the BRCA 1/10th scale 200mm Nationals were held at the weekend in Mendip, and run to EFRA style with bump-ups and a 45 minute final. Saturday was damp in the morning due to rain on Friday night and the track wasn’t really that good until 3pm and still wasn’t too good then. On Sunday the weather was really good and in qualifying it was round 1 winner Kyle Branson that took the TQ spot by continuously improving his time, following a bad run in the first qualifying round, to line up ahead of Serpent team mate Simon Wood. In the final Kyle got off to a good start, staying in first place, and managed to stay there for the rest of the race to take the win ahead of 2nd placed Johnathan Dobney and Kevin Taylor in 3rd.
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The opening race in the 1/8th scale southern Germany regionals was run at the weekend in Bamberg, and following some damp weather on Saturday that prevented any testing from getting done, the track eventually dried on Sunday for race day. Qualifying went to way of Belgian Motonica racer Robin D’hondt, who was very quick and could take pole position from Serpent/IDM driver Sabrina Lechner in 2nd, Dominik Mayer 3rd and Maximilian Vogl 4th. Pole man Robin started very quickly but after only 4 laps touched a board and was out of the race, which left Sabrina up front where following some further lead changes could take the win ahead of Dominik Mayer and Maximilian Vogl.
The opening round of the BRCA 1/8th scale nationals was held at Brooklands yesterday and with 43 drivers, both new and old faces, in attendance it was a very enjoyable start to the season. In Qualifying, it was Mark Green setting the pace yet again, but this year the performance advantage is very clear to see using his new Novarossi engines. The fight for second was very close and would eventually be determined by which driver could make 5 minutes run time. With this being the case, Andy North just beat Pete Hastings by 0.02 of a second. In the final, Mark Green pulled out a big lead with the chasing pack of Andy, Pete and Neil Diver also pulling out a lead over the mid field. At 13 mins, Andy North went off whilst in a strong 2nd place due to a battery pack support bracket working loose and up front Mark Green had a battery failure, all of which promoted Pete into a comfortable lead which he maintained to the finish. The 2nd spot went to reigning champion Tim Wood, with Neil Diver in third after drive belt issues close to the end prevented a 2nd place finish.
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This years German indoor touring car Nationals were held last weekend in Althenstett. With 114 drivers in attendance split between stock and modified, qualifying for mod saw Hot Bodies/LRP driver Ronald Volker take the win in all rounds to line up first for the finals ahead of Xray driver Freddy Südhoff, while Christopher Krapp for Kyosho and current World Champion Marc Rheinard for Tamiya completed the top 4. In the finals Ronald was unchallenged and went on to win the first 2 final legs to retain his indoor title won last year with one leg left to run. Young Christopher Krapp took the runner spot, with Marc Rheinard rounding off the podium in 3rd.
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LRP are reporting on the opening race of the Italian Buggy Regionals which was held recently on a completely new track close to Roma, the Latina track. The racing was split into two classes, F1 and F2, and a total of 61 drivers from both classes joined the event. In the F1 class it was LRP driver Riccardo Acciari that set the pace from the start securing the TQ spot after winning the 1st and 2nd round by a huge 15 second margin to 2nd placed finisher. In the final Riccardo had a flame out at the start and found himself in last place by the end of lap 1. After only 10 min of the final he had managed to overtake every driver in the A-main and caught the leader. By the end of the race Riccardo and his S8 BX crossed the finishing line with a clear 2 lap lead. In the F2 class it was also a dominant performance from the LRP S8 BX by Ruggiero Salvatore that showed great skill in the F2 class by also both securing TQ and win.
Source: LRP [lrp.cc]
