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June 16, 2008

Van Lierop wins Rd3 Dutch 10th Nats

The 3rd round of the Dutch 1/10th scale 200mm Nationals were held last weekend at the MACH circuit in Heemstede, close to Amsterdam. Qualifying for the NK class, saw Xray driver Maarten van Lierop claim the pole position by less than a tenth of a second from Pedro Rombouts in 2nd, while round 1 winner Daan Jacobs and round 2 winner Ruud Schuitmaker rounded out the top 4. In the Nomac class qualifying it was Jurmin Etnel that took a clear pole position while in the 1/8th promo class Mark Hellenbrand had a close battle with Paul Conradi for the top spot. The NK final saw Van Lierop take an unchallenged win, following problems for Remy Moller and Daan Jacobs, which left Serpent racer Ruud Schuitmaker to take up the challenge but ended up in 2nd, a lap down on the winner, while Jurgen Geerligs took 3rd for Kyosho. The Nomac class saw a close battle between the top 3, who all finished within a lap of each other, with Ricardo van Dam taking the win ahead of Ingeborg Gommers in 2nd and Ricardo Hofmeijer 3rd. The 1/8th Promo class saw the win go to Paul Conradi who ended the race with a 3 lap advantage on Peter Ende in 2nd, while Mat Hukkelhoven was 3rd, 4 laps further back.

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June 16, 2008

Pekka Koivula wins Rd2 Finnish Nats

Xray are reporting on the recent 2nd round of the Finnish gas touring car Nationals that were held at the large Hyvinkää track. After the four rounds of qualifying it was Tony Raikas who was on pole position, only 0.8sec ahead of the Xray pairing of Pekka Koivula in 2nd and Daniel Kalves in 3rd. At the start of the main Koivula had a crash which dropped him down to last, while Raikas took off into the lead. At the 15 minute mark Koivula had worked his back to the front and passed Teemu Saarinen and Daniel Kalves for the lead. In the end Pekka had managed to pull out a 4 second gap and take the win from Saarinen in 2nd and Raikas in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 16, 2008

Marc Fisher wins 1/10th at Türkheim

Last weekend saw the Southern German regional qualifiers take place at the Türkheim track. The 1/10th scale 200mm class qualifying saw Marc Fisher, racing the new GM car, take the pole position ahead of Mugen racer Mirco Thalheimer in 2nd and Sabrina Lechner in 3rd, in her first outing with the Kyosho chassis. In the main final, it was again Fischer who was untouchable as he went on to win comfortably ahead of Lechner in 2nd and Mugen racer Armin Baier in 3rd.

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June 15, 2008

Danish Off-Road Nationals Rd3

We received a report from last weekends 3rd round of the Danish DRCMU Off-Road championship that was held at the Midtjysk RC Arena track. In Stock class it was again 9 year old Jesper Rasmussen that was in the fast lane with his Kyosho and nothing could stop him, taking the win in all 3 qualifying rounds to finish up in front of Martin Kristensen in 2nd and Kim Gundorph, in his first race, 3rd, while local youngster Sebastian Sorensen claimed the 4th spot.

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June 13, 2008

Andreassen wins Norwegian Nats Rd1

We received a report from the 2nd round of the Norwegian Nationals that was held in Spydeberg, 40 min south of Oslo, at SMK’s large track. With the heat the country is experience over the last couple of weeks, tire wear was one of the big questions coming into the event. In qualifying it was Eirik Andreassen, racing a Tamiya, who was the fastest followed by Kjell Guttormsen in 2nd and John Lara in 3rd. Most of the driver used only 1 set of tires in qualifying and the most popular tire was Sorex 36.

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June 12, 2008

Talywain Nationals report by oOple

oOple has the report from the 3rd round of the BRCA 1/10th National series, that was held recently at Talywain, Wales with the club putting on a good all-grass track with plenty of man-made obstacles to navigate. Darren Bloomfield was making a return to 1/10th off road after missing the first two rounds of the championship due to 1/8th buggy commitments. Darren, being the reigning 2WD National champion didn’t seem to be too concerned with his lack of practice – taking The TQ and a hard-fought win. The 4WD class wasn’t quite so straight forward for Darren, with only two finishes from the four qualifiers he only lined up 4th on the grid. Ellis Stafford, double-winner at the previous round was on pole and looked devastatingly quick. It was Darrens day however and he took the last two legs of the A final to secure a fantastic double victory to mark his return to the class.

Read the full report here, including lots of great photos and interviews.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

June 11, 2008

Chris Grainger wins Rd2 BRCA Nationals

The 2nd round of the BRCA British Nationals were held at the weekend at the Cotswolds track in Gloucestershire. Qualifying saw complete domination by Yokomo racer, and current National Champion, Chris Grainger who won all of his heats to take an unchallenged pole position from Xray racer Ben Cosgrove in 2nd and Hot Bodies driver Olly Jefferies in 3rd. The finals saw more of the same from Grainger, who took the win in all 3 legs of the A-main to take the overall from Ben Cosgrove, who kept his head down to take the runner up spot ahead of Euros Warmup winner Elliot Harper in 3rd.

Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]

June 11, 2008

Mike Truhe wins ROAR 1/8th Buggy Nats

We received this report from Losi, whose 8ight buggy just won the ROAR 1/8 Nitro Off-Road National Championship for the second year in a row. There is no doubt this 2008 ROAR Nationals will go down in history as one of the nicest and best run events in the last 10 years. Virtually every top factory driver, as well as the best privateers, from around the country raced throughout the week at the beautifully prepared Thunder Alley off-road track in Beaumont, California. The gruelling hour-long A Main event is the ultimate test of both driver and machine. While it was Jared Tebo that took the pole position, it was Losi racer Mike Truhe that took the lead early and went on to complete 126 flawless laps, with times consistently faster than his competitors, to take the win. Overlooked for much of the race was Losi 8ight driver Billy Fischer who bumped up three times through the semi-finals to earn one of the last starting spots in the Nationals A final. With a car that had been raced hard for over an hour Fischer put in a sensational drive from the back of the pack, passing 10 of the best drivers in America, to take the 2nd spot. Jared Tebo rounded out the podium in 3rd spot, ahead of Scott Hughes in 4th, while Losi driver Adam Drake, the reigning 2007 National Champion, completed the race in 5th.

Source: Losi [losi.com]