Red RC » National

March 27, 2008

Neil Diver wins Rd1 of UK 1/8th Nats

Serpent have a report on the opening round of the 2008 1/8th scale On road British National Championships that kicked off over the Easter weekend at the very fast Brookland Circuit in Kent. Saturday’s practice saw drivers faced with a mixture of rain, hail and sunshine but on race day most drivers had the opportunity to test on a dry track but had to contend with very cold air temperatures of only 2C and later damp conditions. Defending Champion Mark Green with his Serpent 960 took the top qualifier spot after 3 round of wet qualifying with team-mate Neil Diver second fastest. In the A final the lead was held by 4 different drivers during the 30-minute encounter with Serpent driver Neil Diver holding it when it counted most to take victory by 10 seconds from Chris Heath in 2nd with Iain Milford in 3rd, a lap further down.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 26, 2008

Sidiropoulos wins Greek 1/10 Nats Rd1

Sidiropoulos wins Greek 200mm Nats Rd1

The opening round of the Greek National Championship for 1:10 200mm took place over the weekend at the FRT circuit. Saturday practice saw the Serpent pairing of John Sotiropoulos and Kostas Sidiropoulos set the pace, which they would carry through to Sunday as they secured the top two placings in qualifying with Sotiropoulos taking the TQ. In the final Sotiropoulos capitalised on his pole starting position, opening up an early lead over the chasing pack but unfortunately 18 minutes into the race he destroyed both 2 speed gears, handing the lead to team-mate Sidiropoulos. After almost 2 minutes in the pits, Sotiropoulos rejoined the race 5 laps in arrears of his team-mate. Determined to take a podium finish he put in a superb recovery drive setting the fastest lap of the day on his way to an excellent third place finish, just behind Mugen racer Lymnios in 2nd, while up front Sidiropoulos cruised home to take his first ever National championship race win.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 26, 2008

Duthie & Burrows win NZ Nationals

Last weekend, Taranaki in New Zealand played host to the country’s gas Nationals for both 1/8th and 1/10th scale. The 1/8th scale class saw the TQ spot go to Mugen racer Andy Ando, but problems in the final meant he could only finish in 6th, leaving the win go to his team mate Luke Duthie, with fellow Mugen racers Andrew Kirk and Selwyn Duthie in 2nd and 3rd, all on the same lap. In 1/10th scale it was Daniel Burrows that started from the pole position and could take the win by 1 lap in front of Mugen team mates Scott Robinson in 2nd and Jayden Duthie in 3rd spot, 3 laps further back.

Click more to see the 1/10th podium… content

March 23, 2008

DongWoo Nam wins Xray Challenge Rd1

Xray are reporting on their site from the first round of the Xray Challenge which was held on last weekend at Banwol Race Park near Seoul, Korea. In the qualifying for the Pro buggy class it was SunYung Hwang that took the top qualifying spot from DongWoo Nam in 2nd and SungGi Jo in 3rd and after the semi finals the lineup remained the same for the main event. In the final it was DongWoo Nam, in only his 2nd race for Xray, that could take the win from pole man Hwang who finished 2nd while HyungKyu Yu took the final step on the podium in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 19, 2008

BRCA 1/12th Nationals Round 6

BRCA 1/12th National Series

The final race of the 2008 1/12th National series was run last weekend by the Chesterfield Auto Racing Society, who were celebrating their 25th anniversary as a National Host this year. Newly crowned Mod Champion Andy Griffiths, who was sitting on 4th position in qualifying overnight, just managed to secure pole position for the final in Sundays final round, with HB team mate Mick Farrell lining up in 2nd position. Andy managed to get away cleanly in all three finals, and went on to take a relatively comfortable victory in each race to secure top spot at the meeting with a perfect score, his 5th win from 6 rounds.

Source: Mirage [mirageracing.com]

March 19, 2008

Gary Guest wins Canadian Winternats

Gary Guest wins Canadian Winternationals

Some brief news from the Canadian Winternationals that were held recently in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Jammin team driver Gary Guest took the first place trophy and top qualifier award in the pro buggy class with team mates Rick McCrery finishing 2nd and Anthony Howarth in 3rd, all driving the X1X-CR Buggy powered by Jammin .21 Engines. Gary Guest also went on to claim the Pro Truggy class top qualifier award and A-Main win driving the prototype Jammin X2-CRT Truggy.

Source: Jammin [jamminproducts.com]

March 18, 2008

LeMieux & Dumas take US Carpet titles

ROAR TC Mod podium

The weekend gone saw the best on road electric racers in America get together at the Hobby Town, Hobby Plex in Omaha, Nebraska for the ROAR Carpet Nationals. The blue ribboned classes were the TC and 1/12th mod classes but there was many more classes supported at the this event in both scales. In Touring Mod, it was Xray racers Paul LeMieux and Barry Baker that were the men to beat throughout the event, qualifying 1 and 2 and then going on to take the top steps of the podium with Paul winning from Barry and Mike Dumas finishing in 3rd spot. In the 1/12th scale it was another great race for Mike Dumas, the Speed Merchant racer was top qualifier and managed to win 2 of the 3 A-mains to take the win in front of Paul Ciccarello in 2nd with Josh Cyrul rounding out the top 3.

Click more for the results from both mod classes… content

March 17, 2008

Marc Fischer wins 1/12th German Nats

Marc Fisher wins 1/12th German Nats

The 1:12 German Nationals were held last weekend in Oldendorf, Germany and it was top Team Corally driver Marc Fischer that TQ’d and won the Modified National title with his SP12X. After coming home 2nd in leg 1 he took the win in the 2nd A-final by 5 seconds and in the 3rd A-final by 7 seconds to take the title ahead of Markus Mobers and Steven Weiss. In the stock class is was another Team Corally driver Jan Asmer that won the National title, beating TQ man Andre Efler to 2nd with Mike Niemann claiming 3rd.

Source: Corally [corally.com]