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March 25, 2007

Renaud Savoya wins French Ligue 9 Rd1

Renaud Savoya

Mugen MBX-5R racer Renaud Savoya has won the first round of the Ligue 9 regional championships for 1/8th scale gas off road held last weekend at the club de Charmes sur RhÃ´ne. 70 racers were in attendance and it was Guillaume Reynier that took the top qualifying spot for the 20 minute final, but it was Savoya that could take the lead and eventually win the race by 1 lap ahead of Reynier who ended up 2nd, with Marc Milleret finishing 3rd.

Source: PlanÃ¨te ModÃ©lisme [planetemod.free.fr]

March 25, 2007

West Australia State Championships

Our mates down under, Rube Dude, are reporting on the Western Australian State Championships that have been run over the past few days. In the buggy class it was Hong Nor driver Zac Ryan that took the pole spot for the final and went on to win by 2 laps ahead of 2nd Dale Smulders driving a Kyosho with another Hong Nor of Martin Wolhuter in 3rd. In the truggy class it was again Hong Nor at the top with Martin Wolhuter taking the win in dominant style, 6 laps ahead of 2nd placed Logan Bruecher with Brad Smith ending the race in 3rd.

Click here to view the full report.

Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]

March 23, 2007

Racer In the Spotlight – Nam Sangjoon

Nam Sangjoon

Serpent continue their ‘Racer in the Spotlight’ interviews with current Serpent drivers with the latest piece focussing on new ‘Serpent Developement Driver’ signing, Nam Sangjoon. The 17 year old driver from Seoul in South Korea has been racing for 10 years and is the current Korean National champion in 1/8th scale and his interview makes for some interesting reading.

Read the full interview here.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 23, 2007

Joerg and Uwe Baldes join Motonica

The German brother team of Joerg and Uwe Baldes have been confirmed to race the new Motonica P8.0R for the coming season. Switching from long term team Serpent, the brothers will race mostly in the western German region races and will join current Motonica Germany team driver Andreas Theis in racing and promoting the car.

The Motonica attract our attention since the presentation last year” so mentioned by the Baldes-Brothers. “The P8.0R convinced us with excellent Performance and good potential during the tests held the last weeks. It will be an interesting challenge to race the new innovative chassis made in Italy. We feel a pleasure to support the young Team Motonica with further development with our knowledge and ideas”

Source: Motonica [motonica.com]

March 21, 2007

Josh Pain dominates the New Zealand Nats

New Zealand Nats

More JConcepts news, this time is to report that the BJ4 has won the 4wd class at the recently run New Zealand Nationals at the hands of Josh Pain, who also won the 2wd Nationals too. Josh’s 1st place BJ4 was not alone, 6 other BJ4’s were in the A-final with 4 finishing in the top 5. Josh Pain, Michael Harlow, Ben Panic and Andrew Molkenton finishing 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th place respectively. Josh reported that the track was extremely rough and loamy and the BJ4 just sucked it all up in stride.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

March 20, 2007

Andy Griffiths dominates 1/12th Mod

Andy Griffiths

We have reported on the exploits of Andy Griffiths before and last weekend he managed to make it a clean sweep in 1/12th modified class by winning ALL rounds in this years championship. This last round of the championship took place in Hereford and all drivers were greeted with a big fast track and a technical infield. Andy claimed the pole position and from there proceeded to win the first leg of the finals, despite some mistakes near the end of the race. In the second final he damaged his car which put him out of the final which left Keith Robertson to take the win leg 2 and leaving it all to play for in the 3rd final, but once Andy got out in front he was never to be headed and took the final leg 3 win and with it the overall event win.

Read the full race report here.

Source: Mirage [mirageracing.com]

March 20, 2007

Horta and Morganti win FORGASS Rd7

FORGASS Rd7

Last weekend saw round 7 of the FORGASS championship held at the Charlotte RC Raceway under sunny skies. In the 1/10th scale it was Winternats finalist, and winner of FORGASS round 6, Danny Horta driving a Serpent 720 that once again took the win, this time backed up by team mate Gianni Giorgio who came home in 2nd with Mugen racer Andrew Duperrouzel finishing in 3rd. In the 1/8th scale it was Paolo Morganti all the way, the Serpent 960 driver claiming TQ by 4 seconds and then going on to win the race, setting the fastest lap on the way. Phillip Abed came home in 2nd position, 2 laps back on Morganti and 4 laps up on Joe Sumasky who finished 3rd.

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March 20, 2007

Teddy Syach dominates BSD Invitational

BSD Invitational

Teddy Syach has proven himself to be the class of the field at last weekend BSD Invitational held at the BSD Super Traxxx circuit in Indonesia. In 1/10th scale, Serpent driver Syach managed to claim the TQ spot and could convert it into a 3 lap win in the main final finishing ahead of 2nd place Tons with Awie in 3rd. In the 1/8th scale class it was a repeat performance with Teddy winning the race by 1 lap ahead of Ricardo in 2nd and young Arya Rido in 3rd with Teddy claiming the fastest lap of the race as he did also in 1/10th.

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