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June 16, 2010

Faistenau Hill-Climbing Event

Last weekend saw 1st Hill-Climbing Event for RC-cars in Faistenau at Hacksteiner-Hills for RC cars in the region of Salzburg/Austria. The event was organized by Christoph Stopper and Willi Rinnerthaler who found a perfect location and made also very simple rules. Every driver had 3 minutes for their heats (2x qualifying and 2x final – the best result in final counts) to get as high as possible or in the case of a ‘Full Hill’ the time would also count. As long the car drives up the hill the time is running, if a car stops the time will be on paused and the height will be measured and after measuring the time will start again and the car has to go back to the starting line downhill.

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June 16, 2010

Martin Christensen confirmed at Capricorn

Following their announcement two days ago that they had signed Christer Andersson, Capricorn have finalised a contract with Danish racer Martin Christensen. Martin, who won the recent European Championship warmup race in Sweden with the LAB-C01, was one of the first development drivers for the car having raced it on its debut at the European Championships in Italy last summer. Martin will also the LAB E01 engine as well as Capricorn tires and fuel this season.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

June 15, 2010

Tosolini & Lemieux take ROAR Fuel Titles

The ROAR fuel on road Nationals took place last week in Lincoln, Nebraska and the race was open to 1/8th scale and 1/10th scale sedan. In the 1/8th class it was Worlds runner up Mike Swauger that took the pole position for Mugen, ahead of Serpent racer Chris Tosolini in 2nd, Ralph Burch 3rd and Scott Kimbrow in 4th. In the race it was Tosolini that emerged on top, winning the 45 minute race by 2 laps from Serpent team mate Scott Kimbrow in 2nd and Mike Swauger in 3rd. In the sedan class it was Xray racer Ralph Burch who sat on pole, with Serpent racer Paolo Morganti in 2nd, Paul Lemiuex in 3rd and Mike Swauger completing the top 4. In the race both Morganti and Burch hit trouble leaving Lemieux to take the National title for Xray, a lap clear of Mike Swauger for Mugen in 2nd and Chris Tosolini for Serpent taking 3rd only 3 seconds back. The 1/8th Masters class saw the win for Rick Davis, running the Serpent 966 in front of Larry Barnett in 2nd and Harry Hananouchi in 3rd.

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June 15, 2010

Ilia van Gastel dominates Dutch EFRA GP

Last weekend saw the EFRA Grand Prix 1/8 IC on road run at the beautiful AMCA track in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. A relatively low attendance of drivers for a GP, but with plenty of famous names of European top drivers attending it was sure to be very close racing for everybody and a highly competitive event. TQ went to Belgium driver Ilia van Gastel ahead of Serpent team mate Michael Salven, with Rick Vrielijnck in 3rd for Mugen and Oliver Mack taking the final direct qualifying position for Shepherd in 4th. The Fastest lap time of the event was done by Belgian race Gunther van Staey, a 14.078 seconds, which he did in qualifying round 3 on Saturday afternoon.

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June 15, 2010

Volta takes all at French 1/8th Nats Rd4

Last weekend the 4th round of the French Championship took place near the small village of Reding, Lorraine. In total about 60 drivers attend the event under perfect weather conditions. Again Shepherd driver Richard Volta showed a good performance and clocked the fastest laptimes. With his Velox V8 he secured himself the pole-position the fourth time in a row at national championship races. As the tyre wear was very high a good strategy was the key to the victory. Volta decided to change tyres twice and it perfectly worked. After 45 minutes he crossed the finishing line in first position two laps in front of Anthony Abisset and Stéphane Riccobono another lap down. With his second victory in a row he increased his lead in the French Championship with only one race to go.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 15, 2010

JConcepts Super Cup Rd5 short course report

With a reported weather storm on the radar, a quick change of itinerary from Coral Springs to Treasure Coast Raceway made round 5 of the Super Cup even more exciting. With this being a make-up and additional race to the 2010 series, drivers were hyped and ready for action on the technical Treasure Coast track. Huge thanks to both the Coral Springs club and Treasure Coast Speedway for their constant effort and support of the racers in Florida. In the Pro 2 stock SCT class, it was a battle between the points leader Jimmie Cooper and Craig Lowe. Cheston VanAlstyne put his Kyosho truck in the TQ position but a problem forced him out of contention early leaving Jimmie and Craig to battle things out. Craig reigned supreme and earned his 1st win on the 2010 Super Cup series. Jimmie Cooper finished in 2nd with Aaron Wood rounding out the top 3.

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June 15, 2010

Sirio team up with Christer Andersson

Having announced his deal with Capricorn yesterday, top electric driver Christer Andersson, has joined team Sirio to power his new chassis’. Pictured above with Sirio’s Gino Voghera, the Associated team driver will participate at the 200mm touring World Championships in Houston as well as the Euros in Gotenborg using the Sirio XXX-V engine.

Source: Lavorazioni Mecchaniche s.r.l.

June 15, 2010

Northern German Electric off-road regional Rd4

The ASC Celle held the fourth round of the Northern German electric off-road regionals last weekend. The race took place on the club’s newly built and very demanding astro turf track. 2WD modified saw touring car specialist Christian Ahrens (Schumacher Cougar SV) claim the TQ spot but technical issues saw him drop to 7th place in the A-final. Instead GM-Racing team driver Stephan Pieper put his Associated B4FT in 1st place followed by Sebastian Sürstedt (Atomic Carbon CR2) and Michael Vollmer (Associated B4FT). 4th place went to Maximilian Krohn (Schumacher Cougar SV). It was also Stephan Pieper who would win the 4WD modified A-main again with his B4, finding his 2WD faster than his 4WD Yokomo B-Max. Kyosho/Team Orion team driver Tim Benson drove his Kyosho ZX5 FS to second spot followed by Michael Breitrück (Kyosho ZX5) and Marco Eymer (Team Durango DEX410).

Thanks to Sebastian Suerstedt for the report.