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.
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.
Last weekend saw an open class short course race at the astro turf out door off-road track in Celle, Northern Germany, which took place as part of a northern division regional electric off-road race. The class was dominated by Lennart Sulzbach and his Associated SC10 as he not only TQ’ed but also won the first and second A-main. Second place went to Ulrich Wartmann (Associated SC10) in front of Jörg Heise (Associated SC10). The next three places all went to HPI’s Blitz SC truck with Stefan Wolter, Matze Axmann and Marina Maiwald on 4th to 6th place. Young Matti Breitrück grabbed 7th spot with a Losi Strike SC truck. The high traction astro turf surface made set-up crucial and most of the drivers opted to use harder compound stock tyres in combination with a reduced ride height.
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Last weekend saw the Nordic Championships take place in 1/10th 2WD and 4WD buggy at the Radøy raceway in Norway, not too far from Bergen. The race featured a really strong field with champions from Norway, Sweden and Finland in contention.2WD kicked off with a wet track making the standings a little unexpected initially, but with a drying track for the final two rounds the results really changed as PerErik Nordman came into shape with his Kyosho Ultima RB-5 SP2 and won the last two of the 4 rounds of qualifying making him the top qualifier.
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Last Sunday, the third round of the Belgian Mini-Z series took place in Wommelgem and the race saw 2 classes in action, Expert GT class and Stock LM. The TQ in expert class was, with a big margin of 4 laps, was Steve Deblaere who also was able to win the 2 finals to strengthen his lead in the championship.
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Capricorn RC have announced that front running electric touring driver Christer Andersson has signed a 2 year deal with the Italian company to run their LAB-C01 200mm has chassis. The Finnish driver will race the car this year at the World Championships in Houston, Texas, as well as the European Championships in Sweden later in the summer.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
Round two of this seasons BRCA 1:10 Electric touring car championship took place over the weekend at the superb Cotswold track in picturesque Gloucestershire. In the Super Touring Class Elliott Harper broke Chris Grainger’s strangle hold on the domestic UK series with a TQ and win, while in the Pro Stock class James Hart took the win for Schumacher.
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Our friends over at Neo Buggy are reporting that Portuguese driver Ricardo Monteiro has claimed the win at the 2010 European ‘B’ Championships in Valladolid, Spain this weekend. In qualifying it was Spanish racer Patxi Penas that took the top spot but problems in the semi final meant he wouldn’t bump up. While wet earlier in the event, conditions on Sunday were perfect and in the main final there was a strong battle between pole man Bryan Baldo and Monteiro, but issues for Baldo saw him retire, leaving the way free for Losi/RB man Monteiro to win by 20 seconds ahead of Xray/RB driver Carlos Durães in 2nd, with Mugen/Ninja Adrien Perez in 3rd a further 9 seconds back.
Source: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net]
