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January 29, 2010

Drivers full of praise for Czech ETS track

Round 3 of the Euro Touring Series is underway here in the Czech Republic and there is nothing but praise coming from the top drivers for the track that has been created by race host Michal Bok and his crew. Drivers are enjoying the challenge of the long and technical track, 19-seconds being the current benchmark lap time. Making his international debut for the Tamiya Racing Factory team it is young Elliot Harper who is setting the early pace in practice. The British driver says the track is really nice and has a good flow to it. Still making small adjustments to his set-up, Harper said overall he is pleased with his car on used tyres but on a fresh set of Xenon tyres both he and his team-mates are struggling.

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January 28, 2010

Miguel Matias wins Modelcar Cup

RB are reporting that their new team driver, Miguel Matias has won his first race in Portugal, the Modelcar Cup in Dairas, Vale de Cambra, on his debut for his new engine sponsor. Taking the TQ, he would take the victory, despite some radio troubles in the last minutes of the main final. Carlos Durães, one of the new Portuguese young stars, and also RB Team driver, was 2nd and fought to the victory in the last minutes of the race, finishing very close to Matias. New Losi/RB signing Ricardo Monteiro completed the final podium in 3rd.

Source: RB [rbproducts.com]

January 28, 2010

Swauger & Ishitani win big at Novarossi Challenge Rd1

This past weekend race 1 of the Novarossi Challenge Series was held at Crystal Park Raceway in southern California. The big winners were Mike Swauger in the Expert 1/8th class, Darin Ishitani in the Expert Sedan class and Ryan Alfonso in the Sprtsman 1/8th class. It was the first large event that the newly EFRA & ROAR approved Protoform R5-N sedan body was used in competition. Mike Swauger handily TQ’ed using the R5-N and when qualifying was over there were 8 A-main drivers using the body as well. Mike Swauger succumbed to motor problems and was not able to start the A-Main. Mugen teammate Darin Ishitani got he big “Win”.

Continue reading the report here.

January 28, 2010

Elliot Harper confirmed at World Champion TRF team

Tamiya Racing Factory have officially announced that 16 year old British racer Elliott Harper has joined their team for the 2010 season. The World and European Championship finalist will compete in the UK Nationals, the European Championships in Finland and France and the Worlds in Germany, along with many other races with the new Tamiya TRF416X. Having already competed at some regional races in the UK with his new Tamiya, Elliot will make his international debut this weekend at ETS round 3 in Hrotovice, Czech Republic. Elliott had the following to say about his new deal:

I am really looking forward to the 2010 season and running the Tamiya TRF416X. Racing with Tamiya is an exciting opportunity and I feel very fortunate to be part of this established team. I am looking forward to working closely with some of the best known racers in the World and working together to gain some great results for Tamiya. This is a fantastic learning and developing opportunity for me. I have already run the package for some races now and its very, very good! I am really looking forward to the coming races and especially the ETS race this weekend. It will be great fun. I would also like to take the opportunity to thank Xray, Juraj, Mario, Martin and the rest of the team for the last two seasons as they have provided me with lots of support and encouragement.

Source: Tamiya [tamiya.com]

January 28, 2010

Dennis Fadtke dominates Polish Nats Rd3

The 3rd round of the Polish Touring car Nationals took place last weekend in Tarnow and attracted more than 100 drivers, despite the -24 degree temperatures outside. Inside it was a more acceptable 18 degrees and qualifying would go the way of Dennis Fadtke in both the modified and stock classes. In the mod finals, Fadtke would go on to win ahead of Morris Indovino in 2nd and Paweł Żelazo 3rd, and would do the double by taking the stock win in front of Blazej Orlowski and Maciek Brzozowski.

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January 28, 2010

World Champions go head to head as ETS makes first visit to Czech Republic

The third round of the 2009/2010 Euro Touring Series travels for the first time to the Czech Republic this weekend where almost 200 drivers from around the world will descend on the town of Hrotovice in the south of the country. While current electric Touring Car World Champion Marc Rheinard is no stranger to competing in the Xenon Racing backed series, this weekend the German will go head to head with the nitro Touring Car World title holder Daniele Ielasi.

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January 27, 2010

Miguel Matias rejoins RB team

RB Products have announced that former European Champion and multiple Worlds and European finalist Miguel Matias has rejoined RB. After some tests in the past few months, the former Ninja race decided to make the switch back to the French brand. With the Euros taking place in his home country this summer, Matias had the following the say about the deal:

Yes. I’m back again. I couldn’t forget that all my most important results and titles were got with RB Engines. 2010 will be a very important season, where we’ll race the Euro and World Champs. I’ll be there to fight to the victory.

Source: RB [rbproducts.com]

January 26, 2010

Jesse Robbers does double at CRCRC MWNC

Having already briefly written about the CRCRC Midwest Nitro Champs, Hot Bodies are reporting that in the electric 1/8 class their team driver Jesse Robbers qualified 2nd with the Ve8 and took the win. Even with electronic problems plaguing him all weekend Jesse was able to hold onto his lead and go on to win the race from Associated team manager Brent Thielke. In nitro buggy qualifying Jesse and Ryan Maifield traded 1st position several times but in the main Jesse was able to drive better average lap times and make less mistakes and so was able to build up a big gap to Maifield in 2nd position.

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