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April 26, 2010

Hungarian Electric National Championship

The 2009/2010 Hungarian Electric National Championship, which comprised of 7 rounds from which 6 count, came to an end in April at the Dabas Diego Sport Center. The Hungarian Electric National Championship which runs only on carpet from October until April, had an average entries of 110-120 racers during the season and not only saw National Championship categories but hosted races also for Formula-1, Buggy (1/10, 1/16) Gentleman and Junior drivers. In the most popular category called N (Newcomers) it was Viktor Juhasz (Losi), who won all 7 races and the championship ahead of Jozsef Valent (Xray) and young talent Akos Kloiber (Losi).

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April 26, 2010

Russian Touring series – Announcement

Russian RC club RC Moscow have announced the creation of the new Russian Touring series. Consisting of 10 races, the winners in Pro Stock and Modified classes will be awarded tickets to one of the ETS races next year. Created to promote RC racing in Russia and help talented drivers to participate in famous European races and develop their driving skills, the first race will take place in Moscow on the 8th – 9th of May. The control tires for the event will be supplied by Xenon, while Speed Passion will be the Pro Stock motor supplier. International playboy Toni Rheinard from Toni Sport will be in attendance at round 1 of the series to offer technical support.

For details of the track location and rules go here or you can contact organizers via e-mail (art-lopukhin@mtu-net.ru).

April 25, 2010

Fabio Boero wins Rd1 in Italy

The Italian 1/8th buggy Nationals got underway this weekend at the Valley Sporting Club in Alberobello in the very south of the country. Reigning champion Riccardo Rabitti managed to TQ the event with his Picco powered Losi, ahead of Mugen/Reds Racing driver Fabio Boero, with multiple Champion Davide Tortorici in 3rd. Things would go badly for Rabitti in his semi final, a number of problems in his race saw him lose too much time and so failed to bump into the main event. Fabio Boero would start from the pole position for the hour long race, with Carlo Jacopini lining up just behind him. In the race itself, it was Riccardo Perin that took the early lead, while behind it was Jacopini in 2nd being chased by a hard recovering Boero who had lost a lot of time on lap 2. Just before the half way point Perin hit trouble, and with Boero up to 2nd he was able to pounce and take the lead, which he held on to until the end. Davide Tortorici took 2nd place, passing Fabrizio Teghesi a few laps before the end, demoting the Kyosho driver to 3rd spot by the flag.

View the final results here

April 25, 2010

Peter Harder takes victory in Danish opener

The opening round of the Danish 1/8th off road Nationals took place this weekend with nice sunny weather in Hillerød on the challenging NXC track north of Copenhagen. Peter Harder with his Novarossi powered Xray 808 took a strong victory leading from early on to win by 3 laps from Losi driver Silas Høgholt Pedersen, with HongNor driver Tim Culmsee completing the top 3.

Click here to see the final results

April 24, 2010

Short Course Nationals – Announcement

The organisers of the 2010 Short Course Nationals to be held at R/C Madness in Enfield, CT were in touch to promote their event which takes place from the 9th to 11th of July. As the name suggests, the race is only open to short course vehicles by encompasses 7 classes including Slash spec, 2wd stock, 2wd open, 4wd electric small block, 4wd electric big block, mini short course open and finally 4wd nitro open. Registration is now open and you can find the entry form here.

April 24, 2010

Short Course Nationals – Announcement

April 23, 2010

Shasa Lackner joins Hot Race Tyres

Italian company Hot Race Tyres have signed front running Swiss driver Shasa Lackner to run their tires in both 1/8th and 1/10th scale for the 2010 season. The Motonica driver, who just signed for Team Magic in 1/10th scale, used the tires to great success, winning the opening round of the Swiss 1/8th scale Nationals in Lostallo last weekend.

April 22, 2010

Matt Gosch joins AKA team

AKA have announced that Matt Gosch has joined their team for the coming season. “Matt and his dad are some of the nicest people you will meet and we are very proud to be apart of what they bring on and off the track”. In Matt’s first race out on AKA tires he TQ’d and won the event and was very impressed with how little the tires wore yet still produced great traction.

Source: AKA [raceaka.com]