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May 11, 2009

Mattia Pesenti wins Swiss 1/8th Nats Rd2

This past weekend saw the 2nd round of the Swiss 1/8th scale Championship take place in Aigle, in the French part of Switzerland, which is a nice track but very dangerous due to very little run off. On Saturday the weather wasnt so good and they only managed 2 rounds of qualifying before it started to rain. It was Motonica driver Shasa Lackner that claimed the pole position, setting a new lap record, in front of Juerg Nydegger and Luca Martinello both driving Mugen, with the final direct qualifying position going to Marco Mueller with his Shepherd.

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May 11, 2009

Colorado State Pro Series Rd1

This weekend saw the opening race of the 6 round Colorado State Pro Series. Team Losi driver Dustin Evans grabbed TQ in the final round of qualifying in Pro Buggy over team mate Matt Chambers. Dustin took advantage of the clear track ahead of him and went on to lead every lap of the 35 minute main event from Adrian Redding in 2nd, with Lars Johnson claiming 3rd. The Pro Truggy race had Losi Driver and TQ Lars Johnson swapping places with Team Associated driver Adrian Redding several times for the first 20 minutes, before Lars ended up getting the top spot and brought it home in first. Race 2 of the series travels to RAT Raceway in Denver, Colorado on May 30th.

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May 11, 2009

Steven Cuypers wins German West 1/8th Rd5

Serpent designer Michael Salven took a late TQ with 25 laps in the fourth heat at round five of the 2008/2009 Western German Championship at Hamm but the lucky end of the day was in the hands of Steven Cuypers. While Salven ran out of fuel with his Mega powered Serpent 966, Cuypers pushed his Sirio powered Mugen to a clean victory. In the 30 minutes final Cuypers did 143 laps, two more than Tobias Hepp and three more than Karl-Heinz Meister, both with a Serpent-Mega combination.

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May 9, 2009

Belgian Mini-Z National Series

Organisers of the new Belgian Mini-Z National Series were in touch to tell us more about the series that has seen Mini-Z clubs in Belgium get together to form the Championship. Right now the calendar consists of 6 events, held at the different Mini-Z clubs throughout the countey and it will be open to racers in 3 classes, Expert, Standard and LM. The opening race of the series has already taken place back in March with the next round being run next weekend in Brugge, going on till next December, with a break in the summer. For more information about the series visit the event site here.

May 9, 2009

Schumacher Indoor Winter Series season review

Winter was creeping up on us very quickly after a great summer outdoors a few of the Newbury RC club members put a suggestion forward for there to be some Indoor off-road racing on the Fridays the touring cars were not racing, this seemed like a great idea to the committee. With great enthusiasm Richard Saunders one of the clubs off roaders took him self off to MK-RACING to talk to Marc Knight the owner about how we could get some support in the way of prizes, after some pulling of strings Marc At MK Racing managed to get some tyres from Schumacher Racing and put in a few sets him self giving the club 12 sets of Schumacher mini pin tyres to give out as raffle prizes. The Schumacher indoor winter series was born.

May 8, 2009

Christian Wurst to use LMI Racing products

LMI Racing have agreed a deal with Christian Wurst to use their products for the 2009 season, including the new Blitz R09 body shell. The former European ‘B’ Champion, who races for Motonica, will this year compete in the West German Regional races as well as International races too, competing at the European ‘B’ Championship in Cassino, Italy as well as the World Championship in Lostalla, Switzerland.

Source: LMI Racing [lmi-racing.com]

May 8, 2009

Valentino Rossi catches the RC bug

It seems that Moto GP World Champion Valentino Rossi has gotten the RC car bug and was once again spotted at the Riccione track in Italy yesterday, following 2 previous reports last month. Fresh from his win in Jerez at the Spanish Grand Prix, the ‘Doctor’ got his hands on his Max powered Serpent 966, with help from none other than 2 former European Champions Massimo ‘Max’ Fantini and Fabio Domanin as well as Vice World Champion Andrea Cristiani. Stefano Armagni, Denis Pazzaglini and Pasquale, the regular pit man of Fantini, were all on hand to ensure that the car was working well. Perhaps we may see Valentino at some up coming races, if his schedule allows it.

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May 7, 2009

Team Durango success at German Regional races

Team Durango have been in touch to tell us about their latest race victories of the soon to be released DEX410 4WD electric buggy. As reported earlier this week they not only won the 4WD Stock class at last weekends North German regional race in Burgdorf but also finished first and second on the Potsdam race track near Berlin. Durango designer Gerd Strenge finished second in the Modified class while TD team driver Mirko Morgenstern secured himself the race win in the East German regional race. Both used Speed Passion motors, speedos and LiPo batteries to power their rides. In the South of Germany Team Durango team driver Martin Achter won on the very competitive 4WD Modified class over Ralf Missel and Bernhard Bachmann. All of them used the pre-production prototype of the DEX410 buggy who is undergoing the final testing stages as we type.

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