Last weekend, the Swedish EFRA GP was held at the Väst-8 facility in Gothenburg, host of the 2010 EC in 1:10 IC. The race saw drivers from Sweden, Norway and Denmark in attendance and was run under perfect conditions except for some clouds on the final day. The practice started already on Friday with the majority of the 33 entered drivers present at the track.
Xray team driver Frederik Suedhoff, crowned as the 2009 European Champion (B) early May, has taken the win when leading the pack at round four of the 2009 Western German Championship 1/10 scale nitro on-road in Bad Breisig in the south of the former capital Bonn. The podium was completed by Kyosho driver Bernd Rausch on second and Mugen racer Sebastian Buerge on third. Following an excellent practice session on Saturday race day started with sad news. In the drivers briefing race director Holger Schluss informed the total of 41 competitors that Dieter Weck, the nitro on-road chairman of the German rc racing association DMC, had passed away during the night because of a heart attack. In a minute of silence the RC community commemorated Dieter Weck who was a man in action and racer with all his heart.
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Top female racer Sabrina Lechner from Germany has confirmed a new deal that will see her run MLC fuel for the rest of the season. The Serpent/Max driver inked a deal at the European ‘B’ Championships in Cassino that sees her join the team of 8-time World Champion Lamberto Collari who is shown above posing for photos with his new driver. Sabrina will run the fuel during at National & International level and will be back in Italy later this month to compete at the European 1/10th scale Championships in Gubbio.
The organizers of the 2010 Snowbird Nationals were in contact to let everyone know that they have finalized all the details for next years event and that everything is official for the 16th running of this great event. Taking place from the 26th to the 31st of January, it will once again be held at the Radisson Resort in Orlando, Florida. The rules and classes are expected to be announced around October with the entry for the race opening in November. More information is on the official site now, with a new race site going live in the coming months.
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Former European Champion and front running 1/8th scale buggy racer, Jörn Neumann has announced that he will be using Jab Graphix products. The Losi/Team Orion driver has already begun using the skins on his pit equipment, an example of which you can see in his hands with the Futaba 4PK transmitter and LRP power supply, while more items will be getting skinned in his distinctive colours in the near future.
Source: Jab Graphix [jabgraphix.com]
Running simultaneously to the real IFMAR World Championship for 1/8 nitro cars that takes place this August, VRC will hold its own Virtual Wolds on the very same Lostallo track in Switzerland. With a total length of 403m this is by far the largest track ever to host an IFMAR Worlds and only 150 racers will be lucky enough to be present in Switzerland. But VRC now invites all other r/c racers to join the Virtual 1/8 Nitro Worlds, for FREE and just for this special event the Lostallo track will also be made available for FREE. VRC look forward to welcome racers from all over the world to give the game a try and compete for the Virtual Worlds title. Order your VRC adaptor from the VRC e-shop, hook up your receiver, switch on your transmitter and start practicing today. Make sure you’re ready for it in August.
For more information on how to sign up and get the Lostallo track for free, click on the VRC banner to go to the special Virtual Worlds page on the VRC website.
Located directly in the center of the United States, Omaha, Nebraska and the Hobbytown Hobbyplex was selected to host the 1/10th ROAR Electric Off road National Championship and Team Associated were there in force and have given us this report. With prior experience in hosting National Championships, the Hobbyplex crew put together a great layout that challenged drivers from the top pros to the 17.5 classes. This year’s event featured a few new changes highlighted by six-minute races as opposed to the traditional five-minute heats and due to the large track size, 12-car main events.
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The sixth round of the Puerto Rico Championship was held at the Barceloneta R/C track last weekend. In the 1/8 scale class it was Andy Báez who was setting the pace in qualifying, taking pole position with the only 15 lap run of the day. In the 30 minute final Andy was leading ahead of Mugen team mate Fernando Méndez and Kyosho driver Pedro Alvarado when he had his front tire come-off twice, allowing Alvarado to take the lead. Some serious recovery laps by Báez allowed him take the advantage of Alvarado’s mistakes to be able to recover and go on to take the race win by 3 laps over 2nd place Fernando Méndez with Pedro Alvarado eventually dropping back to 3rd spot.
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