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April 25, 2008

TC WC Warm-up – Controlled Practice

Atsushi Hara sets pace at WC Warm-up

The Warm up event for this years Touring car World Championships in November is being run at in Thailand this week under mixed weather conditions. Following 2 rounds of controlled practice today, it was Hot Bodies racer, and former World Champion, Atsushi Hara from Japan that was setting the pace. Sitting 4 seconds clear at the top, Hara set his quickest time in the first of the 2 sessions and now sits nearly 4 seconds clear of Kyosho Factory driver Shin Adachi (pictured), who is currently in 2nd. The 3rd and 4th position are held by Tamiya team drivers Viktor Wilck and Marc Rheinard, while rounding out the top 5 is Masami Hirosaka, driving a Yokomo.

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April 24, 2008

Daily News Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Report from Schumacher BTCC Rd1 Stafford – Link [racing-cars.com]
> MMR Electric Challenge ’08 report – Link [serpent.com]
> 8th Edition of the Di Monaco Championships – Link [serpent.com]
> More images and info on the Jammin X2 – Link [radiocontrolzone.com]

April 24, 2008

Schaer wins Swiss 1/10th Nats Rd1

The opening round of the Swiss 1/10th 200mm National Championships was run recently at the MRCL club’s track in Langenthal. Taking place under dry but cold conditions, qualifying saw Dirk Stammler take the pole position ahead of Beat Wälti in 2nd, Traugott Schaer in 3rd and Marc Bösiger 4th. The start of the main final saw Stammler go straight into the lead followed by Beat and Traugott, the latter taking over 2nd place when Walti made a small mistake. Only 4 minutes in and Dirk’s car came to a stop allowing Schaer into the lead, where he stayed, conserving his tyres until 4 minutes to the end when his car ran out of tyres completely, meaning an unscheduled stop. This allowed Walti into the lead but he too had to make an unscheduled stop before the end and this allowed Schaer back into the lead where he could take the win, ahead of a recovering Walti in 2nd and Giovanni Bonetti in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 24, 2008

Spanish EFRA 1/8th GP – Videos

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Our friends at Merlin Fuel were present at the Spanish EFRA GP, or European 1/8th scale Warm up as it was billed, in Valencia Spain last weekend and while there they made some videos of the action. The video above is from practice and some sub finals while the video below is from the main final, that was eventually won by Shepherd Velox driver Robert Pietsch.

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April 23, 2008

Daily News Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> CAT SX makes great national debut – Link [racing-cars.com]
> Just Hobby Nitro 1/10 Sedan Challenge Report – Link [teamxray.com]
> Klöckner is German Junior EP Champion – Link [serpent.com]
> Forrest takes Baja to the Top – Link [mirageracing.com]
> Byron keeps on Winning – BRCA Nats Rd2 – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]
> Report on first Danish National success for S400 – Link [serpent.com]
> Hermes Andriolo signs to Associated America – Link [modellismorc.net]
> Mike Christensen joins Morfars.dk – Link [racerc.dk]

April 23, 2008

Darren Johnson wins BRCA 200mm Rd2

The 2nd round of the 1/10th scale BRCA National Championships took place last weekend at the Brooklands track in south east England. With Saturday being washed out, the organisers gave all competitors some running time on Sunday morning to obtain a setup for the track before going into qualifying. After a close fought qualifying battle it was Darren Johnson that claimed the TQ spot less than a second ahead of team mate Robin Hammett, with Serpent SDD driver Kyle Branson in third ahead of Mark Gilliland in 4th. The start of the final saw Darren and Robbin go out into the lead and while evenly matched on the tack, Johnson gained some time in the pitstops and this was the difference which gave him the win, with Hammet in 2nd and another Xray, that of Gareth Bell, in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 22, 2008

Daily News Round-up

A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:

> Kidderminster buggy Season Opener Report – Link [mirageracing.com]
> Xray V.I.P. Service at the 200mm Euro B’s – Link [teamxray.com]
> Navan Winter Series report – Link [mirageracing.com]
> S400 wins Romanian National Championship – Link [serpent.com]
> RB report on Belgian Touring car opener – Link [rbproducts.com]
> Graham Alsop wins Frankley Panther Cup – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]

April 22, 2008

Kidderminster Nationals report by oOple

Last weekend saw the first round of the 2008 BRCA 10th off road National series, held at the multi-surface Kidderminster track in the mid-west of England. Saturday’s 2WD event saw early promise for Tom Yardy who won the first two qualifiers, but Neil Cragg came back in style to take the next two and line up Pole for the final. Neil Went on to win legs 1 and 3 to take the first 2WD National of the season. In the 4WD things were far more simple – 2007 reigning champion, Lee Martin, dominated from start to finish with his Associated B44, taking every qualifier and all three legs of the A final.

Read the full report here, including lots of great photos.

Source: oOple [oople.com]