A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> Video from the LRP TC masters – Link [hobbykanalen.com]
> Video interviews from the Neo08 – Link [vimeo.com]
> S400 on podium at WOW Minnesota State Champs – Link [serpent.com]
> UK Nitro Touring Nationals Rd1 – Link [teamxray.com]
> Ryan Cavalieri wins the Pro-Line Cactus Classic – Link [teamorion.com]
Entry is open for ETS Rd3 in The Netherlands, April 11th-13th
Our friends from Dansk Hobby Import have been in touch to tell us about their success over the Winter months with their newly signed driver Jonas Kaerup.
Last fall Morfars.dk chose to focus more on the competition segment of the RC market and made a deal with former European Champion Jonas Kaerup to race the Hot Bodies Cyclone for Morfars.dk. Jonas Kaerup has competed in the Danish DASU /national championship all winter in the modified category a class that has been very closely fought with some tremendous races. In the last race of the season, Jonas had to TQ and win in order to take the championship. That is exactly what he did, and after winning all 3 mains he was celebrated as the Danish National Champion 2007/08. Throughout the championship Jonas Kaerup has used GM’s Commander charger, GM Evo3 motors, GM Vis-matched cells, along with Xenon gears, Kanzen bearings, Racer magazine and Much More products, with great success. Morfars.dk wishes to congratulate Jonas Kaerup on his championship success.
Serpent are reporting on the German Regionals for the West area at which Michael Salven was in action over the weekend. The factory Serpent driver was unstoppable around the tricky and demanding Dormagen track taking the TQ and race win along with setting a new track record with his Serpent 960’08. Salven’s win was backed up by a great drive from engine tuning guru Karl Heinz Meister who claimed the runners up spot with new Shepherd signing Christian Wurst in 3rd.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The 6th and final round of the Lithuanian National indoor championship was run last Sunday in Vilnius and we received this report. ‘The Touring Stock class was dominated all season by Tomas Riūka driving a HPI PRO4. Out of the 5 rounds counting Tomas won 4, but he said “the battle for title was not as easy as seemed. The competitors were extremely strong and put a lot of pressure on me at every race but as in any form of racing the important thing was to remain consistent and error free”. The second spot in the series was taken by Donatas Katilauskas with a Tamiya TRF415 MSX who was just behind in the overall championship, while 3rd place belonged to HB Cyclone driver Robertas Daskevičius. In 1/12th Mod it was Corally driver Mindaugas Ambrasas that won the championship after dominating the series, winning all rounds. He had this to say “I had a really bad day at 6th round but managed to win it. I also enjoy that the competition is growing stronger and the class is also growing in number. Next season won’t be easy”. The runner up spot in this class was taken by Lithuanian RC Cars Association president Evaldas Urbonas while the 3rd spot went to Latvian racer Janis Klimenkovs, who showed better speed than Urbonas, but missed number of races and therfore lost crucial amount of points.’
Thanks to Mindaugas Ambrasas for the report
Xray have announced that top Australian Touring car racer Peter Jovanovic has joined Xray to race their NT1 and T2008 chassis’. One of Australia’s youngest and most celebrated on road Champions, he has a long string of State and National titles, as well as a 3rd place finish at the 2006 200mm World Championships.
Joining Team Xray has been a huge step in my racing career, I have had my eye on Xray for a while now and it is a huge relief joining and working together with such a high performance racing team. I had tested the T2008 and its smoothness and consistency was the first thing that made me know that Xray is going to make a big impact on my racing and take me another step further. Thanks to Xray and Custom Model Cars for making this all possible.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Following in the foot steps of his Tamiya team mate Jilles Groskamp, Viktor Wilck has signed a deal to use Speed Passion motors for the rest of the season, with an option for 2009. Formerly running with the Team Orion units, the Swedish driver who won the DHI Cup earlier this year, was using the new motors for the first time at last weekends LRP race in which he finished in 3rd position.
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> Mike Swauger wins the 08 Westcoast Champs – Link [jpracing.com]
> Vicente Eres wins in Villareal, Spain – Link [teamxray.com]
> Prümper stars with stars at LRP Masters – Link [serpent.com]
> First pictures of the Piktor Mad Eco – Link [rcmag.com]
> 1/10 World Championship Warm-up report – Link [teamxray.com]
> Jonas Kærup is Danish Touring car Champion – Link [racerc.dk]
Entry is open for ETS Rd3 in The Netherlands, April 11th-13th
The first round of the Spanish 1/8th scale gas Nationals was run last weekend in dry weather at the Cañete track in Cordoba. Qualifying saw the top spot for the semi finals go to GS racer Richi Gomez with current European Champion Robert Battle claiming the top spot for the other semi final. It was Mugen racer Daniel Vega however that claimed the quickest time in the semi to take the pole position for the main final with Borja Hernandez starting from the 2nd position. Almost immediately Vega had problems and dropped to the back of the field allowing Antonio Jesus Gomez to take the lead, which he held for the first 8 laps until a quick moving Batlle took over at the front. The Hobao driver then proceeded to swap this position with Hernandez for the rest of the race, but was ahead when it counted and took the win just ahead of Borja in 2nd, with Antonio Jesus Gomez holding on to the 3rd spot, 2 laps behind the leading pair.
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