October 28, 2008

Team Gazafond win Merlin Enduro race

Merlin Fuels are reporting on the Merlin Enduro Race which tool place at the GTBRCF track in Toulouse, France. This 6 hour endurance race is a tough test for cars, engines as well as drivers. Everything was perfectly organized by the GTB RC Club and the weather was great for racing. The endurance race was divided in two series of 3 hours each with a lunch break in between and heading into lunch it was Team Sapacepa in the lead by 10 laps from Team Fashion in 2nd, with Team Gazafond in 3rd. The break must have helped because at the completion of the 6 hour race Team Gazafond had managed to work its way up from 3rd to 1st, winning by a mere 2 laps from early leaders Team Sapacepa, while Team Fashion dropped to 3rd, ending up 71 laps down on 2nd.

Source: Merlin Fuel [merlinfuel.com]

October 28, 2008

Daniel Vega wins Madrid Champs opener

The 2009 Madrid Championships for 1/8th scale buggy got underway last weekend at the Fuencarral Track. With 90 drivers taking part at this opening round, it was former European Champion Daniel Vega driving a Mugen that led the final throughout to win from current Spanish EP Buggy Champion Alberto Garcia driving an LRP, with Xray driver Juanma Guillen in 3rd.

October 27, 2008

Tebo & Cavalieri win Reedy Truck ROC

The 2008 Reedy Truck Race of Champions was held last week at Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, California. Temperatures reached the mid to upper 90’s all week long putting motors and batteries to the test in these extreme conditions. On Thursday there was a buzz going around the pits with last years defending Reedy Truck Race Champion and current World Champion Jared Tebo arrived to the track, but had a few less stickers on his truck. Jared was recently released from his motor/battery sponsor a few short weeks ago and didn’t have a power sponsor. A closer look at his truck showed he had a Team Orion Vortex Brushless Motor and a Team Orion 3800 LiPo Battery in his truck.

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October 27, 2008

Eduardo Dulac joins Team Shepherd

Team Shepherd is proud to announce that the 2007 Brazilian Champion Eduardo Dulac has joined Team Shepherd. Dulac will use the 1/8th scale Velox in all major events like the Brazilian Championship, the Portuguese Championship, the World Championship Warm-up in Switzerland as well as the World Championship itself. Additionally Eduardo will also start to manage the sales of Shepherd products to all interested drivers in Brazil.

Source: Team Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

October 27, 2008

Daniel Ornelas takes Rd4 in Mexico

Last weekend the 4th round of the Mexican 1/8th scale National buggy championships took place in Guadalajara. The final saw Associated RC8 driver Marco Allende line up on pole position in front of Alejandro Cortez in 2nd but after the 40 minute final was over it was Xray driver Daniel Ornelas, driving the new wider VP Pro rear tires, that took the win by 28 seconds from Ramon Sigrist in 2nd, while Hector Garcia took 3rd.

Source: VP-Pro [vp-racing.com]

October 26, 2008

Jerome Renaux takes Belgian 200mm title

The 6th and final round of the Belgian 1/10th scale National Championships took place recently at the MRCC track in Charleroi. The weather on Saturday was cold but dry and following one practice session in the morning there were 2 rounds of qualifying in which Xray driver Jerome Renaux set the pace. Sunday arrived and with it the rain, making the final qualifier useless and so Renaux would start on pole for the wet final. In the final the pole man had a good start and by the 15 minute mark had a one lap advantage over 2nd and it would stay that way till the end with Jerome winning from team mate Stephane Roufosse in 2nd and Manuel Henriet in 3rd. This win sealed the T1 title for Renaux.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 26, 2008

Merlin Depta wins German North Rd3

The 3rd round of the North German regionals and a German national qualification round took place in Hildesheim last week. There were 23 racers in attendance and after qualifying it was Jens Stark on pole followed by Lars Hoppe, Juergen Stark and Michael Paetz taking the direct final qualifying spots. After the 30 minute final it was 17 year old Serpent driver Merlin Depta who would claim his first regional win, 6 laps ahead of 2nd place Michael Paetz with Friedrich Roehrs in 3rd.

October 25, 2008

Campos takes Brazilian 1/10th title

The 4th round of the 1/10th scale Brazilian touring car National Championships took place recently at the Fazenda Vesuvio in Sao Paulo. Mugen racer Leandro Campos took the TQ in qualifying and was able to win the 45 minute race by a lap from Xray driver Chung Min Hsu in 2nd with another Mugen driver Marcos Mayer in 3rd. This win confirmed Campos as the Brazilian Champion for 2008.

Source: Mugen [mugenseiki.com]

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