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April 5, 2008

Germany wins in battle against Holland

Last weekend at the Purmerend artificial surface track in the Netherlands was the revenge race of the Germany versus Holland event, that last year was taken by Holland. This years race was held under changing weather and some good drivers from both countries were in attendance to battle for their country’s pride. The race saw some close fights throughout the field but in the end it was Daniel Reckward that took the win, followed closely by Tim Bremicker in 2nd while 3rd spot went to Marcell Guske and these positions were enough to give the win for Germany.

Source: RMV [rmv-deutschland.de]

April 4, 2008

ETS Holland – Viktor Wilck confirmed

Modified top 3

The organisers of the 3rd round of the Much More backed European Touring series, that takes place at the World famous MACH track in Heemstede, just outside Amsterdam in the Netherlands on the 11th – 13th of April, are pleased to announce that with Viktor Wilck’s entry confirmed, the entire podium from both ETS Rd2 and the recent LRP Masters will be present at this round. Other confirmed entrants include German National Champion Marc Fischer, French National Champion Cyril N’Diaye, DHI Cup stock class winner Jimmy Maddison and ETS Rd2 stock class winner Nicolai Nielson.

Do you want to race against some of the World’s top touring car racers, while being commentated on by the legendary Scotty Ernst, in a fun and friendly, yet professional racing atmosphere then be sure to get your entry in for round 3 of the ETS by going here.

April 3, 2008

Daily News Round-up

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

> TWP National RC Pro Series announcement – Link [rcprosites.com]
> HoBao Dominates the Interclub Challenge – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]
> Andrea Cristiani reports on the Italian Nitro Tour – Link [serpent.com]
> BRCA 200mm Foam Nationals Rd1 report – Link [teamwilliams.co.uk]
> Mawson wins New Zealand Nationals – Link [serpent.com]
> Ali Graham reports on the LRP Masters – Link [mirageracing.com]
> Close-up pictures of the new 908 bodyshell – Link [pvk-photo.com]

Entry is open for ETS Rd3 in The Netherlands, April 11th-13th

April 3, 2008

EFRA Body homologation rule update

EFRA Homologated Bodies 1:10 IC Track

It seems that EFRA have been listening to your objections regarding their strict new policy on the EFRA number placement on bodyshells at their events. Franky Noens, the 1/10th IC Section chairman, sent us a letter outlining that for a number of reasons they understand it would be unfair to implement such a rule at such short notice and so have delayed this policy until 2009.

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April 2, 2008

Daily News Round-up

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

April 2, 2008

Jonas Kaerup is Danish National Champ

Jonas Kaerup is Danish National Champion

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.

April 2, 2008

Michael Salven wins in Dormagen

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]

April 1, 2008

2008 Lithuanian Open Nationals

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