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July 14, 2008

Stefan Hanauer wins German 1/8th Nats

The German 1/8th scale on road Nationals were run last weekend in Ettlingen, and it was Kyosho racer Stefan Hanauer that took the title. With so many International drivers in attendance such as Michael Salven, Oliver Mack, Robert Pietsch and Andreas Hammerl, the level was very high and the competition tough. Qualifying saw Shepherd racer, and current German Champion, Robert Pietsch take pole position ahead of Mugen driver Oliver Mack, with Philip Eberle and Stefan Hanauer completing the top 4. In the final Hanauer was able to come out on top following some changes at the top and despite some late race pressure from pole man Pietsch, Hanauer could hold onto to his lead to win. Pietsch ended the race 2 seconds behind the Kyosho racer with Shepherd boss Patrick Schäfer claiming 3rd, just 7 seconds up on 4th placed finisher Andreas Hammerl.

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July 14, 2008

Josué Artiles wins Rd3 Spanish Nats

The 3rd round of the Spanish 1/10th scale Nationals took place last weekend at the Valladolid track in the centre of the country. The weather was good all weekend, apart from some light rain on the Saturday but not enough to effect the 77 racers in attendance. Pole position went to Xray racer Eduardo Escandón, the only racer to get 17 laps in qualifying to place ahead of Xabier Arana in 2nd, Merlin racer Oscar Cabezas in 3rd and Josué Artiles in 4th. The 30 minute A-main saw all change from the starting order, with Mugen racer Artiles taking the win by over a lap from Hugo Santos in 2nd and pole man Eduardo Escandon taking 3rd, just ahead of Serpent racer Cabezas in 4th.

Source: Merlin [merlinfuel.com]

July 13, 2008

Perez wins Rd3 Brazilian Nationals

Serpent are reporting on the 3rd round of the Brazilian Nationals where Ricardo Perez driving a Serpent 720 ’08 took the win. Saturday’s qualifying saw round 2 winner and another Serpent racer Henrique Winik TQ the event ahead of Flavio Elias and Perez. The finals on Sunday, which were held in very hot conditions, saw car no.1 of Winik in top form and he was able to run a lap time below the previous record. Unfortunately engine problems would rule him out of back to back victories, but team-mate Perez took up the lead where he would stay till the end to take the win. This moves him into the lead of the standings and bring him closer to becoming 2008 Brazilian Champion.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

July 13, 2008

Neil Cragg takes 4wd European title

Our friends at oOple are reporting that Neil Cragg took a hard fought win in the 4WD event at the 2008 EFRA European Championships with the new Yokomo B-Max to back up his win in 2wd a few days earlier. Neil didn’t have everything his own way in qualifying – laying in third position overnight. As mentioned in the oOple race report though, the last two qualifiers can change everything and Neils Yokomo was dialled in the last two qualifiers – taking both rounds to give him overall TQ. Neil won the first two legs of the A and sat out the third to allow the other drivers to battle for second. Hupo Honigl took the third in an amazing race with Lee Martin right behind all the way – giving him second overall, with Lee Martin third.

Read the full report here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

July 11, 2008

Renaud Savoya joins Ultimate Racing

Ultimate Racing is pleased to announce that after talking with the French UR distributor Aigoin Racing and testing some UR products during the week in Greece, the 2008 European Champion Renaud Savoya has officially joined the UR team. With this new addition to the pretty established UR team, it now consists of most of Europe’s top drivers like Robert Batlle, Yannick Aigoin, Fabio Boero, Davide Tortorici, Miguel Matias, Graham Alsop, David Crompton, Christoffer Svensson, Julien Lattanzio, Fabrizio Teghesi among others who are already using the high performance UR products.

Source: Ultimate Racing [ultimateracing.es]

July 10, 2008

Daily News Round-up

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

> Associated report on the HRH Off road Shootout – Link [rc10.com]
> Argentine Championship 1 / 8 Off-Road Rd 2 – Link [rcnews.com.ar]
> Mirage report on BRCA 200mm Nats Rd5 – Link [mirageracing.com]
> Dominant DRT for Xray – Link [mirageracing.com]
> XB808 2nd at GS Racing Cup Malaysia – Link [teamxray.com]

July 10, 2008

Barry Baker joins Team Magic

Top US racer and 2007 ROAR National Champion Barry Baker has announced that he is leaving Team RC America and Xray to race for Taiwanese manufacturer Team Magic. A move away from Xray seemed to be on the cards when he started using Team Orion products in his car recently, moving away from the RC America team deal with Trinity. Barry released the following statement:

I just wanted to announce that myself and Team Magic Model LTD. have joined forces! I will be representing Team Magic not only in the racing part of the company but also in the development of the products they have and will be coming out with. I look forward to help with the development of not only the race vehicles but also the RTR vehicles! I will be using all of Team Magic’s Products….E4RS for Rubber tire racing…E4FS for foam tire racing…G4RS for Gas car racing…..and the M1B for 1/8th off road….With the help of K-Factory and H.A.R.D products I will do my best to put them in the winners circle! Not only will I be working directly with the factory, I also will help promote the car not only worldwide but I also know how hard Wolf Hobbies works in the U.S and I will help them as much as I can! I will debut with the cars at the IIC…Anyone going feel free to come check them out and I will be more then happy to answer any question there……As for questions about the Cars right now I need to have a few weeks to learn about them and I will start a question answer thread on here! I would like to thank Team Magic Model LTD.

Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]

July 10, 2008

Neil Cragg retains 2wd Euro title

Our mates at oOple, who are present at this weeks 1/10th EP Buggy European Championships, are reporting that defending champion Neil Cragg got off to a good start in the 2wd class, being quickest in practice and going on to win all five qualifying rounds to take an easy pole for the final. Over the three final legs Neil fought a hard battle with Paul Bradby for the title, a Nail biting fight on the last leg between these two saw Neil take the title, Paul Bradby second and Hupo Honigl third.

Read the full oOple Euros report here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]