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August 6, 2013

John Ermen wins Dutch 1/8th nationals Rd5

The fifth round of the Dutch 1/8th on-road nationals took place at the legendary Apeldoorn track under scorching hot weather conditions. During Friday’s practice the drivers tried to adapt the chassis, tyres and engines as good as possible as the temperatures in the 36°C range caused the teams some problems here and there. Come Saturday the temperatures dropped a bit and this was reflected in the lap times that become more than half a second faster with the lowest temperatures and fastest times being achieved on Sunday. After three rounds of qualifying Robin d’Hondt took TQ followed by John Ermen and Steven Cuypers. Rick Vrienlijnck and Gunther van Staey followed in fourth and fifth place. In the semifinal B John Ermen had a very clean run and took the pole position for the final as Robin d’Hondt was some 13 seconds slower compared to the Xray driver.

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August 6, 2013

Michael Orlowski wins Junior European TC title

On last weekend‘s EFRA European Electric Touring Car championship Team Durango’s Michael Orlowski won the Junior European title by finishing 7th in the B final. The young Polish driver, who also is a successful competitor in the Euro Offroad Series, used a prototype of Team Durango’s forthcoming DETC410 touring car as did Michal’s team mate Elliott Harper who finished third overall.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

August 6, 2013

Tamiya TT-02 & M-05 kit news

Last week we reported about exciting future Tamiya kit released but lacked proper photographs and now Tamiya Japan have released first images of some of the upcoming kits. First up is the Zakspeed Ford Capri Turbo Würth, a replica of the 1980’s Group 5 monster that dominated the German Sportscar Championship, the series that later became the famous DTM. The car builds on the entry-level TT-02 4WD shaft-driven tub chassis and not only features a nicely made Ford Capri Turbo body but also wide off-set multi-spoke rims to up the track width. Included with the kit comes a complete Würth design sticker sheet to mimic the car that ran the 1981 campaign.

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August 6, 2013

Christian Wuntschek wins 200mm at Alpencup Rd3

The third round of the Alpencup was held at the Kematen track in Tirol. The race started under good weather conditions and it was Serpent driver Christian Wuntschek who took TQ in the 1/10th 200mm class after the qualifiers with Michael Wopfner pulling the fastest lap times but he was not able to run the 5 minute legs without refuelling. Unfortunately as the day went on a huge thunderstorm washed everything away and the race had to be cancelled for security reasons. This handed Christian Wuntschek the win of the third Alpencup round as the qualifying result was taken to appoint the winner.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 6, 2013

Ricardo Nogueira wins Portuguese on-road nats Rd5

The 5th round of the Portuguese 1/8th nitro on-road nationals saw a clean sweep of Serpent driver Ricardo Nogueira (Serpent/Novarossi/Xceed). Ricardo took TQ after qualifying and finished the A-final some four laps ahead of the second place driver with Serpent team mate Claudio Lopes (Serpent/Novarossi/Xceed) completing the podium. With only one round left in September Cladio Lopes leads the championship table followed by Serpent’s Fernando Dantas in second.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 5, 2013

Team Saxo F1-200 chassis kit

Available soon from Team Saxo is the F1-200 ‘wide’ pan car chassis kit. Building on a carbon fibre chassis with link-type rear suspension the kit includes a 200mm wide front suspension for foam tyre racing with lower carbon and upper composite A-arms, sliding aluminium servo mount, upper carbon fibre battery plate, large volume central shock, single tube roll damper and aluminium motor mount. The chassis plate sports milled-out sections to route the servo and ESC receiver wires in and the car is usable with standard and shorty-size LiPo battery packs with the latter allowing the speed controller to be mounted in-line with the battery pack.

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August 5, 2013

Ronald Volker claims 2013 European TC title

The EFRA 1/10th scale touring car European Championships was held this week in Portugal attracting 60 drivers. Qualifying started and it all looked familiar at the top with Yokomo driver Ronald Volker dominating the first two Heats as he TQ’d both, but on Saturday morning Alexander Hagberg showed that somehow Team Xray has found the way to reduce the gap from Ronald’s pace and took the 3rd round. Now all was to be decided until the last round, since Hagberg had the best 21 Laps time. In the end Ronald didn’t fail and TQ’d the last 2 heats and was declared the TQ of the race. Looking at the timesheets, the expectation for some very tight racing in the finals surrounded the pits.

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August 4, 2013

Naoto Matsukura retains JMRCA touring car title

The 2013 JMRCA Touring Car National Championships were held this weekend at the Wangan Circuit under rain affected conditions. Qualifying would go the way of Yokomo super star Naoto Matsukura just beating out team mate Hayato Matsuzaki who put in a stellar performance following a year off racing. Tamiya team driver Akio Sobue rounded out the top 3 with Nagashima 4th and Thai driver Meen Vejrak in 5th. In the finals it was a close affair in Leg 1 with the top 3 covered by 3 seconds with Naoto winning from Hayato with Akio 3rd. The second leg was a repeat for Yokomo pairing, Naoto taking the win and wrapping up the overall title with Meen V taking 3rd. Leg 3 was a repeat of the first leg with Sobue taking 3rd to wrap up the final podium position behind Matsuzaki with 2nd overall and Matsukura in 1st, the 3-time World Champion taking his 3rd consecutive National touring car title.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]