April 21, 2009

HPI Racing Formula Ten

HPI Racing Formula Ten

Following on from our coverage here and here, HPI Europe have offered up more details and photographs of the new Formula Ten chassis. This fantastic new kit is designed to replicate the thrills and excitement of the fastest car racing series in the world. It features realistically scaled dimensions such as wheelbase, width, tyre size and more, allowing you to faithfully recreate your favorite team’s livery and do battle with rivals out on the track. There is truly nothing like the excitement of seeing a full grid of cars painted in replica colours, waiting for the lights to go.

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April 21, 2009

Hot Bodies Murdeigo 190mm TC body

Hot Bodies Murdeigo 190mm TC body

Hot Bodies have released their new Murdeigo 190mm touring car body. Sold clear, this body offers high levels of downforce and excellent steering response on any track. Supplied with window masks for easy painting, decal sheets for adding a realistic finish, plus all the mounting screws and nuts.

Source: Hot Bodies [hbeurope.com]


April 21, 2009

Dutch 1/10th 200mm Nats Rd1

Dutch 1/10th 200mm Nats Rd1

The opening round of the 1/10th scale 200mm Dutch Nationals was held last weekend at the AMCA track in Apeldoorn. Qualifying for the NK class saw Daan Jacobs take the TQ spot in front of Sander Borghoff in 2nd, Jurgen Geerligs in 3rd and Maarten van Lierop taking the final direct final spot in 4th. In the Nomac class, qualifying went the way of Davy Geraets, who would start ahead of Marc Meijer, while in the 1/8th Promo series Danny Essenstam took a clear pole position in front of Jarno Eikendal. In the NK final, the race had to be canceled just before mid point following an altercation on the driver stand between 2 racers that saw a transmitter ending up being dropped. Daan Jacobs was leading at the time from Van Lierop in 2nd and Geerligs in 3rd. In the Nomac class final (above) Marc Meijer ran out the clear winner by 2 laps ahead of Theun Zoethout in 2nd and Michael Behnert 3rd. The most popular class on the day was the 1/8th Promo series, which attracted 24 drivers, and this was won by pole man Danny Essenstam who ended the race a lap clear of Wesley van Silfhout in 2nd and Matthieu Hesterman in 3rd, a lap further back.

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April 21, 2009

Tobias Hepp wins German West 1/8th Rd4

Tobias Hepp wins German West 1/8th Rd4

Serpent supported youngster Tobis Hepp has won the fourth round of the 2008/2009 Western German Championship in class 1 of 1/8 scale which was held at Bad Breisig in the south of the former capital Bonn. It was a victory in style with a five lap advantage in the 30 minutes finale race over Frank Schewiola, the winner of round three, and Ralf Vahrenkamp. So the podium was completely in the hand of Serpent, Mega engines and Xceed tyres.

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April 21, 2009

Fadtke wins Polish Indoor Championships

Fadtke wins Polish Indoor Championships

The Polish Indoor Touring car Championships took place over last weekend in Warsaw and saw more than 140 drivers fight it out for the Polish title. In qualifying it was German Tamiya racer Dennis Fadtke that took the top qualifying spot from locals Lukasz Kowalcyk and Morris Indivino, both also driving a Tamiya. The finals saw an unchallenged win for Fadtke to claim the title, with Morris Indivino claiming 2nd ahead of Lukasz Kowalcyk in 3rd.


April 21, 2009

Eric Dankel wins German Stock Indoor title

Eric Dankel wins German Stock Indoor title

We have already covered the Modified results from last weekend’s German Indoor Nationals that was run in Althenstett. In the stock class qualifying it was Xray driver Eric Dankel that took the pole position in front of team mate, and winner of the Polish ETS round, Meik Niemann in 2nd, with Matthias Lang lining up 3rd. In the finals, Dankel was able to win all 3 legs easily to take the Indoor Stock title, while behind there was a good battle between Matthias Lang, Meik Niemann and Martin Schmidt for the final podium spots. With some good team spirit, it was Lang that claimed the runner up spot ahead of Niemann in 3rd, for an all Xray podium.

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April 21, 2009

Kyle Branson takes BRCA 200mm Nats Rd2

Kyle Branson takes BRCA 200mm Nats Rd2

Round 2 of the BRCA 1/10th scale 200mm Nationals were held at the weekend in Mendip, and run to EFRA style with bump-ups and a 45 minute final. Saturday was damp in the morning due to rain on Friday night and the track wasn’t really that good until 3pm and still wasn’t too good then. On Sunday the weather was really good and in qualifying it was round 1 winner Kyle Branson that took the TQ spot by continuously improving his time, following a bad run in the first qualifying round, to line up ahead of Serpent team mate Simon Wood. In the final Kyle got off to a good start, staying in first place, and managed to stay there for the rest of the race to take the win ahead of 2nd placed Johnathan Dobney and Kevin Taylor in 3rd.

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April 20, 2009

Surikarn Chaidajsuriya confirmed for BUMOD GP

Surikarn Chaidajsuriya confirmed for BUMOD GP

The organisers of the Bumod Turkish Grand Prix, which takes place in Bursa, Turkey from the 4th to the 7th of June have been in touch once more to tell us that they have confirmed entry from current 2002 ISTC World Champion Surikarn Chaidajsuriya. The Thai driver will be running his Xray NT1 alongside other well known gas racers such as Daniele Ielasi, Michael Salven, Jilles Groskamp, Robert Pietsch, DJ Apolaro, Patrick Schaefer and Dirk Wischnewski, with more driver announcements to come in the lead up to the race. Entry is now open for this event and you are guaranteed a warm reception from the Turkish hosts, who will also arrange transport and help find the best accommodation. Red RC will also be present throughout the event bringing live reports each day on our Events page.

For more information about the event visit the official site here.