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June 20, 2013

Lars Hoppe takes Rd2 in Northern Germany

Last weekend the 2nd round of the North German Championship took place at the MACH Hamburg track. Saturday started with free practise on a slippery track but the traction got better and better during the day. Already in practise the Shepherd/Sonic drivers Lars Hoppe and Timo Schröder had a good pace which they kept all weekend. In qualfying Lars took the TQ spot with his Sonic powered Velox V8 Pro in front of Timo using the same pacakge and Ingo Bobrowski in third. As the tyre wear was quite high a smooth driving style was required for the final. After the start Lars immediately pulled away followed by Timo and Ingo. Lap by lap he increased the lead and never looked back. After 30min he crossed the finishing line in first position followed by Timo in 2nd with Ingo completing the podium.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 20, 2013

Mike Gosvig wins Rd3 of Danish TC Nats

The 3rd round of the Danish National Championships, under the official motorsports federation DASU, where held last Sunday at the former Euros track in Glostrup, just outside the capital Copenhagen. The weather forecast showed mixed conditions, (just like last time where we drowned) after 2 weeks of full sun. The practice day before the race was fine most of the day, giving drivers lots of opportunities to find a good setup, at least for dry conditions. In the SuperStock class there were several good drivers who could fight for the win, especially since 2 drivers from Modified changed to the SuperStock class for this race. The race day started with lots of sun, and a dry track with perfect conditions for racing. It was Søren Boy Holst who managed to drive his T.O.P. Photon EX around the technical track, in the fastest time of the day, followed by Mike Gosvig, and Lars Holm.

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June 20, 2013

Bridgewater, Wilde & Hudson win Northwest SC Nats

Bridgewater, Wilde & Hudson win Northwest SC Nationals

The 2013 Northwest Short Course Nationals were held for the fourth year in Pasco, WA. Many of the region’s best short course drivers make their way to this event every year to do battle. This year’s layout was fast and with plenty of technical features on the all clay racing surface. Chris Bridgewater would insert his early dominance in both the Modified 2WD SC Truck class and the SC Buggy classes, taking TQ in both classes after just two rounds using the qual points system with JConcepts teammates Justin Wilde, John Walentia, and Mike Hudson joining the highly competitive Modified 2wd SC Truck A Main. Meanwhile Mike Hudson was showing his speed in the 4×4 SC class, nipping at the heels of the TQ but having to settle for the 2 spot on the grid.

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June 20, 2013

Mikael Fransson wins 2013 1/8th Nordic Championship

Last weekend the Nordic Championship 1:8 Track took place at Hverven Raceway just outside Oslo in Norway. The track hosted the European Championship back in 2003 and is placed with a beautiful view over the Oslo fjord. We had perfect conditions for practice on Friday and the track was super fast. Saturday came with a clear blue sky and sun throughout the whole day. As the weather forecast predicted rain on Sunday we decided to run the entire event on one day, this is possible in the land of the midnight sun. A new time scheme was made with 3 qualification rounds and all finals, with the last final run at 21:30.

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June 19, 2013

Mon-Tech O-RO 1/8 off-road bodies

Montech O-RO 1/8 off-road bodies

Mon-Tech have introduced their new O-RO 1/8 off-road body series featuring shells for popular models from Kyosho, Mugen, Xray & Losi, some in two different configurations. Featuring a new and improved design and better performance the bodies are molded from high quality 1mm thick polycarbonate and are supplied with masking for the windows and decals.

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June 19, 2013

Reds Racing Three 2.0 clutch system

Reds Racing have announced a new update for their 3 shoes ‘one touch’ effortless clutch system, called Reds Three 2.0. The development of the new version has affected the clutch shoes 7075 T6 which have been completely redesigned in order to improve the engine performance at low RPM and increase clutch life. The new shoes are shorter, lighter and designed for engagement during the entire shoe stroke and are less sensitive to wear and as such life time is increased. The clutch engages at higher RPM range, resulting in more controllable power during acceleration, while still maintaining good handling and performance on jumps. The clutch can be adjusted thanks to the traditional combination of different springs and shoes. Three different types of springs are available, with a diameter of 0.9 – 1.0 – 1.1 mm, and two different types of shoes, the traditional aluminium 7075 shoes and the optional ones in carbon.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

June 19, 2013

On the Grapevine – Traiskirchen

On the Grapevine - Traiskirchen

Last weekend I traveled to Austria where the Yokomo Euro Touring Series set down at the unique Traiskirchen track for the penultimate round of the world famous championship with a great air of anticipation & excitement as four of the best drivers in the business came to town with a chance of making the title fight go to next month’s season finale at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia. While the series has established itself as a must do event for the world’s best drivers and manufacturers, an incident packed Leg 2 of the A-Main highlighted just how important an ETS win has become to the drivers. The most fraught 5-minutes of racing in the series’ six seasons of existence, the outbreak of raw emotions that ensued following four key incidents, while not a great advert for our sport, showed the intensity at which these guys perform. While the faces of the involved drivers after Leg 2 sent out a clear message that myself & my white notebook would be best off leaving them alone, I think the tension clearly showed these are not just guys ‘playing with toy cars’ but competitive sportsmen who have a passion for what they are doing. Don’t get me wrong I would not like this to become a regular occurrence but like any sport when there is a bit of drama it does create some extra buzz. I am glad to report that come the prize giving the drivers were exchanging hand shakes and admitting that things said in the heat of the moment where just that. Ultimately Marc Rheinard took the win in Austria from Ronald Volker to set the stage for a thrilling show down to the 2012/13 ETS between the two great German rivals.

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June 19, 2013

Mario Rigert & Beni Stutz win at Rd2 of Swiss nats

The second round of the Swiss EP Touring car Nationals was held on the very fast Langenthal track. After some very close racing action Xray driver Mario Rigert won the modified class ahead of Florian Hauser (Yokomo) and Raphael Wicki (Xray) in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Victory in the Pro stock class went to Beni Stutz driving a Tamiya leaving second and third position to Simon Allemann (TM) and Jerome Meile (Xray).

View the final results here