July 9, 2014
The 4th round of the Swiss 1/8th on–road championship was held at the Sebastian Buemi track of the Mini Racing Cars Aigle & Lausanne club. After qualifying, Simon Kurzbuch (Shepherd/Novarossi) took the TQ from by Mattia Pesenti (Xray/Picco) and Luca Martinelli (Mugen/OS). Qualifying result: 1. Kurzbuch Simon – Shepherd/Novarossi – 17 5:00.664 2. Pesenti Mattia – Xray/Picco – 17 5:07.871 3. Martinelli Luca – Mugen/OS – 17 5:10.782 4. Pethoud Christophe – Motonica/CBR Engines – 17 5:10.826 5. Stalder Roland – Shepherd/Max – 17 5:11.102 6. Asendorf Noah – Mugen/Novarossi – 17 5:13.714 7. Geisser Andy – Capricorn/Reds – 17…
June 25, 2014
…the Shepherd triple Rausch (352), Bernhardt (346) and Puepke (343) among 23 competitors. As for the statistics, Serpent and Shepherd shared the first position in the chassis ranking at this race weekend with 14 cars each, followed by 11 Mugen, 8 Xray and 1 Capricorn, Kyosho and Motonica each. The 4th and deciding round of the Western German Championship will take place at the fast 310-meter track of the AMC Hamm on July 12th to 13th, one week after round 3 of the Nitro-West-Masters (NWM) at the Motodrom Rhein-Ahr in Bad Breisig on July 5th to 6th. Source: Nitro-West [nitro-west.de]…
June 20, 2014
…– Motonica/CBR Engines – 15 5:24.980 5. Roland Stalder – Shepherd/Max – 14 4:54.822 6. Daniel Bapst – Motonica/CBR Engines – 14 4:56.953 7. Andy Geisser – Capricorn/- – 14 4:57.435 8. Luca Martinelli – Mugen/Picco – 14 4:59.180 9. Noah Asendorf – Mugen/Novarossi – 14 5:00.534 10.Mattia Pesenti – Xray/Picco – 14 5:00.711 In the 45 minute final, Christophe Pethoud was able to make the most out of the challenging track conditions as the final started wet and ended on a dry track. Behind Christophe Noah Asendorf finished 2nd, Roland Stalder completed the podium in 3rd. Final top 3…
June 10, 2014
…– Serpent/O.S. – 118 laps 2. Christian Wurst – Serpent/IDM – 116 3. Uwe Baldes – Xray/Orcan – 112 4. Philipp Römer – Xray/Orcan – 108 5. Danny Claes – Motonica/O.S. – 105 6. Martin Figge – Shepherd/Sonic – 100 7. Ralf Vahrenkamp – Serpent/Novarossi – 98 8. Rainer Rosskothen – Mugen/Novarossi – 81 9. Ralf Wacker – Mugen/Novarossi – 81 10.Tobias Hepp – Xray/Orcan – 12 The TQ in VG10 1/10 scale class was taken by newly crowned European B Champion Thilo Toedtmann who scored 46.483 seconds with his Orcan-powered Xray NT1 to keep the strong Shepherd triple of…
May 25, 2014
…lap. With the cancelation of last year’s event due to bad weather, it was the first time for many at this track and what also greeted the regulars were a new rostrum and race control cabin which has made a massive difference to the club setup and increased the visibility. With the weather forecast being sunny all weekend, it would be the first race of the year that rain would not play any part during the day. Into heat 4 and it was Motonica driver Daniel Bancroft with his new CBR Picco engines that hit the 17 lap bracket with…
May 3, 2014
…was Pete Hastings who finished just 3 seconds behind Carr’s time and therefore had to settle for B Final TQ. Qualification top 10 1. Kyle Branson – Capricorn/XRD – 21 Laps 311 secs 2. Mark Green – Serpent/Novarossi/Exceed – 21 Laps 312 secs 3. Richard Hicklin – Serpent/Sirio – 20 Laps 302 secs 4. Tim Wood – Serpent/OS – 20 Laps 302 secs 5. Andrew Hastings – Shepherd/Sonic – 20 Laps 302 secs 6. Daniel Bancroft – Motonica/Vox – 20 Laps 305 secs 7. Andy North – Mugen/Sirio – 20 Laps 306 secs 8. Jason Frost – Serpent/Sirio – 20…
April 16, 2014
…Carlos’ problems handed Sergio Montesinos (Mugen/Novarossi) the runner-up spot while Sergio Rivas (Serpent/Novarossi) completed the podium. In the B class Iñaki Otero (Serpent/O.S.) came in 1st, the podium was completed by Adrian Fernandez (Mugen/Novarossi) and Juan Pedro Farias (Mugen/Picco). In the 40+ class Cayetano Martinez (Motonica/Vox) successfully ended the race sitting on top of the podium with Alberto Fernandez (Serpent/O.S.) and Vicente Garcia (Serpent/Novarossi) finishing 2nd and 3rd respectively. The next race will be held on the weekend of the 15th of June in Valencia, the circuit that also will host this year’s 1/10th 200mm European Championship. Source: AECAR [aecar.org]…
April 15, 2014
…disrupted the practice for the remainder of the day. Although the rain stopped and with no wind or sun, the track remained damp all afternoon. The tires to use were damps and these were clearly faster than dry tires when a back to back test was carried out. Sunday arrived to a damp track but clear sky, so the track after continuous racing would eventually dry for the latter part of qualifying. Heat 4 was the start of the fast guys which suddenly upped the pace to 14 laps in favour of Sam Snell’s Motonica and in heat 5 and…
