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January 26, 2010

Bickerstaff claims Irish Touring Car Series Rd1

The opening round of the 2010 Irish Touring Car Series took place in Bangor, Northern Ireland, over the weekend where it was defending Champion Alan Bickerstaff who claimed the win. Attracting a healthy entry, the event saw Bickerstaff put his Novak powered Associated TC5 on pole after a determined TQ run in the final qualifier. The opening Leg of the A-Main saw the Team Associated British Championship team driver lead early on followed by the Tamiya’s of Mark Gilliland and Keith Dempsey but 2 minutes in Bickerstaff came undone as he tried to pass a back marker. This handed Gilliland the race lead but with a minute left on the clock he ‘binned it’ allowing Bickerstaff back through to take the win with Dempsey completing the Top 3. In the second leg Bickerstaff had a straight run through to victory as Gilliland and Dempsey fought over second. Having held second for the early part of the race Dempsey could not hold off Gilliland who eventually found a way passed but it was too late for him to mount a challenge for the win meaning the podium was a reflection of the Top 3 starting order. Having started from the back of the grid John Matthews enjoyed one of his best ever performances to finish fourth overall.

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January 26, 2010

Thomas Eytard joins Racing Experience

Racing Experience have announced the signing of former European 1/10th 200mm ‘B’ Championship finalist Thomas Eytard. The former RB driver has moved to use Novarossi power and Kronos tyres for the new French season. Racing Experience successfully introduced their Kronos brand tyres during the French Nationals in 2009 and their success in the first year has seen them as a popular choice for 2010.

Source: Racing Experience [racing-experience.fr]

January 26, 2010

Ciccarello to run 966, joins Serpent America sales team

Serpent have announced that ace driver Paul Ciccarello will race the 966 in 1/8 scale from 2010 onwards. The cooperation between the pairing for the 1/12 S120 and future 1/10 scale pan-class has been working out really well, so its really good for them to be able to coop in 1/8 scale as well. Paul has shown in 2009 with his 3rd place at the well attended ROAR Nats, that he is a force to be reckoned with and the coop with Scott Kimbrow, Paolo Morganti, DJ and Jackson will most certainly help to achieve even better results by working together closely. Paul has also joined Serpent America’s sales team for all the product lines of Serpent America including Serpent, Novarossi, Xceed, Matrix and Blitz-Titan. With his long time experience, racing and working at Parma for many years, he is very likely to offer great suppport to all Serpent customers.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

January 26, 2010

Harper wins first BRCA National for CRC

Last weekend the cream of Britains 12th scale racers made the trip down to Devon for round 4 of this years BRCA nationals at Plymouth. The Plymouth club always host a top notch event and as a result the meeting is always well attended despite being a drive of over 4 hours away for many. On Saturday in the stock class Elliott Harper took TQ and went on to comfortable win the A final by more than half a lap. This was the first time that a CRC car had won a UK national. Second went to Chris Kerswell driving a V-Dezign. Chris initially gave chase and attempted to challenge Elliott, but soon realised that he lacked the pace required and settled for a strong second place finish. The battle for 3rd was an intense one with several drivers all holding the position at various points in the race. Mark Stiles eventually came through from 8th on the grid to complete the podium for V-Dezign.

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January 26, 2010

Ryan Maifield takes Truggy at Winter MW Champs

Kicking off 2010 in style, the CRCRC club creates a 2-week home to some of the world’s fastest drivers competing for that first win of the New Year at the Annual Winter Midwest Championships. In the 1/8th buggy class Ryan chose the JConcepts Bar Codes in blue compound to take the TQ spot in qualifying and the Double Dees V2 tire for the 45 minute A-main and ended the race 3rd, behind Jared Tebo in 2nd and eventual winner Jesse Robbers. In the 1/8th truck division, Ryan put his RC8T-CE out front early in the A-main, running on the Sevens tire in blue compound, and had it on 100% attack mode for the entire race, finishing a lap ahead of Jesse Robbers in 2nd and Jared Tebo in 3rd.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

January 25, 2010

Team C NT1 220mm conversion

Team C Racing have released their conversion kit for the Xray NT1, to turn it into a 220mm chassis. Supplied with all the parts needed, it features a GTP style front bumper, aluminium mounts and carbon fibre body mount as well as a rear floating body mount and suitable rear carbon fibre shock tower. To complete the conversion you need new wider tires and of course the new wider body and again Team C have got your back with their new 220mm Lola VDS body shell.

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January 25, 2010

Team CheckPoint 14.8V 5400mAh LiPo pack

Team CheckPoint’s new 14.8V 5400mAh 4S 35C LiPo racing pack offers outstanding endurance for uninterrupted running. Competition-level racers will appreciate the power output this pack gives while the hard case construction stands up to any impact racing might deliver. Perfect for 1/8th scale brushless buggy and truggy competition, the cells are expertly matched for internal resistance, voltage and capacity. Available mid February.

Source: Team Checkpoint [bestrc.com]

January 25, 2010

Neil Cragg victorious at SNRC winter series

CML are reporting on the latest round of the SNRC winter series that was graced by the attendance of a few of the top national drivers, aiming to do battle with the fast local drivers on this challenging track. The Stoke track is a good blend of fast and technical sections with quite a few jumps to test the drivers ability. As is to be expected in winter the track was damp early doors and the obligatory Hobao Angle spike tyres were heavily in evidence.

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