April 27, 2013
…of fuel. In Semi-Final B Herfried Pucher and Nejc Mihelic have been starting from the front, but on Nejc Mihelic cars both rear wheels axles have been broken on his Motonica after a crash at the beginning of the long full power corner. At the 3 minute mark the engine of Herfried Pucher flamed out on the straight (broken conrod) – so now young Julian Schober in his fourth 1:8 race was in the lead and won easily this Semi final. In Semi-Final A Manuel Gremlica and Mikie Klausner have been fighting for the lead the whole final – Advantage…
April 25, 2013
…secs 2. Mark Green – Serpent / Novarossi / Sanwa / Xceed – 20 Laps 301 secs 3. Tim Wood – Serpent / Xceed – 20 Laps 305 secs 4. Andy North – Mugen / Sirio ABC 09/Contact – 20 Laps 307 secs 5. Alex Thurston – Serpent / IDM / Contact – 20 Laps 309 secs 6. Daniel Bancroft – Motonica / Vox – 20 Laps 310 secs 7. Andy Hastings – Shepherd / Sonic / Shepherd –20 Laps 312 secs 8. Jason Frost – Serpent / Novarossi / Xceed – 20 Laps 315 secs 9. Karl Dransfield –…
November 20, 2012
Motonica have announced the release of their new P81 version RS3. The main new improvements include the new chassis plate, new rear shock absorber body and front shock absorbers shafts and a new servo saver Ackerman plate. The new chassis aims to increase grip and add more steering while the new shock absorbers body is longer, resulting in more traction and more steering of the car, while the new Ackerman helps offer smoother driving and more steering. Source: Motonica [motonica.com]…
October 20, 2012
…– 19 laps 309.5 secs 9. Alex Thurston – Motonica / G-Mar – 19 laps 309.63 secs 10.Daniel Bancroft – Motonica / Vox – 19 laps 309.69 secs The main final blasted away with Mark Green leading and Kyle in hot pursuit. The first casualty was Andy North who had two engine cuts due to rich engine settings which required a re-tune before getting back into the race. The top two started to open up the inevitable gap to the rest and at the first fuel stop, Branson took advantage and jumped into the lead, but Green was still very…
October 8, 2012
…no problems with their cars for the entire 30 minute final and stayed on the same lap all the way to the end and this made for a very exciting race. 14 year old Maximilian managed to make not a single mistake and took the win with 8 seconds in front of Bernhard. 1/8th scale class 2 results 1. Maximilian Günther – Motonica – 82 laps 2. Bernhard Hummel – Motonica – 82 laps 3. Alexander Bremberger – 73 laps In the following class 1 final, Armin Baier showed his incredible versatility by borrowing Bernhard Hummel’s Motonica, including his stick…
October 3, 2012
…encouraging and after the drivers briefing, we had a round of free practice in heat order. Up front in heat 4, it was Neal King (Mugen / Sirio) who set the pace with 20 laps 310 seconds followed by Alex Thurston (Motonica / G-Mar) with 19 laps 309 seconds. In the final heat, Mark Green on the better of Kyle Branson to TQ the round by 0.058 of a second on 2O laps 300 seconds. The next best was Tim Wood (Serpent) on 20 laps 312 seconds which confirmed that the top 2 had a clear pace advantage over the…
October 2, 2012
The last round of the Spanish championship was held in Gijon, northern Spain. With the weather forecast not good, the rain was going to be a problem. The title was still open and to be decided between 3 drivers, Nacho López (Serpent-Max-Matrix), Sergio Montesinos (Mugen Novarossi-Enneti) and Oscar Cabezas (Motonica-Novarossi-Enneti). The first 2 have have been on the podium all season, while Oscar had won the last 2 races. On Friday the drivers could not train due to the rain while on Saturday the track remained wet until the beginning of the qualifying heats, the grip improving throughout the day….
September 21, 2012
…Kube (Xray), Reinhard Zick (Mugen) and Martin Figge (Motonica) bumped up from the quarter final A (15 minutes), in B Maximilian Guenther (Motonica), Matthias Guenther (Mugen) and Josef Dragani (Serpent) covered the positions one to three. In the semi finale A (30 minutes) only Michael Kammer (105 laps), Hans-Peter Holl (102), Luigi Pili (101), Martin Baumann (100) and Thomas Kroeger (100) saw the chequered flag and were able to qualify for the main race. They were joined by Torsten Mueller (104), Christian Schnaedter (103), Tim Vogels (101), Christian Roenicke (100) and Matthias Guenther (97) from semi finale A which saw…
