September 13, 2009
Dirk Wischnewski is the man to beat at the German Championship 1/10 200mm nitro, when the final will be held on Sunday at the 220 meter track at Türkheim in the south of Germany. The European Champion and reigning champion in Germany did 23 laps in 5.01,009 minutes in his best heat and with a 12,9 second lap he was the only driver of the field of the 77 competitors to break through the 13 seconds barrier. With his Orcan LR3 powered Xray NT1 he achieved a nearly two seconds advantage over Xray/Orcan fellow Eric Dankel, who did 23 laps…
September 12, 2009
…with 39,324 seconds in front of Guensel with 39,691 and Kroeber with 39,915: Fourth position went to Michael Salven with 40,002 seconds for three laps with his Serpent 733. Behind Ralf Krause (Xray/40,008), René Puepke ( 40,128) was the quickest Mugen racer on sixth position. The top 10 were completed by Eric Dankel (Xray), Kai-Oliver Guttschau (Serpent), Karl-Heinz Meister (Serpent) and Christian Wimbverger (Xray). Patrick Schaefer, a non-regular driver in 1/10, achieved 15th position with his new Shepherd Velox V10. The complete results from Friday as well as the results from qualifying and the finals can be found at www.myrcm.ch….
September 9, 2009
…second place between Wood, North and Hicklin with only a second on the tarmac separating these cars. The times improved but due to errors by Richard Hicklin towards the end of his remaining qualifying runs prevented him Challenging North and Wood. Peter Hastings was in a comfortable 5th position ahead of Adam Catchpole with his new Serpent 966 chassis and Mega engine combination. Chris Heath however failed to make the top 10. He had a quick car but bad luck with stripped belts and running out of fuel prevented this. The top 10 in qualifying were as follows: 1. Mark…
August 28, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQImjJ_cYm0 Following on from the first three parts of our new series of videos that offers in-depth tips from pro drivers, comes the 4th and 5th part of this 5 part series with Tamiya Racing Factory team driver and new European Champion Jilles Groskamp. In these final two episode Jilles guides us through the last steps of assembling a complete Tamiya TRF416WE chassis from scratch, as well as showing us how to tweak the car to perfection and we even get to see the final product in action around the MACH track in Heemstede. Expect more Pro Tips videos in…
August 13, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAPI5lB8FsI Following on from the first two parts of our new series of videos that offers in-depth tips from pro drivers, comes the 3rd of a 5 part series with Tamiya Racing Factory team driver and new European Champion Jilles Groskamp. In this episode Jilles guides us through the first steps of assembling a complete Tamiya TRF416WE chassis from scratch, showing all the tips and tricks along the way, with final assembly and tweaking of the chassis still to come in the final 2 videos….
July 28, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOMu6Fu3orI Following on from the first part of our new series of videos that offers in-depth tips from pro drivers, comes the 2nd of a 5 part series with Tamiya Racing Factory team driver Jilles Groskamp. In this video, Jilles shows us how to strip down, clean and rebuild the ball differential on his TRF416WE. Future episodes, which will be shown here and also on our YouTube channel (see link next to the search box) in the coming weeks, will tackle the final assembly and tweaking of the chassis….
July 16, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sliCxsIZ3v4 The first in a new series of videos that offers in-depth tips from the pro drivers, we hooked up with Tamiya Racing Factory team driver Jilles Groskamp to get some insight into how he prepares his race winning Tamiya TRF416WE. In this first video, Jilles tackles the perfect shock absorber, from stripping to rebuilding. Future episodes, which will be shown here and also on our YouTube channel (see link next to the search box) in the coming weeks, will tackle the ball differential, final assembly and tweaking of the chassis….
July 14, 2009
…– Serpent/Mega MF – 119 Laps 4. Pete Hastings – Serpent/IDM – 116 Laps 5. Neil Diver – Shepherd/IDM – 116 Laps 6. Andy North – Mugen/Siro – 113 Laps 7. Rob Coleman – Mugen/Novarossi – 109 Laps 8. Karl Dransfield – Serpent/Mega – 104 Laps 9. Andy Hastings – Serpent/IDM – 78 Laps 10.Ashley Gouveia – Serpent/Mega – 21 Laps A big thanks to all at the Adur Club for a very well run meeting. The next round is at Halifax. All the results and further images can be found on www.brca.org Thanks to Andy North for the report….
