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August 21, 2010

Wischnewski is Euros top qualifier

Reigning European Champion Dirk Wischnewski has claimed the top qualifying spot at this year’s 1/10th 200mm European Championships in Gothenburg Sweden today. Rain fell on and off today meaning that the front runners were unable to improve their times and so with Dirk’s TQ run from round 1 he was able to take pole position and is now one step closer to retaining his title that he won in Italy last year. Dirk is of course happy to take the top spot but didn’t expect it after what he believes was a disappointing Worlds. With the weather forecast expecting rain tomorrow he has now tested rain tires with his rain car in the last qualifier but he said it was hard to test, as the track was drying again.

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August 20, 2010

No change up front in Sweden as rain returns

The second round of qualifying here in Gothenburg, Sweden has seen no improvements among the front runners as the rain arrived and made the track too slippery to set a fast time. In fact by the time the top heats were out on track, the continuous rain had made it pretty treacherous although some racers including former World Champion Daniele Ielasi, Martin Hudy, Jerome Renaux and Patrick Schaefer took this opportunity to go on track and test for the wet conditions. With the weather not looking good for the rest of the weekend this track time could prove beneficial come Sunday’s finals.

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August 20, 2010

Dirk Wishcnewski takes Rd1 in Sweden

Round 1 of qualifying is over at this year’s European 200mm Championships in Sweden and it was current European Champion Dirk Wischnewski who is sitting on top of the pack. Talking with the factory Xray driver he described his run as ok despite the car having some understeer. For the next run he plans to change the caster to try and get more steering. Second for the round, Capricorn racer Martin Christensen said his car and engine were perfect, he just needs to work on improving his driving.

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August 19, 2010

European 200mm Championships practice update

The EFRA European Championships are underway this week in Gothenburg Sweden on the VAST 8 track. The weather has been less than ideal, resulting in lost track time and in the case of earlier in the week, the loss of entire days. Today had seen the conditions drivable with the rain holding off but the temperature quite low. As you would expect the race has attracted the top European racers including the only 3 World’s finalist from earlier in the month in the form of podium finisher Marc Rheinard, reigning European Champion Dirk Wischnewski, and TQ man Robert Pietsch.

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August 19, 2010

Steele successfully defends Irish 200mm title

Team Shepherd driver Chris Steele has successfully defended his Irish 1:10 200mm National Championship title continuing his 100% winning form as the fifth round took competitors to Northern Ireland. Racing at the tight Ballymoney circuit, Steele maintained his perfect qualifying record to secure his fifth TQ honour of the season ahead of the returning Mark Gilliland. Leading the 30 minute encounter from start to finish Steele set the fastest lap to take his Murnan Modified RB powered Velox V10 to a 4 lap winning margin. Making it a 1-2 for Shepherd, teenager Darren Gibb took second with Gilliland’s Xray completing the podium. With the title in the bag despite two round still remaining in the 2010 Championship, Steele can now concentrate on getting married with him due to tie the knot later today (Thursday).

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August 17, 2010

Norwegian National title for Adrian Bernsten

The 2010 Norwegian Championship was held at Hverven Bukta Raceway in Oslo (August 7th-8th), on their newly paved race track, which was the venue for the 1/8th Scale IC Euros back in 2003, and Adrian Bernsten sent us this report. The new asphalt gave us a faster track than ever before, with very good grip, but also a lot of tire wear, so the big question was what we were gonna do in the finals. After the first qualifying round I claimed the TQ with a 30 lap run in 7:07:149 in front of Helge Johannesen in 2nd, Xray driver Tom Erik Haaversen in 3rd and Xray driver Werner Ersland in 4th.

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August 17, 2010

Ronald Volker wins 2010 German Nationals

Last weekend the German nationals for electric touring cars took place on the well known Motodrom-track in Andernach. Racing all practice sessions and qualifying heats under sunny conditions, the weather changed totally on Sunday for the finals, the weather forecast for Sunday promising 99% chance of rain and it delivered. The 117 drivers present were divided as follows, Modified 53, Sport 13.5 36 and Hobby 17.5 28. Under the dry conditions on Saturday we saw some great battles for the Top Ten in all three categories, however the laptimes in all three classes were nearly the same. Due to the the power program speedos everybody can setup a 17.5 motor to be nearly to same speed as a Modified motor, something that has to change in the future. The Modified class victory went to recently crowned European Champion Ronald Volker driving his Yokomo, with Hot Bodies racer Dominik Fleischmann taking 2nd and Federico Veronesi coming home in 3rd for Serpent. In the Sport 13.5 class it was ETS champion Alexander Stocker who reigned supreme to win from Dominik Reschker and Marco Kaufmann, while in the Hobby class it was Tim Schwarz who took the win ahead of Ricardo Strolla and Sebastian Müller.

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August 17, 2010

Paul Lemieux wins ROAR Mod TC title

Xray are reporting on the recent ROAR On Road Nationals, which was held at Nor-Cal hobbies, the same track also played host to the Reedy Race of Champions a couple months ago. There were to be 4 total rounds of qualifying, 2 rounds of qualifying on Friday. In Mod 12th scale it was Kevin Hebert pretty much dominating the first day by setting TQ in both, in Mod TC it was Paul Lemieux who TQed both rounds with Hebert and Rick Hohwart close behind. In 17.5 expert TC it was Martin Crisp who was looking fast and setting TQ’s with a very close field behind him. In World GT and 17.5 12th it was Dave Ehrlich who was looking strong in both classes.

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