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June 8, 2010

Duarte Faria wins Rd3 of Portuguese regionals

Last Sunday the third round of the Portuguese Regional’s was held in the Circuito Automodelismo do Funchal. The Half Final’s A and B were quite dramatic with lots of crashes and two drivers having radio problems resulting in several retirements. In the main final Mugen Driver Luis Cortez was on pole followed by Serpent driver Duarte Faria, they were racing in their own league, switching the lead between them, at the final stage of the race Luis Cortez lost 2nd gear and Duarte Faria managed to win the race with a one lap lead. Xray Driver Duarte Vasconcelos took the 3rd position of the podium with a very solid run.

Thanks to Paulo Rodrigues for the report.

June 8, 2010

David Spashett wins Rd3 of 1/8th BRCA nats

The 3rd round of this years BRCA 1/8th scale on road championships was held at the Brooklands raceway in Kent and with a turn out of over 40 drivers, it was looking like a strong weekends racing but the weather forecast for Sunday was for rain, however thankfully the drivers were treated to sunshine. David Spashett decided to come out of retirement for a one off appearance with a standard spec JP powered Velox V8 chassis and even after 5 years of not racing 1/8th scale, he was soon back in the groove with some very consistent lap times and apexing every track corner to perfection.

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June 7, 2010

Eric Albano wins 17.5 class at RROC

TOP Racing is reporting that team driver Eric Albano has won the Reedy Race of Champions in the 17.5 class. The Reedy Race was held over Memorial Day weekend at Norcal Hobbies,(25 minutes south of San Francisco, California. Eric TQ’d and won the division using a TOP Racing Photon. The TOP Photon had a podium finish in each of the open classes. James Arluck secured the 2nd spot in the 13.5 class and Jesse Stark finished 3rd in the Open Modified class. This is the third year in a row that TOP has won a class at the Reedy Race. Starting in 2008 Kevin Jelich TQ’d and won open modified, in 2009 EJ Evans TQ’d and won both the 13.5 and 17.5 classes using the Photon.

Source: TOP [topracingusa.com]

June 7, 2010

Pedro Rombouts wins Dutch NK Rd2

The 2nd round of the Dutch Nationals for 1/10th 200mm was run last weekend at the RAC02000 track in Utrecht. Qualifying for the NK class saw Belgian racer and Euro B finalist Maxim Claes take the pole position with his Xray ahead of Serpent driver Daan Jacobs in 2nd, with current champion Pedro Rombouts in 3rd and Remy Moller in 4th. Making a comeback for the weekend was Julius Kolff, the former European 235mm champion showing he has lost none of his speed qualifying in 5th. Following a damp but drying semi final, the main final got underway with everyone wondering who would be pitting for tires due to the high tire wear. The final was exciting seeing Julius hit troubles, clipping the inside of a curb and damaging his light rims. Pole man Claes also hit trouble, making a mistake and clipping the pit exit, taking him out of the running at the 15 minute mark. Daan Jacobs led for most part of the race, but a small mistake in the final 2 laps let Pedro into the lead. Pedro took the win by 2 seconds ahead of Daan with Remy just behind in 3rd spot. In the Nomac class, Janwillem Gons took the win from pole ahead of Arne Schober in 2nd and Jos Pjilippus in 3rd. In the 1/8th Promo class Mario Gerssen took the win, also from the pole, ahead of Marc Meijer in 2nd and Ruud Knoester in 3rd spot.

View the other podiums here

June 7, 2010

Martin Hansen joins team Serpent

Serpent have announced that top-level Danish driver Martin Hansen has joined their team. Running the Serpent 733 1/10th scale chassis, Martin will contest in all National and regional events in Denmark as well as take part in the 2010 1/10th EC in Gothenburg, Sweden later this year.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 5, 2010

German 1/10th EFRA GP – Announcement

MC-Ettlingen e.V. in Germany have been in touch to tell us that they are hosting the German 1/10th EFRA GP from the 18th to 20th of June. The track has previously hosted a number of large international events, including the 1/5th scale touring car World Championships back in 2001 as well as more recently the German Nationals for a number of different classes. Registration is now open and you can find out more information about the event and place your entry on the official event site here.

June 3, 2010

Cantoni & Alleoti wins Italian TC Nationals

The AMSCI Italian outdoor electric touring car championships took place last week in Florence and is a one off event to determine who is champion in the different classes. In the 6.5 category it was TOP Photon racer Claudio Cantoni that took the winning from pole position ahead of Carlo Parravicini in 2nd and Ivan Buganè in 3rd. In the 17.5 class it was Losi driver Simone Alleoti that took the TQ and followed it up with the win in front of the TOP pairing of Andrea Cappelli in 2nd and Tiziano Borgogni in 3rd.

View the 17.5 podium here

June 3, 2010

Bernd Rausch wins rainy race in Western Germany

Kyosho/Team Orion team driver Bernd Rausch has captured the victory in round three of the 1/10 nitro on road Western German Championship which was held at Bad Breisig, located south of former capital Bonn. Encouraged following his eighth place at the E.C. (B) recently held in Lostallo, Rausch did 63 laps in the very wet final and enjoyed a nine lap advantage over Xray/Orcan racer Andreas Weyhoven. Only three drivers made it to the finish line after 30 minutes with Daniel Toennessen (Mugen/Novarossi) on third but with only 31 laps. Rene Puepke (Mugen/Reds) was on fourth and had to retire at half time. Joerg Baldes (Mugen/Orcan) did only three laps before water took control of his electronics. Even worse things went for Uwe Baldes (Mugen/Orcan) and Daniel Thiele (Mugen/Reds) – they didn’t even make it to the start. Three racers decided not to join the final, the three Serpent drivers Tobias Hepp, Daan Jacobs and Lucien Zens.

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