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November 24, 2009

Swauger and Fukuda win in Shanghai

The 2nd annual TRS Asia Nitro Open Cup was held in Shanghai, China. Drivers from 10 countries/region including China, USA, Japan, Holland, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei and Korea competed at this winter event. After 5 rounds of qualifying, Mike Swauger from the USA was TQ in the 1/8 on road class, and Keisuke Fukuda from Japan was TQ in the touring class. Sunday’s “A” Main Final in the 1/8 on road class saw Swauger lead from start to finish winning the Championship, second place went to Jimmy Qian from Shanghai and 11 year old JJ Wang from Shanghai took third. In the 1/10 touring “A” Mains, a close fought battle between Fukuda, Meen Vejrack (Thailand) and Jilles Groskamp provided the crowd with some exciting racing. At the checkered flag, it was Fukuda who took the Championship with Meen Vejrack in second and Jilles Groskamp in third. Race organizers will be aiming to make next year’s race larger and more competitive.

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November 23, 2009

Cristian Costanzo wins Motonica Race

Last weekend saw the Motonica Race held in Fiorano, Italy and on Saturday’s 1/10th scale 200mm race it saw the new Capricorn Lab-C01 claim the win. Having TQ’d the race Cristian Costanzo, would go on to win the A-main using his Novarossi powered Lab-C01 from Xray NT1 driver Walter Ossola in 2nd, with another Capricorn driver Victor Coggiola taking the final podium spot. Capricorn has 4 of their new cars at the event and all made the final with 6 of the 10 drivers in the main final using the company’s new hard light tires.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

November 20, 2009

Raimondo Gilletti wins SM Trophy

The SM Trophy took place last weekend in Messina and the race was attended by former European B Champion Alessio Mazzeo and Euros direct qualifier Biagio Spataro. Qualifying would go the way however of Team Magic factory driver Raimondo Gilletti, setting the TQ spot along with the fastest lap, with Spataro lining up in 2nd and Mazzeo 3rd. In the final Gilletti and Mazzeo traded places early on before Raimondo could take the first place after the 2nd stop and build up a 2 lap gap to take the win.

Source: Team Magic [teammagic.com.tw]

November 19, 2009

Novarossi sign Rick V

Novarossi have announced the signing of Dutch driver Rick Vrielijnck. Having previously run Reds Racing engines, the Mugen factory driver and World Championship finalist has signed an agreement to use Novarossi products when racing in the 1:8 On-road and 1:10 touring classes. With the quality and performance of the Italian made engine combined with the constant race winning performance that makes Rick so well known, this will be undoubtedly be a succesfull 2010 season for both parties.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.com]

November 18, 2009

Nacho López wins 2009 Triangular trophy

Nacho López has won the first running of the 2009 Triangular trophy, which is run in Valencia, Zaragoza, Madrid. Nacho, who is born in Valencia, won two of the three races held in this year with his Mugen with second place going to Vicente Eres with his Motonica P81 and Joaquín Signes in third place with a Kyosho M3. The final race on the great facilities of the ARCA club in Madrid saw great organization, with all competitors being well taken car of throughout the event.

Source: JPT Racing [jbtrcracing.com]

November 16, 2009

EFRA release their 2010 Race calendar

EFRA 2008 Approved Muffler list

EFRA have released their race calendar for 2009 and it looks to be another busy summer next year as they have managed to squeeze 8 European Championships, running alongside 3 World Championships, into the months of July and August. The season starts early with back to back championships at the end of February, beginning of March, with the Indoor TC euros in Finland, followed a week later by the 1/12th EC in Birmingham. The first EC ‘B’ championships kick off in Lostallo in the middle of May for 1/10th 200mm, followed 2 weeks later with the 1/8th scale on road ‘B’s in Monaco, and then another 2 week gap to bring us to mid June and the 1/8th buggy Euro B’s in Spain. The 1/8th scale on road A champs kick of the mid summer madness in Italy with the 1/12th Worlds in Germany starting on the Sunday of that event and running into the EP Touring car Worlds the weekend after, which happens to clash with the 1/8th buggy Euros in Portugal. Then the week after you have the beginning of 3 weeks of 1/5th scale Euros, in the meantime the Worlds for 200mm will be run in Houston. The week following that event is the Euros for Electric Touring in France, with a one week gap and then back to back Euros for 200mm in Sweden and EP buggy in Austria. The World championship for 1/8th buggy completes the major races, taking part in Thailand in mid November. The late decision to run the Electric track World championships appears to have really clogged up the calendar, clashing with two major events. Normally EFRA would not run a European Championship for a class where Europe has the WC, yet the 1/12th and TC Euros will still take place, further increasing the number of events.

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November 15, 2009

Shinnosuke Ogino wins JMRCA Sports class Nationals

The JMRCA Japanese Touring car nationals for Sport class took place this weekend at the Indoor Yatabe Arena. With 105 drivers in attendance, this is a very competitive class and it was Shinnosuke Ogino that took the pole position with a perfect score of 6 first places from 6 qualifying rounds, with Kutsuna Zyuniti in 2nd ad Muta Hironari in 3rd. In the finals it was Kutsuna that opened with a win as the pole man had a bad race and ended the leg in 9th. In the 2nd leg it was female racer Winter Toki that took the win from 8th on the grid, with Ogino claiming a 2nd spot and keeping his hopes of the overall win alive. In the final leg Ogino went one better and took the win to seal the title from Toki in 2nd, who had the same points but lost on a tie break, with Hironari claiming 3rd.

Source: JMRCA [jmrca.jp]

November 15, 2009

New Zealand South Island Champs

The New Zealand South Island Champs for on road Gas and Electric were held recently on the Ruapuna track in Christchurch. The weather was great for the 64 entrants spread over 4 Electric classes and 3 Nitro classes. After 5 rounds of qualifying it was very close in most classes with 8th gas being the closest with the top 6 separated by only 6 seconds. Finals were on Sunday and the only classes that the TQ man didn’t convert his position to a win was the 10th 2wd gas class and the 8th gas class where it was Q2 that took the win. In the rest of the classes TQ was converted into wins in the finals.

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