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November 14, 2009

PN Racing Mini-Z World Cup 2009 Finals

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Embedded above is a nicely edited video from the PN Racing Mini-Z World Cup 2009 Finals that took place in Barcelona, Spain from October 30th to November 1st. The event attracted 82 of the best Mini-Z drivers from around the World, with competitors from Spain, USA, Germany, UK, Mexico, France, Portugal, Sweden and Holland. The 2WD Mod class was won by Alejandro Candel Laveda, 2WD Stock went to Jose Carlos Mesquita Pequito, AWD Mod saw the win for Jacob Feinstein, AWD Stock belonged to Hodei Urra, F1 Stock winner was Jose Alberto Martins de Carvalho, Pan Car Mod saw another win for Jacob Feinstein and finally Pan Car Stock victory was taken by Andreas Megerlin. More photos and videos, as well as the full results, can be found here.

November 13, 2009

Italian UISP Championship Rd4 report

Schumacher are reporting on the fourth round of the UISP Championship in Italy saw the championship move back indoors on carpet for the final round of the series. This years championship has seen over 100 drivers at each race and has made for a very competitive series. With two indoor and two outdoor races making up the series, this would prove to be the deciding round with the best three results to count towards the championship.

Continue reading the report here

November 13, 2009

Atomic Mini-Z Championship report

The Atomic Mini-Z Championship 2009 was held last weekend in Hong Kong and attracted drivers from around the world with the best drivers from 8 countries coming together to battle for the title. Racers came from China, France, Spain, USA, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan and of course from host country Hong Kong with around 50 drivers in total for this exciting race. The race format consisted of qualifying on Saturday, with the finals taking place on Sunday. The modified class was won by Chung Wai Kit, while in the Kyosho class it was fellow Hong Kong driver Joel Leung that took the victory.

Click here for the final results

November 12, 2009

Award Ceremony at West Nitro Brunch

In a ceremonious environment 38 impressive trophies were presented to the best of the 2009 NRW Challenge and the 2009 Western German Championship. Around 60 rc drivers, wives and girlfriends attended the “West Nitro Brunch” held at Oberhausen last Sunday. It has been the first time that such a prize giving ceremony was held for both on road categories 1/8 and 1/10 in Western Germany. Finally, this award has been an astonishing success. The atmosphere was excellent with lots of exciting “nitro talks” and consequently all participants have asked to repeat the “West Nitro Brunch” again in 2010.

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November 12, 2009

Thomas Desmaries wins 2009 French Cup

The French National Cup for 1/10th scale gas took place recently in Normandy in the North of France. After qualifying, it was Mugen Seiki driver Thomas Desmaries that took the pole position ahead of Kyosho driver Nicolas Bougnoteau in 2nd and Basile Concialdi driving the Xray NT1 lining up in 3rd position. In the final, there was a race long battle up front with Desmaries or Concialdi inseparable after 45 minutes of racing. In the end the race was won by Thomas Desmaries, only 2 seconds clear of second place Basile Concialdi, with the last step of the podium going to Mickael Derderian.

November 11, 2009

Indonesian 1/10th EP TC Nationals report

The Indonesian 1/10th EP TC National Championship was held on the BE Mall Carpet track, Bandung last weekend. The race ran with 2 class, Modified and Stock 23T / 11.5 BL and the race format consisted of three 5 minute qualifying sessions for both classes, three 5 minute finals for Modified and three 7 minute finals for the Stock class. Most of the drivers used foam tires with 35 shore for stock class and rubber tyres with 24 shore for the modified class. It was young Xray driver Bowie and experienced Tamiya racer Wato that took the TQ spot in Stock and Modified class respectively. The finals saw Rudy Budiharjo win the Stock class over Bowie Ginting in 2nd and Chandra Yosef in 3rd spot while Albert took the modified win in front of Suwardi Suliandy with Bowie Ginting 3rd for an all Xray podium.

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November 11, 2009

Esbri & David wins Spanish TC Nats Rd4

The 4th and final round of the Spanish touring car National Championship took place last weekend, at Carcaixent near Valencia. In qualifying Schumacher driver Marc Esbri took pole position in the modified class and team mate Vicente David took pole in the 10.5 class. Marc Esbri convincingly won the first 2 mod finals to take the overall victory, and also the 2009 modified touring Spanish championship. Vicente David also won 2 finals to take the overall win in the 10.5 stock class and took 3rd in the championship.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

November 11, 2009

Mark Green wins Gulf Coast Grand Prix

Last weekend saw the Gulf Coast Grand Prix take place in Houston, Texas the host track of next year’s 1/10th scale IFMAR World Championships. The event attracted the US Xray team and the Serpent factory team, which had Mark Green and Michael Salven make the trip over from Europe for the event. In qualifying it was the Xray pairing of Paul Lemieux and Ralph Burch that took the top 2 spots with Paolo Morganti and Mark Green taking 3rd and 4th on the grid for Serpent. The 733 drivers may have struggled earlier in the event but by the final they were on the pace and in the final Green was pushing race leader Lemieux hard early on until he finally got passed, Paul would later crash taking himself out of the race. Behind Mark, who was setting the quickest laps of the entire weekend, the order changed as Salven hit a back marker and Scott Kimbrough came in for tires allowing Burch, who didn’t plan a tire change, to move up to 2nd spot. This strategy appeared to be working but later in the race the car became undriveable as his tires went and he was forced to make a stop for a new outside rear tire, a further crash would see him end up in 5th. Mark Green would take the win by 2 laps from Serpent team mate Paolo Morganti in 2nd, with Scott Kimbrough taking 3rd spot for Kyosho.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]