Last weekend saw the third race of the South German Championship held at the MAC Nürnberg and with fine weather all weekend it attracted a lot of racers. In the 1:10 class it was Robert Pietsch who took the race win followed by Michael Heinrich in 2nd and Nobuhiro Kanabe in 3rd. In the 1:8 class Eric Dankel took the win, 2nd was Nicolai Bähr and 3rd Manuel Dietrich.
Last weekend saw the 3rd round of the British 1/10th gas Nationals take place in Halifax and current national champion Kyle Branson sent us the following report. The weather was good on Saturday with temperatures around 26 degrees, The track had good traction to start with and gradually improved through the day, My car was good at the start but i gradually got understeer and so did Mark Green but he had it worse than me, we seemed to be the only drivers suffering with it, we tried a lot of things but for some reason we couldn’t get the steering back, although the car was still pretty fast by the end of Saturday. On Sunday the car felt better in the first run in the morning but I suffered with a little oversteer which was strange as it had changed from the day before, Mark made some changes in the morning and had made a big improvement in his car. I was TQ in the first qualifying ahead of Mark, in the second Mark got TQ just a second ahead of me in second place and in the final round I managed to improve by just about half a second, this put me one second behind Mark.
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The UK V-Dezign 1/12th scale team continued their dominant form from last winters nationals at round 1 of this summers Action Model Centre supported Summer Shootout series at the home of UK 1/12th scale racing, Chesterfield. Team leader Andy Griffiths dominated qualifying and won every round to TQ by an impressive 6 seconds ahead of newly crowned British and European stock champion Chris Kerswell. Chris was a mere 4 tenths of a second faster than Mark Stiles after the pair enjoyed a very close battle during the last qualifying run. This made it a V-Dezign lockout at the front of the A-final grid. In the A final Andy Griffiths cruised to a comfortable win and eventually lapped up to third place. This will give Andy a real boost and some good form to take to the IFMAR worlds at the end of June. Mark Stiles finished 2nd after a race long battle for the position with team mate Chris Kerswell and the CRC of Mick Farrell. Mick finished 3rd ahead of Chris, with the Corally of Andy Sawyer finishing a very distant 5th. Round 2 of the series takes place on 20th June, just before the drivers head to Germany for the worlds.
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This year’s FEMCA ISTC was held from the 13th to 16th of May in Brunei Darussalam, a small country in the North East of Borneo Island. Held in an air conditioned indoor stadium, the carpet track’s design was very technical. There were 2 categories, stock class 11.5T with a Team Orion handout motor and the mod open class and the event attracted about 60 drivers from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia as well as the home racers who joined both classes.
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Lars Hoppe, the 2006 DHI Cup winner has signed a contract with LMI Racing that will see him drive the Sakura Zero from 3-Racing this season. Also using LMI Racing parts and the electronic components from GM Racing, Lars will mainly drive 1/10 EP in the winter time, but will also do some LRP Challenge races during the summer.
Source: LMI [lmiracing.com]
The Sweep Challenge was held at Controlfreakz Raceway in Chaplin Connecticut last weekend and was sponsored by Sweep Racing USA. With 7 heats of racing action split between 17.5, open mod and the 13.5 4wd mini classes, Ryan Lee and Steve Kong made the trip from Korea to participate in the event and showcase Sweep Racing products. In qualifying Mike Haynes was able to take the TQ position in both 17.5 and Open Mod classes. In the 17.5 class final Mike Haynes was able to hang onto the victory in the A final with Casey Retke finishing in second and Kenny Lambert taking final the podium position in third. The Open mod class had incredibly close racing action with Mark Strasnick taking the victory in the final with an amazing pace in the closing laps. TQ Mike Haynes finished second with Randy Bernard taking third position.
Mark Christopher took a convincing FTD at the recent UK nationals shattering the existing track record at Halifax for the Sports GT class. His Team Dremel UK, Xray NT1 powered by Novarossi was the only car in the class to make the previously elusive 19 laps, which was achieved in each of the three qualifying runs. Mark also went on to win the final by two laps over fellow Team mate Richard Boult, both running Knack racing 220mm conversions on their NT1’s. The 220mm cars are increasing in popularity in the UK Nationals.
The 3rd round of Indonesian 1/10 EP TC National Championship was held at Jakarta International Twin Circuit, Jakarta in sunny weather conditions. With 69 total drivers competed in stock and modified class it was a very big entry for an Indonesian RC EP race. In the Modified class, Bowie Ginting took the TQ spot with his Xray T3 followed by Teddy Syach with his HB Cyclone TC and Kris Heriyana placed his Tamiya TRF 416X in 3rd spot.
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