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October 20, 2009

Adrien Bernsten wins Norwegian Championships

Very late in the season, at the beginning of October, the Norwegian Championship 1:8th scale IC track was held at the Hvervenbukta Raceway in Oslo, which was the venue for the Euros back in 2003. Despite cold and humid conditions the fastest laptime in practise was 12,65 sec which is below the track record from 2001. Unfortunately it rained during the night and on the morning of the race day most of the race was run under wet or semi wet conditions. Shepherd racer Adrian Berntsen already showed his strong performance during qualifying by winning every single qualifying round and taking the TQ for the 45 min final in front of Lars Haugen, Arntzen Erik and Helge Johannson. The final could be started under dry conditions and Adrian showed a perfect performance leading from start to finish. Besides the fuel stops only 7 laptimes out of 191 were over 14,000 sec with the best lap being a 13,503. With a gap of 4 laps he crossed the finishing line in first position in front of Lars Haugen (Mugen) and Rasch-Olsen Frode (Mugen).

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October 20, 2009

Rodrigo Pahissa wins Spanish 200mm Rd5 takes title

The 5th and final round for Spanish 1/10 200mm took place last weekend in Madrid at Club ARCA Track. It was an extremely interesting round, since the overall title fight was really tight involving more than 10 drivers with a real chance to win the National title. The weekend looked great for racing, sunny and over 24ºC and over 80 drivers were in attendance. The Saturday qualifying round showed a close fight for the TQ, with the Top 3 almost in the same laptime with a tight duel between the Pahissa Brothers.

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October 20, 2009

Touring Mod Rubber added to Snowbirds

The 2010 Snowbird Nationals classes are now posted, and this year features the addition of Touring Modified Rubber to the lineup. Racers will be dueling it out in eight road classes and eight oval classes this year, which is less divisions than year’s past, making for bigger car counts and more racing excitement. Check out the classes, schedule, and more all on-line now. Entries will open early to mid November.

Source: Snowbirds [snowbirdnationals.com]

October 19, 2009

Stiles does the Double At BRCA 1/12th Rd1

Last weekend saw round one of this winter’s BRCA 1/12th scale nationals take place in Crewe. The meeting saw most of the familiar faces in attendance along with the return of one or two names who haven’t attended the nationals for a couple of years. The most notable of these was Olly Jefferies, who will be driving an Associated R5.1 in this year’s championship. Last years champion Elliott Harper and former European Champion Andy Moore will also be at the next round, but were absent at this meeting due to International racing commitments.

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October 19, 2009

Eric Dankel joins Team Xray

Team Xray have announced that Eric Dankel has joined their team for the 2009/2010 season. The 1/10th scale Vice European B Champion and Indoor Electric Stock National Champion will run the company’s NT1 chassis in next years German Nationals, as well as the European and World Championships. Eric had the following to say about the deal:

I race Xray because the quality and performance of the car are unbeatable, and at all events the team cooperates perfectly together. In 2010 I will participate at German Nationals, EC and WC and of course at all Nationals. During the winter I will keep racing with the electric touring car.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 19, 2009

Wurst and Buerge win at NRW Challenge Rd3

Motonica team driver Christian Wurst in the 1/8 nitro class and Mugen racer Sebastian Buerge in the 1/10 200mm nitro class are the winner of the third and ultimate round of the new NRW Challenge (NRW = German State North Rhine-Westphalia) which was held at the track of the MCC Rhein-Ahr at Bad Breisig, located at the Rhine river between Bonn and Koblenz. The 254 meter track offered a good grip level and also the weather conditions were quite good with temperatures up to twelve degrees Celsius for this late outdoor racing action which would have deserved some more entries.

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October 18, 2009

Wilck & Stocker rule ETS opener

It was a full house of wins for both Viktor Wilck and Alexander Stocker in Germany as the duo topped of the perfect weekend with victory in the third Leg of their respective A-Mains. Having already wrapped up overall victory for the opening round of the 2009/10 Xenon Racing Euro Touring Series with victory in legs 1 & 2 earlier in the day, the two Top Qualifiers didn’t back off for the closing race of the three day Kastellaun meeting, putting in yet another dominant performance.

View the full event coverage on the ETS site here.

October 18, 2009

Wilck and Stocker cruise to Leg 1 victory

Top Qualifiers Viktor Wilck and Alexander Stocker both cruised to easy victories in Leg 1 of their respective A-Mains here in Germany at the opening round of the 2009/10 ETS. In Modified Wilck said the race was a little easier than expected as the challenge from Tamiya team-mate Marc Rheinard failed to materialise. The Swede said it was more difficult than it looked to the large crowd of onlookers and he expects Marc to be back to the pace he showed in Q5 for Leg 2. Both drivers ran the same set-up, however Rheinard said his TRF416X was just too slow. Only changing the rear diff since qualifying the German said the car lacked corner speed and he is unsure what to do as the diff feels good.

View the full event coverage on the ETS site here.