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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]

November 11, 2009

Florida State Series Rd3 report

This past weekend was the 3rd round of the Florida State Series and it was held at the Kissimmee track in Orlando Florida and DJ Apolaro gave us the following report. This race was different since the track owner had many many changes to the track and it was new for all the racers. No one racer had any advantage, as no racers have been allowed to use the track since the renovations. It was a new layout, fresh sealer and all records were to be new for this weekend.

Continue reading the report here

November 10, 2009

Rodriguez & Méndez win final round of Puerto Rico Nats

The final round of the Puerto Rico Nitro On Road Series was held last Sunday at Barceloneta RC Track. In the Sedan Class Mugen driver Juan Rodriguez TQ’d the event and went on to win the hour long main after a good battle with team mate Andy Báez who finished in second with Tori Santiago finish in third driving an NT1. In the 1/8 scale class it was was Fernando Méndez who took the TQ spot and would win the 30 minutes race, Mugen Driver Andy Báez finish in second and Edgar Tirado finish in third driving a Serpent. This race was especially important as it would decide the 2009 Puerto Rico NOS Championship standing.

Click here to see the 1/8th winners

November 10, 2009

David Ehrbar wins Czech Grand Prix

Last weekend saw the Czech Grand Prix take place in Hrotovice with 90 racers in attendance along with some top international drivers too. In qualifying it was Toni Rheinard who stuck it on pole position ahead of David Ehrbar with new Tamiya driver Steen Graversen lining up in 3rd, with race organiser Michal Bok and Dennis Fadtke rounding out the top 5. In the finals Toni took the win in the first leg by just a second ahead of Steen, with David having to settle for 3rd spot. In the second leg David took the win, following a touch between Toni and Steen that opened a gap and allowed Ehrbar to take the lead, setting up a last leg battle for the overall title. In the final leg Toni set off and built up what looked to be an unassailable 3 second lead, but a crash together with slow marshalling lost the Tamiya driver his lead and once again David was there to pick up the pieces. This leg win secured Xray driver David Ehrbar his first International win ahead of Toni Rheinard in 2nd and Steen Graversen in 3rd spot. In the stock class it was Xray racer Zdenko Kunak that took the win from Rene Klöckner in 2nd driving a Tamiya and Jakub Plechac in 3rd for Hot Bodies.

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November 10, 2009

Marc Fisher wins West German 1/12th Regional

Last weekend saw the latest 1/12th regional race take place in Schermbeck in the very West of Germany. Qualifying saw Daniel Sieber take the win in Heat 1 ahead of Markus Mobers, while in the 2nd heat Corally driver and European Stock spec champion Marc Fisher put down the quickest time, setting a new track record and a new qualifying round record. In the final heat Marc was trying some new tires and again managed to break both records that he had just set in the previous heat. In the finals Fisher took the lead in the first final and steadily pulled away, but at the 6 minute mark and while nearly a lap up on the 2nd place Mobers, his batteries lost power and he was out. With no problems in the final 2 heats Marc could easily power ahead to victory and with it the overall race win, with Markus Mobers in 2nd and Daniel Sieber in 3rd.

Source: GM Racing [gm-racing.de]

November 9, 2009

Team 966 wins 3 hour race at Oberhausen

The Team 966 with Tobias Hepp, Alain Levy, Frank Schewiola (all of them with Serpent 966) and young Jean-Pierre Roenicke (Kyosho) have won the “3 hour race” at Oberhausen, the heart of rc racing in Western Germany. When the checkered flag dropped the team had covered 482 laps and an advantage of 19 laps to Motonica Team Germany with Christian Wurst, Joerg Baldes and Uwe Baldes (all Motonica P81). Another 35 laps down was Team Odenthal Racing Parts with Ingo Odenthal, Ralf Vahrenkamp and Carsten Pruessmann (all Serpent 966).

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