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December 10, 2009

Soeren Boy Holst joins TOP Racing

In collaboration with RC Models in Esbjerg, front running Danish racer Soeren Boy Holst has moved to TOP Racing, to drive their Photon chassis in the 2010 season. Continuing to equip his car with GM Racing motor, speedo and batteries, Soeren’s first appearance with the new touring car will be at the DHI Cup in Odense at the beginning of January. Looking forward to his new season in collaboration with RC Models and his new car, he wanted to take this opportunity to say thanks for the many years of cooperation with former team Xray.

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December 9, 2009

Christer Andersson wins Italian GP

On the first weekend of December, R/C Flyers association organized the first Italian GP at the ‘Centro Sportivo’ in Palazzolo sull’oglio approximately 50 Km from Milan. The race attracted 80 drivers divided into 4 different classes, Sport Foam, Sport Rubber, Open Foam and Open Rubber. Among the drivers there were also some guests as Christer Andersson, Simo Ahoniemi from Finland, Toni Rheinard from Germany, Yuri and Gianni Bonetti from Switzerland and top gas car drivers Francesco Tironi and Daniele Ielasi, current 1/10 scale nitro World Champion.

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December 9, 2009

Elliot Harper joins CRC race team

Calandra Racing Concepts have announced that young rising star Elliott Harper has joined the CRC race team. The former Xray driver will be using the new CRC 1:12th scale Gen-XL car with CRC Pro Cut tires at the BRCA Nationals starting this weekend in Tamworth, UK. He will represent the full line of CRC products with Gen-XL and Gen X 10 cars, Pro Cut tires and Black Art bodies. As a past BRCA Nationals winner and IFMAR World Championship A-finalist, Harper is sure to stir up the results this coming season. While Elliott plans to compete in as many races as possible, the 2010 1/12th Worlds and Euros are still a bit tentative because of his studies.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

December 8, 2009

Jefferies, Copsey & Randall win at Rug Racers Rd3

Round 3 of this seasons Muchmore Rug Racers series took place at Woodson Park and attracted a strong entry including some top UK national drivers. Drivers were split across three classes for stock, pro stock and open modified, all running on the controlled Sweep pre mounted tyre. In the open modified class a good quality entry included Elliott Harper, who was using this meeting to debut his new Tamiya, and UK national touring champion Chris Grainger who was also giving the Schumacher Mi4 a run out on carpet. Elliott took FTD in the final run of qualifying but it was the TC5 of Olly Jefferies that took the overall victory for Associated, Olly winning the second leg of the three leg finals which he followed up with a two second places, Elliott was second with Schumacher’s Matt White completing the podium in third.

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December 3, 2009

Honigl TQ’s and wins Expert World GT in Cleveland

Calandra Racing Concepts drivers Hupo Honigl and Aaron Buran finished 1-2 at the 30th Annual U.S. Indoor Championship in Cleveland, Ohio. Both drivers used the CRC Gen-X 10 car to take a convincing win in the hotly contested World GT division. From pole position, Hupo led every lap and was not pressured until very late in the run when a charging Buran really started to close in. Buran worked through traffic and found himself hot on the heels of the T.Q. driver Honigl by the end of the race.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

December 1, 2009

Jilles Groskamp dominates in Indonesia

Last weekend saw the Indonesian EP series end of year race held on Sunter International Speedway. The race open for 3 classes, Stock 11.5 BL, Modified Class and Formula-1 class. A 2 days event, Saturday had 4 qualifying rounds with the 5th and final round on Sunday along with the triple mains. The race had 50 drivers and they were greeted by variable weather, sunny, cloudy and rain, so all drivers had to repeatedly change their setup. It was Tamiya team driver Jilles Groskamp, who made a trip from Thailand, that took the pole position in the stock class followed by young Xray driver Bowie Ginting in 2nd and long time racer Rudy Hardjo in 3rd. In Modified, Jilles Groskamp also took the TQ spot followed by Xray driver, Danny Iswahyudi with Kris Heriyana in 3rd position.

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December 1, 2009

Jacky Mouton returns to Serpent for 2010

RB Products, distributors for Serpent in France, have announced that front running National driver Jacky Mouton will return to using the Dutch brand next year. Jacky, who raced for Kyosho last season, will return to Serpent using their new 733 1/10th scale 200mm chassis and will compete with the new car in the French Nationals together with the European Championships.

Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]

November 29, 2009

Volker & Yokomo claim first ETS pole

Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker will start on pole for Round 2 of the Xenon Racing backed Euro Touring Series after producing a blistering run in the final qualifier here in Budapest, Hungary. The German became the only driver to make 25 laps with a time of 5:12.338 and set a new fastest lap for the event taking his Yokomo BD5 around the large carpet track in 12.265. The new speed came thanks to Yokomo’s own R&D man Yukijiro Umino who, having tried a new set-up on his own car in Pro Stock, then transferred it to his team driver’s car. Volker said the changes made the car feel slower than in the previous rounds but it was a lot more stable allowing him get the time in. Having TQ’d the opening round of qualifying the result gives the recently crowned Japanese National Champion both his and Yokomo’s first ETS TQ honours.

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