October 12, 2008

Rheinard & Stocker victorious at ETS Rd1

Marc Rheinard and Alexander Stocker are the first winners of the 2008/2009 Much More backed Euro Touring Series, winning the opening round in Kastellaun, Germany after the fight for top honours went down to the third A Main in both categories. With a win each the Modified class was between Tamiya team-mate Rheinard and Jilles Groskamp.  Having TQ’d the event and the only driver to record 29 laps, the former World Champion looked like he had victory in the bag after Leg 1 but defending ETS champion Groskamp set a blistering pace in Leg 2 recording the fastest lap of the weekend on his way to a thrilling victory over Rheinard.  This set up a head to head battle for Leg 3.

View the full coverage on the ETS site here.

October 11, 2008

Rheinard tops ETS qualifying

Marc Rheinard is proving to be the quickest man in the qualifying for Round 1 of the Much More backed Euro Touring Series which is taking place this weekend in Kastellaun, Germany.  The current European Champion heads the overnight qualification ranking from team-mate & defending ETS Champion Jilles Groskamp. In Pro Stock Daniel Wohlgemuth has already secured TQ for Sunday evenings finals by dominating proceedings.

Go to the ETS site to see our complete coverage

October 9, 2008

Rabitti wins Rd4 Italian UISP C/ship


LRP are reporting on the fourth round of the Italian UISP Championship which was held in Reggio Emilia recently where team driver Riccardo Rabitti added to his Round 1 & 2 victories with his third win in the 6 round championship. Having missed Round 3, Rabitti returned in style taking TQ honours before going on to win the first two finals to secure overall victory from Federico Sala. Joining Rabbitti, who now leads the championship standings, on the podium was his brother Stefano. Riccardo Rabitti is proving multi talented having also enjoyed victory in this year’s Italian 1:8 Off Road Nationals.

Source: LRP (lrp.cc)

October 9, 2008

Wood is British 1/8th Champion

Tim Wood (pictured on podium at Round 7) is the new British National 1:8 Champion after atrocious weather conditions at the weekend caused the cancellation of the ninth and final round of the BRCA championship at the Adur track which is situated on the south coast of England.  The Team Serpent UK driver, who won three rounds this year, only had one challenger to the title in team-mate Mark Green who had two to his credit but the weather meant they didn’t get to go head to head for the title.  This is Green’s, a member of the Serpent factory team, second National defeat by a younger driver as last month he lost out on the 1:10 200mm title to emerging young talent Kyle Branson.

October 8, 2008

Gianni Giorgio wins Venezuela Nats Rd4

The fourth round of the Venezuelan 1:10 200mm Nationals took place over the weekend where Serpent driver Gianni Giorgio was declared the winner.  Driving his Max Power engined 720, Giorgio broke the track record in qualifying with a time of 17.048 and also set a new record for most laps completed over 5 minutes – a run that would secure him the TQ honours. Unfortunately bad weather forced the finals to be abandoned and so the result was declared on the heats. With this victory Giorgio takes the lead of the championship with two rounds remaining.

Thanks to Alan Lavín for the report.

October 7, 2008

Arie Manten wins wet Dutch 1:8 Finale

Last weekend a very wet MACH track played host to the final round of the 2008 Dutch 1:8 Onroad Championships. In the National Class it was a suprise TQ for Arie Manten who was obviously benefiting from the help of factory Mugen driver Rick V who decided not to race having already won of the Dutch National title. Behind him after qualifying it was John Ermen, Donny Blommers and Maurice vd. IJssel. In the final Manten drove a strong race and was the only driver setting lap times under 20 seconds. He was followed home by Rob Kuijper who suffered tire problems for some laps and 3rd place was taken by Rik Veenma. Daniel vd. Drift was disqualified for using tire additives. In the NOMAC Cup it was Jordy Blok who TQ’d followed by Richard Engbersen, Martin Zevenhoven and Roelof Tooms. In the final it was Zevenhoven who won thanks to a steady drive and little or no problems. Blok suffered some engine troubles and was running in 4th spot behind Emil Jansen and Roelof Tooms but the latter two were to retire handing 2nd place went to Blok and 3rd to Frank Baggen.

Thanks to Roelof Toems for the report.

October 5, 2008

Marcos Mayer wins São Paulo Open Rd2

Last weekend in São Paulo, on the AARC tack was the 2nd round of the Open class series for drivers using modified brushless motors. The cold and drizzly day made the dispute among Marcos Mayer, Felipe Franceschi and CrisCareca Carpinelli more interesting. Edu Dias, who was on 3rd place in Championship going into this round had some car problems and ended up only in 5th. Marcos Mayer did an excellent race with no mistakes and was the winner, while on an inspired day Felipe Franceshi took the 2nd spot from CrisCareca Carpinelli who ended up in 3rd. In the overall Championship Marcos Mayer is now all alone with two points ahead CrisCareca in 2nd.

Thanks to Adalberto Neri for the report.

October 3, 2008

Costa wins Final Portugese 1/8th National

Last weekend the final round of the Portuguese National Championship was run at the Sintra track in Lisbon. It was the first time a Shepherd Velox showed up at a track in Portugal and was also the debut 1/8th scale race for current 1/10th scale Champion Filipe Costa. He quickly got used to the car and was able to claim 2nd position after the qualifying. Because there are no direct qualifiers in Portugal all drivers had to pass the semi-finals to reach the main final and Filipe could win his semi final without any problems and secured himself pole position on the starting grid for the final. At the beginning of the final he lost the lead to Serpent racer Ricardo Nogueira but after 25 minutes he was able to take over the lead again and never lost it until the finishing line.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

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