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March 26, 2008

ETS Holland – Marc Fischer confirmed

ETS Holland - Marc Fisher confirmed

The organisers of the 3rd round of the Much More backed European Touring Series are delighted to confirm that Corally factory driver Marc Fischer will be present at the event. The first outdoor event of the series, it will be held at the World famous MACH track in Heemstede, just outside Amsterdam in the Netherlands and joining the current German touring and 1/12th scale National Champion will be round 2 winner Jilles Groskamp, competing on his home track.

For more information about the event and where it takes place, including links to accomodation, go to the Series page on our site here.

Do you want to race against some of the World’s top touring car racers, while being commentated on by the legendary Scotty Ernst, in a fun and friendly, yet professional racing atmosphere then be sure to get your entry in for round 3 of the ETS by going here.

March 26, 2008

Robert Pietsch joins ATS Tyres

Current German 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm National Champion Robert Pietsch has been confirmed to have switched to Italian tyre supplier ATS. Debuting with his new foam at last weekend’s Pre Worlds in Portugal, the Shepherd Velox designer used his Xray NT1 to qualify in 2nd position before going on to finish the hour long final in 3rd behind ATS team mates Dario Balestri and eventual winner Daniele Ielasi.

Source: ATS Tyres

March 26, 2008

Sidiropoulos wins Greek 1/10 Nats Rd1

Sidiropoulos wins Greek 200mm Nats Rd1

The opening round of the Greek National Championship for 1:10 200mm took place over the weekend at the FRT circuit. Saturday practice saw the Serpent pairing of John Sotiropoulos and Kostas Sidiropoulos set the pace, which they would carry through to Sunday as they secured the top two placings in qualifying with Sotiropoulos taking the TQ. In the final Sotiropoulos capitalised on his pole starting position, opening up an early lead over the chasing pack but unfortunately 18 minutes into the race he destroyed both 2 speed gears, handing the lead to team-mate Sidiropoulos. After almost 2 minutes in the pits, Sotiropoulos rejoined the race 5 laps in arrears of his team-mate. Determined to take a podium finish he put in a superb recovery drive setting the fastest lap of the day on his way to an excellent third place finish, just behind Mugen racer Lymnios in 2nd, while up front Sidiropoulos cruised home to take his first ever National championship race win.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 26, 2008

Duthie & Burrows win NZ Nationals

Last weekend, Taranaki in New Zealand played host to the country’s gas Nationals for both 1/8th and 1/10th scale. The 1/8th scale class saw the TQ spot go to Mugen racer Andy Ando, but problems in the final meant he could only finish in 6th, leaving the win go to his team mate Luke Duthie, with fellow Mugen racers Andrew Kirk and Selwyn Duthie in 2nd and 3rd, all on the same lap. In 1/10th scale it was Daniel Burrows that started from the pole position and could take the win by 1 lap in front of Mugen team mates Scott Robinson in 2nd and Jayden Duthie in 3rd spot, 3 laps further back.

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March 24, 2008

Ielasi wins 200mm Worlds Warmup

The weekend just gone saw the warmup race for the 1/10th 200mm World Championships take place at the Monsanto track in Lisbon, Portugal, host of the Worlds event in August. Qualifying saw 2 time European Champion Dario Balestri take the pole position for the main final ahead of Robert Pietsch in 2nd with Giuseppe D’angelo and Alessio Mazzeo rounding out the top 4. The Semi finals saw wins for Teemu Leino and Daniele Ielasi, who qualifed only in 14th position, and it was the latter that was able to carry pace into the final, taking the win by less than a second after 1 hour of racing in front of Balestri, with Robert Pietsch rounding out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Worlds Site [world-championship-2008.com]

March 19, 2008

BRCA 1/12th Nationals Round 6

BRCA 1/12th National Series

The final race of the 2008 1/12th National series was run last weekend by the Chesterfield Auto Racing Society, who were celebrating their 25th anniversary as a National Host this year. Newly crowned Mod Champion Andy Griffiths, who was sitting on 4th position in qualifying overnight, just managed to secure pole position for the final in Sundays final round, with HB team mate Mick Farrell lining up in 2nd position. Andy managed to get away cleanly in all three finals, and went on to take a relatively comfortable victory in each race to secure top spot at the meeting with a perfect score, his 5th win from 6 rounds.

Source: Mirage [mirageracing.com]

March 19, 2008

LRP TCM Updated Battery rules

The organisers of the 11th annual LRP Touring Car Masters, thats taking place in the Rhein-Neckar-Hall in Eppelheim near Heidelberg from 28th to 30th March have updated their rules regarding the batteries for the Masters class.

Because of multiple requests by drivers the batteries on the 2008 EFRA list are also allowed in the Masters class. The 2008 Efra list is actually effective for races from 1st April 2008 but many drivers already bought these new batteries so we decided to allow them. Go to the LRP site in the link below to find the 2007 and 2008 Efra lists as PDFs. Batteries you can not find on these lists or batteries with other heat shrinks are not allowed in the Masters class.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

March 18, 2008

Niclas Nilsson wins SSIC title

Serpent are reporting on the final, and title deciding round, of the South Swedish Indoor Championship (SSIC) that took place at the Malmö indoor track last weekend where the Serpent S400 of Team Serpent Sweden driver Niclas Nilsson enjoyed victory to become the overall Champion in Modified EP Touring. On the large but tight high traction track Nilsson was able to take TQ as well as setting some of the fastest lap times ever run on the Malmö track en route to the overall victory. Daniel Carlsson finished runner up with Rasmus Thulin completing the podium.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]