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June 7, 2007

2007 Reedy Race of Champions – Videos

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The 2007 Reedy Race of Champions is history for another year and it was Rheinard, Cavalieri and Lewis that took the top honours at the events final run on the Tamiya race track in California. As expected the event attracted a lot of interested people and some of these people had video cameras and so we can now show you some of the action from the event. The video above is from the A1 Open Mod final, which you can watch directly in the embedded player, while below are more races and atmosphere videos.

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June 6, 2007

Elliott Harper wins BTCC Round 4

BTCC Round 4

Last weekend saw the 4th round of the BTCC Championship held at Broxtowe on a glorious weekend and in qualifying it was Hot Bodies racer Elliot Harper that secured the pole position. Harper carried his qualifying pace through into the final and he could go on to win the overall event with a win in an incident filled first final and another win in the second, more straight forward, final.

Read the full report here.

Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]

June 6, 2007

Green wins Rd4 of UK 1/8th Nats

Last weekend saw the 4th round of the 1/8th scale BRCA National Championship run under sunny skies at the Wombwell track in South Yorkshire. Qualifying saw a tight battle that left Serpent team driver Mark Green at the top of the field, closely followed by team mate, and round 3 winner, Richard Hicklin in 2nd while 3rd place qualifer was Andrew North. At the start of the final Mark Green started to pull away from the rest of the field leaving the real battle to be fought out behind him. Richard Hicklin was in with a shout of a podium, as was Neil Diver until they hit problems leaving Andy North up into 2nd place until a broken plug dropped down the order. At the end of the 30 minuted final it was a clear win for Mark Green with Mugen racer Peter Hastings in 2nd, 3 laps back, while 3rd place went to Serpent racer Tim Wood, a further lap back.

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June 5, 2007

Jimmy Maddison joins Schumacher

Schumacher have announced that they have signed multiple British class Champion Jimmy Maddison away from TOP racing with which he has enjoyed a successful start to the season winning the first round of this years BRCA 27T Nationals racing the Scythe.

Multiple national Champion Jimmy Maddison has joined the Schumacher race team and will pilot the new Mi3. Jimmy has an impressive list of results including two National Championships and several British Indoor Winter Series wins. At his first race this weekend he took TQ at the BTCC in 19T and win be attending the Scottish GP this coming weekend to pilot his skills against some of the best drivers around. Schumacher would like to welcome Jimmy to the team and wish him the best of luck for the forthcoming races.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

June 4, 2007

Johnny Pastor wins 2007 TecRace

Last weekend the Adcaz club in Zaragoza played host to the 2007 TecRace, which was organised by importer TecroTec and supported by Team Magic and Team Orion. Spanish GP winner Darren Johnson, engine tuner Oscar Jansen and multiple World Champion Adrien Bertin were present for tech support and to give seminars, while Johnson was also competing at the event too and duly took put his Team Magic G4+ on the pole position for main final. Unfortunately the recent BRCA National winner ran into some problems in the final and fell over 20 laps down which allowed Xray NT1 racer Johnny Pastor to take the win by 1 lap in front of Team Magic racer Carlos Aguero with 3rd going to another Xray racer, Oscar Romero.

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June 3, 2007

Martin Lissau takes Rd2 of Danish 200mm Nationals

Rd2 of Danish 200mm Nationals

This weekend saw the 2nd round of the Danish 200mm Nationals organised by the Næstved Model Racing Club, which attracted nearly 80 racers. Held under sunny conditions, the pole position fell to Jimmy Bigum, but he retired after 10 minutes leaving Xray racer Martin Lissau to take the win in convincing style by 5 laps in front of 2nd placed finisher Jesper Høyer. A close battle for the final podium spot saw Dennis Hassing and Bent Poulsen battle it out all race long with Dennis getting the 3rd spot by 6 seconds at the end of the 45 minutes.

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June 2, 2007

Markus Eder wins Rd2 of Austrian Nats

Corally are reporting on their site on the 2nd round of the Austrian electric touring car Nationals which were held last weekend at TW-SM Traumhaft. The event was TQ’d and eventually won by Corally racer Markus Eder, racing the new RDX Phi, who finished ahead of Xray team driver Martin Hudy with another Xray, that of Vadav Strupek, in 3rd position.

Source: Corally Austria [teamcorallyaustria.at]

May 31, 2007

Cyril N’Diaye wins Rd3 of French EP Nats

Cyril N'Daye wins Rd3 of French EP Nats

The 3rd round of the French electric touring car National Championships was held last weekend at the Bourg en Bresse circuit in the east of the country. Qualifying for the Open A class saw round 2 winner Cyril N’Diaye take the pole position for the final, heading an Xray 1, 2, 3 with Aurélien Thréhout and Hugo Ragaut in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the final nothing much changed and with N’Diaye taking the win from Ragaut who moved up into 2nd and Thréhout dropping down to 3rd. In the Open B class it was Xray racer Vincent Cavard that took the TQ and the win in front of Corally racer Olivier Beining in 2nd and Xavier Ansellem in 3rd for Tamiya.

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