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September 9, 2013

Nelson Lee & Leigh Dytor win Singapore Open 2013

This year’s Singapore Open for 1/8th and 1/10th on-road cars Singapore Open was more adrenaline and anxiety filled than usual due to frequent rain that made practice virtually non-existent and qualifying, sub-final and final duration uncertain. In the three days prior to the race, only on Friday afternoon was the track dry enough for a three hour practice. With 64 drivers signed up for the 1/8 class and 34 drivers signed up for the 1/10 class this led to a kamikaze practice session and many cars and engines were simply not ready for the racing that was to begin on Saturday morning.
After another overnight rain, Saturday morning was spent drying the track but thanks to the effort of the many club members the track was ready to race in now time both on Saturday and Sunday.

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September 6, 2013

International Romanian Nitro Cup – Announcement

The first ever International Romanian Nitro Cup for 1/8th and 1/1oth on-road classes will take place on the weekend of the 22nd of September at the newly built Hobby Arena track in Frumusani near Bucharest. World-famous Scotty Ernst already confirmed his participation as did pilots from five different countries including Michael Salven who will presenting a nearly complete collection of Serpent’s racing cars going back to the 1970’s. All details plus the race registration can be found here.

September 6, 2013

2nd KM World Cup & ZAC Cup – Report

The 2nd KM World Cup & ZAC Cup took place at this year’s IFMAR 1/8th nitro on-road track in Japan with drivers from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, England, Finland, Italy and Holland attending. Free practice for all drivers took place on Friday, a chance most drivers and teams made use of especially since some new cars where in attendance such as the KM K8 prototype and Hot Bodies’ upcoming R8 kit. Saturday’s qualifying was dominated by Meen V. who put himself on top of the 1/10th 200mm class with Jilled Groskamp controlling the 1/8th class. Sunday morning had the final round of qualifiers and while nearly all of Japan was affected by a big storm the Tokyo area had scorching hot temperatures with the track surface reaching near 50°C. After qualifying Meen V. took the overall TQ in 1/10th while the 1/8th class had Yokoyama taking TQ.

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September 6, 2013

Abrahamek & Vyšín win at Czech nats Rd4

The 4th round of the Czech national on-road championship was held at the track in Svitavy. In 1/8th scale Michal Abrahámek won the race in front of Miroslav Jurenka. The podium was completed by David Dohnal. The 1/10th 200mm class win went to Jiri Vyšín who had Xray team mate Michal Abrahamek in tow. Pavel Jansa finished third rounding out the podium.

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September 6, 2013

Swedish On-road Nationals 2013 – Report

The 2013 Swedish On-road Nationals was held at the relatively newly built facility of the Lidköping RCK, located towards the South-Western part of Sweden. The track is a fairly big one, with both sweeping and technical parts. The event was unfortunately struck by bad weather, with rain and very cold conditions, already from the start on Friday. The entry count reached 60, divided on three classes: 1/10 nitro on-road, 1/8 on-road, and 1/10 electric touring cars. In the 1/8 category, the race saw a late entry of the star of this year’s Swedish Cup in the 1/10 class, Markus Hellquist. In a controlled and blistering fast performance, he managed to snatch the overall win in front of many experienced 1/8 drivers. He came in in front of Mikael Fransson and Patrick Sahlin.

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September 6, 2013

Adrian Berntsen wins Norwegian National Champs

Last weekend the Norwegian National Championship was held at Sorlihavna, a track located near Oslo with 64 racers attending. This track is feared by many drivers, because the grip can get crazy and there are many local drivers from the hosting club that are very fast on this track. The weather prediction for the weekend was not good, and the qualification form that was used was round by round with two out of five counting. As predicted on Saturday morning the rain came. It would be crucial to get some points early, since the weather forecast promised a dry Sunday.

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September 5, 2013

RickV wins NK class at Dutch on-road championships

Last weekend saw the 6th and final round of the Dutch 1/8th on-road nationals run at the Raco 2000 track. With Robin d’Hondt, RickV and John Ermen heading the ranking the race would also decide the 2013 championship in the NK class. John just needed a top 4 finish to make the championship while RickV would need to win in order to grab the title. In the first qualifying round John showed to be the fastest but RickV, Gunther v. Staey and Robin d’Hondt all were just 1.5 seconds behind him. Finally RickV did set the fastest time with John Ermen 0.4 sec behind him. John, Robin and RickV later made it through the semi finals with John starting from pole in the main final. Directly after the start Robin d’Hondt lost a C-clip on his gearbox and had to retire. In the 7th minute of the 30 minute final John faced some radio problems and fixing took his team three valuable minutes so RickV could cruise to the win. 7 laps down Frank Baggen and Danny Leewis crossed the finish line second and third respectively. John only came in 6th which handed RickV the 2013 Dutch national championship title. John Ermen finished second overall with completing the season in third position.

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September 5, 2013

Belgian touring car nationals Rd7 – Report

The seventh and final round of the Belgian touring car nationals took place at the outdoor track of the Mrcz in Zwevegem. The track itself was an improvised affair in the parking lot of the club, it proofed to be very technical but also fast. The grip was very low and everyone was searching for the right setup on Saturday’s practice. In the Efra class it was Olivier Bultynck who took TQ in front of Manuel Henriet, both split by only 0.3 sec. Those two were very fast and everyone was convinced that the win would be for one of them but everything is possible in the finals. Nick Joosens was third on the grid and Thomas Stockman was fourth on his hometrack.

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