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May 7, 2013

RaceWorks Elite Racing Series Rd4 win for Lee

Rain once again hit Round 4 of the RaceWorks Elite Racing Series held on 5 May 2013 at RaceWorks’ onroad circuit in Singapore. As with Rounds 2 & 3, the overall results were based on the only qualifying run that was completed. Nicholas Lee (Team Tamiya SG) streaked to his 2nd consecutive victory, while teammate Alvin Koh once again claimed the third spot. Team Xray Singapore’s PY Tang bounced back from his disappointment of finishing out of the podium in Round 3 to take second. After yet another strong performance, Alvin Koh continues to lead the drivers’ standings ahead of PY Tang (Team Xray Singapore). Despite winning the last 2 rounds, Nicholas Lee is still having to make up the deficit from missing the full points scoring Round 1 and is currently in 8th position in the standings. Meanwhile, Team Tamiya SG extends its lead in the team standings over Team Xray Singapore after yet another double podium. The season now takes a 1-month break before resuming with Round 5 on 7 July 2013.

Source: Raceworks [raceworks.sg]

May 7, 2013

Laszlo Kiss-Orban wins Rd2 of Hunagrian Nats

Hungary Rd2

The 2nd round of the 2013 Hungarian Nationals was held at the Kyosho World Modellcentrum track in Budapest recently. The weather was sunny during the training and race day, but there was some rain at night, so the grip was lower than usual. The track is small and very technical and the surface is bumpy, so the key issue was to find an aggressive but still stable enough setup for the 30 minutes final. Laszlo Kiss-Orban started from the pole position in the 1/10th 200mm class and after the first refueling had built up a 1 lap gap in front of the field. Thanks to his consistent driving and the excellent pit works of his mechanics Janos Lakatos, Laszlo was able to keep this gap throughout the whole run and finished at the top of the podium with 2 laps ahead the 2nd car, Laszlo Szebelledi. Third position went to Antal Fehér.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 6, 2013

Joakim Nicolaisen wins Rd1 of Norwegian nats

Joakim Nicolaisen wins Rd1 of Norwegian outdoor series

Team Associated Factory Team driver Joakim Nicolaisen has won the first round off the Norwegian outdoor series, that was held at Geiteryggen Raceway, Skien, approximately two and a half hours outside Oslo. The track was bumpy, and had low traction and the race was open to touring modified and touring stock, which was driven as a support class. The race featured three rounds of qualifying, were the best round was counted, as well as three rounds of finals. Joakim was able to win the first two qualifiers, but in the third round, a mistake allowed Øyvind Stusdal to take the win and set the new TQ time. Young talented driver, Magnus Guttormsen also made the cut, starting at the back of the grid.

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May 6, 2013

Silvio Hächler wins Swiss EFRA GP

Last weekend the Swiss EFRA GP was held at the famous Lostallo track, but this time run in the opposite direction to normal. The track is really big with a very long straight and so it would be really hard to run the 5 minutes without a pit stop. After a wet Friday it was a sunny Saturday allowing for some nice racing. At the front the tactics were really different, Simon Kurzbuch, Claudio Paquin and Remy Hasler the 2nd till 4th from qualification did their runs all without a pit stop, the only one who was able to top this time was Silvio Hächler with fast runs including one pit stop.

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May 4, 2013

Bernhard & Salven win Rd2 in West Germany

Last weekend MCK Dormagen was host for the 2nd round of the West-German championships and Daniel Thiele gave this report. ‘As already seen 2 weeks ago at Rd1 in Bad Breisig, 1/10 and 1/8 were driven on the same weekend. With 30 drivers in 1/10 200mm and 40 in 1/8 class 1+2, it was a really interesting weekend. On Saturday we started with a basic setup with the team working really close to work out the best setup as possible. Due to the high amount of starters and the difference in performance between 1/8 and 1/10, the race director decided to divide training into time block of 20 min. each.

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May 3, 2013

Tim Wahl joins Xray factory team

Xray have announced that German multiple junior champion Tim Wahl has joined the Xray factory world racing team. Tim has been a young talented driver who has showed in the last years excellent results and permanent growth. Tim and Xray have joined the forces for the 2013 season to achieve the best possible race results at German and international events. Tim will race the T4 platform and will participate all major international races. Tim had this to say:

I have been racing with Xray since 2006 and now I’m really happy to be a part of the Xray factory team. It is the chance to learn a lot from the other guys in the team and improve both my skills and results. The working atmosphere in the team is great and I really like how we push each other forward. I’m really looking forward to a successful year 2013 with the Euros and the ETS races. I would like to thank Xray and SMI for the support and the trust in me.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 3, 2013

Novarossi supports Euro Nitro Series

World famous Italian engine manufacturer Novarossi are to support the inaugural Euro Nitro Series, the multiple reigning World Champions joining Xray and Shepherd Micro Racing as a Primary sponsor of the exciting new nitro onroad series. The sport’s most successful maker of RC racing engines, Novarossi will have a very strong representation at both races that will make up the ENS ‘Pilot Series’ the most notable of whom will be reigning 1:8 World Champion Robert Pietsch.

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May 2, 2013

John Sotiropoulos wins Greek 1/10th nats Rd2

Last weekend the 2nd round of the Greek 1/10th Nationals was held at beautiful Montelodromio track in Patras. There were a total of 20 drivers signed and the weather was sunny and hot. John Sotiropoulos, who only showed up on Sunday morning with no practice, showed strong and took the pole position in the 2nd qualifier, which kept till the end. In the 45 minute race John had perfect start and clean path in front so he had an easy job to keep his place till the end, finishing 1 lap clear of Nick Karabelas in 2nd with Kuriazis Michalis in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]