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February 18, 2013

Hart & Trinder win Essex Winter Series Rd5

The penultimate round of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend. With the event being held just one week before the BRCA Winter National, the event was fully booked many months beforehand, with some EWS-regular drivers missing out on getting their entries secured in time. The Superstock class once again saw a number of top UK National drivers competing, along with three drivers making the journey from Ireland to race. The high level of competition meant five close rounds of qualifying, highlighting the fact that the EWS is now considered the UK’s premier indoor on-road championship.

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February 13, 2013

Mibosport Cup Rd6 report

Last weekend was the sixth Mibosport Cup presented by Yokomo. This race attracted about 110 drivers from Czech Republic and many other European countries. As usual the race was held for a variety of electric onroad and also offroad classes such as 2WD and 4WD buggy, Stock Zero 17.5T, Modified TC, Formula and Yokomo GT. Also Dash for Voucher Race was added to main race and it was again great show. The organizer drew one of the offroad categories – final B 4WD and the fastest driver was Marcel Dostál.

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February 13, 2013

Dino Giacalone joins Team Picco

Picco have announced the signing of Dino Giacalone. The young Italian made the final at the 2012 Euros in Cassino and will assist Edo Picco in developing and testing their new 2.1cc nitro engines. Expect to see Dino at upcoming National and International race meetings.

Source: Picco [teampicco.com]

February 11, 2013

Ralph Burch renews with Xray

Xray announce that 200mm Nitro World Champion Ralph Burch will stay with the Slovakian manufacturer trough 2013 and that the US super star will participate in all on-road classes this year. Additionally he will race electric off-road races with the new XB4. Ralph says:

I have been racing with Xray team since the very beginning since I have started to race the very first T1 more than 12 years ago. Over the years we have built a very effective team work & cooperation which has resulted into some of my best achievements in my racing career including the World Champion title. I am very proud to represent this finest company and I am very happy that our cooperation will continue and I hope some more great results will come either for me or for anyone at the Xray team. I have been available to any Xray drivers with any their questions or comments and I am looking forward to see you all during the 2013 at the races.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 11, 2013

Paolo Morganti wins FSS Race

Paolo Morganti put the new Serpent Viper 977 on top of the podium at the FSS Race in Florida this past weekend. The race was used as a test for the upcoming Winternats that will take place at the Fort Meyers based track this February. The FSS Race also saw the growing group of 1/8 GT racers run their cars, and Desoto was able to win the race with Serpent Cobra GT, followed by his team-mate in 2nd.

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February 11, 2013

Petter Berntsen wins Norway Indoor Nats Rd3

The 2nd round of the Norwegian National Series was held at the Vianett Raceway in Moss. The track is a small indoor track with a tight but flowing layout. The pace was set at the first qualifier with Petter setting laps as fast as he did in practice. Magnus Guttormsen, a 10 year old local driver, was just behind finishing second despite some close encounters with the track barriers. In the second qualifier Petter was even faster and Magnus hit trouble when a battery connector came loose. In the third qualifier Petter was still lightning fast, with Magnus just a few seconds behind. The third spot went to Rune Svestol who pulled 33 laps just like Magnus.

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February 9, 2013

Mark Smyka wins F1 @ Snowbirds

Exotek Racing report that Mark Smyka has TQ’d and won the F1 class at the 2013 Snowbirds Nationals. Mark piloted his Exotek F1R to 3 out or 4 heat wins and found the car to really suit his driving prowess. Also used by Mark were Exotek F104 adjustable front arms which were a great tuning aid for the carpet conditions at the Snowbirds.

Source: Exotek [exotekracing.com]

February 8, 2013

Donny Lia wins 13.5 Pro Stock @ Snowbirds

SpeedMerchant team driver Donny Lia brought home the hardware in 1/12th 13.5 Pro Stock at this year’s Snowbird Nationals held in sunny Orlando Florida. The unique 24-hour format race features Road Course and Oval broken up into 12-hour intervals and has attendance of up to 500 race entries every year. Due to work commitments, Donny wasn’t able to fly down to the race until Wednesday evening, missing all of the organized road course practice. Using the race qualifiers for gathering your set-up information is never ideal, but sometimes it’s your only option. Donny’s Rev.7 was quickly on pace and his SpeedMerchant ‘New School’ front suspension was carving up the track. After some small tweaks early Sunday morning, we knew we had the car to beat in the A-main later that day.

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