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March 18, 2013

Tomi Mairue wins Finntrack Prostock class

Last weekend saw the last race of the Finntrack Championship in icy Finland. The race took place in the town of Mynamaki, near Turku. The Prostock class has been the most competitive in the series, with way over 60 racers. The four race series saw four different winners and the races proved to be ultra competitive with just one to two tenths of a second per lap separating about 15 top racers from each others. Team EuroRC/Yokomo has been pretty solid from the first race to the last, with a really strong team and the new BD7 car. The series was finally won by Team EuroRC/Yokomo BD7 driver Tomi Mairue. Tomi drove a solid series with three second place finishes and one win placing him in front of Arto Heinonen’s Serpent and Jarkko Mustonen, who also drove Yokomo BD7.

Source: EuroRC [eurorc.com]

March 18, 2013

DJ Apolaro wins at Copa Del Pacifico

The Copa Del Pacifico was run in Peru at a very demanding permanent on-road track with extreme bumps and very high traction. During the qualifiers the race was on between DJ Apolaro and Pablo Morganti, both posted very quick times and it was Pablo who took TQ for the semifinals the fastest drivers had to go through as there was no direct qualification. DJ had used the qualifiers to work on the car setup for the final and his strategy should pay off as he ended up with a fast and easy to drive car whereas Pablo seemed to struggle with setup. From the beginning of the A main DJ was able to pull away from the field and even a tire change and a stripped belt in the closing minutes of the race did not stop the Capricorn driver who won the race seven laps ahead of Pablo Morganti with Fabrizio Martello taking the position on the podium.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

March 14, 2013

Keven Hebert doubles at Canadian on-road nats

This past weekend saw one of the largest RC car races ever held in Canada, the Canadian On-Road Nationals, in Welland, Ontario. Over 280 entries raced on a temporary carpet track set-up in the Centre Court of the Seaway Mall, providing a very unique atmosphere. The format for the race saw three days with practice all day Friday, followed by three rounds of qualifying on Saturday, and one last round and the mains on Sunday. The practice went very well with it being open for the first 4 hours until it got busy and controlled practice was on. In Modified and Super Stock touring Team Associated’s Keven Hebert was in control of things as he was able to TQ all three rounds of Super Stock and the last two rounds in Modified. In Sundays final qualifier, Andrew Hardman and Keven both reset TQ in Super Stock, improving it by about 2 seconds on his previous time and keeping TQ by less than a second over Andrew. In Modified, it was another great battle with both drivers on TQ pace. Both ran a good race with only 1 bobble for each and ended up resetting TQ. Keven would still grab the pole by about 1 second over Andrew.

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March 14, 2013

Xray Challenge Czech – Announcement

The Czech Republic will see a round of this year’s Xray Challenge meetings run in the city of Prague. The race will take place this weekend, the 16th of March, and will be run in 1/10th touring stock 17.5T, 9.5T and modified as well as 1/10 WGT and F1. You can book in for the race here and find more information by hitting this link.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 13, 2013

Dave Johnson wins at Canadian on-road nationals

The Canadian on-road nationals is Canada’s biggest on-road event held in the middle of Sea Way Mall in Welland Ontario. With well over 290 entries for touring car, VTA, 12th scale, and Mini, this is clearly the biggest event in Canada. US national champion and indoor champion Dave Johnson attended this event and ran the highly competitive 17.5 blinky touring car class as well as full blown open modified class. The VBC driver took TQ by 4 seconds over the other 89 entries in this class. In the main Dave got away to a good lead after 3 laps from current Canadian champion Philippe Gelinas who had got around Rob Say for 2nd place. Philippe would get within a second of Dave before the latter started to put together blistering laps to pull out to a 6 second lead over second place.

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March 12, 2013

John Sotiropoulos wins Greek season opener

The Greek National Championship got underway last weekend and it was John Sotiropoulos that dominated the race at the FRT track with his Serpent 747. Saturday practice showed that Sotiropoulos had strong pace as he set the pace with his Max Powered Serpent. That speed carried through to qualifying on Sunday as he TQ’d the event ahead of Shepherd’s top two challengers. Starting the final from pole position Sotiropoulos had perfect start and showed great pace and once the race had settled the Serpent driver started to extend his lead eventually crossing the line some three laps clear of 2nd placed Capricorn driver Vangelis Totomis and another 3 laps clear of 3nd placed also Capricorn driver Nick Karabelas after 45-minutes of racing.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 12, 2013

Alexander Hagberg re-signs with Team Orcan

Team Orcan have announced that following a successful first year of driving for their team and making the main final at the World Championships, Alexander Hagberg has decided to extend his deal with the German company. The Swedish Xray driver had this to say:

It has been a pleasure to work with Mr. Bertram Kessler of SMI-Motorsport. His experience and professionalism has helped a lot over the last year. I am confident that I can accomplish even better results in the near future. I will be running Orcan engines, mufflers, fuel and accessories.

Source: Orcan [orcan.de]

March 11, 2013

Xray Challenge Grand Final – Announcement

Xray have been in touch to invite racers to the grand final of the European Xray Challenge. The race will take place at the weekend of the 5th of May at the Hudy Racing Arena in a total of six different classes including stock, super stock and modified touring cars, 1/10th nitro touring, F1 and GT pan cars. In the touring classes only Xray touring cars are allowed to run with the tires being hand-out tires supplied by the organizers. Click here to find all details.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]