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May 12, 2012

North Cyprus Rd1 win for Mustafa Alp

The first round of North Cyprus touring car championships under the sponsorship of Shark Energy took place recently. The race took place in NCRC Arena track in Nicosia and the event had 6 practices on Saturday and 5 qualifying rounds with finals on Sunday. The track was very fast and had middle/high grip. Serpent driver Mustafa Alp dominated the event winning all three legs of the A-final and he made a 10.8 second lap which was the fastest lap of race. Xray driver Ahmet Akber took 2nd place and Serdar Aytemiz was 3rd with his Serpent 411.

View the final standings here

May 11, 2012

Polish TC Champs Rd1 win for Blazej Orlowski

The first round of the Polish touring car championships took place in Warsaw last weekend at a track in Bemowo. This one day event saw 4 rounds of qualifying along with finals on the same day and traction from start to finish was in the low/middle level making driving with the strong wind on the track very difficult. The event was dominated by Team Dualsky/Xray driver Blazej Orlowski who won the Modified class in the front of top Pro Stock driver Michal Orlowski driving a Tamiya chassis and Mateusz Ogonowski in third place with a Yokomo chassis. Blazej made the best lap of the race with a 15.6 second lap using the brand new XC850TF ESC from Team Dualsky along with the Z5 motor.

Image: APR-Foto

May 10, 2012

Olivier Bultynck wins 3rd round of Belgian Nats

The third round of the Belgian TC Nationals took place last Sunday at Zwevegem MRCZ’s outdoor track. Practice on Saturday was only driven under rain and this weather was expected for Sunday, but thankfully it remained dry all day. In the Efra class qualifying there was a duel between Thomas Stockman, the leader in the standings, and Olivier Bultynck, the champion of 2011. It was Olivier who eventually took TQ in front of Thomas and Nick Joosens who took third place. Manuel Henriet placed himself fourth.

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May 9, 2012

Schumacher GP 2012 report

With the Bank Holiday weekend up on us it was to West London Racing Centre for their Annual GP for 2012 being sponsored by Schumacher Racing. Entries were a little disappointing, maybe due to the adverse weather conditions that we have been recently experiencing in the UK. There were a total of 61 entries for this event and this being split between 17.5 Blinky, 13.5 Open and 10.5 Open.

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May 9, 2012

Brazilian 200mm nationals Rd1 report

The first round of the Brazilian on-road nitro nationals was dominated by Team Shepherd Brazil with victories in all three classes. Additionally more than 70% of the attending drivers were using a Velox V10, an impressive result of the hard work of Brazilian driver and distributor Eduardo Dulac who provided a tent and seats for all attending Shepherd drivers. In the “Masters” category it was current Touring B champion Luciano Aquino who crossed the finishing line in first position. He was joined on the podium by his new team-mate Edson Lima in third position who changed to Shepherd in late 2011. In the “Touring B” category Evandro Rocchie took the victory for Team Shepherd finishing 5 laps over the second placed driver while in the “Touring A” category it was Shepherd driver Gabriel Brito finishing 5 laps in front of second placed driver with Shepherd team mate Vitor Ohta competing the podium.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 9, 2012

Alex Thurston takes first British Nats win at Rd2

The second round of the British 200mm Championship was held at the superb Stonehaven circuit in Aberdeen, Scotland. The weather was very cold over the weekend and we even had a little snow during Saturdays practice. Mark Green was fastest with his Serpent 747 at the end of practice and actually set a new lap record of 15.1 seconds. New Capricorn signing Adam Catchpole was just behind Mark, running his LAB-C02 for the very first time. After Adam and Mark it was very close between the other top drivers of Simon Wood, Alex Thurston, Joe Kerry, Andrew Hastings, Matthew Cook, and Irish Champion Chris Steele who had made the trip.

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May 9, 2012

Bowie Ginting joins Associated Reedy

Indonesian Team Associated and Reedy products distributor Pegasus RC & Hobby Shop have announced the signing of Bowie Ginting. The 18 year old has numerous national titles in 1/10 GP, 1/8 GP and 1/10 EP and is Indonesia’s leading driver in the on road scene. Bowie is said to be delighted to run the brand new AE TC6.1 along with Reedy Electronics for the rest of the 2012 season.

Source: Pegasus RC [rcpegasus.com]

May 9, 2012

Michael Bruce & Kyle Eden win FSEARA Rd6

Round 6 of the Florida State Electric State Series (FSEARA) was held at Superior Hobbies in Orlando, FL. Superior Hobbies is one of the premier hobby shops in Florida and their parking lot track always provides for good racing and a strong amount of race entries. Despite the constant threat of Florida weather, with almost a 100% chance of rain forecasted, it did not rain at all and the program ran smoothly all day.

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