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May 2, 2012

Jacky Siow wins MBA Cup 2012

The Minyak Beku Agrotourism Cup, an annual event held at the sea side resort in the southern part of Malaysia has attracted some of the best racers from Malaysia and Singapore, resulting in more than 50 racers participating in the 10.5T boosted class. The first round of qualifying saw Jacky Siow from Team Orca Asia taking the preliminary TQ spot with the fastest lap time of 12.281sec and completing 24 laps in 5:00.937. Michael Lo also from Team Orca Asia achieving 24 laps 5:02.352, with a fastest lap time of 12.291sec and Siow WoonFong achieving 24 laps 5:04.489 coming in 3rd.

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May 1, 2012

Rino Lino wins GT @ Kosmic Shoot Out

The Kosmic Shoot Out was held this past weekend at the newly updated Blue Dimond Raceway in Delaware, USA. Over 70 racers attended this race which included Sedan, 1/8 Scale and GT. GT qualifying saw Paolo Morganti on the top spot. In the GT final, Serpent drivers Paolo M. and Rino L. where running first and second when Paolo had an electrical problem in his car that forced him to stop. Rino took over the lead and drove a mistake free race to take the win for the Serpent Team. Rino’s win continues the remarkable results for the Cobra GT. It has TQ’d every event it has entered and won every race this year.

Thanks to Joaquin de Soto for sending the report.

May 1, 2012

Lemieux to contest ETS Apeldoorn

Xray have confirmed that American Touring Car ace Paul Lemieux will contest the penultimate round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series over the weekend of June 1-3 at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. Having made annual appearances in three of the four previous seasons of the world famous electric touring car series, this will be the US National Champion’s fourth time to race in the ETS but will be the Wisconsin driver’s first experience of the Apeldoorn venue which is rated by many top drivers as one of Europe’s greatest race tracks. The RC America/Thunder Power backed driver will join factory Xray drivers Alexander Hagberg and Martin Hudy at the fifth round as the Slovakian manufacturer looks to build on their maiden victory in the Ride Modified class at Round 4 in Poland that has moved Hagberg into contention for the overall 2011/12 ETS Championship title.

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April 30, 2012

Brunei PEMKAR series Rd1 report

Last weekend saw the first round of the Brunei PEMKAR series race held in an indoor hall in the capitol of Brunei. The series races is the most popular in this region and attracted some 40 drivers in three classes. The Mod Open class was TQ’ed by Wirawan in front of Hazmi and Zaman. In the finals, Wirawan was crowned the early winner after being successful in leg 1 and 2. 2nd place went to Hazmi and 3rd place went to Khai.

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April 30, 2012

Frederic Bourillon wins 200mm Euros B

Last weekend saw the start of EFRA’s summer Euros calendar with the 200mm European Championship B in Monaco and we received the following report from EFRA. Only a small number of drivers made it to the event with the actual reason for this is hard to tell. Partly it could be because of the tire issues, but there might be other reasons also. The class in general is having its difficulties, due to its complexity and you see more 1/10th scale drivers move to 1/8th. The scenery in Monaco, with its track against the mountains near La Turbie, is quite amazing and the organizer had made all efforts to welcome the drivers to this EC-B.

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April 29, 2012

Mark Green wins BRCA 1/8th round 2

The second round of the 2012 BRCA national championship was hosted by the Halifax circuit in West Yorkshire, the host club for the 2013 European A Championship. The entry for this circuit is normally high and with a good following so far this year, we had around 45 drivers present. With the tire additive issue set to be resolved with an EGM to be held on Saturday with all drivers present having to register for a vote. The item was with regards to changing the existing rule of ‘prohibited’ to ‘permitted’ to therefore allow the use of additive and most importantly prevent the lengthy policing procedure in which the committee had adopted. The outcome however was unanimous in favour to retain the rule prohibiting tire additive with the relevant penalty to be applied if anybody is found guilty of using such additive for the remainder of this season and until this is again reviewed at the BRCA AGM in October.

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April 29, 2012

Dutch 1/10th 200mm Nationals Rd1 report

The 1st round of the Dutch 1/10th 200mm Nationals was held at the MRC Real’80 track. Conditions proved to be tricky with a mostly wet Saturday and Sunday. With special ‘wet’ cars allowed everyone tried to get as much track time as possible and the second and third round of the qualifiers even took place at reasonable conditions. Qualifying for the NK class saw Daan Jacobs take the pole position ahead of Pedro Rombouts, Daan Stuiver and Ruben d’Arco. The wet but slowly drying final saw Daan Jacobs pulling away from the field eventually winning two laps in front of Janwillem Gons who was chased by Arco de Jong and Ruben d’Arco in fourth position. In the Nomac class it was Rik Meijeren who won by 8 laps from Sidney Blokker in 2nd and Marcel Haenen in 3rd place. In the Combi Kyosho class Hans Westerveld was able to leave TQ John Weytboer behind him but only separated by 18 seconds. Two laps down Gerlof Hovingh came in in third position followed by Jan Timmer. Overall everyone had a good and fun weekend which seems to be the important part for these nationals now.

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April 29, 2012

Olivier Bultynck wins Belgian TC Nationals Rd2

Round two of the Belgian touring car nationals took place at indoor track of Lovanrc in the town of Zarren. The EFRA class was dominated by Thomas Stockman for the first two qualifiers but at the end it was Olivier Bultynck who took TQ followed by Thomas and Nick Joosens in third. The first A final saw a four minute battle for the win between Olivier and Thomas, who kept all spectators in suspense until Thomas made a small mistake giving Olivier the chance to pull away. Oliver was able to keep his pace and took the victory with Thomas came in second. Nick Joosens secured the third place.

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