It was April weather with both rain and sunshine together that greeted the West German 1/8 nitro on-road racers who kicked-off their season at Hamm last weekend. At the end of the race day it was Thilo-Alexander Toedtmann who braved the elements, the Mugen/RB racer taking his very first victory in class 1 following his triumph winning the 2011 German class 2 Championship.
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The second round of the Spanish 200mm National Championship was held in Gijón, with the weather forecast expecting rain for all the three days. This meant that all drivers had to adapt both their cars and their driving skills to all kind of situations, foreseeing that all qualifiers and all finals will be completely different one to another. Friday was useless, with the track completely wet there was no point on risking the car in free practice. Without being able to test one single minute, qualifiers started and as it was predicted they weren’t going to be easy at all. It was all about which tires worked and at what time. With the track being in a somewhat in-between state, nor flooded, nor dry, the window to choose between different tires was wide open and to make it even more interesting short moments of sun and showers took turn. TQ then went to Edu Escandón who opted for the right set of tires for the last qualifier, which strangely enough were dry tires, despite the track was still humid. Jonnhy Pastor took the runner-up sport with Luis Cayetano and Raul Casado following in third and fourth place.
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The fifth round of the KM World Cup Hong Kong selection race took place last weekend at the HK-based ACO track. KM H-K1 driver Nicolas Lee from Singapore dominated the qualifiers and took TQ in front of Dirty Tiger and Hung Cheung Hang, both also piloting H-K1 chassis. Come the finals Nicolas had a slow start with Dirty Tiger and Hung Cheung Hang putting pressure on him and eventually overtaking him as the result of two errors made by the pole-sitter. Around the 15 minutes mark Hang made a mistake leading in a flame out meaning Nicolas was able to grab second place. Only a minute later disaster stroke for Dirty Tiger who broke his car making way for Nicolas, with Hung Cheung Hang finishing two laps down in second and Vincent Tang (KM H-K1) in third place.
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Last weekend saw the opening round of the Schumacher BTCC 2012 Championship at what many people in our fraternity say is the best track in the country, Cotswolds Model Car Club. The weather forecast didn’t look too good before the event maybe putting a few people off, however 115 drivers were set to compete. As always the excellent Sorex XG-32RY tyre was the choice for the dry and the new XG-Rain treaded tyre for the wet. All day Saturday was open practice, some people making it a two day event and others choosing to turn up on the day. Sunday morning was nice and sunny but with rain in the night open practice was on a drying track.
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Ardent Raceway was the host for the first round of the Super Production Cup on 22nd April, around 55 entrants were spread across the 5 classes. In the Mini Open class there was a total of 14 drivers consisting of drivers from Dorset model car club, Essex and Chippenham. Mark Williams, Stuart Parnell, Bob Styles, Tim Woron, Stuart Webb and Kevin Hunt were all running the Top Mini Sabre, in fact out of the 14 entrants only 3 weren’t Sabres.
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Vesa Yli has claimed the Finnish National 1/12th scale title after last weekend’s fourth round nationals. The current Nordic Champion dominated the first 2 rounds of the nationals by taking TQ and the win in both rounds and finished 3rd in the following round before the season ending race. This meant that Vesa kept the top spot in the championship battle from the first race thru the season, just like Janne Valtanen did in the 10.5t blinky spec class, both driving V-Dezign Carpet Ripper V. Current Euro champ Simo Ahoniemi finished 2nd followed by team mate Teemu Saarinen. Panu Vehniäinen and Miko Teponoja showed strong performance and took 4th and 5th in modified, both also driving V-Dezign cars.
Virtual Racing Industries in collaboration with IFMAR, proudly presents to you ‘Race 2 the Worlds’ (R2tW), the ground-breaking competition which will give one VRC Pro sim racer the unique opportunity to race at the real 2012 IFMAR World Championships, The Netherlands, July 26-28th, all expenses paid, all materials and factory support provided by one of their industry partners. Race2theWorlds challenges r/c racers across the world to compete in one long, on-going online event. Until June the 17th anyone can try to qualify for the R2tW top-200 at any time they like. In the following week there are 2 more elimination rounds to reduce these 200 racers to just 100. These 100 racers will then compete against each other in an epic battle for the top spot. Racers with prior international racing experience are excluded from the contest. Already more than 650 racers from around the world have registered for the R2tW event.
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This past weekend, the Colorado On-Road R/C Club held its 1st annual Mile High Indoor Champs, a race whose outcome determined the ROAR Region 10 champions for 2012. Team CRC’s Max Kuenning walked away as double champion in the both 17.5 1/12 and 13.5 WGT classes. Dave Ehrlich’s victory in 13.5 1/12 gave Team CRC a clean sweep of the pan car classes. Team TOP’s Dustin Layne piloted his Novak powered Photon to victory in the 13.5 sedan class while in 17.5 sedan, the most popular class of the event, it was privateer Art Scrimo taking top honors with his Reedy powered XRay T3’12.
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