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June 7, 2012

Grainger & Giddins wins Rd2 of BTCC

Round 2 of this year’s BTCC championship was held at the West London Racing Centre track. Having looked at the weather forecast all week it was going to be a wet day, and sure enough when we all turned up at the track, wet it was. At drivers briefing it was decided that the format for the day would be 4 rounds of round by round qualifying followed by 1 final. With qualifying underway in round 1 it was Tony Broad who set the fastest time followed by Daniel Booker, Damian Giddins, Tim Tims and Spencer Jones in the stock class. In Super touring it was Schumacher’s Chris Grainger setting the fastest time with Olly Jefferies, Alan Bickerstaff, Andy Murray and Stefan Chodzynski rounding out the top five.

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June 5, 2012

Alessio Mazzeo wins Cassino International race

The Circuit Lamberto Collari in Cassino was the host last weekend to top drivers from across Europe including Pietsch, Wischnewski, Spataro, Balestri, Tironi and others, as they took the opportunity to test ahead of August’s 1/10th 200mm Euros on the same track. Qualifying was dominated by KM driver Dario Balestri followed by another Italian driver Biagio Spataro in 2nd while reigning 1/8th scale World Champion Robert Pietsch was 3rd. On Sunday the two semi-finals were won by Serpent driver Alessio Mazzeo and Xray driver Dirk Wischnewski while problems for Pietsch, Spataro and Balestri in the semis meant they failed to make the final. After an initial battle in the main final between Mazzeo and Wischnewski, it was the Max powered Serpent 747 of Mazzeo that took the win followed by Francesco Tironi (Capricorn) in 2nd and Claudio Culoma (Xray) 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 5, 2012

Martinho & Cardoso win Portuguese Nationals Rd2

The second round of the Portuguese electric touring car series took place last weekend in Coimbra. In the modified class, the pace throughout the day was extremely fast, with drivers changing positions every lap. Hugo Miguel TQ’d the first round followed closely by Bruno Coelho, João Martinho and Bernardo Cosme. In the second round the top 4 drivers from the previous round made some errors, but in the end João Martinho successfully TQ’d the round in the last lap from José Figueiredo who took second place with an error free run. The third TQ run was set by Hugo Miguel. The final and fourth TQ run was set by Bruno Coelho.

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June 4, 2012

Adrian Bernsten wins Norwegian nationals Rd2

The second round of the Norwegian national series was held at the beautiful facility of LMBK last Saturday and Adrien Bernsten. The track conditions was as always very good and with the high traction and pretty low temperatures (approx. 14-15 degrees), it was all set for some good racing and fast laptimes. After having done a bit of testing on the track before the race and putting in some fast laptimes and very consistent driving I was very confident going into this race.

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June 4, 2012

Neal King wins BRCA 1/8th Rd4

The Fourth round of the BRCA 1/8th on road championship was hosted at one of the premier circuits in the UK, Mendip raceway. With the country hosting the Diamond Jubilee celebrations and having an extended weekend break made traveling down to the track early Saturday morning very time consuming which culminated in missing a couple of hours free practice. Upon arrival we had noticed that the track had been treated with sugar water (Coke) to increase the grip around the braking, mid corners and exits. It was quite visible that this was probably brush applied and did not have any consistent coverage. I fully appreciate this was carried out to provide a constant level of grip but it seemed to make the cars very inconsistent from the lap times and in reality the times were 0.4 seconds slower than the end of last season which was not expected. However with changing weather conditions, the track did seem to dry very quickly between the rain showers which was probably a bonus in the end.

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June 4, 2012

Bella & Carlessi wins Trofeo Shepherd

The second Trofeo Shepherd race took place at the Miniautodromo Black Tarmac in the North of Italy. On Mesero’s international track the racing series is a regular visitor with a lot of Shepherd drivers in attendance enjoying a nice event with a lot of prizes for everyone. In the 1/8 category the trophy was won by Sara Bella, runner-up was Simone Pausini and third place went to Andrea Novati. In the 1/10 category Stefano Carlessi crossed the finishing line in first position followed by Maurizio De Simon on second position and Mattia Lorenzetti in third.

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June 4, 2012

Yannic Prumper signs for Hobbywing

Hobbywing have officially announced the signing of the young German touring car star Yannic Prumper. The factory Yokomo driver will join Andy Moore on the international Hobbywing team and looks to be a serious title contender for this year’s IFMAR World championships. Yannic made his international debut with the new V3 ESC last weekend at the fifth round of the series in the Netherlands and finished 4th overall. Yannic had this to say:

I am really proud to be a new member of the Hobbywing team. I have been impressed by the good quality and performance of the new V3 speedo. I look forward to having a successful season with Hobbywing.

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

June 3, 2012

Tamiya secure 1-2-3 at Dutch ETS

For the first time since Andernach in 2009, the fifth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Netherlands was to be an all Tamiya podium with Marc Rheinard claiming his first win of the season ahead of team-mates Viktor Wilck and Jilles Groskamp. Having made the call to run two of the three A-Mains on Saturday night directly after qualifying due to the forecast giving rain for Sunday, it was to prove a smart decision by the ETS organisers as racers woke to a very wet morning in Apeldoorn. With results from two dry legs to work from the result was declared on best result and fastest time giving Top Qualifier & Leg 2 winner Rheinard the win over the first A-Main winner Wilck with second in Leg 2 securing the former back to back champion Groskamp the final step on the podium.

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