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October 2, 2012

Montesinos wins Spanish finale Cabezas takes title

The last round of the Spanish championship was held in Gijon, northern Spain. With the weather forecast not good, the rain was going to be a problem. The title was still open and to be decided between 3 drivers, Nacho López (Serpent-Max-Matrix), Sergio Montesinos (Mugen Novarossi-Enneti) and Oscar Cabezas (Motonica-Novarossi-Enneti). The first 2 have have been on the podium all season, while Oscar had won the last 2 races. On Friday the drivers could not train due to the rain while on Saturday the track remained wet until the beginning of the qualifying heats, the grip improving throughout the day. The best heat was the last one which saw Oscar Cabezas take the pole position.

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October 1, 2012

Peter Jovanovic double at Australian Nationals

The Australian AARCMCC National IC titles Championships were held at the QRCCRA Brendale track in Brisbane, over 4 days last weekend. The event attracted drivers from New Zealand and locations in Australia nearly 4000 kilometres away, with nearly 100 entries in total. Timed practice was made on Thursday, with qualifying and lower finals on Friday and Saturday and finals on Sunday. In the 1/10th class Capricorn driver Peter Jovanovic started from TQ position and was never headed winning from local driver Jeff Hamon (Mugen) in 2nd and another local Jason Dorn (Xray) in 3rd. The 1/8th scale class was also won by Peter Jovanovic from TQ position, with Jeff Hamon (Mugen) again 2nd and Glenn Breugem (Mugen) in 3rd. Jeff had a better start than Peter, but Peter took the lead not long after and was never headed after that.

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September 29, 2012

Alexander Hagberg to use AME MBT additives

Factory Xray driver and ETS round winner Alexander Hagberg from Sweden has signed a 2 year deal with AME to use their new line of MBT Additives. Available for both carpet and asphalt Alexander had this to say about the deal:

With the AME MBT line of additives I always know that I will have the best grip possible combined with great balance which is almost more important. I can use them for all my cars at any track making it very easy for me to concentrate on driving and setup.

Source: AME [team-ame.com]

September 29, 2012

2013 DHI Cup – Announcement

The organizers of the 2013 DHI Cup have been in touch to tell us that entry for next January’s (11th to 13th) event is open on MyRCM. As in 2012 there will also be an Off-Road race run alongside the tradition touring car race in the same Arena in Odense. The classes will be Touring Car Modified and Super Stock as well as 2WD and 4WD Off-Road with the rules for all classes not completely finalised just yet.

September 26, 2012

Picco sign Rick V to factory team

Picco have announced that they have signed multiple World and European 1/8th scale finalist Rick Vrielijnck to their factory team. The Xray driver, who just recently won the Dutch National title, signed for the Italian engine firm prior to last weekend’s Dutch EFRA GP in Apeldoorn and went on to TQ, set a new track record and win the race. Rick will run the Torque line of engines in his RX8.

Source: Picco [teampicco.com]

September 25, 2012

Rick V wins Dutch EFRA GP

The famous Appeldoorn track was the host of the Dutch EFRA GP that attracted some 27 drivers from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy. The weather forecast was a little bit doubtful as one could expected after the rainy Summer but the weekend proved to be a dry one except for some light rain on Saturday. The final was a bit of a tire gamble as due to the use of additives tire wear was higher than normal and when the dust settled it was Xray driver Rick Vrielijnck who took the top spot on the podium followed by Silvio Hächler and John Ermen. Gunther van Staey took the fourth place with Simon Kurzbuch in fifth position.

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September 24, 2012

Remi Callens wins European Stock TC title

The European Championship TC Stock took place in Alcobenas, Spain. The qualifying was dominated by Remi Callens (Xray) with Serpent ace Jan Asmer hot on his heels. Come the finals Remi was able to conserve his form with fellow countryman Joan Urbain taking the runner up spot. Jan Asmer took third place. Remi’s well deserved win also means the first European electric touring car title for Slovakian manufacturer Xray.

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September 24, 2012

Scotty Grey wins Forgass season opener

The 36th Annual Forgass Nitro On-Road Series took place at the Homestead/Miami Speedway. With the temperatures being very hot and humid the first race of the new season was a hard one for the drivers as well as for the material but the extreme conditions didn’t bother Team Shepherd driver Scotty Gray and his newly updated Shepherd Velox V10 “tweleve” who dominated the qualifying. The 30 minutes final began with Scotty starting from pole position and pulled away quickly. With swift fuel stops he was able to further increase the gap and at the end he crossed the finish line in first position. The next race will be held at Nuggets Ranch Raceway in Arcadia (FL) followed by the ROAR Fuel On-Road Nationals at the same place from the 17th to 21st of October.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]