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October 4, 2011

Awesomatix A700 now available

Russian company Awesomatix have announced that they have begun shipping the revolutionary A700 1/10th EP touring car chassis. The car, which we have covered previously, has proven itself on the track with multiple pole positions and a win at the final round of the Euro Touring Series as well as making the final at this year’s European Championships. The cars will be first delivered based on pre orders before becoming generally available.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

October 3, 2011

Mibo Sport Cup – Announcement

Mibo Sport with support from Yokomo, have announced their new winter race series. The series will take place in the Czech Republic, in the popular city of Hrotovice, where previously the ETS and European Indoor Championships have been held. This season Hrotovice is proud to host the EOS as well. The event will take place indoors, in a hall that has enough space for 2 separate tracks, on-road and off-road. The on-road track will be 30x20m in size, and the off-road track will be 30x16m. Race categories will be: Touring Car Open (only LRP CPX tires allowed), 4wd buggy and 2wd buggy (open tires). The series consists of 7 races, from which the best results from 5 races will count towards the overall standing. All races will be held on a single day, always on a Saturday. Free practice will be allowed from 18:00 on the Friday prior to the day of the event. Round 5 will see European Champion and Yokomo team driver Ronald Volker make a special appearance. At the end of the race series, overall winners will be awarded a Yokomo chassis kit. Kits will also be raffled to all participants. Team driver Michal Bok will be on hand at the events to provide any help. Complete details can be found here.

October 2, 2011

Hellquist & Andersson win 2011 Swedish Cup

The Swedish cup consists of 6 races with the best 3 results counting plus the result from the final race. Since it was 60 points for a win in the final race instead of the normal 50 at the previous races it was an open affair for many of the top drivers. After the nitro smoke had cleared from the final race of the season it was Markus Hellquist who stood on top of the podium in the 1/10 200mm class for the Örebro Race finale and with this result was the overall winner of Swedish Cup. Mikael Fransson ended up in second place overall and Per-Ola Hård claimed third place. All drivers competing for the same club Wäxjö MS, and also running the same cars, the Serpent 733. In the 1/8th class Bengt Andersson took overall cup win with Marcus Lindner in second and Niklas Johansson in third place.

View the 1/8th podium here

October 2, 2011

Kyle Branson wins Rd8 takes British 1/8th title

The 8th Round of the Championship was hosted by the Cotswold Club situated within the Cotswold airport complex. The weather forecast was for a wet Saturday and a dry Sunday, but this turned out to be the opposite which had all the drivers frantically adding wet setups to their cars and changing to damp tires. Every driver decided a banker time was required since due to the open nature of the track surroundings and no wind would result in the track taking a long time to dry out, if at all. In first round of qualifying, it was the top 5 who pulled out a good lead. Kyle Branson then broke away with Tim Wood chasing hard. Neil Diver who was on a charge had engine trouble and Andy North / Richard Hicklin made errors which resulted in slower times and no place in the top final at present. Round 2 was similar conditions to round 1 but times were generally slower but Neil Diver did improve to guarantee a final position.

Continue reading the report here

September 28, 2011

DJ Apolaro wins ROAR Sedan Nationals

This past weekend we had the 2011 National Championship Race held at the ControlFreakz track in Chaplin CT and DJ Apolaro sent us this report. All the big players had come out to claim the prize and fight it out for the top spot. I was running both classes, as in the US they combine 1/8 scale and Sedan. What also makes it tough is they only qualify the top 4 into the final, which could mean a lot of driving to try and advance from a Semi or ¼ final.

Continue reading the report here

September 26, 2011

Paolo Morganti wins 1/8 ROAR Nationals

Paolo Morganti was in great shape in 1/8 scale class at the ROAR Nationals held in Chaplin USA last weekend. Due to rain, qualifying was run over just 3 rounds and it was Morganti who took the TQ honors with his Serpent 966 ahead of DJ Apolaro, Chris Tosolini and Joaquin deSoto. In the final Morganti kept a very high pace, only giving up the lead a few times when he pitted for fuel. He would eventually take the win by 2 laps from Capricorn team mates Chris Tosolini and Joaquin DeSoto in 2nd and 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 25, 2011

Claus Ryeskov wins Danish 200mm title

Even after one of the worst summers in Danish history, all 5 race weekends of the 2011 Danish National 200mm Championships in Vejle, Næstved, Greve, Hillerød and Odense were run in dry weather. The last race of the championship, on a great track for 1:10 cars, was held in Odense with Claus Ryeskov top qualifier, even though Martin NO set the fastest lap time of the qualifying rounds. So the stage was set for an exciting feature race but unfortunately it did not materialise as Martin NO had motor problems within the first 8 minutes of the race. As a result of this, Claus Ryeskov ran a comfortable race with his Novarossi powered Xray and led from start to finish, while 2nd place went to Heinrich Weizer with some nice driving with a borrowed Xray from Claus. Claus Ryeskov won 4 out of the 5 championship rounds and took the title from Martin N.O Hansen driving a Serpent with and Xray driver Daniel Michaelsen in 3rd.

Thanks to Claus Ryeskov for the report.

September 24, 2011

2011 Tamiya EuroCup Finals result

The 2011 Tamiya EuroCup Finals were held in Basel Switzerland last weekend. The event saw 110 drivers from 8 countries compete for European Champion honors in 6 categories; Top Stock, M-chassis, Buggy, Gentlemen, F1, and Euro GT (mod). Swiss, German, and Hungarian drivers topped the tables. Geng Bence of Hungary Crowned Top stock Champion, Swiss Roman Pichler and Marco Siegenthaler F1 and GT Champions respectively. Mathias Reber of Germany made the podium twice with 2nd in both M.chassis and F1.

View the different class winners here