French fuel company Meccamo have been in touch to tell us that their sponsored driver Kyle Branson has dominated this year’s BRCA 1/8th scale Nationals using MeccaFuel. The factory Sirio driver TQ’d 8 of the 9 rounds this year and won 7 on his way to clinching the title with one round to spare. Kyle only stepped up to the 1/8th class this season having dominated the 1/10th 200mm National series for the past few years.
Source: Meccamo [meccamo.com]
Capricorn has announced that they have signed Favio Elias to their factory team for the 2012 and 2013 seasons. Flavio Elias is eight times Brazilian 1/8 Champion and will now as a official Capricorn pilot represent Brazil in international competitions such as the next worlds in Japan. Flavinho, who already was one of the stand out drivers at the last Worlds in Miami, was Brazilian champion in 2010 and 2011 already running the Capricorn chassis.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
Acorn Racing have signed P.Y. Tang from Singapore to run and test its wide range of products. Racing since 1989, P.Y. has competed in multiple national and international races around the world achieving success in multiple Tamiya Asia Cups as well as making the final at last year’s TITC in the Stock 11.5T class. The Team Xray Singapore driver will be using Acorn Racing’s product range such as tyre additive, pinion gears, spur gears and silicone wires. On top of that P.Y. will be supporting Acorn Racing in testing their LIPB LiPo battery range as well as its upcoming electronics.
Source: Acorn Racing [acornracing.com]
The 9th and final Round of this years BRCA 1/8th circuit Championship was hosted by the Mendip raceway in Weston Super Mare. With all the main drivers present, the fight was to secure 3rd place in the overall GT1 Championship after the title was decided in favour of Kyle Branson at the previous round with a perfect score of 6 wins from 8 rounds. Tim Wood was also in an secure position in second but relinquishes his title which he had owned for the last 3 consecutive seasons. The GP2 title for drivers with a lower driver skill ranking would also be decided over the weekend with Jason Thompson having the chance to overtake current leader Greg Fairlie.
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The opening round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held on an indoor track, close to Gothenburg. 26 drivers attended it in the Modified class on the fast high traction track. After three rounds of qualifying Michael Nilsson took TQ followed by Daniel Carlsson and Mattias Johansson. In the opening final there was a goof race between Michael and Daniel with the latter making a big mistake going on the straight which allowed Michael to take home this leg pretty easy. Leg two again saw some nice moves in the opening minutes from the top runners. The leg was decide with around a minute to go as Daniel begun to catch Michael with the latter making a mistake allowing Daniel to slip through and going for the win in the second leg. Leg three would decide the race victory and Daniel followed Michael closely for about two minutes into the race waiting for an opportunity to pass. The the heat of the race Michael hit a corner marker allowing Daniel to pass only to become passed by Michael the lap after. With 30 seconds to go Michael was held up by traffic badly, allowing Daniel to win not only the third final but also the meeting.
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Motonica is pleased to announce the 4th edition of the Motonica Trophy for 1/8 and 1/10 scale on-road cars that will be held in Fiorano from the 29th to 30th October. Registrations are open on the website of the Miniautodromo Jody Scheckter. You can find all information here.
Source: Motonica [motonica.com]
CRC pilots Kenny Lambert and Fred Kellner have won the 17.5 1/12 scale and 13.5 World GT classes at the recent 2011 IIC in Las Vegas. Kenny used the brand-new CRC Gen-Xi 1/12 scale car in combination with a CRC Rockt Fuel battery, CRC/Black Art R8C body and CRC Pro Cut magenta and pink tyres. In 13.5 World GT class Patrick Morehead took the TQ with his CRC Gen-X 10 with Gen-X 10LE driver taking the overall win in the finals.
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Capricorn got in touch to tell us that Sebastian Recio has won the recent Argentinian 1/8 scale on-road championship. The race took place at the 2007 World Championships track in Cordoba. Sebastian (Capricon/Novarossi) was able to get TQ after qualifying and also won the main final in front of Agustin Cutini (Mugen/Novarossi) and Agusto Quinteros (Serpent/Novarossi).
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
