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December 16, 2011

AI Luo takes SGP1 Rd2

SGP1, the formula one r/c racing league in China completed its second round with over 23 teams and 53 drivers in attendance. Racing was exciting, with teams and drivers all trying to compete for points. The league was started two months ago with over 70 drivers signing up for the first season with 6 races planned. It is also now confirmed that Japan’s F1RCGP will be holding their 2012 season 6th round race in Shanghai together with SGP1, making the coming event in early June one of the largest international F1 races to date.

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December 16, 2011

Eduardo Dulac wins South Amercian 1/10th title

Official Shepherd / Max Power driver Eduardo Dulac took the TQ and won the 45 minutes final at this year South American Championship held in Brazil. Dulac’s team mate Gabriel Britto (Shepherd / MaxPower) dominated Friday’s first practice session, and was second in qualifying and also in the main final. The Argentine driver Guillermo San Martino (Xray / Novarossi) completed the drivers podium. Eduardo Dulac received the perpetual trophy from the hands of the Argentine driver Juan Pablo Golobic, champion of 2010.

Thanks to Guto Colvara for the report.

December 14, 2011

Sebastián Recio wins 2011 South American title

Last weekend the South American Championships took place in Sao Pablo city, Brazil with a great track greeting all the drivers present from around the continent. Qualifying in the 1/8th scale class saw pole position go to Brazilian Falvio Elias with his Capricorn chassis but in the final it was another Capricorn driver Argentine Sebastián Recio who took the win followed by pole man Elias in 2nd for a Capricorn 1-2.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

December 13, 2011

Philip Tschupp wins Rd1 of Swiss Championships

The first round of Swiss Indoor Championships was held last weekend at the indoor track Pilatus in Stans. Its an extremely technical and high grip track and after a few practice runs, it was Philip Tschupp driving a TOP Photon EX Prototype who was fastest, followed by Sandro Kuriger (ATS Podium finisher) then Fabian Widmer. The qualifying groups were small to avoid accidents and it was Philip that secured the TQ with Sandro Kuriger in second place with Fabian third. The first minutes of the finals was a tight race but after a few minutes Philip Tschupp would maintain his lead in every final. Sandro Kuriger made two mistakes and had one crash losing his second place in every final to Fabian. They had a hard but very fair battle in the last Final and in the end, it was Fabian who took the second place overall.

Source: TOP [top-racing.jp]

December 13, 2011

Romagnoli & Taddei win AMSCI indoor finale

The last round of the AMSCI Indoor National Championships was held recently in Palazzolo, Italy and saw 4 categories take part including Mod & Stock 13.5 touring, Formula 1 17.5 and 1/12th scale. In the modified class it was Yokomo driver Michele Romagnoli that took the TQ spot and would win the 1st and 3rd final to take the overall ahead of team mate Daniel Baldissarri in 2nd and Xray driver Alessio Menicucci in 3rd. In the stock class it was another Yokomo win from the TQ spot with Maurizio Taddei taking the win ahead of the Xray pairing of Umberto Pernice and Gianluca Radaelli.

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December 12, 2011

Tommy & Eason win Chinese 3 hour endurance

Team C team driver Tommy & Eason attended last weekend’s 3 hours GP endurance race in China. More than 20 teams attended this event with the morning being set aside for an EP Buggy one hour endurance race. Tommy & Eason’s T8E was leading for the first 45 minutes, until they dropped down to second position after a battery problem staying there until the end of the race. In the GP 3 hours endurance race they won with a 5 lap gap, their T8 and PR engine staying stable and smooth during the whole race.

Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]

December 11, 2011

Daniel Carlsson wins Lucia race in Sweden

The annual Lucia race took place in Borås once again this year. After winning it three years in a row Alexander Hagberg took the trip to Italy instead. For this year we saw a great track with plenty of traction and a nice flowing layout. In practice we saw Daniel Carlsson set an early pace with his Yokomo BD5 WXi. After winning all three qualifing rounds it was Daniel Carlsson in TQ position followed by Serpent driver Bengt Andersson and Kristoffer Gustafsson in third. In the finals Daniel took home the win in all 3 legs, the battle seemed to be about the second place wich was in the end taken by Bengt just in front of Kristoffer. The open and high speed track saw some really nice driving from those drivers and some clean A mains.

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December 8, 2011

Apolaro & Regalado win Florida State Series Rd4

This past weekend saw the 4th round of the Florida State Series take place in Kissimmee and Kosmic Fuel was in attendance to support the racers. With over 60 racers between the 2 classes the competition was pretty good with racers from Connecticut, Virginia, Maryland and Jersey came to compete with the Florida boys. In the sedan class it was Scotty Gray taking the TQ by 2 tenths with DJ Apolaro in 2nd and Rino Lino 3rd. In the 1/8 scale class it was Paolo Morganti taking the TQ with Capricorn driver Ronnie Regalado in 2nd and Sean Lue 3rd.

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