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June 3, 2011

Gulyás & Körmendi take victory at Rd2 in Hungary

The Hungarian Shepherd Team topped 2 classes at the 2nd round of the Hungarian Championship, which was held on the newly rebuilt track at Hungaroring. In the 1/10th 200mm stock class Krisztián Gulyás TQ’d by winning all qualification heats. In the final he only lost the lead for 2-3 laps when pitting for fuel, but after 30 minutes he crossed the finish line with decent gap ahead of the of the Kyosho pairing of Tamás Kovács and Dávid Szabó. In the 1/8th class it was again Gábor Körmendi who took the first position in the starting grid for the 30 min final. He crossed the finishing line in first position without any big issues setting a new lap record of 15,975 sec. The fight for the second place was very close with Tibor Bognár (Serpent) finishing second in front of Shepherd driver Kelbert Péter.

View the 1/8th podium here

June 3, 2011

Miguel & Cosme win Rd3 in Portugal

Last weekend saw the Portuguese Nationals head to the Torres Novas track for round 3 of the series. In the Modified Class the outcome stayed the same as in the last 2 rounds, with Hugo Miguel taking the win and Helder Silva as the runner up. The pair were followed closely by João Miguel Martinho. In the Stock Class Bernardo Cosme, running at his home track, didn’t give anyone a chance, taking TQ and the overall win, beating almost every track record on the way. Fernando Cardoso got second and Mário Coelho was third. Championship leader Jorge Simões couldn’t do any better than 4th.

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June 3, 2011

Christopher Krapp wins EP TC warmup race

Last weekend the Warm Up race for the forthcoming European Championship 1/10 Electric Touring Cars was held in Traiskirchen in Austria, organizers of last years Buggy EC. The venue was a partly open hall used during winter as an ice hockey rink and the race attracted about 50 drivers from all over Europe. After 6 qualification rounds it was Christopher Krapp (Germany) driving a Kyosho TF-6 who took the pole position ahead of Yannic Prümper (Germany) driving a Yokomo BD-5 and Dominik Fleischmann (Germany) driving a HB TCX. The fastest lap of the whole event went to Steen Graversen (DK) driving the incredible Awesomatix 900.

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June 1, 2011

Mirko Salemi wins 1/8th European ‘B’ title

Mirko Salemi has captured the crown at the European Championship (B) 1/8 nitro on-road which took place last week at Hildesheim in the south of Hanover in Germany. Second and third spot on the podium went to Switzerland with Juerg Nydegger second and Mattia Pesenti third. Following 118 entries a total of 105 racers competed at the E.C. (B). The organising club AMC Hildesheim has been an excellent host of this six-day-event but at the end Germany carried their hospitality to excess when six German finalists cleared the way for the four foreigners to take the first four positions.

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May 30, 2011

Giorgio Defelici dominates Rd2 of Trofeo Capricorn

The first round of the Trofeo Capricorn series was held last weekend in Cassino. It was Capricorn/Novarossi driver Giorgio Defelici that claimed the top qualifying spot and would also go on to win the event. Second place went to another Capricorn/Novarossi driver Massino Agnese who had a close battle with 3rd place Brazilian driver Edoardo Dulac with this Shepherd/Max.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

May 30, 2011

Alien Racing 12R5.1 conversion kit

Alien Racing has introduced a conversion kit for the Associated 12R5.1, featuring some of the same properties used on Ronald Volker’s car at this year’s European 1/12th Championship. This kit allows you to place the battery in longitudinal position, which helps the efficiency of the car in corners and reduce yaw when changing direction.

Source: Alien Racing [alienracing.fr]

May 30, 2011

Andy Moore takes BTCC Rd3

A dominant performance from Andy Moore saw the Hot bodies driver take the Cotswold round of this seasons Schumacher BTCC, starting from pole after taking TQ Andy eased a lead ahead of the chasing pack of the Associated TC6 of Olly Jefferies and the Schumacher Chris Grainger, with the Cotswold BRCA national only two week away this meeting was a good form guide to who would be the pace setters for the national and Andy Moore currently looks the man to beat and leaves the others looking to find a little more pace.

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May 29, 2011

Teddy Syach wins rain effected Rd4 in Indonesia

The 4th round of the Indonesian 1/8th scale national championships was held recently in JITC Senayan circuit, Jakarta. The weather was cloudy from the start of the race and the qualifying had to have the second heat re-run due to rain. It was Teddy Syach who took his Mugen MRX5 to pole position setting the only 20 lapper @ 5.15, followed by Toni Kundjung (Mugen MRX5) with a 19 laps @ 5.02. Xray drivers, Sadikin Sutrisno and provisional standings leader Bowie Ginting took 3rd and 4th place respectively with a very close gap of 0.048 seconds. Suwardi Suliandy (Xray) completed the top 5. Seven minutes into the grand final, the rain suddenly came down hard and forced the organizer to stop the race. Because there wasn’t 75% race distance run yet, the result was taken from the qualifying result.

View the final standings here