Last weekend the first round of the Greek 1/8 On road Championship was held in Athens at the Arena Racing club. A well attended event, the race was won by the pole man Kostas Zacharopoulos driving a Blitz shod Mugen, taking the fastest lap, to win ahead of 5 time Greek Champion John Sotiropoulos in 2nd, driving a Serpent. Kyosho driver Vaggelis Totomis took 3rd, only 3 seconds back from 2nd place.
Source: Team Titan [team-titan.com.tw]
For the third race of the Belgian touring car season last weekend, they went to the track of RCR at Roeselare. On practice Saturday the competitors had a sunny day but during the night some rain was expected. The track was wet on sunday morning but a little sunshine and the track was dry and for the whole day it was cloudy but no rain. Qualifying in the EFRA class it was Corally driver Olivier Bultynck that took the TQ ahead of Thomas Stockman and Nick Joosens. The final results were a repeat of the qualifying results, with Olivier taking the win after the first 2 A-mains despite having to come from behind in the first final. Xray driver Thomas Stockman took 2nd and Nick Joosens driving a Yokomo was 3rd.
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Motonica have announced the signing of Italian ace Raimondo Gilletti. Raimondo has been racing RC since 2000 and has acquired great experience for his young age. For the last 3 years he has been ranked in the Italian Top 10 and has already taken part in the most important racing events at both National and International Level. The first events that will see Raimondo running the P81 RS are the Ecomodel Trophy in Gubbio, Italy (11/12 June) and the Euro Nitro Challenge in Hildesheim, Germany (23/26 June).
Source: Motonica [motonica.com]
The 1st round of the 2011 Capricorn Nitro Challenge Open, which had been postponed due by bad weather, finally took place last weekend in South Korea. In the 1/10th class it was Hyunho Ahn that took the pole position with his Capricorn LAB-C01, but in the final it was Seyong Oh that took the win ahead of Hyunho Ahn and Sangho Lee, to give the LAB C01 the complete podium. In the 1/18th scale class, it was Shepherd driver Jinwoo Park that was top qualifier but problems in the final meant he was not able to threaten for the win. The race was won by Capricorn LAB-C801 drier Sangjun Nam that took the win from the Serpent pairing of Youngjun Kim and Seyong Oh in 2nd and 3rd.
Last weekend saw the 2nd round of the Dutch 1/10th scale nationals held in the northern part of the Netherlands, in Groningen. A long journey for most of the visitors, it always proves to be a worthy trip to the technical but bumpy track of the REAL’80. Saturday’s training saw a sunny and dry day with lots of drivers adapting the setups to the bumpy ride. After a nice day of training, a barbeque was organized to enjoy the weather even more.
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Last weekend saw the first of six rounds of the Austrian National championship run at the MRC Frühwirth Sollenau track, which has been off the National calendar for some years because of a very strange rule, which was canceled at the last AGM of the Austrian federation. With total 69 entries we saw good competition in both classes.
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This past weekend was the first running of the Kosmic GP in Chaplin, CT, USA. As it was run on the same track that will host this year’s US Nationals, there were many top drivers in attendance. In the sedan class it was Kosmic fuel main man and Capricorn team driver DJ Apolaro that took the top spot in qualifying and would go on to win the race by 3 laps ahead of Richie Torres in 2nd and Jamie Corrado in 3rd. In the 1/8th scale class it was Serpent driver Paolo Morganti that took the TQ spot but he hit troubles and could only finish in 4th. It was Capricorn racer Joaquin Desoto Jr that would win by two laps ahead of team mate Jari Taskila in 2nd and Joe Wright in 3rd, 4 laps further back.
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Team Associated is hard at work trying to break the 200 mph barrier with an R/C car. Working together with current record holder Nic Case, check out the video above to see how the progress is going.
Source: Associated [rc10.com]
