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November 18, 2011

Choi Nak Sung claims Korean Nationals titel

Shepherd racer Choi Nak Sung has won the annual KMRCA National 1/8th On-Road Championship which took place at the Oh-Chang Hitec Circuit near Oh-Chang in South Korea. The race which is considered the most important race of the season attracted 40 drivers in total. During qualification Choi Nak Sung showed a good performance taking the TQ spot with his Velox V8 “eleven”. In the final Sung was unchallenged leading from start to the checkered flag crossing the finishing line 3 laps in front of the rest of the drivers field.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

November 16, 2011

Mobers wins EPS race Rd1

On-Point got in touch to tell us that Markus Mobers has won the 1/12 scale modified class at the recent round 1 of the European Pan Series held at the MACH Indoor track in the Netherlands. On-Point driver Joey Sorber was able to grab the runner-up spot, both driving the OP12C car. Ruud Savelkoul was able to take the third place.

Source: On-Point Racing (info@onpointracing.com)

November 14, 2011

Maxi Vogl wins German Open Indoor Masters

One week ago the German Open Indoor Masters took place at the Faszination Modellbau Fair in Friedrichshafen. The race was won by young talent Maxi Vogl who was ranked on 6th position after the qualification. In the main final Vogl was able to work his way up to second position behind reigning World Champion Robert Pietsch after several minutes. Later on Pietsch had a crash and damaged his rear rim and he also lost some time to get back in the pits and letting Vogl tale over the lead. Pietsch tried to catch up after a quick repair in the pits, but time was rung out and Vogl crossed the finishing line in first position followed by Robert Pietsch and Armin Baier.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

November 14, 2011

South Swedish Indoor Cup Rd2 report

The second round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held on an indoor track in the middle of south Sweden. About 30 drivers attended the race on a newly endowed carpet track which had a new layout that was really nice and flowing. The first round of qualifying was taken by Michael Nilsson who had a solid run, he was a few seconds ahead of the home driver Markus Hellquist followed by the Rd1 winner Daniel Carlsson. Q2 was once again taken by Michael and this time he drove perfectly without any kind of mistakes, he was followed by Daniel who was 3 seconds behind and third place did go to Markus. Q3 looked out to be a close finish between David Ronnefalk and Michael, this was “Buggy” David’s first race this season and his gear diff equipped TF6 was going really well. Michael was under pressure but he stayed calm and was able to hold David behind, at the end they were separated with 0.5 seconds, so Michael took TQ followed by David and Daniel.

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November 13, 2011

Lucas Urbain confirmed for ATS Pilot race

The organisers of next weekend’s Asian Touring Series Pilot race at the Yatabe Arena have confirmed more top level entries for this exciting race with the news that former European finalists Lucas Urbain will attend the event. The factory Yokomo racer from France is just one of a number of new European drivers confirmed with Toni Rheinard, Michal Bok, Radek Flek, Ivan Laptev and Sandro Kuriger all going to compete. From Asia there is of course also a lot of interest with multiple World and Japanese National Champion Naoto Matsukura racing alongside former National Champions Daisuke Yoshioka, Takehiro Yamauchi & Shin Adachi as well as Korean National Champions Lee Jung Duk & Eung Chan Kim confirmed to compete. The event which will be run from the 18th to the 20th of November will be open to Modified and Pro Stock, running hand out 17.5T Speedpassion motors, as well as a large number of support classes including an offroad race at the Arena’s indoor dirt track. For further information on this event, visit the official ATS site here.

November 11, 2011

Kurzbuch & Volker win HobbyPro Open

Last weekend the annual HobbyPro Open race took place at the TRC track in Hong Kong. More than 100 drivers entered the race with Ronald Völker, Simon Kurzbuch, Jilles Groskamp and Patrick Schäfer representing the Shepherd factory team. Additionally the Shepherd mechanics Armin Weihert and Alex Kempe travelled to Hong Kong offering assistance to every attending driver.

Continue reading the race report here

November 9, 2011

Alexander Hagberg confirmed for ATS Pilot race

The organisers of next week’s Asian Touring Series Pilot race at the Yatabe Arena in Japan, are delighted to announce that Swedish driver Alexander Hagberg will attend. If current form is anything to go by the factory Xray/LRP driver, who will compete at the event alongside the Xray T3’s designer Martin Hudy, is expected to be battling for the race win. The event which will be run from the 18th to the 20th of November will be open to Modified and Pro Stock, running hand out 17.5T Speedpassion motors, as well as a large number of support classes including an offroad race at the Arena’s indoor dirt track. For further information on this event, visit the official ATS site here.

November 9, 2011

Halloween Classic double for Larry Fairtrace

TOP Racing team driver Larry Fairtrace sent us this report from the 2011 Halloween Classic which took place last weekend at the Gate in Brunswick, Ohio. “We arrived late to the Halloween Classic. Friday all day was practice, but we had to work on Friday so we drove all through the night to arrive at the track Saturday morning at 7am. This gave us 3.5 hours of practice, racing was set to start at 11am. I practiced a few times with my Photon and made some changes based on the amount of traction. I arrived with the setup I ran at the IIC but it was pushy with too much all around traction. I migrated back closer to my standard carpet setup by the end of practice. I put my Rebel on the track one time in practice and it was very good right out of the gate. I was pretty satisfied with it and knew new tires would make it that much better so I shelved it until racing started and concentrated on my Photon.

Continue reading the report here