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April 21, 2011

Pedro Rombouts wins Rd1 of Dutch 1/10th Nats

This season’s Dutch 1/10th scale nationals kicked of at the noise-troubled MACH track, close to Amsterdam. Although the MACH is no longer able to host the EC-B because of noise restrictions, the national was able to be run due to the lower number of attendees and the Kyosho KWC class, which joins the nationals this year, making less noise. Saturday’s training was influenced by sound measuring to get the national drivers below a certain noise level.

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April 20, 2011

Simões & Miguel take Portuguese Rd2 victory

Round 2 of the Portuguese Nationals took place recently at the Sintra track in Lisbon. The stock class was again dominated by Jorge Simões with his Associated TC6 securing TQ and the overall win. This time Mário Coelho was the man that challenged Jorge in the Finals, with Mário winning the first A-main but then some accidents in A-main 2 took him out of contention. In the last A-main Mário followed Jorge in the last 4 minutes, but the Associated driver never gived a space for the Tamiya of Mário to pass and secured the win and provisional leadership of the championship.

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April 20, 2011

Mike Dumas joins Speedzone USA

Speedzone have announced that multiple US Nationals Champion Mike Dumas, will use Speedzone LiPo Packs to power his touring and 1/12 cars. Speedzone is very excited to have a driver with the caliber of Mike Dumas join the team. Having come back from a two year hiatus from r/c racing to start his own restaurant, Mike won an extremely exciting and close 1/12 13.5 A-Main at the Snowbirds earlier in the season and had this to say “The batteries perform as good as any other batteries I have ever run.”

Source: Speedzone [www.speedzoneusa.com]

April 18, 2011

Bowie Ginting wins Jakarta Grand Prix series Rd3

The third round of 2011 Jakarta Grand Prix series for 1/10 200mm was held at the JITC Race Track in Jakarta, Indonesia. The weather was perfectly clear all day and in qualifying it was Teddy Syach that took his OS powered Kyosho to the TQ spot with 18 laps @ 5.06. Followed by the series points leader, Bowie Ginting 4,8 seconds back. Dimas Ardian (Kyosho), Sewaka Ramadhani (Xray) and Chandra Yosef (Xray) completed the top 5 position for the main final.

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April 17, 2011

Pietsch finally gets his title at third attempt

Having proven himself to be the fastest driver in the World for a third consecutive time Robert Pietsch today finally went on to claim the crown of the World’s best racer as he lifted his first IFMAR title at the 2011 1:8 Onroad World Chamionship in Miami, Florida. The German headed a Mugen 1-2 in a rain shortened final at Homestead RC Raceway with Keisuke Fukuda finishing runner-up ahead of Capricorn driver Dario Balestri who completed the podium at the 18th running of the sports original World Championship.

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April 16, 2011

Collari still in hunt for 10th World title

Defending 1:8 Onroad World Champion Lamberto Collari is still in the hunt for a 10th World title but it was a close call for the Italian legend after a incident caused by American Paul Ciccarello on the entry to the pitlane cost him 6 seconds and the lead of the race. The 1/4 Finals saw the demise of some big names in Miami with 2009 direct qualifier Mark Green, 200mm World Champion Ralph Burch and Japanese Champion Masao Tanaka falling by the way side.

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April 16, 2011

Swauger fails to make it to the big day in Miami

Today was lower finals day with the biggest casualty being 2009 World Championship runner-up Mike Swauger. Driving Xray’s new RX8 chassis the Ameican ace had a difficult qualifying ending up in the 1/16th final but easily won the 20 minute encounter from team-mate Martin Hudy to progress to the final race of the day and one step away from making it through to the big day.

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April 15, 2011

Pietsch is 2011 WC Top Qualifier

Robert Pietsch is the Top Qualifier for the 2011 IFMAR 1:8 Onroad World Championships as track conditions for the fourth & final round of qualifying were not fast enough to see any changes at the top with Atsushi Hara, Dario Balestri and Takaaki Shimo completing the Top 4 that qualify direct for the big race on Saturday.

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