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December 23, 2010

Niko Cheng wins Malaysian Shepherd Cup 2010

The Malaysian Shepherd Cup 2010 was held recently at the Niko Race Circuit close to Johor. On Saturday heavy rain hit the track but on Sunday luckily the weather was fine and the race started at 9:30 in the morning with very traction at the beginning. After three rounds of qualifying Shepherd driver Niko Cheng claimed the third position in the grid after having some small problems lapping slower drivers. The start of the final was very smooth and Niko was able to overtake the second placed driver immediately. He chased the leader and on the third lap Niko was able to take the lead and pull away. By half way through the race he had extended his lead to two laps and slowed down a little bit for the rest of the race. After 45 min he crossed the finish line in first position, two laps in front of second placed KS Chu.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

December 22, 2010

Dario Balestri signs for KM Racing

KM Racing have announced the signing of two times European Champion Dario Balestri. The Italian will be driving the KM H-K1 in the 1/10th scale class for the 2011/12 seasons and will be attending all the major races like IFMAR World Championship, European Championship, Italian Championship & KM Asia Cup. Continuing to use Novarossi engines, the multiple World Championship finalist formerly raced for Team Magic.

Source: KM Racing [km-rc.com]

December 20, 2010

Shepherd retains Simon Kurzbuch for 2011

Shepherd have announced that Swiss racer Simon Kurzbuch will stay with the team for 2011. After a successful year finishing 11th at the ultra competitive European Championship A in Locorotondo and becoming Swiss Junior Champion he is looking forward to an exciting 2011 season. Besides the Swiss National Championship he plans to attend the World Championship in Miami as well as the European Championship ‘A’ in Luxembourg and some other international races. Simon had the following to say:

This year I had some great results racing for Team Shepherd and I hope the 2011 will be equally successful. The team-work is fantastic and everybody helps each other. Also the factory support is excellent at national races as well as at international races. I would like to thank everybody in the team for the last season!

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

December 20, 2010

Capricorn RC LAB 08 1/8th scale chassis

Having brought you the first images of the new 1/8th scale on road chassis from European Champions Capricorn RC, the Italian company have sent us further images of their latest creation. Designed using the experience gained from their LAB C01 chassis, they have developed this competition 1/8th scale car which they say will use some pretty innovative solutions. We have yet to receive details on the car’s features but have been told it will be debuted at the Nuremberg toy fair at the start of February and should be available by the end of that month.

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December 17, 2010

LMI wins Hildesheim’s 1000 lap race

Team LMI-Sakura with Thomas Ploeger, Juergen Hennemuth and Merlin Depta took the 1000 laps on Hildesheim’s indoor carpet last Sunday. In total eleven teams, with two to five drivers each, completed the grid for the 1000 lap final. The starting positions were chosen by luck, with last year’s winners MT-Modellbauracing starting from TQ. Right from the beginning the LMI crew, starting from 4th on the grid, was able to gain the lead and stay for four hours and two minutes on position one until team leader Thomas Ploeger took the honor to finish the race 80 laps ahead of second placed “True42” with MT-Modellbauracing in third with 131 laps further back.

Source: LMI [lmi-racing.com]

December 16, 2010

Nitro-X fuel sign JJ Wang

Australian Fuel Company, Nitro-X has announced that they have signed 13 year old JJ Wang. Racing both sedan and 1/8th scale, the young Chinese-American Mugen driver is one of the up and coming young drivers from Asia. At the age of 12, JJ placed 34th in the World Sedan Championships in 2010 and in 2011 will be competing at the 1/8th Scale Worlds in Miami. “I want to thank Nitro-X for their support” said JJ Wang, “I like their new formula fuel which gives me the power and run time I need for competition”.

Source: Nitro-X [nitro-x.com]

December 16, 2010

Alessandro Bracci wins GP di Natale

Last weekend the last 1/8th scale event of the year, the GP di Natale, took place at the Riccione tack in Italy. The beginning of the event was delayed by over an hour due to the cold with temperatures well below zero. Due to this the fastest heats of qualifying came at during the 3rd round and it was Alessandro Bracci set the fastest time with 27 laps followed by Sammarini Sandro and Manuel Tordi, both with 26 laps. After the lunch break for some Christmas food the finals got underway with a close battle for first place between Sammarini and Bracci, but an off by Sammarini gave Bracci the break he needed and he would go on to win with Sammarini in 2nd, 3 laps ahead of third place Manuel Tordi who made the best lap time of the day with a 15,269.

Source: Road Race Riccione [roadracericcione.com]

December 15, 2010

Petter Berntsen dominates Rd3 of Norwegian Winterseries

The 3rd round of the Norwegian National Winterseries in 2010 was held at BMRK’s track in Moss, 40 min south of Oslo, a medium size track with high grip. In Touring Modified Petter Berntsen dominated this race through the qualification having just after switched cars earlier in the week. Tom Erik Haaversen ended up in 2nd followed by Oyvind Stusdal in 3rd. In 1/12 scale it was Helge Johannessen who was the man of the day, totally dominating this class and leaving the rest of the field in his dust. 2nd place went to Lars Haugen followed by Georg “gogg” Ellingsen. In SuperStock the fastest man was again Bjorn-Ivar Haug who tok TQ spot in front of Lars A Andersen and Trygve B Freng.

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