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October 31, 2010

Keven Hébert wins Halloween Classic

The Halloween Classic has become one of the premier touring car races of the year and signals the beginning of the indoor racing season. With factory drivers such as Paul Lemieux, Keven Hébert, Josh Cyrul, Drew Ellis, and Mike Blackstock competing for the victory in Open Touring Car, the fight was bound to be intense. Keven Hébert showed excellent speed in practice with his Reedy/LRP-powered TC6 and he and Paul Lemieux appeared to be the favorites going into qualifying. The schedule called for four rounds of qualifying with the single best run to count and main events would also follow this single-race format to determine each winner and the Champion. When qualifying was completed, Keven managed to secure the second position on the grid behind Lemieux. The A-Main event saw Lemieux and Hébert set off ahead of the rest of the field into a personal battle between the two. A bobble by Hébert allowed Lemieux to stretch out a small lead but Keven was able to reduce the gap and put pressure on the leader. Finally, at the three-minute mark, a mistake by Paul gave Keven Hébert the lead which he would maintain until the checkered flag.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

October 31, 2010

Ryan Maker dominates 2010 NSW State Titles

This weekend saw some of Australia’s top drivers descended on one of the county’s premier electric tracks to battle out the 2010 NSW State Titles. Reviews of the newly upgraded facility were glowing and the racing was fierce across all classes. The modified class drew a number of world class drivers including multiple national champion Simon Nicholson, current national champ Ari Bakla, and Victorian state champion Ryan Maker. In qualifying it was all Maker, piloting his Hot Bodies TCX to pole position ahead of the Corally of Simon Nicholson and the Xray T3’11 of Timothy Lee. Despite the efforts of the chasing pack, the finals went all the pole sitter’s way with Ryan taking his TCX to the win in the first two finals, electing to sit out the last amain which went to Xray’s Ari Bakla. The final positions were Ryan Maker in 1st, Simon Nicholson 2nd, and Timothy Lee 3rd.

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October 30, 2010

Schools Open for Associated Juniors

The UK Team Associated on road team are pleased to announce the formation of a new driver development programme, the Associated Junior Academy will consist of four new drivers who work closely along side Olly Jefferies, Alan Bickerstaff, Steve Lander and Chris Slater. The team enjoyed a great deal of junior success this year helping Zak Smith to a top three place in the pro stock class of the BRCA national series. The driver programme will get underway at round one of next years BRCA touring car nationals but drivers are hoped to be announced and working with the team by early 2011. Drivers will be selected on their ability to work as a team and their potential to develop within a structured programme, part of the project will be to run a celebrity car at selected BRCA touring car national meetings, already named for the celebrity car is multiple champion Craig Drescher and CML managing director Jason Varley.

Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]

October 29, 2010

Christopher Krapp joins Team Muchmore

Muchmore Racing have announced that front running German electric touring car driver Christopher Krapp has joined Team Muchmore for 2010 and 2011. The Kyosho driver placed 4th at this year’s World Championships and has many other good results to his name including winning the German Outdoor Nationals in 2009 and multiple European Championship A-main appearances. Christopher had the following the say about his new deal:

I am very proud to be a member of the Team Muchmore. The products are amazing and I am looking forward to a great future with Muchmore racing.

Source: Much More [much-more.co.kr]

October 27, 2010

Diaz & Palazzola win Paris Memorial Race

This past weekend the 10th Annual Paris Memorial Race was held at the Silver Bowl Park in Las Vegas, Nevada. Following sedan qualifying it was Kyosho driver Michael Palazzola that took the TQ honors. In the 45 minutes main however it was Kyosho team mate Walter Diaz that took the victory followed by Scott Fisher in second and Kevin Woods taking third. The 1/8th scale class saw Mugen driver Mike Swauger take the TQ but after the 45 minute main the victory went to Kyosho Driver Michael Palazzola, who drove and very clean race, followed by Ron Gustin in 2nd and Brad Toffelmire in 3rd.

October 26, 2010

Vataniyapramote & Chaidajsuriya win FEMCA titles

The 2010 FEMCA Circuit Championships took place last weekend in Hong Kong for both 1/8th and 1/10th scale gas on road. With rain affecting the event it was Thai driver Suruth Vataniyapramote that took the win to lead home a Serpent 1-2-3-4 with Hong drivers Christopher Cheung and Choy Kam Man completing the podium. In the 1/10th class it was again a Thai driver, this time former TC world Champion Surikarn Chaidajsuriya that took the win from the pole spot in front of local racer Hung Cheung Hang driving a KM chassis, with Kyosho racer Jalaludin Azri Amri from Brunei taking 3rd.

View the final results here

October 26, 2010

Recio wins Rd3 in Argentina, Golovic takes title

Last weekend the 3rd and final round of the Argentinean Touring car nationals took place in Rosario. The race was won by Capricorn/Sirio driver Sebastián Recio followed by Agustín Cutini, driving a Novarossi powered Serpent in 2nd, with Juan Pablo Golovic with his Reds Racing powered Xray car in 3rd. This result was enough to give Golovic the Argentinean National title for 2010.

Source: Sirio [star-motor.com]

October 24, 2010

Giorgio de Felici wins 2010 Novarossi Trophy

The 2010 Novarossi Trophy took place this weekend in Gubbio, Italy, host of the 2009 1/10th scale 200mm European Championships. The 1/10th 200mm qualifying went the way of Biagio Spataro who took the pole position ahead of Daniele Agostelli in 2nd. The final went the way of new Capricorn signing Giorgio de Felici running his Novarossi powered LAB-C01, who in his first race for his new sponsors took the win by 5 seconds from 2nd place Ciro Borrelli, with Dante Piersante a further 4 seconds back.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]