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June 20, 2011

Walker and Hough win BRCA Clubman’s Rd2

The popular and compact Eastbourne track was the venue for round two of the 2011 BRCA Clubman’s series, a venue ideally suited to the 13.5 and 17.5 stock racing the series is aimed at. In the 13.5 class TQ was keenly contested and as the final round approached it could have gone either of three ways, in the end it was rising star Ross Walker that took TQ ahead of Liam Brooks and Mathew Chandler. The first A final saw Liam pressure Ross for the entire race but the Associated Academy driver held on to take leg one from Liam. In the second leg Ross knew second place would be enough for the win and when Liam passed him early on Ross drove sensibly to ensure he got second in the leg and the overall win. Liam Brookes was rewarded with second after a brilliant drive from the recent Xray convert. Richard Clarke for Top Photon was third on the podium after a spirited drive from 8th on the grid. In the 17.5 class it was another Associated taking the glory, this time in the hands David Hough, from pole position in the A final David took both legs and wining the meeting ahead of Bryan Norje and Will Vertigan. The BRCA Clubman’s series remains in the south for round three as drivers move down the South coast to the Adur club in four weeks time.

Click here to view the 17.5T podium

June 20, 2011

Patrick Nähr wins South German 200mm championship Rd4

The 4th round of the South German 1/10 scale 200mm nitro Championship was held on the permanent track of the MCC Hof. On Saturday morning the track was open for free practise while in the afternoon the first rounds of qualifying were scheduled. Patrick Nähr participated with his Velox V10 “eleven” to score points for the South German Championship ranking. Already during qualifying he showed a good performance and took the TQ spot being the only driver to score 30 laps. The semi final was no problem for the young Shepherd driver and Nähr started from the first position into the 30 minute main final. With his constant and save driving he was unmatched until the checkered flag and took the victory four laps in front of Serpent driver Toni Gruber in 2nd place and Dominik Schöffel in 3rd place.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 18, 2011

Kostas Zacharopoulos wins 200mm Greek championship Rd1

Last weekend saw the 1st round of the Greek 1/10 scale 200mm nitro Championship held at the Arena Racing Track. The weather was sunny but come the start of the 4th and last qualifying heat heavy rain started to pour down forcing the race director to stop the race and using the qualification ranking list as the final result. Therefore TQ Kostas Zacharopoulos (Mugen) was announced the winner, some 1.6 seconds ahead John Sotiropoulos (Serpent), Vaggelis Totomis (Kyosho) and Soyias Stavros (Serpent).

View the final results here

June 16, 2011

Concialdi & Ripoll win 200mm French Nationals Rd4

The 4th round of the French 1/10 scale 200mm championship was held on the track of ASCAP at Poissy near Paris. On the small and technical track. Basile Concialdi took the TQ honours and victory in the Elite class with his Team Orion powered Capricorn LAB-C01 leaving the Xray NT1/RB T11RS trio Maxime Favrelle, Thomas Correard and Michaël Derderian behind him. The National class was won by Jean-Laurent Ripoll (Xray NT1/RB T11RS) in front of Jonathan Gergen, Rémi Rivard and David Petit after Vincent Berthon lead the final until he run out of tyres with three minutes to go eventually finishing in sixth position.

View the National class podium here

June 15, 2011

24h race @ Motodrom Andernach

Our friend Uwe Rheinard got in touch to tell us about the recent 24h race at the Motodrom Andernach. Being in its 12th year the challenging around the clock race once again attracted 25 teams with a total of 175 racers from Austria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany to race their Porsche-bodied Tamiya TT-01E kits at the legendary Motodrom, home of World Champion Marc Rheinard and host of the ETS season final. According to the rules each team as to build the chassis on Saturday morning using only a minimum of option parts and Porsche GT3 body shells. For the second year in a row Speed Power sponsored LiFe hardcase battery packs with a capacity of 4200mAh that every team had to use. After 24 hours, 3559 laps and a total distance of around 750km the five time winners “Wild 13” claimed the top spot on the podium using 5 sets of tyres but not a single spare part, followed by the team from the Netherlands with 22 laps less. For more information and a TV report from the 2009 event please visit www.teammotodrom.de.

Click here to view impressions from the race

June 14, 2011

Christopher Krapp re-signs with Kyosho

Front running German electric 1/10 scale touring car and off-road driver Christopher Krapp got in touch to tell us that he extend his deal with Japanese manufacturer Kyosho by another year. The 4th placed driver of last year’s electric touring car World Championships and winner of the recent 2011 European Championships warmup race has the following to say about his deal:

I am really happy to announce that I made a one year extension with Kyosho Japan. I had a really good season and I look forward to make it even better this and next year. I will compete at the 1/10 on-road and off-road European and World Championships with the Kyosho TF6, Lazer ZX-5 FS 2 and the RB-5 SP2. I am happy to represent Kyosho’s product range at the tracks and looking forward to a good time.

June 14, 2011

Lars Hoppe wins Northern German regionals Rd2

Team Shepherd driver Lars Hoppe won the second round of the Northern german regionals at the tight Tüttendorf track near Kiel. He also claimed TQ by setting the fastest three consecutive laps with his Novarossi powered Velox V8 ’11 in qualifying followed by Serpent driver Jens Stark, Shepherd’s Timo Schröder and Serpent’s Merlin Depta. In the following semi final Hoppe defended his first place and finished three laps ahead of Timo Schröder. The 30 minutes main final saw a clear start with Hoppe pulling away from the rest of the field finishing six laps ahead of Marcel Henriksen (Kyosho) in second, Marcell Sledz (Serpent) in third and Timo Schröder in fourth position.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 14, 2011

Riccobono & Thirion win French nationals Rd3

Last week-end the third round of the French 1/8 scale on-road national championship was held in Evry/France near Paris. The track which held the European Championships many years ago saw close racing in the Promotion and Elite classes. In the Promotion class called “national” in France, Damien Thirion claimed the TQ spot with Jeremy Cassagne and Vincent Nousse in second and third place respectively. It also was Damien who drove his RB-powered Xray RX8 to the first place in the finals with Gregory Tassencourt in second and Stephane Bertrand in third place after the finals. The Elite class was led by Christophe Aygon after qualification with Stephane Bouche and Christophe Louis in second and third place. Come the finals things turned for the better for eight placed Stephane Riccobono who won the 45 minute finals with his RB-powered RX8 in front of the two Motonica drivers Stephane Bouche and Arnaud Mathieu.

Click here to view the Promotion podium and two videos of the Elite class