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July 9, 2010

Claus Ryeskov wins Rd3 of Danish Nats

The 3rd round of the Danish National was held on the last weekend of June and great weather greeted the competitors in Næstved on Zealand. After qualification it was Martin Lissau on pole followed by Martin Hansen 2nd and Claus Ryeskov in 3rd. The start of the finals saw Lissau, Hansen and Ryeskov maintain their starting order. Before the first fuel stop Hansen has overtaken Lissau after he went too wide into the corner after the straight. Just before the second refueling the leader ran out of fuel and it cost him two laps. Lissau was again leading the race and maintained it for most of the race , but suddenly there was a big bang. Lissau had battery problems and had driven straight into a post, destroying the car and putting him out of the race. Hansen ran out of full several more times and this meant that Ryeskov could drive safely home and win the race with Martin Hansen holding on for 2nd and Thomas Larsen in 3rd.

Thanks to Claus Ryeskov for the report.

July 9, 2010

Pietsch gives Contact RC its first major title

Just last weekend saw more great success for the new tyre brand Contact RC, this time at the European Championship 1/8th in Locorotondo, Italy. Mugen star Robert Pietsch took TQ, fastest individual lap and won the race heading it from start to finish. Robert was using the Contact tyres line and always looked the fastest on the demanding track. For the final Robert chose to start with brand new tyres straight out of the box because his car worked really well with large diameter tyres. This strategy proved to be the right one and Robert led the race from the first lap, completing a tyre change after 24 minutes and at that point he had a lead of one lap over Dario Balestri. After 45 minutes of hard racing Robert became the new European champion in 1/8th on road with his Mugen MRX-5 powered by Novarossi and gave Contact Tyres its first European Championships title at its first international race.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

July 7, 2010

Johnathan Dobney wins Rd5 of British Nationals

The 5th round of the BRCA British 1/10th 200mm Nationals took place over the weekend and National Champion Kyle Branson sent us this report. The weather for Saturday was good, with around 60 drivers entered over the 4 class’s we were sure to get some good traction. My car was good for most of Saturday, at the start there was a little lack of traction but that was sure to come up, I made a few adjustments to my car to make it a little better during the day and I managed to set the fastest lap on Saturday with Johnathan Dobney not too far behind, there was a couple of drivers that had a little issue with traction roll but my car seemed to be fine. On Sunday the weather was fine in the morning with a fair bit of cloud in the sky, Qualifying was underway and in the first round my car felt a little better than the previous day, I got TQ 6 seconds ahead of Johnathan Dobney in second and Joe Kerry in third. In the second round I managed to improve my time by 4 seconds again ahead of Johnathan in second around 6 seconds behind still, in the third and final round I managed to improve on my time a little more to around 1 second, this put me on TQ 7 seconds ahead of Johnathan in second and John Zottl in third.

Continue reading the report here

July 6, 2010

Apolaro & Tosolini win Novarossi Challenge Rd2

The second race of the Novarossi Challenge was held this past weekend at Controlfreakz Raceway in Chaplin, Connecticut. 3 days of sunny and warm weather saw seven heats of racing action in the 200mm and 1/8 Open classes. In 200mm Sedan it was Dj Apolaro taking the TQ and win in the 45 minute final with his Serpent 733 with Contact Tyres, Novarossi power and Xtreme Fuel. Ken Ives Jr finished in second position with George K taking the final podium position after bumping into the A final from the B. 1/8 Open saw Joaquin de Soto Jr and his Serpent 966 with Jp-Gimar power defend his TQ from last years Novarossi Challenge. However he was unable to best his prior track record. In the final it was Chris Tosolini’s Serpent 966 with Jp-Gimar power and Zac project tires taking the victory after 45 minutes followed by Richie Siriano in second and Andrew Nicholas finishing off the podium after bumping up into the A final from the B.

View the 1/8th podium here

July 6, 2010

Henriques wins Portuguese EP TC Championship Rd3

Round 3 of the Portuguese EP TC Championships was run in Torres Novas last weekend with 29 drivers attending the meeting. In the Modified class, it was Francisco Henriques (above) got the top spot at the end of the finals, but it was a very close race with the winner decided at the last corner of the last A final. Hugo Miguel took 2nd and Nuno Gancho was 3rd. In the Stock Class, it was Bernardo Cosme that emerged the winner followed by Ricardo Gama and Bruno Castela.

Source: Jorge Simões

July 5, 2010

Nicholas Delia takes IRMCC Championship title

The last weekend of June saw the final race of the Maltese season, the IRMCC Cup. This was an Open race to all club members in both A and B classes for Nitro 1/10th scale. The IRMCC Club closed the season by presenting trophies followed by a BBQ on site in a very friendly environment amongst all members. The race was won by Mugen driver Nicholas Delia, followed by Shepherd driver Gustave Cuschieri in 2nd and Ramon Cassar for Kyosho in 3rd. Championship trophies were also presented for the main series which consisted of 9 races of which best 8 would count. Nicholas Delia took the title in the A class winning 6 races with 2 races in 2nd and taking 6 pole positions to wrap it up. Karl Fench took 2nd overall and Ian Micallef 3rd.

Source: Simon Models Racing Team

July 4, 2010

Robert Pietsch is European Champion

Driving the new Mugen MRX-5, a car he was responsible for designing, Robert Pietsch has finally claimed his first big title winning the EFRA 1:8 Onroad European Championship at Locorotondo in Italy today. Starting from pole position the German led the 45-minute final from start to finish. The only driver to follow him closely was Motonica’s Dario Balestri who finished half a lap behind the 2008 World Championship Top Qualifier. The majority of the drivers were on a 3.5 minute fuel stop strategy with one tire change at the race’s mid point. Only Alberto Picco was pitting longer running just over 4 minutes but his chances of victory ended when half way through a glowplug let go costing the Italian a lot of time. Current World Champion Lamberto Collari had to settle for third on the podium after he was forced to do an extra pit stop due to a damaged tyre on his Kyosho. Apart from Pietsch and Balestri, all the drivers were forced to make unscheduled pitstops as they hit problems.

View the final results here

July 4, 2010

Maxim Claes wins Rd3 of Dutch Nationals

The 3rd round of the Dutch 1/10th scale gas nationals took place last weekend on the small and technical MBC de Sluis track. A nice sunny weekend greeted all the drivers and in the main NK class it was Belgian racer Maxim Claes that took the win by a lap in front of Remy Moller in 3nd and Arco de Jong in 3rd. This final had to be restarted following a timing computer failure, but everything worked well 2nd time around and Maxim showed great pace to take the win. In the Nomac class it was Janwillem Gons that took the win by 3 seconds in front Rik Meijeren with Rob Kruijssen 2 laps back in 3rd. The 1/8th scale promo class saw the win go to Ruud Knoester with Frederik Haaxman and Mario Gerssen completing the podium.

View the other podiums here