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June 20, 2013

Bridgewater, Wilde & Hudson win Northwest SC Nats

Bridgewater, Wilde & Hudson win Northwest SC Nationals

The 2013 Northwest Short Course Nationals were held for the fourth year in Pasco, WA. Many of the region’s best short course drivers make their way to this event every year to do battle. This year’s layout was fast and with plenty of technical features on the all clay racing surface. Chris Bridgewater would insert his early dominance in both the Modified 2WD SC Truck class and the SC Buggy classes, taking TQ in both classes after just two rounds using the qual points system with JConcepts teammates Justin Wilde, John Walentia, and Mike Hudson joining the highly competitive Modified 2wd SC Truck A Main. Meanwhile Mike Hudson was showing his speed in the 4×4 SC class, nipping at the heels of the TQ but having to settle for the 2 spot on the grid.

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June 20, 2013

Mikael Fransson wins 2013 1/8th Nordic Championship

Last weekend the Nordic Championship 1:8 Track took place at Hverven Raceway just outside Oslo in Norway. The track hosted the European Championship back in 2003 and is placed with a beautiful view over the Oslo fjord. We had perfect conditions for practice on Friday and the track was super fast. Saturday came with a clear blue sky and sun throughout the whole day. As the weather forecast predicted rain on Sunday we decided to run the entire event on one day, this is possible in the land of the midnight sun. A new time scheme was made with 3 qualification rounds and all finals, with the last final run at 21:30.

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June 19, 2013

On the Grapevine – Traiskirchen

On the Grapevine - Traiskirchen

Last weekend I traveled to Austria where the Yokomo Euro Touring Series set down at the unique Traiskirchen track for the penultimate round of the world famous championship with a great air of anticipation & excitement as four of the best drivers in the business came to town with a chance of making the title fight go to next month’s season finale at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia. While the series has established itself as a must do event for the world’s best drivers and manufacturers, an incident packed Leg 2 of the A-Main highlighted just how important an ETS win has become to the drivers. The most fraught 5-minutes of racing in the series’ six seasons of existence, the outbreak of raw emotions that ensued following four key incidents, while not a great advert for our sport, showed the intensity at which these guys perform. While the faces of the involved drivers after Leg 2 sent out a clear message that myself & my white notebook would be best off leaving them alone, I think the tension clearly showed these are not just guys ‘playing with toy cars’ but competitive sportsmen who have a passion for what they are doing. Don’t get me wrong I would not like this to become a regular occurrence but like any sport when there is a bit of drama it does create some extra buzz. I am glad to report that come the prize giving the drivers were exchanging hand shakes and admitting that things said in the heat of the moment where just that. Ultimately Marc Rheinard took the win in Austria from Ronald Volker to set the stage for a thrilling show down to the 2012/13 ETS between the two great German rivals.

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June 19, 2013

Mario Rigert & Beni Stutz win at Rd2 of Swiss nats

The second round of the Swiss EP Touring car Nationals was held on the very fast Langenthal track. After some very close racing action Xray driver Mario Rigert won the modified class ahead of Florian Hauser (Yokomo) and Raphael Wicki (Xray) in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Victory in the Pro stock class went to Beni Stutz driving a Tamiya leaving second and third position to Simon Allemann (TM) and Jerome Meile (Xray).

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June 19, 2013

Niclas Maansson double win at Swedish cup Rd2

Last weekend the second round of the Swedish cup was held at Örebro RBC a small dirt track which only had two jumps. The race started Saturday with 2wd and after the two practice runs it was Lars Hägerman who was fastest. In the first Qualifying round Niclas Maansson was fastest, in Q2 it was Otto Ausfelt, Q3 Lars Hägerman and Q4 Niclas Maansson a result which gave Niclas the TQ honor. Niclas won both A1 and A2 and to complete a perfect day. Sunday started out better than Saturday and Niclas was fastest in practice. Had TQ in the first and second qualifier, Christer Carlsson took a new TQ in the third, but Niclas upped his pace and put in a new TQ in the forth qualifier. The Associated driver did the same in 4wd as in 2wd on Saturday and took the win in A1 and A2 to claim the overall.

Source: Mustit RC [mustit.no]

June 19, 2013

Vogl & Nähr victorious in Southern Germany Rd3

The 3rd round of the South German Championship in Türkheim saw a clean sweep for Team Shepherd with victories in all three classes. In 1/8 class 2 it was young Shepherd driver Max Günther taking the win while Maxi Vogl won the 1/8 class 1 with Patrick Nähr completing the perfect result by winning the 1/10 touring class. In the south of Germany the 1/8 classes are raced together so the main final was a mix of class 1 and class 2 drivers. Starting from the pole-position after he won his semi-final Maxi immediately took control of the race and pulled away followed by Armin Baier and Bastian Gramlich. At the 20 min mark it was time for some fresh outside tyres for Maxi, while the rest of the field chose to finish the race with one set. Although Maxi retained the lead the gap was closer after the tyre change and due to Maxi’s engine getting a little bit rich the final minutes saw some close racing with Armin Baier and Bastian Gramlich trying to catch up. Maxi stayed calm and crossed the finishing line in first position about 2 sec in front of Armin Baier with Bastian Gramlich completing the podium.

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June 19, 2013

Roy Gemble double at Norwegian Nationals Rd4

This weekend round 4 off the Norwegian Nats was hosted by Hoenefoss Raceway, a track with not many big jumps but interesting and slippery to drive on, fast track and mistakes cost a lot. On Saturday it was supposed to be 2wd buggy and SC 4×4, but the weather forecast for Sunday being for rain it ended up with 4wd buggy also being taken in on Saturday, so a long day at the race track. 2wd was won by Roy Gemble (TLR) in front of Andreas Daving (TLR) and Martin Sorlie (TLR). Short Course was won by Kai Ronning (AE SC104x4), with Daniel Kobbevik 2nd (AE SC104x4) and Kjell Egil Olsen (Tecno SC 4×4) in 3rd. 4wd was again won by Roy Gemble (Durango 410 V3), Martin Sorlie (Xray XB4) in 2nd and Daniel Kobbevik (AE B44.2) in 3rd. The 4wd B-final was won by 7 year old Alexander Gemble with his Team Associated B44.2.

Source: Mustit RC [mustit.no]

June 19, 2013

Dirk Wischnewski wins Rd1 of mid German regionals

Last weekend the first round of mid German regionals was held at the Kirchhain track. For the first time this year the weather forecast was good for the whole weekend so nice racing could be expected. About 50 racers, separated into the 1:8 and 1:10 classed were presented with a well prepared race track. In Qualifying everybody had more or less problems to run 5min on one fuel tank. Qualifying saw Dirk Wischnewski able to TQ the race in front of teammate Simon Balk. The semi finals were run with no big surprises. Simon won his Semi and Dirk was able to win his in front of Patrick Schäfer. At the start of the final Wischenwski was able to build up a good lead right after the start. Simon and Patrick had a good fight for second spot at the start of the 30min final but unfortunately Simon chunked a tire and so he had to slow down a little bit. Dirk would go on to win the race by 2 laps from Patrick and Simon.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]