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October 11, 2012

2012 Southern Nationals – report

The 2012 Southern Nationals took place in a cavernous temperature-controlled facility in Monroe, Louisianaperfectly suited to a major RC race. The event draw around 300 participants including pros like Ryan Lutz and Josh Wheeler. Jason Branham was strong all weekend in Pro buggy and truggy. He narrowly missed the Pro truggy win after a pitched battle with eventual winner Josh Wheeler. Branham would get the job done later in Pro buggy. With cool consistency he outlasted the field and took the crown. He was joined on the podium by Jake Dellinger, who added to his recent string of impressive finishes with 5th place run.

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October 10, 2012

Volker, Hebert & Haynes win big at IIC

For the 8th year in succession, the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada was the site of the International Indoor Championships. The event, put on and announced by the one and only Scotty Ernst, attracted some of the top on-road drivers from around the world and featured over 350 entries in total. After 2 days of controlled practice, on track action heated up on Thursday with 2 of the 4 rounds of qualifying, the single fastest round determining grid positions. Right out of the box, Protoform team drivers Ronald Volker and Keven Hebert established themselves as the drivers to beat in the event’s 2 marquee classes, Touring Car Modified and 1/12th scale modified. Friday’s 2 final rounds of qualifying saw Protoform drivers TQ in 7 different classes of racing. Josh Cyrul and Mike Dumas, two fixtures in the American on-road scene the past decade, paced World GT racing the Protoform Sophia GT race body.

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October 9, 2012

Team C successful at NSR opening race

The NSR opening race took place at a new off-road track near the Shenzhen Gymnasium in China. More than 40 drivers attended in the 1/8 nitro and electric buggy classes that saw Team C driver Tommy taking TQ. In the 45 minutes final the win went to Tommy’s team mate Wai who drove an Angus-power T8.

Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]

October 9, 2012

Tamás Hegdüs wins Hungarian 1/8 championship

Last weekend the final round of the Hungarian On-Road Championship was held near the famous Hungaro Ring. In the 1/10 Tuning class the championship was already decided in the previous rounds. Just like the years before Gergely Csekő took the title in a really close battle with Simon Ciudan (Shepherd). Gergely skipped the last race which left Simon without a real opponent. He won the race although Balázs Bihari was quite close in the 30 minutes final and finished only one lap behind the fast Shepherd driver. Gábor László completed the podium. With this first place Simon equaled Gergely on the point table, but Gergely won the title because he had one more on his side. Overall third place also ended with a tie with Shepherd driver Laszló Kis-Orbán taking third overall.

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October 9, 2012

Sven Stoffels wins RC Le Mans series final race

The sevenths and final race of the 2012 RC Le Mans series took place in Belgium at the track of the Model Race Genk. 25 racers from three nations competed in the final race of the season under a clear blue sky and in low temperatures. Sven Stoffels from Germany tool TQ after three qualifying heats, followed by Frank Büsener and Rene Fischer. The three also kept their positions after the finals. Winner of the B-final was Alexander Steinkau with Hermens Mathijs taking the C-final. The 2013 season opener of the RC Le Mans series that is run with Pro10 cars will take place at the EVCM track in Velp, the Netherlands.

Thanks to Frank Büsener for the report.

October 8, 2012

Record entry for ETS season opener

This weekend (Oct 12-14) the Yokomo Euro Touring Series descends on Muelheim-Kaerlich in Germany for the opening round of the world famous electric touring car championship’s sixth season with a record 316 entries signed up for what will be the 28th running of an event in the series created by Uwe Rheinard and Scotty Ernst. With Yokomo as title sponsor for a third consecutive season, it is the Japanese company’s star driver and reigning back to back champion Ronald Volker who heads the world class entry with all of last season’s five winners back to try lay claim to the prestigious title.

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October 8, 2012

Baier & Günther win Octoberfest Cup in Türkheim

Last weekend the MCC Türkheim hosted their annual Octoberfest Cup for 1/10th and 1/8th scale nitro on-road classes. This year, the cup attracted some fast drivers from Switzerland as well. On Saturday the weather was great for practice and the first four qualifying rounds took place on a fast that allowed for very fast times. After the first qualifiers the top three positions went to Maximilian Vogl, Silvio Hächler and Sabrina Lechner in 1/8th class 1, Alexander Bremberger, Jürgen Horzella, and Maximilian Günther in class 2 and Dominic Greiner, Klaus Kramer and Julian Gaisbauer in 1/10th 200mm.

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October 8, 2012

Boots & Phillips win HNMC Winter series Rd1

The first round of the HNMC Winter series at the Herts Nitro Model Club saw wins of Elliot Boots in the nitro buggy and Harry Phillips in the nitro truggy class. Kevin Brunsden and Simon Reeves are the names of the second and third placed buggy driver while Simon Miller and Colin Drummond took two and three in the truggy class. The next round of the nitro series is set for the first weekend of November.

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