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July 21, 2012

Kyle Branson wins Rd5 of British 1/8th Nats

The fifth round of the 2012 national championship was a second visit to the Adur club, situated at Shoreham recreation ground to the west of Brighton. The original round 5 fixture was scheduled for the Halifax track but due to adverse weather conditions, the track was 1m under water due a local river bursting its banks for the second time within the last 4 years. Therefore with the previous round rescheduled for later on in the season, this race became the 5th meeting. With this race track being the smallest of all in the UK, it was a surprise to see 40 + drivers in attendance based upon previous meetings at this track. The Track is very technical with good rotation and turn in, the main criteria to produce quick and consistent lap times.

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July 20, 2012

Cardoso & Miguel win Portuguese Cup

The Annual Portuguese Cup took place at the track of Maiorca last weekend, close to the city beach of Figueira da Foz in nice warm and sunny weather. The track has a very fast but non forgiving layout, you must always be focused and never lose speed. The stock class was a one man show, with Fernando Cardoso driving his Nosram powered Schumacher TQ’ing and winning the event with awesome driving and performance. In the modified class it was a totally different story. There were many good runs from all the drivers and in the last main 3 drivers still had the chance to take the overall race win. João Miguel Martinho with his Yokomo/LRP took a fine win, the result of error free driving.

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July 20, 2012

Tresrey Off-Road Festival report

The Tresrey Off-Road Festival, incorporating Round 9 of the Tresrey Off-Road Race, were held last Sunday and Monday at the Akashi Buggy Course in Akashi-city, Japan and it attracted 125 cars including 38 cars of 1/8 GP buggy. Nitro 1/8 Off-road buggy class was held on Sunday and Ryuya Kato (D8) took the TQ but Daisuke Endo (MBX6) won the 30min final, with Oike (MBX6) 2nd and Kato 3rd. The EP Off-road 2WD/4WD class were held on Monday. In 2WD class, Noriyuki Kawashima (B4) took the TQ and won the race, while Kenji Tsuruta (DEX210) took 2nd and Takashi Nobuhara (DEX210) 3rd. In the 4WD class, Noriyuki Kawashima (DEX410) won the race again, Kenji Tsuruta (DEX410) was 2nd and Naoyuki Mimura (DEX410) 3rd. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big lucky draw prize which included a DEX410R kit, Speed Passion ESCs & motors, Viper RC ESCs & motors and Highest servos.

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July 19, 2012

Drake & Lutz domination at Bring the Heat race

The second Annual Bring The Heat race at The Fabulous Flowood R/C Indoor Park was held this past weekend. There were 246 entries that ran three qualifiers on Saturday and the Mains were held on Sunday. The layout designed by Marc Beck was awesome and fun for everyone. The track held up beautifully for the entire race with very few rough spots on the track. Marc Beck along with Richard and Kris Harris did a fantastic job building the track for the second annual Bring The Heat.

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July 18, 2012

JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals report

The third stop of the JConcepts Indoor National series made the trip to Outback Raceway in Chico, CA. The facility, otherwise known as A-Main Hobbies, is a 1:10 scale racers’ paradise. The dirt surface is amazing, there is minimal tire wear, the layout was flowing and the traction was hooked up. Then to top if off, all of A-Main Hobbies’ massive inventory is available at the click of a mouse. Team Associated made the trip up north with Steven Hartson and Brent Thielke and was joined by Jason Ruona and Tanner Denney for JConcepts. In the 2011 edition of this race, NorCal local Eric Albano was just a privateer. Fast forward to 2012 and he’s now a Reedy Race Touring Car Open Class champion for Team Associated and with a year under his belt with off-road vehicles making consistent top regional a-main events. Not to be forgotten is a return to RC for Seattle native, John Walentia.

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July 18, 2012

Patrick Nähr wins South German Champs Rd5

The 5th round of the South German Championship took place at the nice track of Türkheim. In total 59 drivers attended the event with 26 of them racing in 1/10 nitro touring. Former European B-Champion Patrick Nähr was in good form and placed his Sonic powered Velox V10 on the first position in qualifying. In the semi-final he was unchallenged and took an easy win securing himself the second position in the starting grid of the 30 minutes main final. The start of the final saw an intense battle between Nähr and Dominic Greiner but after some minutes into the race Nähr took over the lead and increased the gap step by step. As Greiner was hit by technical problems later on Nähr slowed down a little bit and cruised to the victory finishing 4 laps in front of Steve Baumgarten with Thomas Schlee completing the podium.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

July 17, 2012

Lamberto Collari wins Rd2 of Italian 1/8th series

Round 2 of the Italian 1/8th scale on road National Championships were held in Bologna recently where the temperature touched 40 degrees with the track close to 67 degrees. The temperatures were prohibitive for both engines and the cars themselves but it was a useful test ahead of the European Championships which are held this year in Portugal, where temperatures will be even higher. Pole position went to Andrea Pirani followed closely by Lamberto Collari in 2nd with Dario Balestri and Carmine Raiola completing the top 4 direct finalists. The final started with Pirani in the lead followed by Collari but after about 8 minutes Collari was already in the lead with about an 8 seconds advantage ahead of Raiola. The 9 times World champion was steady in his performance and after about 20 minutes had a 2 laps lead. During the final mechanical and engine problems, due to hot weather, plagued other competitors but not Collari with his Novarossi powered Capricorn and at the end of 45 minutes won by 3 laps ahead of Alberto Tedeschi in 2nd with Walter Salemi completing the podium in 3rd.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

July 17, 2012

Chinese manufacturer Shootout report

Last week in Hong Kong, Gen Ace, Team C, Sky RC & Tenshock Motor Hosted a Chinese manufacturer Shootout in the newest indoor facilities called Lali Warehouse. This world class indoor RC track has state of the art facilities such as water sprinkler built into the ceiling, AC room for the pits and a VIP rest area. Lali Warehouse has only been open for 2 months and so this race was considered the grand opening race for them. Many drivers came from mainland China & Taiwan also made the trip to attend this race. Due to the popular 1/8th E- Buggy & 1/10 4×4 Short Course classes, the Event only focussed on these 2. With a total of just about 90 entries in only 2 classes it this one of the biggest off road races in Hong Kong since the early 90s.

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