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September 17, 2012

Jefferies wins Rd5 to take British National title

Going in to the final round of the BRCA National touring car championship five drivers were in contention to win the series outright, at the four previous rounds there had been four different winners and four different manufactures, the results made for a winner takes all show down at the final round. Andy Moore, Chris Grainger, Elliott Harper, Colin Price and Olly Jefferies all came to the final round at Mendip with a shot at securing the national title and it was Jefferies that got off to the best possible starts by taking TQ with his Associated TC6.1, behind Olly it was the LRP powered serpent of Chris Kerswell and the Tamiya of Elliott Harper, next up was the Hot Bodies of Andy Moore. Going in to the final round Chris Grainger lead the series by one point and on paper looked pre event favourite but problems in qualifying left him down the qualifying order and out of contention.

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September 16, 2012

U.S. Nitro Worlds Warm-Up – Announcement

A number of premier nitro off-road drivers will make their way to Chico, California next month (October 18th- 21st) as A Main Hobbies hosts the U.S. Nitro Worlds Warm-Up at the recently completed Silver Dollar R/C Raceway. The action promises to be fast and furious with team drivers from Kyosho, Mugen Seiki, Team Losi Racing, Team Associated, Hot Bodies, Durango, JQ, and A Main Hobbies expected to compete in preparation for the upcoming 2012 Nitro World Championships in Argentina. To sign up simply log onto RCSignup.com here and register.

September 16, 2012

Delaunay wins Rd5 as Christiany takes French title

The 5th and final round of the French 1/8th Classique championship took place on the brand new Ingrande track last weekend. There was very good weather but the track conditions were not very good and so it was quite difficult to find the right set-up. Local driver Romain Delaunay found the perfect setup and put his Motonica on pole position ahead of Serge Christiany in 2nd and Julen Mathieu in 3rd. The beginning of the 45 minute final was difficult for Romain Delaunay and ended up at the back of the field but he fought back and took over the lead at the half way point in the race. Both Serge and Romain changed rear tires during this final and that is the order it would finish as Delaunay took the win 2 laps in front of Christiany in 2nd while Jean-François Rouanet was 3rd. This result gave Serge Christiany the French National title.

Thanks to Jeff Rouanet for the report.

September 16, 2012

Christophe Louis takes French 1/8th Elite title

The final round of the French Cup for 1/8th scale was held on the Amiens track, which while is not technical is very demanding for engines with 70% max power. The National title was already won by Ramella Pairin in the 4th round but in the Elite class Christophe Louis and Anthony Abisset were still in with a chance of taking the title. In the National qualifications it was Maxime Tenet, Stéphane Bertrand and Faisal Affejee taking the top three places. In the Elite class it wasn’t until the 3rd round of qualifying when Richard Volta, back after a one year break, set the pole position time. For other drivers the 3rd round was also quickest at temperatures improved, with Romain Picard taking second place, followed by Anthony Abisset and Christophe Louis who were only 0.3 seconds apart.

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September 15, 2012

Ausfelt & Mansson win Swedish cup final round

The last round of the Swedish Cup was held at the great Vetlanda nitro arena, a high speed 1/8th clay track with carpet sections. In 2wd, practice started with Otto, Oskar, Niclas and David running similar lap times, the day was set for some close racing. Otto TQ’d the first and second round but was outpaced on lap times by the young superstar Ronnefalk. After a change to another type of driveshafts the pace was found and after the qualifier it was a TQ for Otto, with Oskar in second heading TLR/Advanced Electronics in front of the Orion powered RB-6 of David Ronnefalk.

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September 13, 2012

Martin Bayer takes Rd4 of Czech offroad nationals

Last weekend the 4th round of Czech Nationals took place on track Dolní Bukovsko and Martin Bayer wrote this report. Club did very good job preparing this track for nationals. They totally rebuild track for this race and it was medium grip with a blue groove and many very fast corners. The Czech championship has 5 races in total I had already taken the overall championship title. We ran two classes, 1/8 nitro and 1/8 electric off-road. In both qualifications my cars were excellent. During practice I made set-up which was very good and I stuck with it until the end of the race. I was the only driver who made 10 laps in qualification in both classes and had the overall TQ in both classes. On Sunday we had finals. I won the electro class, leading the race from start to finish. In the nitro class I didn’t give any chance to the other drivers. I started nitro class from pole position with great pit strategy and perfect run I won with 3 lap gap.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 13, 2012

Jarda Kopecky wins Czech TC Nationals

The 2012 1/10 TC Czech Championship took place recently at the track in Nachod and saw the best drivers competing including young talented guys promising some great racing. It was a 3-day event with training on Friday, Saturday 5 rounds of qualification and Sunday the finals. Without winter national champion Peter Grof it was another Xray driver Jarda Kopecky who was the favourite for the title. He showed a steady performance in all three final races and became a national champion for 2012 ahead of Radek Flek in 2nd and Michal Blahovsky 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 13, 2012

Dmitry Malyshko wins Russian EP title

JQ Products driver Dmitry Malyshko had a great performance at the Russian 1/8 E-buggy Champinoships with his THECar Tekno Conversion EP Car. TQ and total domination in all race days in this class, Dmitry is now Russian National Champion 2012 in 1:8th E-Buggy. Dimitry also made the main in the Nitro Russian Championship at the new Raduga raceway in Bolshoy Vyas, finishing 7th after a hard fought final. Starting 7th on the grid in the final Dimitry managed to drive up to 4th place but unfortunately he had a receiver problem in the final due to the rain and had to retire finishing 7th.

Source: JQ Products [jq-products.com]