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July 12, 2012

Wouter Wynen wins 2012 Belgian GP

The Belgian GP is held each year in early July at the beautiful outdoor astro track in Kampanhout, Belgium. Club manager Willy Heremans and his crew always put on a relaxed, fun, yet competitive race. The track is inside a park and the GP is presented the same weekend as a big festival, so there is plenty of food and Saturday night features lots of loud music well into the night. Privateer Wouter Wynen TQed the first three rounds of qualifying to take pole position for the triple-A mains. 2WD qualifying and mains were held on Saturday, July 7th, with 4WD the following day. Wynen took Q-1 by just 0.06 seconds over U.K.’s Grant Williams, and put in the only 12-lap run of Q-2. In Q-3 it was Kim Nielsen’s Durango chasing about a second behind Wouter’s X-6 Sq.

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July 12, 2012

Toennessen wins Rd3 of Western German Champs

Mugen racer Daniel Toennessen was walking on water on his way to winning round three of the Western German Championship in the 1/10 scale nitro on-road class at Velp. Toennessen became the third winner in the third race with René Puepke winning round one at Dormagen and Michael Salven winning at Dueren. Bernd Rausch has been the main challenger at every race but is still waiting for his first victory. Nevertheless, the Kyosho hotshot is leading the championship ranking.

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July 12, 2012

Lee Martin retains 2wd buggy European title

Lee Martin has retained his EFRA European 1/10th 2wd buggy title in Fehring in the south of Austria. Raced on what is normally a 1/8th scale track, and who will host next months 1/8th EFRA European Championships, Lee took his Speed Passion powered Tamiya chassis to the top qualifier spot ahead of recently crowned Swedish National Champion David Ronnefalk (Kyosho) with multiple European Champion Hupo Honigl (Durango) third. The first A-main was one by Lee ahead of fellow Brit Neil Cragg (Associated) with Hupo taking the 3rd spot. Leg two of the mains would see Lee make a mistake allowing the young Swede Ronnefalk to take a very close win in front of Worlds podium finisher Joern Neumann (Durango) in 2nd with Lee Martin recovering to 3rd setting up a title showdown for the 3rd and final A-main leg. Lee Martin would keep his calm in this decisive main and claim the win and overall title ahead of Ronnefalk in 2nd, who claimed the overall runner up spot and junior title, while Neil Cragg would finish 3rd claiming the final overall podium spot. Now the racers change their focus to the 4wd class with practice today followed by qualifying on Friday and Saturday morning with the finals being held on Saturday afternoon.

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July 11, 2012

Labor Day Shootout – Announcement

A Main Hobbies is proud to announce the annual Labor Day Shootout, a staple of the Northern California racing scene, will be held August 30 through September 2 as the inaugural major racing event held at the brand new Silver Dollar RC Raceway! Located on the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico, CA, Silver Dollar RC Raceway was built in 2012 as the ideal location for large RC racing events and was selected to host the 2013 IFMAR Electric Off-Road World Championships. The Labor Day Shootout is the first opportunity for racers from outside of the local area to see the new facility firsthand and compete on the fresh NorCal soil. Classes for 1/8-scale nitro vehicles, as well as electric short course trucks, will be offered at this grand opening event. More information can be found here.

July 11, 2012

Armin Baier wins Rd5 in Southern Germany

Last weekend the MCC Türkheim hosted the 5th round of the Southern German Championship. Although the weather forecast didn’t look too good, the actual weather was great throughout the entire weekend. In class 1 Christoph Pietsch, Robert’s uncle, took TQ with his OS powered Mugen while second place went to Armin Baier, running a Picco powered Motonica P81RS2 and third was Shepherd / Sonic driver Maximilian Vogl. In class 2 Ralf Drachsler, Mugen / RB took the top spot in front of Maximilian Günther, Motonica P81RS2 / Picco and Alexander Bremberger.

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July 11, 2012

JConcepts Summer Tour race 2 report

The JConcepts Summer Tour had its second stop this past weekend. The race was hosted by eXtreme Hobby Zone in Winter Haven, FL. The small outdoor track made for some tight racing and the Black Grooved center meant you had to stay in the line or risk ending up sideways. There was plenty of shade for the pits but an extremely bright sunny day kept the 83 entries nice and toasty. Two rounds of qualifying kicked off just before 10am and with a smoothly run program the final main finished just before 5pm.

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July 11, 2012

Giesa & Depta wins Rd4 in North Germany

Hildesheim was location of penultimate round of the North German championships last weekend and Andreas Giesa produced this report. “Unfortunately the weather forecast was not good for this weekend and rain was expected. We started practice under dry conditions on Saturday morning and with my setup, which worked well last race in Braunschweig. There were only a few changes needed to adapt the 747 on this track. I used both shock and ARB extensions this time and got more steering on throttle and in fast corners and again the Xceed Spark body.

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July 10, 2012

Double victory & title for Coelho in Portugal Rd4

Last weekend saw the 4th round of the Portuguese gas on road nationals at the Vila Real circuit where this year’s 1/8th scale European Championships will be held at the start of next month. The race saw Mugen Novarossi driver Bruno Coelho TQ and win both the 1/8th and 1/10th scale 200mm classes as well as retain both his national titles. The track was very abrasive and the tires could only last ten minutes, so Bruno had to drive very carefully and conserve tires in a race of tactics rather than out and out performance. The 1/8th scale main saw Coelho take the win by 2 laps ahead of Jose Pequito in 2nd and Jose Carlos in 3rd. In the 1/10th scale class the margin of victory for Bruno was 4 laps ahead of Mário Miranda in 2nd and Hugo Mendes in 3rd.

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