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May 22, 2012

Soeren Boy Holst wins Rd1 in Denmark

First round of the Danish outdoor Championships was held last Sunday in Glostrup outside Copenhagen. The track was also used to host the European Championship back in 2005, and it’s perfect for Electric Touring Car racing. The track is 165m long, with a main straight of 50m. Control tires for the season is Solaris Hard, and the drivers are allowed to use 6 tires for the race. The sun had arrived at Denmark, giving a perfect condition for a super race. In the qualification it was Soeren Boy Holst who was fastest of all, with the brand new T.O.P. Photon EX car. Friday’s practice session was the first time out for this car, and it was flying around the track. TQ by 3 seconds to Troels Troelsen, who was followed by Nicolai Lindegaard.

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May 22, 2012

Kimbrow & Swauger win KO Propo USA GP

This past weekend was the 5th Annual KO Propo America Nitro Grand Prix in Gardena, CA. The race facility was hosted by the GLARCC (Greater Los Angeles RC Club) with drivers from the California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, Florida, New York and Connecticut in attendance for the great Southern California weather. 138 entries in total with classes for 1/10th Open, 1/8th Open, 1/8th Sportsman and 1/5th, the largest class was the 1/8th Open with mains going down to the G Main. Close competition all weekend for all classes resulted in mostly everyone having a great time. 1/10th Open and 1/8th Open TQ would be set by Mike Swauger, 1/5th TQ by Brian Thomas and 1/8th Sportsman by Kenny Jones.

View the final results here

May 21, 2012

2012 Nitro-West-Masters – Announcement

The Nitro-West-Masters will start into its fourth season in the coming weekend. Five races are scheduled in 2012 for this growing championship in Western Germany, which has attracted 93 nitro racers in 2011. Fair racing, long finals, stable rules and a friendly atmosphere are the key points of the Nitro-West-Masters. Three classes are offered, 1/8 scale nitro on-road (VG8), 1/10 scale nitro on-road (VG10) and 1/8 scale nitro on-road Hobby-Cup (HC8) with standard engines from Novarossi or Sonic. The race format includes three heats of seven minutes with the three best laps to count and finals as long as possible, depending on number of participants and weather. Tyre additives are prohibited. Drivers also from foreign countries are welcome, a license isn’t mandatory, in that case an additional insurance fee is to be paid.

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May 21, 2012

Victory for Hupo Honigl at Austrian Nats Rd1

Hupo Honigl reports from the first round of the Austrian Nationals last weekend in Steyregg, which is a very unique track with a lot fast corners and really low traction. The weather was beautiful and the club did a good job with preparing the track. In 2wd qualifying local hero Hans-Jürgen Tormann, a former European A-Finalist was quickest and got TQ in front of me. In the Final we had a very good battle and I won in the first 2 finals for the overall win with the DEX210. In 4wd my DEX410v3 was very good again during the whole race and I took TQ and won the event.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

May 21, 2012

Yannick Aigoin wins French EFRA GP

The EFRA GP of Reims took place last weekend at the northern French town and attracted a rather low 66 drivers. With the weather cooperating and sunshine all weekend it was Associated driver Yannick Aigoin that took the pole position ahead of Xray driver Renaud Savoya in 2nd and Agama racer Jerome Sartel in 3rd. The first non French driver was Spaniard Borja Hernandez with the LRP car in 4th. In the semis it was business as usual for the two former European Champions with Aigoin and Savoya winning their respective finals but it was Yannick who would start from pole in the hour long A-main. As the race started Aigoin would cement his dominance on the event by taking the lead and proceeding to pull out an advantage. German Mugen driver Daniel Reckward moved passed Savoya around the 10 minute mark and would maintain in 2nd position for the remainder of the race. Near the half way point Savoya hit trouble and would drop to the back of the pack. This moved Borja Hernandez to 3rd and he would hold on to the final podium position until the final minutes of the race when Sartel would come through to take the spot and complete the podium behind Reckward in 2nd and winner Yannick Aigoin.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

May 21, 2012

Andy Moore wins BRCA TC season opener

This season’s BRCA 1:10 electric touring car series got underway at the weekend with round one at the Cotswold track. This season the championship has dropped its modified unlimited motor class in favour of a single 10.5 super touring class. The meeting was held in cold but dry conditions and three leg finals followed five rounds of round by round qualifying. HB driver Andy Moore got off to a great start in defending his 2011 title with a TQ and win, taking second place was Schumacher’s Chris Grainger, an excellent performance from Chris Kerswell saw the Serpent driver complete the podium. The overall results had a very familiar look to them with regular top modified drivers taking the next two spots, Elliott Harper fourth for Tamiya and Olly Jefferies fifth for Associated. This season the championship features a team race and this was won by Team RC Dynamics – MB Models

Source: BRCA [brca.org]

May 20, 2012

Tim Wood takes Rd3 of BRCA 1/8th series

The third round of the 2012 BRCA 1/8th scale national championship was hosted by the Adur club, situated at Shoreham recreation ground to the west of Brighton last weekend. The circuit is the smallest on the calendar and although some people have reservations about its size, the grip levels and smoothness makes it one of the best the country can currently offer. The track is very technical and so requires a good car setup with plenty of low speed steering and rotation to lap consistently below the 14 second bracket. With this track being around 5 years old, the tarmac is now a shade of grey and when the grip is put down, a black line is clearly generated which is fantastic to see.

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May 18, 2012

Bruno Coelho dominates Rd2 in Portugal

Last weekend the 2nd round of the Portuguese Nationals for 1/8th and 1/10th scale were held at the Maia track close to Oporto. Mugen/Novarossi driver Bruno Coelho continued on his preparation for this year’s 1/8th Euros in his country by dominating qualifying in this and the 1/10th scale class each by a margin of two laps. In the finals it was again Bruno who easily took the win in 1/8th scale by 10 laps ahead of the Xray pairing of Paulo Mota and Claudio Souto. In the 1/10th scale class Bruno won by a 4 lap margin in front of Pedro Sousa in 2nd and Mario Miranda in 3rd.

View the 1/10th podium here