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September 19, 2011

Marc Fischer takes German National title

The German outdoor electric touring car nationals were held last weekend at the Megadrom Gelienkirchen. The event saw new Serpent signing Marc Fischer take the TQ spot ahead of reigning ETS Champion Ronald Volker for Yokomo and Hot Bodies race Freddy Sudhoff. In the first A-main leg it was Yokomo’s Yannic Pruemper that took the win ahead of 3 time World Champion Marc Rheinard in 2nd and Volker in 3rd with Fischer failing to finish. In the 2nd leg Fischer bounced back and took the win by 4 seconds from Ronald Volker in 2nd and Rheinard 3rd, Yannic failing to finish, setting up a 3rd leg decider. The final leg would once again go to Fischer, this time by a smaller margin of 2.5 seconds over Volker giving Marc Fischer the overall victory and with it the National title, a first major victory for the new S411 chassis. Ronald Volker would take the runner up spot with Yokomo team mate Yannic Pruemper completing the podium in 3rd. Serpent also took the Hobby class with Majuran Tharmalingam winning and the 40+ title with Andreas Giesa finishing 23rd overall.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 19, 2011

HobbyPro Open 2011 – Announcement

Team C Racing have been in contact to promote their HobbyPro Open event that takes place from the 5th to 6th of November at the TRC Track in Hong Kong. This gas event is open to 1/8th on road, 1/10th 200mm and 1/10th 220mm and will once again attract the Shepherd factory team with confirmed entries from Patrick Schaefer, Ronald Volker, Simon Kurzbuch and Jilles Groskamp. Open to all brands of car, you can find more information here.

September 19, 2011

Harrison dominates FSEARA opening race

FSEARA (Florida State Electric Auto Racing Association) kicked off their 7 round series at Florida Indoor RC Complex in Plant City, FL. The one day race attracted many on road driver from all over FL to attend this 1st round of the 2011/2012 session. With over 70+ entries, this event showed that on road is still alive in FL. In Open 17.5, the battle from last year continued, the Local driver Austin Harrison using his home track advantage, taking the TQ with a Lap over the field in front of last year’s winner Dave Bowser.

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September 19, 2011

White & Anderson win BRCA TC finale

Another rain affected BRCA Touring car national saw wins for Schumacher’s Matt White in super touring, while newly crowned 10.5 stock champion Ayrton Anderson took the win in the stock class. With rain falling intermittently throughout the day the Mendip venue was a constantly changing surface and this often favored some of the drivers in the lower heats, the end result was the A finals in both classes had a very unfamiliar look to them, particularly in Super Touring where the likes of Andy Moore, Elliott Harper and Chris Grainger were all well down in the lower finals.

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September 18, 2011

Evans cruises to victory at Short Course Showdown finale

Factory Losi driver Dustin Evans finished out the perfect weekend when he cruised to victories in the two main classes at the Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour finale held at the impressive Mikes Hobby Shop facility in Dallas, Texas. Top Qualifier in both 2WD Modified and 4WD, the Colorado driver lead the 7-minute finals from start to finish in what he himself described as ‘two flawless runs’.

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September 18, 2011

Evans double TQ at Dallas Short Course Showdown

Dustin Evans will start the two main classes on the 2011 short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour race program from pole position after the factory Losi driver wrapped up TQ honours for both 2WD Modified and 4WD in the final round of qualifying at Mikes Hobby Shop in Dallas, Texas this morning.

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September 17, 2011

Evans stays in control in Dallas

The second round of 4WD qualifying at the Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour in Dallas saw Dustin Evans’ domination continue as the factory Losi driver once again topped the time sheets but like in 2WD it is his Q1 run that remains the provisional outright TQ time.

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September 17, 2011

Justin Gilkison wins C.O.R.C. championship

The Canadian Off Road Championship concluded with the last race of the three-race series over the weekend of September 3rd and 4th at Kelowna, B.C. X Factory driver Justin Gilkison made the trip up from Sultan, Washington for the event. The Championship series is three races and Justin was unable to attend the first one, so the pressure was on at Kelowna. He TQed Mod Truck with his mid-motor X-60 and also won the class meaning he could take the championship in just two races.

Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]