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June 15, 2011

24h race @ Motodrom Andernach

Our friend Uwe Rheinard got in touch to tell us about the recent 24h race at the Motodrom Andernach. Being in its 12th year the challenging around the clock race once again attracted 25 teams with a total of 175 racers from Austria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany to race their Porsche-bodied Tamiya TT-01E kits at the legendary Motodrom, home of World Champion Marc Rheinard and host of the ETS season final. According to the rules each team as to build the chassis on Saturday morning using only a minimum of option parts and Porsche GT3 body shells. For the second year in a row Speed Power sponsored LiFe hardcase battery packs with a capacity of 4200mAh that every team had to use. After 24 hours, 3559 laps and a total distance of around 750km the five time winners “Wild 13” claimed the top spot on the podium using 5 sets of tyres but not a single spare part, followed by the team from the Netherlands with 22 laps less. For more information and a TV report from the 2009 event please visit www.teammotodrom.de.

Click here to view impressions from the race

June 15, 2011

Jörn & Hupo win European Short Course Masters

The innaugral “European Short Course Masters” took place last weekend at the MC Welden track near Munich, Germany. A total of four classes were on the cards with “Pro2” 2WD SC and “Pro4” 4WD SC being the main classes along with 2WD “RTR” SC and 1/8th 4WD SC also featuring. The track is a mix of surfaces with the majority of the track being split between dirt or astroturf. Saturday’s qualifying was dominated by Team Durango’s Hupo Hönigl followed by Martin Achter (Team Durango DESC410R), Jörn Neumann DESC410R (Team Durango DESC410R), Robert Hart (Team Associated SC10 4×4) and US superstar Ryan Maifield (Team Associated SC10 4×4). Come the finals Hupo, Martin and Jörn swapped places with the better end for Jörn winning the first ever European Short Course Masters ahead of team mate Hupo and Martin. Austria’s Gerd Pfeiffer claimed fourth place from Robert Hart who finished 5th at the end. The 2WD class was dominated by Hubert Hönigl followed by Jörn Neumann and Ryan Mayfield (all Team Associated SC10).

Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com] & savys.de [savys.de]

June 14, 2011

Lars Hoppe wins Northern German regionals Rd2

Team Shepherd driver Lars Hoppe won the second round of the Northern german regionals at the tight Tüttendorf track near Kiel. He also claimed TQ by setting the fastest three consecutive laps with his Novarossi powered Velox V8 ’11 in qualifying followed by Serpent driver Jens Stark, Shepherd’s Timo Schröder and Serpent’s Merlin Depta. In the following semi final Hoppe defended his first place and finished three laps ahead of Timo Schröder. The 30 minutes main final saw a clear start with Hoppe pulling away from the rest of the field finishing six laps ahead of Marcel Henriksen (Kyosho) in second, Marcell Sledz (Serpent) in third and Timo Schröder in fourth position.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 14, 2011

Riccobono & Thirion win French nationals Rd3

Last week-end the third round of the French 1/8 scale on-road national championship was held in Evry/France near Paris. The track which held the European Championships many years ago saw close racing in the Promotion and Elite classes. In the Promotion class called “national” in France, Damien Thirion claimed the TQ spot with Jeremy Cassagne and Vincent Nousse in second and third place respectively. It also was Damien who drove his RB-powered Xray RX8 to the first place in the finals with Gregory Tassencourt in second and Stephane Bertrand in third place after the finals. The Elite class was led by Christophe Aygon after qualification with Stephane Bouche and Christophe Louis in second and third place. Come the finals things turned for the better for eight placed Stephane Riccobono who won the 45 minute finals with his RB-powered RX8 in front of the two Motonica drivers Stephane Bouche and Arnaud Mathieu.

Click here to view the Promotion podium and two videos of the Elite class

June 14, 2011

Klausner wins RC Hillclimbing World Games

Michael Klauser sen. won the recent X-RC.org RC Hillclimbing World Games at the Hacksteiner-Hills in Faistenau/Austria. Despite the bad weather many drivers attended the meeting to conquer the 65 metres long up-hill track. The first driver who successfully made the whole track was Christian Brachmaier who took 15.5 seconds with his .30 OS-powered HPI Trophy Truggy. The second driver who managed the track was Michael Klausner sen. with his Novarossi-powered Mugen MBX-6T who needed 17.8 seconds. These two drivers have been the only ones during qualification who made the “Full Hill”. Come the finals it was again Michael Klausner sen. who outperformed his competitors by tackling the challenging track three times in front of local hero Rene Rinnerthaler with his SH .28-powered HongNor X2T and TQ Christian Brachmaier. Roland Winklhofer who was on 3rd spot after the qualifying wasn’t able to hold that position as his 2WD FG large scale Beetle struggled in the wet and soapy conditions.

Click here to view the final result

June 14, 2011

Winter & Brunet win Electric bike Worlds warm-up

The electric bike World Championship warm-up race took place at the first week of June at the famous Lostallo track in Switzerland. The contestants had been faced with mixed weather conditions making setup of the bikes difficult. In the Stock Bike class, that doesn’t allow for front brakes and calls for a minimum weight of 1900g and 17.5T brushless motors, it was Andrea Selva who claimed TQ followed by 13-years old Antoine Brunet and Thomas Feilner from Germany. In the Super Bike Class Oliver Wäckerle from Germany was able to grab himself the top spot followed by Andy Spiess from Switzerland and Soren Jorgensen from Denmark. Come the final day rain started poring down heavily making the finals very challenging some with with the better end for young Antoine Brunet taking the first place in the Stock Bike class ahead of TQ Andrea Selva and Thomas Feilner. The Super Bikes where dominated by Edi Winter from Austria who won in front of Marc Lutz from Germany and San Marino based Gianni Zonzini.

Click here to view the Stock Bike podium

June 14, 2011

Puepke & Schewiola lead Nitro West Masters after Rd2

Rene Puepke in 1/10 scale and Frank Schewiola in 1/8 scale are leading the rankings after two rounds of the Nitro West Masters, a series of five race weekends held in Western Germany. Both Serpent racers were able to win at the season opener at Oberhausen as well at round two held at Dueren. Also in the newly launched 1/8 Hobby Cup class with unified engines from Novarossi both races saw the same winner with Mugen driver Thilo-Alexander Toedtmann.

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June 13, 2011

Jefferies & Smith win rain hit BRCA Rd2

Round two of this years BRCA national 1:10 on road championship was renamed in honour of the passing of Mike Reedy, the Reedy Cotswold national saw a full entry of top UK drivers the only noticeable absentee being Elliott Harper who opted to miss this round in favour of revising for exams. Starting car one was reigning champion Chris Grainger, the Schumacher driver had made a great start to the season taking round one at West London and was looking to make it two out two in the Super Touring class. Saturday saw Andy Moore start well in the Super Touring class and he led the qualifying overnight from Olly Jefferies and Chris Kerswell, in pro stock it was James Hart up front for Schumacher ahead of David Hall and Chris Slater.

Continue reading the report here