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June 15, 2010

Nordman & Ronnefalk claim Nordic titles

Last weekend saw the Nordic Championships take place in 1/10th 2WD and 4WD buggy at the Radøy raceway in Norway, not too far from Bergen. The race featured a really strong field with champions from Norway, Sweden and Finland in contention.2WD kicked off with a wet track making the standings a little unexpected initially, but with a drying track for the final two rounds the results really changed as PerErik Nordman came into shape with his Kyosho Ultima RB-5 SP2 and won the last two of the 4 rounds of qualifying making him the top qualifier.

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June 14, 2010

Belgian Mini-Z series Rd2

Last Sunday, the third round of the Belgian Mini-Z series took place in Wommelgem and the race saw 2 classes in action, Expert GT class and Stock LM. The TQ in expert class was, with a big margin of 4 laps, was Steve Deblaere who also was able to win the 2 finals to strengthen his lead in the championship.

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June 14, 2010

Harper & Hart win BRCA TC Nats Rd2

Round two of this seasons BRCA 1:10 Electric touring car championship took place over the weekend at the superb Cotswold track in picturesque Gloucestershire. In the Super Touring Class Elliott Harper broke Chris Grainger’s strangle hold on the domestic UK series with a TQ and win, while in the Pro Stock class James Hart took the win for Schumacher.

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June 13, 2010

Ricardo Monteiro wins European ‘B’ buggy title

Our friends over at Neo Buggy are reporting that Portuguese driver Ricardo Monteiro has claimed the win at the 2010 European ‘B’ Championships in Valladolid, Spain this weekend. In qualifying it was Spanish racer Patxi Penas that took the top spot but problems in the semi final meant he wouldn’t bump up. While wet earlier in the event, conditions on Sunday were perfect and in the main final there was a strong battle between pole man Bryan Baldo and Monteiro, but issues for Baldo saw him retire, leaving the way free for Losi/RB man Monteiro to win by 20 seconds ahead of Xray/RB driver Carlos Durães in 2nd, with Mugen/Ninja Adrien Perez in 3rd a further 9 seconds back.

Source: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net]

June 13, 2010

Masao Tanaka wins Japanese 1/8th Nationals

The Japanese 1/8th scale on road gas Nationals were held this weekend at Keitune Speedway in Ichihara. A relatively low attendance of 52 drivers, but with plenty of quality in the pack it was sure to be a tough race for everyone. Qualifying went the way of Takahiro Terauchi, taking the pole position by 2 seconds after 6 rounds to line up ahead of Hideo Kitizawa in 2nd and Masao Tanaka in 3rd. The final saw problems for pole man Terauchi, who would end the race in 10th position, while up front Tanaka would drive a clean race to pull off the race win crossing the line 8 seconds in front of Ken Furukawa in 2nd and Takeshi taking 3rd.

Source: JMRCA [jmrca.jp]

June 10, 2010

Robert Pietsch wins trofeo Novarossi

The Trofeo Novarossi took place last weekend at the famous Fiorano track in Italy. The weather forecast was more than good with around 30° sunshine the whole weekend and around 70 drivers attended the race, which was perfectly organized by Minicar Fiorano Team. Victory in the 1/8th scale class went to Robert Pietsch, who was running the all new self designed MRX5 car from Mugen, with second place going to Mugen team mates Christian Cavicchioli and Eric Dankel in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. In the 1:10th class it was Walter Ossola that won followed by Vidotto Roberto in 2nd and Massimiliano Vadese in 3rd.

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June 10, 2010

Martin Bayer does double at 1/5th Euros Warm-up

The warm-up race for the 2010 1/5 Scale Formula one and Touring car European championship took place at Slavkov, Brno in the Czech Republic last weekend and it attracted all the big name drivers in these categories. The race in the formula one category was to be a one man show with 1/8th scale buggy ace Martin Bayer driving the RS5 winning the race by 5 laps ahead of team mates Jeffrey van Wijk and Clark Wohlert in 2nd and 3rd. In the touring car category it was also a win for RS5 driver Martin Bayer with a superb drive, followed by former European Champion Mathieu Briere with the FG, with 9 tenths of a second gap on third place finisher Cedric Prevot also with FG.

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June 9, 2010

Erik Demuth wins Rd1 of the Brazilian 1/5th Nats

The first round of this year’s Brazilian 1/5th scale National championship was held at the Clube Conesul in Portão Rio Grande do Sul Brasil. The track was very cold on the Saturday morning and the times slow, but after some qualifying rounds the lap times came down with Erik Demuth with his FG/Abbate Racing car made the best time on the track followed by Renato Brentato, Rui Vlademir and Stener completing the top 4 qualifiers to the final. The Main final scheduled to begin at 15:00 hours saw turmoil after problems with race timing saw the start of race being canceled. At the second start, Erik Demuth kept the lead until the finish. Renato Brentano who started second dropped down the order after a first corner crash but recovered to finish in second place. The third place went to Stener who was running his new car for the first time in this race and has already achieved great results. Young 8 year old racer Nicolas Lucae finished the race in an impressive 5th place showing that he will be one of the strong names for the future in Brazil.

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