More than 20 years after his last visit at the track of the RMC Dueren close to the Belgian and Dutch border Michael Salven achieved victory at round two of the nitro 1/10 Western German Championship. With rain pouring down for most of the day Tobias Hepp made it a 1-2 for Serpent crossing the line just five seconds behind Salven.
Last weekend the 2nd of 6 rounds for the Austrian 1/8th on road championship took place at MORAC-Graz host of the 2008 European ‘B’ Championships. The event was again dominated by Mike Klausner, who took pole position, won his semi final (no direct qualifiers in Austria) and took the final to cap a nearly perfect weekend for him.
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Last Sunday the second round of the Portuguese Regionals was held in the Circuito Automodelismo do Funchal. Mugen driver Luis Cortez, took the pole and another perfect win, the temperature variations having a big influence in the outcome of this event with a lot of drivers having engine trouble all weekend, getting the engine perfectly tuned was a challenge. In the main final Team Magic driver Fabio Barros drove a smart race managing the second place of the podium, while Veteran Serpent driver Alcino Camacho, after a difficult year, returned to the podium in 3rd place showing us that experience and know how is far more important than a top engine or chassis.
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As a guest Belgian Shepherd driver Tom Smolderen attended the first round of the 1/8th scale On-Road nationals in Luxembourg. Claiming the pole-position after 4 rounds of qualifying he had an excellent position for 30-minutes final. After 101 laps Smolderen crossed the finishing line in first position in front of Patrick Beltrallo with 99 laps and Jerome Hirtziger on third another 5 laps down. As a guest starter Tom didn’t receive any championship points so Belltrallo took over the first position in the ranking list in front of Hirtziger and Jacques Libar.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The 2010 Schumacher BTCC championship got underway over the weekend with round one at the Mendip circuit, the race was seen as a major warm up for the forthcoming BRCA national meeting which takes place at the Somerset track in a few weeks time. Nearly all the big names in modified were in attendance including national champion Chris Grainger and ex BTCC champions Olly Jefferies and Elliott Harper. It was Chris Grainger that showed he still had the pace from last year and set FTD in modified ahead of Elliott Harper. In Pro Stock it was Xray driver Ricky Copsey that led the A final grid ahead of Adam Meakin and Matt Quinlisk. This years BTCC has a 13.5 stock class and it was Jake Williams who took the top spot for the A final in this class.
The 2010 German 1/12th electric Championship was held over the weekend of 23-25th April at the high-traction and permanent racetrack in Schermbeck. Following qualification it was multiple European A-main finalist and Serpent/LRP driver Markus Mobers on the TQ spot followed by touring car World Champion Marc Rheinard in 2nd with his Associated/SP combo and in 3rd recent German TC indoor champion Ronald Völker with his Associated/LRP ride. As the finals got underway, it was Völker and Rheinard who got the best starts and they were the only ones to still have the chance for the overall win heading in to the last and decisive 3rd leg of the finals. As the tone went off for the start of the last final, Ronald had his chances of another title in 2010 significantly decreased as he got taken-out on the first lap. But Ronald never gave up and with great driving Ronald slowly started to close the gap to the leaders and with 2 min to go he managed to close up and pass Marc Rheinard for the lead and the overall championship. Marc Rheinard took 2nd overall, with Marc Fisher ending up in 3rd for Corally/GM.
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After a long winter the Dutch Nationals got underway last weekend at the famous AMCA track in Apeldoorn. The biggest group of competitors was found in the 13.5T stock class. There was also a group of ProTen-drivers who revamped their championship in 2010. It was soon clear the first round of qualifiers would be the quickest. Due to the warming track the later runs would be almost a second a lap slower. Victim of the early pace was Benny van Oers, winner of last years final, who had to start from pole in the B-final.
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New Team Durango signing Hupo Honigl attended last weekend’s pre-Season race held at the Rhein-Mein Circuit in Bischofsheim, Germany and filed this report. A lot good drivers attended the race at Bischofscheim including Neumann, Drescher, Ronnefalk, Svenson, Reckward, as well as many top German drivers. Gerd made some subtle changes to a couple of parts and all I can say is that they work awesome. In the first practice run the car felt already pretty good, but the shocks were too soft and also the diff oils were too soft. I changed from 5k-5k-2k to 10k-10k-2k and changed the shockoil to 10 harder in the front and 5 harder in the rear. This helped a lot.
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