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April 26, 2010

Dirk Wischnewski wins French 1/10th EFRA GP

Last Weekend the first Efra GP was held at the MAH Herrlisheim track in France. The track was open for free practise from Thursday till Friday, which was used by lot´s of Drivers. On Saturday morning we had 4 rounds of qualifications and two more on Sunday morning. After the qualifying it was current European Champion Dirk Wischnewski that took the pole position ahead of former World Champion Adrien Bertin, with Eric Dankel and Manuel Huber completing the direct qualifiers. From the Semi Finals Patrick Schäfer, Thomas Günsel, Oliver Mack, Bruyer Antony, Maxim Claes and Nicolas Bougnoteau bumped up into the main final.

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April 26, 2010

Flying start for Dylan Rodriguez at RC Pro West

We received a quick update that team Mugen driver Dylan Rodriguez goes 1, 2, 3 at the R/C Pro West opener last weekend at Hemet Raceway. Dylan TQ’d and won Electric buggy and TQ’d all three rounds of Truggy, but had mechanical problems in the main and settled for 3rd and wrapped up a great weekend by finishing 2nd in Pro buggy.

April 26, 2010

Hartson dominance at Associated 1/8th Electric Champs

Hosted by Orange County R/C Raceway in Huntington Beach, CA on April 24th, the Team Associated 1/8th Electric Championship again proved that 1/8th electric racing is alive and here to stay. Being only a one day event allowed the track to make adjustments to the program based upon entries and class breakdown. With over 65 entries and 9 heats, the program was tweaked to allow for maximum track time that included 6 minute qualifiers, B main bump-ups and 7 minute triple A mains. The highlight class of the event was Expert 1/8th Buggy and the star was Associated/Reedy/LRP’s Steven Hartson. Picking up where he left off the week before at the JBRL event, Hartson laid down the fastest qualifying time over fellow Associated/LRP teammate Ryan Cavalieri. Hartson, having found his groove with 1/8th electric over the past few months, was untouchable in the main events. Cavalieri pressured at times, but the consistency of Hartson, combined with the experience in the class, saw him easily win both A1 and A2 by 6 seconds over Cavalieri. Joining Hartson and Cavalieri in the A main for Team Associated were Brent Thielke and Chris Jarosz who both also used Reedy/LRP power.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

April 26, 2010

Tobias Hepp wins 1/8 opener in Western Germany

Round one of the 1/8 nitro Western German Championship saw Tobias Hepp taking full points for the qualification of the German Nationals which will be held in September in Roetz in Southern Germany. The 16 years old Hepp achieved his victory in class 1 in front of Steven Cuypers and Frank Schewiola while 15 years old Jean-Pierre Roenicke with his victory in class 2 making it a day for the youth.

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April 26, 2010

James Caruso takes ECC victory

James “Turbofest” Caruso took his Super Bully Crawler to ECC “East Coast Championships” to test his skills and rig against some of the best super class drivers in the country. James used the RC4WD Super Bully 65:1 Axles, and titanium hardware on his custom built Super Crawler. He also built his own chassis and OTA “over the axle” steering setup for this truck leading to domination in the Super Class. After 4 courses James pulled away with the win by one point. There were a total of 3 RC4WD Super Bully axled rigs in the top 6 at the ECC event.

Source: RC4wd [rc4wd.com]

April 26, 2010

Hungarian Electric National Championship

The 2009/2010 Hungarian Electric National Championship, which comprised of 7 rounds from which 6 count, came to an end in April at the Dabas Diego Sport Center. The Hungarian Electric National Championship which runs only on carpet from October until April, had an average entries of 110-120 racers during the season and not only saw National Championship categories but hosted races also for Formula-1, Buggy (1/10, 1/16) Gentleman and Junior drivers. In the most popular category called N (Newcomers) it was Viktor Juhasz (Losi), who won all 7 races and the championship ahead of Jozsef Valent (Xray) and young talent Akos Kloiber (Losi).

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April 26, 2010

Russian Touring series – Announcement

Russian RC club RC Moscow have announced the creation of the new Russian Touring series. Consisting of 10 races, the winners in Pro Stock and Modified classes will be awarded tickets to one of the ETS races next year. Created to promote RC racing in Russia and help talented drivers to participate in famous European races and develop their driving skills, the first race will take place in Moscow on the 8th – 9th of May. The control tires for the event will be supplied by Xenon, while Speed Passion will be the Pro Stock motor supplier. International playboy Toni Rheinard from Toni Sport will be in attendance at round 1 of the series to offer technical support.

For details of the track location and rules go here or you can contact organizers via e-mail (art-lopukhin@mtu-net.ru).

April 25, 2010

Fabio Boero wins Rd1 in Italy

The Italian 1/8th buggy Nationals got underway this weekend at the Valley Sporting Club in Alberobello in the very south of the country. Reigning champion Riccardo Rabitti managed to TQ the event with his Picco powered Losi, ahead of Mugen/Reds Racing driver Fabio Boero, with multiple Champion Davide Tortorici in 3rd. Things would go badly for Rabitti in his semi final, a number of problems in his race saw him lose too much time and so failed to bump into the main event. Fabio Boero would start from the pole position for the hour long race, with Carlo Jacopini lining up just behind him. In the race itself, it was Riccardo Perin that took the early lead, while behind it was Jacopini in 2nd being chased by a hard recovering Boero who had lost a lot of time on lap 2. Just before the half way point Perin hit trouble, and with Boero up to 2nd he was able to pounce and take the lead, which he held on to until the end. Davide Tortorici took 2nd place, passing Fabrizio Teghesi a few laps before the end, demoting the Kyosho driver to 3rd spot by the flag.

View the final results here