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February 24, 2010

Carlos Durães wins season opener at Trofa

The first official 1/8 Off-Road race of the year in Portugal took place last weekend at the Trofa track. Seen as a warm up to the Nationals it was Ricardo Monteiro that took the TQ spot as he won all 3 qualifiers with his RB powered Losi 8ight. The opening 7 minutes of the main final saw a nice battle between Monteiro and Xray driver Carlos Durães with new Losi signing Miguel Matias in third, after starting in 11th due to some electrical troubles during the warm lap. Monteiro had issues during his first refueling which dropped him back and allowed Durães up the 1st where he stayed until the end. Miguel Matias also benefitted from Monteiro’s problems and moved up to 2nd where he finished, ahead of Nuno Casal Ribeiro, a good result for this local Crono driver.

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February 24, 2010

Ty Tessmann wins Nitro Challenge Pro Truggy class

The Dirt Nitro Challenge took place last weekend at the Nitro Pit in Wittmann, Arizona and young Canadian Hot Bodies team driver, and recent Worlds Warmup top qualifier, Ty Tessmann ended qualifying with 3rd in Pro Truggy and 6th in Pro Buggy. Ty got a clean start in truggy with Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri out in front of him. As the race progressed Ty, Tebo and Maifield battled for the 2nd place as Cavalieri increased his lead to 14 seconds at one point in the race. The first place seemed unreachable for everyone else and it was thought that Cavalieri had the race in the bag but that was not to be. Ty continued to drive smooth, consistent and clean laps and slowly caught Ryan, and after a few bobbles from the leader and traffic for both of them, Ty took over the lead and kept it smooth and consistent to take his first major US win in front of Ryan Cavalieri and Ryan Maifield.

February 23, 2010

Adrian Bernsten claims Norwegian title

The 2010 Norwegian championship took place last weekend in Spydeberg and classes included 1:12 scale, 1:10 modified and 1:10 Pro Stock, with eighty drivers signed up, however only 65 showed up. There was free practice on Friday to get a better grip on the only 1 race old 600m2 carpet, while on Saturday there were 4 rounds of qualifying with a 5th on Sunday as well as driving finals at the end of the day. Adrian Bernsten won all 5 qualifying rounds which meant he took the TQ spot in front of Helge Johannesen in 2nd and Petter Berntsen in 3rd.

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February 23, 2010

Shepherd Cup Race Series Malaysia

On behalf of Niko Sales & Services Centre & NRC racing circuit, we have been asked to invite racers to compete in the 1st Malaysia Shepherd Cup Race Series. A total of 5 pre-rounds and a big final event will determine the champions in 1/8th scale on-road and 1/10th scale touring car. The cup is open to all brands of cars, for Shepherd drivers there will be an extra ranking with special prices like car kits and free air tickets. The series will kick off at the nice track in Johor in the south of the country on the weekend of 22/23rd March and already over 130 racers from Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei have signed up. Additionally racers from Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia are expected to attend this event. For more informations please contact Mr. Niko Cheng at this address: nikoas03@gmail.com

February 23, 2010

Bowie Ginting wins Indonesian Warmup race

The Warm Up race for the Indonesian 1/10 EP National championship season was held on Sunter International Circuit this past weekend. The race weather was sunny all the day and with 41 drivers in attendance, it showed how the passion of Indonesian racers for 1/10 EP class is back to how it once was. The race was open to modified and stock 11.5 R BL classes and in Modified qualifying It was 2004 1/10 GP World finalist, Teddy Syach, who after a year away from racing, placed his Hot Bodies on the TQ spot, followed by Wiyono, Albert, Kris Heriyana and Bowie Ginting who completed the top 5. In stock qualifying, Sewaka Ramadhani with his Orion powered TOP Photon took the TQ, with Bowie Ginting following him in 2nd place 1 second behind. Yuri Taruna, Imam Liyanto and Hans completed the Top 5.

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February 23, 2010

Neumann dominates Neuffener Indoor Masters

One of the biggest Offroad indoor races in Germany were held last week in Neuffen, near Stuttgart, with 132 drivers making the trip to the Neuffener Indoor Masters. Saturday would comprise of 3 rounds of practice and 4 rounds of qualifying, with one more round on Sunday morning. Jörn Neumann TQ’d both 2WD and 4WD and in the triple A-mains Jörn would convert his qualifying pace into race victory with his LRP powered Yokomo in the 4WD class, while in the 2WD class Neumann would again win, in front of Benni Gröschel and Patrick Hofer.

February 22, 2010

Vesa Yli dominates Rd2 of FinTrack

Finnish indoor season on road nationals aka FinTrack Tour continued at Southern Finland at the city of Tampere last weekend. The venue was a huge sport hall with several separated game fields for indoor games. Due to recent cold weather conditions, the hall was pretty cold inside, only about 12-14C degrees during the day as it was -25C outside with blowing wind making it feel like -50C. The track was pretty bumpy due to plastic carpet on the hall floor which had stretched during the years but the layout was good for 1/12 with lots of technical corners and not so high speed as TC tracks usually are.

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February 22, 2010

Jefferies does double at BRCA 12th Nats Rd5

Round five of this season’s BRCA 1:12 championship was held over the weekend at the popular permanent indoor facility at Maritime Raceway. As per previous rounds day one sees a Pro Stock national for all drivers, with an option to run 10.5 or modified motors on Sunday. Day one went well for team Associated with a win for Olly Jefferies and his LRP / Reedy powered R5, Olly qualified second behind his experienced team mate Keith Robertson. An early error from both Associated drivers saw Elliott Harper take the lead with his CRC car, Olly kept the pressure on Elliott who then run into mechanical problems and dropped back allowing Olly to take the win ahead of the V-Design of Andy Griffith with Keith Robertson completing the Podium. The result opens up the Pro Stock national title, with one round to go a number of drivers can now take the title.

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