We received a report from Paul Wynn on this year’s ROAR Region 4 Championship that was hosted by the Coral Springs R/C Car Club. This is one of the premier tracks/clubs in the state of Florida and they put on a fantastic show. There were 94 entries between the 5 classes.
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FAMAR and AAPARTT, the Argentinian National RC Federation, has selected AARBA (Asociación de Automodelismo Radiocontrolado de Buenos Aires) to run the first Americas Championships. This event will take place at the ‘Hernan Matticoli’ circuit on November 6th to 9th 2008 and is open to 1/8 and 1/10 on road categories. The organisers are looking forward to have the attendance of racers in both categories and from different countries and claim that this event will be a similar international experience like last years 1/8th scale World Championships, which also took place in Argentina.
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Held last weekend, the Tamiya Asia Cup offered a unique opportunity for Singaporean radio control racing fans to “strut their stuff” at this event which offered different variations of racing activities. This was also an opportunity for diehard race enthusiasts from all over Asia to congregate and compete against each other for a place in the finals. “Apart from encouraging Tamiya R/C owners to meet-up and exchange ideas and racing strategies, the overall winners of the respective Asia Cup categories will get to compete at the Tamiya Asia Cup Finals which will be held in Kulala Lumpur later this year, to qualify for the Tamiya World Cup in Shizuoka, Japan,” explained Andrew Law, Director of Stargek Pte Ltd, Tamiya’s Official Exclusive Distributor for Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
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Ultimate Racing were in touch to tell us about their teaming up with ‘Pilotos sin Fronteras’ to organise the first Ultimate World Cup 08, which is an international race for 1/8th Rally Game. The race will be held near Barcelona at the Rubi’s radio control club truck from 29th May to 1st June and many international drivers from different nationalities like Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain will attend this fantastic event. Top international drivers from this category like Fabio Boero, Michelle Baruzzi, Marc Ibars, Robert Batlle among others will compete along with other drivers with less experience in an international competition.
For more information about this event, visit the Ultimate site here.
The latest round of the 1/10th scale Buenos Aires Metropolitan Championship took place at Hernan Matticoli track last Sunday, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sebastián Recio took the pole position followed by his Kyosho team mates Juan Pablo Golobic in 2nd place and Hernán Lebenbaun in 3rd place. The race followed the same pattern as qualifying and in the end the win went to Recio, while Golobic took 2nd with 3rd place going to Hernán Lebenbaun.
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The European ‘B’ Championships for 1/10th scale 200mm took place last week at the beautiful Ampuis track in France. After some rain in the practice days, qualifying got underway and it was French racer Michael Derderian, driving a Serpent, that claimed pole position from Italian Team Magic racer Mario Spiniello in 2nd followed by the Xray pairing of Thomas Eytard and Guido Barbera. The start of the main final saw Mario Spinello jump straight into the lead, but dropped back after some issues. Thomas Eyard was fastest in the final and set a new track record, but after serious interference problems his chances for the title disappeared, while around the same time that Xray driver Dirk Wischnewski was hit by another car, losing him 1 lap on the leader. Having opted to not change tires in the final, Dirk managed to work his way to the front of the field, where he could extend his lead to 1 lap, taking the victory in front of Bougnoteau in 2nd place, and Thomas Eytard in 3rd spot.
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Our mates at Neo Buggy were at last weekends Pro Line event in the UK, which saw the finals run on the bank holiday Monday. Qualifying saw Ryan Maifield take the buggy TQ ahead of Associated team mate Neil Cragg and Hobao racer Graham Alsop 3rd fastest. The Buggy final saw Maifield open up a lead only for Linus Thern and Elliot Boots to catch, before both drivers ran out of fuel, which left Alsop chasing Maifield. Maifield then flamed out just as he as fuelling and so Alsop could open a small gap which he held until the 41st minute. Maifield then took over at the front, while a hard charging Jared Tebo closed in on the leader but it was too late and Maifield crossed the finish line first with Tebo in 2nd and Alsop 3rd. The truggy final, which was made up of all 12 drivers that entered the class, saw Alsop take the lead, but his engine was very rich and he eventually flamed out leaving Joern Neumann and Linus Thern to fight it out. A better fuel strategy by Linus meant he could take the lead and the win with Neumann finishing 2nd and Alsop 3rd.
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Last weekend the Kirchberg track in Austria played host to the Warm-up race for the European 1/8th scale B championships. Serpent driver Daniel Tomaschko took the pole position ahead of Marco Muller with Patrick Wendy lining up in 3rd. The race saw Tomaschko take the win, while setting a new lap record, with Christian Wimberger finishing 2nd and Nejc Mihelic taking the final step of the podium in 3rd.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
