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Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]
Last weekend in the West of Germany, at the Dormagen track, the 4th round of the west German Regionals were held. The event attracted 53 drivers, slightly less than espected due to the predicted bad weather, which turn out to be wrong, as the weather was dry for the entire event. Qualifying was a battle between top electric racers Mark Fischer and Markus Mobers, with Fischer taking the pole position for the main final. In the race itself Mark was able to pull away directly after the start and could easily win by 2 laps from the Serpent pairing of Markus Mobers in 2nd and Karl Heinz Meister in 3rd.
Source: MID [mid-mugen.de]
Last weekend at the Cassino track in the south west of the country, saw the ATS trophy race held for both 1/8th scale and 1/10th 200mm. Despite being run on the same weekend as the French EFRA GP the event attracted a lot of top drivers, as is to be expected in Italy, and in the end of the 1/8th scale final it was former European B champion Andrea Cristiani, racing for Serpent that took the win ahead of Stefano Solaroli racing a Mugen in 2nd, while current European Champion Fabio Domanin came home 3rd, also with a Serpent.
Source: Fabio Domanin
Last weekend saw the 4th round of the Russian Electric off road cup run in the countries capital, Moscow. Qualifying for the event saw Victor Spiridonov take the TQ spot in the 4wd class with this JConcepts BJ WE, while in the 2wd class it saw Associated B4 racer Dmitriy Malyshko in pole position for the final. In the 4wd class final there was a close battle between the first 3 qualifiers with the pole man Spiridonov taking the overall win ahead of last years National Champion, Ivan Laptev, driving a Kyosho ZX-5 in 2nd with 3rd place going to Dmitriy Malyshkot with the BJ WE. The 2wd final saw a very close battle right to the end between the B4s of Volkov Konstantin and pole man Malyshko with Volkov eventually taking the win from Malyshko in 2nd, with 3rd spot going to young racer Ilya Plahotnik, in his first race.
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Last weekend at the Augsburg track in the south of the Germany, saw the 8th round of the 1/10th southern regionals run under sunny conditions. Qualifying saw the Xray NT1 trio of Andreas Myrberg, Thomas Günsel und Dirk Wischnewski take the top 3 spots and in the final the outcome was very similar with Günsel taking the win from team mates Sebastian Feller and Alfred Kieslinger in 2nd and 3rd respectively, Myrberg finished in 8th after a technical problem.
UPDATE: Read a full report in english here.
Source: SMI [smi-motorsport.de]
Xray have a report from their team driver Beat Walti on the 2nd round of the Swiss 1/10th 200mm National Championship which was held 2 weekends ago in Langenthal. Qualifying saw round 1 winner Beat Walti take the pole position with his Xray, ahead of Team Magic driver Mattia Pesenti in 2nd while 3rd fastest was Dirk Stammler racing Mugen. Into the final and it was close race between Walti and Pesenti, with Mattia managing to take the lead after a bad pitstop for the Xray driver, but Beat could fight back and take the lead after Pesenti had to stop to change his tires. Walti would go on to win the race from Dirk Stammler in 2nd and Traugott Schaer in 3rd spot for Xray.
Read the full report here and from our partners RC Infos here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com] / Image: RC Infos [rcinfos.com]
The weekend just gone, saw the 2007 running of the Singapore Invitational Challenge, held at the East Coast Park Raceway. The racing was divided into 2 classes with the vast majority of racers running 1/10th scale, however the 1/8th scale class had plenty of top drivers and in qualifying the fastest of those was Mugen driver Meen Vejrak, from Thailand, that took the TQ for this class, while the 1/10th TQ went to Kyosho racer Kelvin Yong. In the 1/8th scale final the pole man Meen ran into some problems that dropped him down the order, leaving Serpent racer Suruth to take the win by 7 laps from Mugen driver Nelson Lee in 2nd, while another Mugen, that of Tay Wui Kiat, was 3rd. Things were a bit closer in the 1/10th scale final, but again there was problems for the pole sitter, Kelvin Yong ending his race in 5th, while Kyosho race Philip Lee took the win by less than a lap from Meen Vejrak in 2nd and Charlee Phutiyotin in 3rd.
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The 2nd round of the Slovenian Nationals for gas off road took place at the weekend in Ljubljana under very hot weather, with the temperature reaching over 33 degrees. Qualifying saw Mugen racer Nejc Drole take the pole position and in the race he lead from start to finish taking the win by 4 laps from round 1 winner Zdenko Gačar driving a Laro, while his team mate Izidor Tratnik came home in 3rd on the same lap. In the 1/6th scale category it was a win for round 1 winner Rok Bizjak from 2nd place Anže Černe with the 3rd place going to Jakopin Tilen, all top 3 drivers racing the HPI Baja. There will now be a break for the summer with the next round to be held in Maribor on the 30th of September.
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