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October 7, 2013

Vejrak fastest in FP4

While Jilles Groskamp’s time set in the morning’s second practice remains the fastest time, it was KM Racing’s Meen Vejrak who topped Day 2’s fourth round of free practice at the 1:8 World Championships in Japan. The 200mm World Champion set the fastest 3-consecutive laps in a time of 49.687 with FP3 pace setter Tadahiko Sahashi (49.759) second fastest. Posting identical times (49.897) Team Shepherd’s Oliver Mack and Mugen’s Takaahi Shimo posted the third fastest time followed by KM Racing’s Adrien Bertin. Transponder problems meant Groskamp failed to register a time in both FP3 & 4 but the Dutch ace was still happy with his Shepherd and in particular in FP4 during which the sun finally broke cover over the Keitune Racing Speedway.

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October 7, 2013

Groskamp sets early pace in Japan

Jilles Groskamp set the early pace on Day 2 of practice for the 1:8 Onroad World Championships in Chiba, Japan. After two of six rounds which make up today’s schedule at the Keitune Racing Speedway, the Team Shepherd driver set the fastest three consecutive laps with a time of 49.207 followed closely by Serpent’s Yuya Sahashi (49.249) and the Mugen of Pre Worlds race winner Takaahi Shimo (49.286). An event that marks the debut for HB in what many view as the Formula 1 category of R/C, Hideo Kitazawa took his R8 to the fourth fastest while Teemu Leino was the second fastest non-Japanese driver, the Finn posting the 6th fastest time ahead of 200mm World Champion Meen Vejrak.

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October 6, 2013

Joe Kerry takes Rd9 of British 200mm Nats

The last round of the 2013 British 200mm National series took place at the fantastic Cotswold circuit at Kemble airfield. The conditions were much better than expected with dry weather all weekend and even some sunshine on the Sunday as well. This gave all drivers plenty of time to find the right set-up on Saturday. At the end of practice it was Joe Kerry setting the pace with his O.S. powered Serpent 747 consistently hitting 16.1 laptimes.

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October 6, 2013

New World Champion to be crowned in Japan

1:8 Onroad is set to crown a new World Champion this week with the news that reigning World Champion Robert Pietsch has not made the trip to Japan for the 18th running of IFMAR’s longest running World Championships. The German has been forced to miss the chance to defend his title due to being struck down with pneumonia. Having attended the Warm-up Race at the Keitune Racing Speedway back in May, the Mugen driver struggled while fellow Mugen driver & World title favourite Takaaki Shimo using O.S. dominated with many rumours circulating since then that Novarossi were struggling to get their engines to suit the specialised track. Having received an e-mail along with a medical cert from Pietsch, his fuel sponsor Jarb Ratanarat of Maxima said its a real shame the strong advocate of onroad nitro racing can’t attend as he feels despite his showing at the Warm-up race he believes he would have had a real chance at a second title.

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October 3, 2013

Bradley Baird wins Irish national championship

The fifth and final round of the Irish 1/8th off-road nationals took place at the NIMCC track in Ballymena. Mark Penny (Kyosho/Bullett/VP Pro) took TQ in the nitro class ahead of Alan Scroggie (Agama/Bullett/Beta) and Bradley Baird (JQ/nVision/VP Pro). In the 45 minute nitro main Bradley Baird got a clean start and put himself in from within the first 10 minutes. As he neared the last round of fuel stops Bradley had extended the lead to around 20 seconds but fuel gun problems made an unscheduled fuel stop necessary which allowed Mark Penny to close up. Bradley needed to have a podium finish in order to secure the overall championship so he pushed hard to hold the lead and eventually he took the win in front of Mark Penny and Barkley Abernathy (Agama/Bullett/Beta) securing him the 2013 national title.

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October 2, 2013

ROAR announce 2014 calendar dates & tracks

ROAR have announced the dates and tracks for their National Championships for 2014. The Hobbytown Hobbyplex Raceway will play host for the Carpet On-Road Nationals from the 26th of February to the 2nd of March. The 1/8th Electric Off-Road Nationals will be run from the 30th of April to the 4th of May by the Gulf Coast Raceway in Porter, TX, while the Fuel Off-Road Nationals will be run at Thornhill Racing Circuit from June 18th through to the 22nd. Not surprisingly the Paved Electric On-Road Nats will take place at the Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimee, FL, host of the 2014 Electric On-Road Worlds, from the 30th of July to 3rd of August. Space Coast Parkway in Cocoa, FL is set to host the 1/10th Electric Off-Road Nationals from August 20th to 24th and last but not least come the Fuel On-Road Nationals on the weekend of October 29th to November 2nd at the Fort Myers R/C Car Club in Fort Myers, FL.

October 2, 2013

Edu Escandon wins Spanish 200mm championships

The final race of the 2013 Spanish 200mm nationals took place the Getafe track in Madrid with a total of 70 drivers attending. The schedule saw free practice on Friday with the qualifiers starting on Saturday. Intermittent rain made things interesting on Saturday with round number three being the only one run in dry conditions. Sergi Franch came out taking TQ in front of Victor Palaez and Inaki Pahissa. Johny Pastor and Juan Hidalgo completed the top 5 with hot candidate for the overall title, Edu Escandon sitting in 6th place after the qualifiers. In the final, Edu Escandon was on a mission swiftly making is way up and ending the race in first position taking not only the day’s win but also the overall championship. Juan Hidalgo came in second both in the race and the championship with Nacho Lopez ending the day in third position. Edu’s Xray team mate Fabio Barbosa completed the season in third place overall.

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October 2, 2013

Boy Chan wins Malaysian East Coast champs

The Malaysian East Coast championships took place in Terengganu. Xray driver Boy Chan took TQ but immediately lost his good position at the start of the 45 minute final dropping to 3rd position after a crash in the first lap. He soon recovered but 15 minutes into the final he suffered a flame out letting him drop back to 3rd place again. By the 30 minute mark Boy’s team mate Ku Chi had to retire his Xray sitting in 2nd position with a broken servo leaving Daniel Law and Boy Chan fighting for the win. 5 minutes before the end Boy was able to pass Daniel in order to take the lead and the race win.

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