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July 23, 2013

JJ Wang dominates 2013 Timezone Nitro Grandprix

Mugen Seiki Factory Driver JJ Wang wins both 1/10 Sedan Class and 1/8 GP On Road at the 2013 Timezone Nitro Grandprix in Battle Ground, Washington. Driving his Novarossi powered MTX5, JJ qualified 5th into the sedan A-Main. In the finals, JJ moved up quickly into the lead position and kept the lead to take the win. In the 1/8 GP class, driving the new MRX5 WC edition powered by Novarossi, JJ TQ’d the class with near track breaking lap times. In the 45 minute finals, choosing a tire change strategy, JJ built up enough lead for the tire change to seal the win and take a double victory at Timezone. The Timezone raceway is a European style track here in the USA and the annual race has been a popular event during summer racing.

Source: Mugen USA [mugenracing.com]

July 22, 2013

Timo Engelstätter wins North German Buggy regionals

Kyosho Germany’s Timo Engelstätter has won the fifth and final round of the North German nitro buggy regionals held at the track of the BOC Kiel. Kyosho team mates Florian Kinzel and Frank Lemke completed the podium with their Team Orion powered Infernos. Timo’s win at the final round of the series also handed him the regional buggy title and the team is now looking forward to the two upcoming rounds of the German nationals in Oberhausen and Bischofsheim.

Source: Kyosho [kyosho.de]

July 21, 2013

Joe Kerry wins British 200mm nationals Rd6

The 6th round of the British 1/10 200mm Championship was held last weekend at the excellent Mendip track in Weston-Super-Mare. The Weather was superb for the entire weekend with temperatures over 30 degrees. There was very little grip to start with but this slowly improved during Saturday’s practice. Joe Kerry set the fastest time with his Serpent, with team mate Mark Green just one tenth behind. During qualifying many drivers were struggling to make the 5 minutes due to a combination of the fast track layout and hot temperatures. At the end of qualifying TQ went to Joe Kerry with Mark second around 3 seconds behind. Both were the only drivers to complete 18 laps throughout qualifying.

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July 19, 2013

Gerhard Kandelhart wins at Austrian on-road nats Rd4

The 4th round of the Austrian on-road nationals took place at this year’s 1/10 European Championship track in Kirchberg. After some bad luck for Shepherd racer Gerhard Kandelhart at the second round of the ENS pilot series only days ago where is engine had broken in the competitive A-main he was untroubled by any failures this time. After taking the TQ in qualifying with his 200mm Shepherd car he also had no problem to bump up from the semi-final to the main final. In the final he quickly build up a lead and pulled away from the rest of the field. After 45 minutes he crossed the finish line three laps in front of Franz Engel who came second with Kurt Hubeny completing the podium.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

July 18, 2013

Glyn Beal takes BRCA Sports GT British Championship

Last weekend saw the Mendip circuit near the seaside resort of Western Super Mare as the destination for round 6 of the BRCA Sports GT Championship. The weather was set to be very hot for the weekend with temperatures approaching 30°C. Saturday started off with a very dusty and low grip track, which struggled to rubber in, so the grip remained low. Sunday morning dawned and the temperatures were still very high. By round 2 Glyn Beal (Serpent) was setting the first of a series of 18 lap qualifiers. No-one else came close with the next three places all on fast 17 laps and split by just half a second.

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July 18, 2013

Drake wins Truggy & electric 8th at JBRL Rd4

The ARC Raceway hosted round 4 of the JBRL Nitro Series with the event having over 150 entries. The track was hard packed, but as the day went on the surface became very rough which made line selection very important for the finals. TLR’s Adam Drake made a clean sweep in the 1/8th classes and took TQ in nitro buggy, nitro truck, and electric 1/8th scale. In the truck final, Drake charged away from the field in the beginning and was able to cruise the last half of the race to take the win followed by Cody King as he did in the electric buggy class were he was able to take the victory by a large margin. In the nitro buggy final, Drake and King had another great battle with King taking the win by just over two seconds.

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July 17, 2013

Engelmann & Schäfer win at Central German nats Rd3

Last weekend the 3rd round of the Central German Championship took place at the Wiesbaden track under perfect weather conditions. Counting as a qualifying race for the German Championship the race saw more than 40 drivers in attendance. In the 1/8th scale Class 1 Philip Sting was fastest in qualifying and he took TQ for the 30 minute final but Shepherd racer Olaf Engelmann was close behind in second position. The final saw an intensive battle between Engelmann and Sting, but when the latter flamed out just before the pitstop the way was free for Engelmann. He crossed the finishing line one lap in front of Peter Poldvere with Philip Sting completing the podium.

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July 17, 2013

South German nitro on-road regionals – Report

A round to the South German nitro on-road regionals was run at the prestigious track in Hof. The race was held in 1/10th 200mm Scale as well as 1/8th Class 1 and Class 2. In the 200m class it was Dominic Greiner (Serpent) who put his car on TQ after the qualifiers. He also won his 1/2 final and the main final in front of Michael Heinrich and Ralf Krause. In 1/8th Class 1 Toni Gruber (Serpent) looked like the man to beat all weekend. He was the only driver to pull 20 laps with laptimes as low as 12.1s, missing out the current track record by only a tenth of a second. Therefore it was no surprise that he won is 1/2 final some two laps in front of Torsten Müller. His 91 laps run was enough to secure him the pole position for the final that he later on won four laps in front of Torsten Müller (Xray) and Oliver Lembeck (Mugen).

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