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July 9, 2013

BRCA 1/8th Truggy & Electric Rd4 – Report

The BRCA Truggy and Electric 1/8th national series descended on a new dirt track for the series which was the NRC track near Bromsgrove, Birmingham. The track looked in tip top condition when the pilots arrived. Due the temperature at 7 o’clock they even had the sprinklers on. The lay out comprised of some nice well thought technical sections. Normal situation started at 9 o’clock with the Electric buggies starting of the meeting for the first of their three qualifying runs. It was evident from the first runs that it would not be a walk in the park. The weather was going to be a challenge for all drivers and cars as well as the track. The track started off quite loose but the wider Truggy tyres helped to push the lose dirt to sides which made the racing line starting to blue groove.

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July 8, 2013

Tironi & Redaelli win at Capricorn Trophy

Tironi & Luca win at Capricorn Trophy

This past weekend the Capricorn Trophy for 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road cars was held at the track of Melzo in Italy. The race saw the attendance of many fast Italian drivers such as Dario Balesti, Daniele Ielasi and Francesco Tironi. In the 1/8th class it was that Francesco Tironi who took the pole position in front of Dario Balestri with both showing a great performance in the final but a servo failure caused a DNF for Dario making way for Francesco (Capricorn) who won in front of Claudio Codazzi (Capricorn) and Massimo Aliprandi (Mugen).

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July 8, 2013

Jacques Libar wins Luxembourg nationals Rd3

Round 3 of the Luxembourg 1/8th scale on-road nationals was held this weekend on the fast LMCC track in Luxembourg. On Sunday drivers faced dry and very hot weather, and it was Dirk Richard who took the pole position in front of Jacques Libar and Alexey Yaramishyan. The 30-minute main final saw the Xray driver Jacques Libar cross the finishing line in first position, followed by Dirk Richard (Serpent) in 2nd and Patrick Beltrallo (Motonica) in 3rd place.

Thanks to Raymond Libar for sending the report.

July 6, 2013

Raiola Carmine is 2013 Italian Champion

Having previously written about the final round of the 2013 Italian 1/8th scale Championship which took place at the fantastic Cassino track we neglected to mention the title fight which was won by Raiola Carmine. The Xray driver was already very close to the championship title after taking the win in Gubbio and being 4th in Bologna. On Saturday, only two rounds of qualifying could be run due to the rain. Carmine finished 6th but had a good pace for the finals. In the finals we saw a thrilling one hour race. Carmine was driving safe to keep the 3rd place which was enough for the overall victory. His competitors who need to win were driving hard to get the win. Carmine avoid any kind of fighting and his 3rd final position in the race brought him the 2013 national champion title, quite an achievement against some of the best drivers in the world.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 5, 2013

2013 FEMCA Championships – Announcement

2013 FEMCA Championships - Announcement

The Car Modelling Association of China have contacted us to invite everyone to the 2013 FEMCA Championships for 1/8th buggy and 1/10th ISTC which takes place in Beijing from the 18th to the 28th of August. The organisers are putting in a huge effort to make this an amazing race with a new purpose built facility for offroad located in the Fengtai Sports Center, which hosted many major sports events including the softball during the Olympics, as well as the already existing tarmac onroad track which previously hosted the Beijing International RC Invitational. Together with Masami Hirosaka, Trevor Reid and Charlie Siribodhi from FEMCA they will ensure that this a well run event. China is still an emerging market for RC and believe it or not this will be one of the first major Championships to be held on the mainland. Entries are open right now, and there are already some major names confirmed, and Red RC will be in attendance to cover the event. For more details you can visit the official event website here or view the stage 1 & 2 reports here.

July 5, 2013

2nd KM World Cup & Zac Cup – Announcement

KM Racing announce the second KM World Cup & ZAC Cup. The race will take place on this year’s IFMAR 1/8th nitro on-road track in Japan from the 30th of August to the 1st of September and is the last chance for competitors to hit the track before it will be closed until the World Championships. The race is run in 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm and open to any chassis brand. International stars such as Adrien Bertin, Meen V., Dario Balestri and Keisuke Fukuda already signed in. More information can be found here very soon.

July 5, 2013

Juanito Hidalgo wins 200mm at Spanish nats Rd3

The third round of the Spanish nitro on-road nationals took place at the track of San Adrian. With a perfect weather forecast everyone was set for a great race that could also decide the 2013 championship. It was Serpent driver Victor Pelaez who was very fast in Friday’s practice and he also took TQ on Saturday by less than 0.02 seconds. Third placed after qualifying was Jonhathan Pastor followed by Rodri Pahissa, all separated by only 0.6 seconds.

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July 5, 2013

Sami Munck wins Finnish nitro touring nats Rd3

Sami Munck wins Finnish nitro touring nats Rd3 and Teemu Saarinen secures Nationals series win

The PKSRCA club hosted the third round of the Finnish nitro on-road champs in Helsinki. Drivers were greeted with overcast weather on Saturday morning and everybody was hoping for a dry day, but just a few minutes before the controlled practice skies opened and there was heavy rain for some hours. This meant no practice for the drivers and the first two rounds of qualifying were a waiting game to see if the weather would improve. Thanks to the organising club whose volunteers did an excellent job on drying the track before Q3 drivers started to get some results on the board on damp conditions. In Q4 on an almost dry track Teemu Saarinen was able to secure TQ in front of local driver Jari Valkola.

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