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June 8, 2013

Luca Redaelli takes European 1/10th ‘B’ title

Luca Redaelli takes European 1/10th 'B' title

The EFRA European 1/10th 200mm ‘B’ championships were hosted by the beautiful Gubbio track in Italy this week. Qualifying on this fast track would go the way of Italian Xray/IDM driver Luca Redaelli ahead of the German pairing of Dominik Greiner in 2nd and Simon Balk in 3rd driving Serpent and Xray respectively, with Davide Gallesi in 4th driving for Capricorn. With no driver guaranteed a place in the main final it was the semi finals which would decide the starting order. Italian Alessio Forte, the 10th placed qualifier, would end up taking the pole position for the final with top qualifier Redaelli lining up in 2nd. In the 45 minute final Forte would hit problems and retire at 24 minutes leaving Redaelli to take the win, closely follow home by Greiner in 2nd, 3 seconds separating the pair, with Simon Balk completing the podium one and a half laps back in 3rd.

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June 7, 2013

Daniel Sarmiento wins at Philippine Off-Road nats

The final round of the Philippine Off-Road Nationals took place in Metro Manila and the race also marked the end of this year’s Summer season in the region. Track conditions were maintained throughout the day to give everyone an equal shot at earning the coveted TQ spot. Some veterans encountered early problems with their Truggies which hurt their qualifying time in order to proceed to the final. With the Christmas tree format in place, racers not in the top 10 had to bump up to secure the last two available slots in order to join the magic 12 car final.

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June 6, 2013

Josh Wheeler joins VP PowerMaster

VP PowerMaster announce the addition of Josh Wheeler to their world class team of drivers. Josh is known around the world as a serious threat at any event. He is a multi-time IFMAR Worlds finalist and always seems to be up front in the hunt for a major podium. Josh kicked off his VP PowerMaster debut with a top five finish in Truggy at the ROAR Nationals warm-up in Houston, TX and then a pair of 2nd place finishes in Pro Buggy and Truggy at the AKA Mid-America Championship race in Dallas, TX.

Source: VP [powermasterfuels.com]

June 5, 2013

Kyosho Masters 2013 – Announcement

Kyosho France announce the 15th running of the Kyosho Masters. The race will take place at Sucy en Brie in France from the 14th to the 16th of June this year. It will be your typical Masters with top racing, lots of fun and giveaways. For more information you can contact the organisers at kyoshomasters@kyoshoeurope.com

June 5, 2013

Kyle Branson wins 1/8th Euro A warm up

Kyle Branson wins European A warm up

With just seven weeks to go before the 1/8th IC European A Championships gets underway at the Halifax track in England, last weekend was the pre-event warm up race providing the participants the opportunity to gain some valuable track time ahead of the main event. With a lower than anticipated entry due to busy race calendars across Europe, we still had the presence of Italian Marco Vanni, German Oliver Mack and Emil Kostadinov. With such a low entry, the club decided to arrange free practice for all day Friday and also Saturday and Sunday morning until a break for lunch. The format after lunch was for three rounds of qualifying and 30 minute finals for all competitors. With the lap timer on all weekend, it was good to gauge comparative lap times and the magic five minute run time setup which would prove essential come qualifying.

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June 4, 2013

Willetts & Embling win BRCA E8 & Truggy Nats Rd3

Last weekend 64 drivers descended on the sunny Dirt track in the Midlands and Coventry Model Car club. Upon arriving at the track it was immediately visible that the club members had been hard at work to present the track in the best possible shape after 3/4 days of rain and a full calendar of racing on the track the previous weekend for charity. As the car park started to fill it was nice to see a nice mix of top national drivers and club racers. The E8 buggy started the meeting off. The qualifying was to be 3 rounds with the best 2 to count with the first round having a 4 min warm up bolted on. At the end of the first qualifying run Elliott Boots set the pace with him being the only person to complete 9 laps. At the end of the second qualifying run Simon Willetts had joined Elliott in the 9 lap club. This was then extended to Jack Embling joining them at the end of qualifying 3.

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June 4, 2013

John Ermen wins Dutch on-road nationals Rd3

Last weekend the 3rd round of the Dutch nationals was held on the fast Baanbrakers track in Rucphen. Although the weather forecast predicted showers the contenders finally had warm and sunny weather. In the first round of the NK class it was Gunther v. Staey setting the pace with a 24 lap run and a 7 second gap on local hero John Ermen. He also scored a blistering 12.3s as fastest laptime. Gunther decided to spare his equipment by not driving the other 2 qualification rounds. At the end the four fastest drivers were the only ones with a 24 lap qualification. The fastest was Robing d’Hondt followed by Gunther v. Steay, Sefan Cuypers and John Ermen.

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June 4, 2013

Martin Bayer doubles at Astra Nitro Cross

The Astra Nitro Cross 2013 was held last weekend at Auto Bayer arena in Slavkov u Brna and Martin Bayer gives a short rundown on how the meeting went. The event is the largest in the Czech Republic with many drivers from Europe attending the annual event. The track again was pretty challenging with banked turns, technical corners and difficult jumps. Rain on Friday meant the race started a little later than planned and practice was limited to rounds with a following qualification round. The first practice round was run on a wet track but that later on dried up. Xray’s Martin Bayer was able to TQ both openings rounds of the nitro buggy and electric buggy class. On Saturday four more rounds of qualification were run and again both classed been dominated by Martin. Five minutes before the third run a heavy rain interrupted the racing making it necessary to cancel the round.

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