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June 23, 2013

HNMC Grand Prix – Announcement

HNMC Grand Prix - Announcement

The organisers of the HNMC Grand Prix, which takes place from the 24th to the 26th of August, has been in touch to tell us about their race meeting. Run at the well known Herts Nitro Model Club, host of the first round of this year’s BRCA Nationals, the race is open to 1/8th Buggy (120), E-Buggy (30) and Truggy (16), with the race proper getting underway on Saturday with practice and 1 round of qualifying, with 5 more rounds of qualifying on Sunday before a full schedule of finals on the bank holiday monday. Entry is now open and more information can be found here.

June 23, 2013

Pedro Rombouts wins Rd3 of Dutch Nationals

Last weekend saw the 3rd round of the Dutch 1/10th Nationals held at the Rucphen track. With a disappointingly low turnout it was round 2 winner Julius Kolff (Serpent) who would take the TQ spot with his first run of the day and while other drivers improved their times throughout the day, they couldn’t beat his original time. The first 10 minutes of the main saw a good battle between Julius and Pedro Rombouts (Xray), the pairing running closely with Pedro taking the lead after a quicker first fuel stop before the battle continued. Unfortunately Julius ran into engine troubles and lost 2 laps before getting back on track still in 2nd. The battle for 3rd was between Roy Bakker (Capricorn) and Ruud Schuitmaker (Edam) with the positions changing due to pit stops but eventually Schuitmaker would have a an issue 2 minutes from the end which would end his race. The final order was Rombouts taking the win ahead of Kolff in 2nd and Bakker 3rd.

Source: Nomac [nomac.nl]

June 22, 2013

Philip Sting wins Rd1 of Mid-German Regionals

Last weekend the first round of the Mid-German Regionals took place at the MSC Kirchhain and under great weather it was Oliver Mack (Shepherd) that took the top spot in qualifying. In the final Mack’s car hit problems which allowed Serpent driver Philip Sting to take the lead and build out a large gap. He crossed the finishing line after 30 minutes in first with a lead of 3 laps over Olaf Engelman (Shepherd) in second position, with Peter Poldvere third (Xray).

Thanks to Dieter Sting for the update.

June 21, 2013

Groskamp & Tironi confirmed for ENS Austria

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Reigning Electric Touring Car World Champion Jilles Groskamp will contest next weekend’s (June 28-30) Euro Nitro Series race in Graz, Austria, the Shepherd driver one of a number of World class factory drivers set to battle it out for the 200mm Touring Car win at the Stöhr-Ring track. Another confirmed entry for the second race of the ENS ‘Pilot Series’, is Capricorn driver & World Championship podium finisher Francesco Tironi who together with reigning Italian National Champion Giorgio de Felici will be looking to complete a clean sweep of the all new series for the Italian company who at Race 1 earlier this month at the Hockenheimring in Germany took a convincing win with Eric Dankel.

Continue reading the announcement here

June 20, 2013

Lars Hoppe takes Rd2 in Northern Germany

Last weekend the 2nd round of the North German Championship took place at the MACH Hamburg track. Saturday started with free practise on a slippery track but the traction got better and better during the day. Already in practise the Shepherd/Sonic drivers Lars Hoppe and Timo Schröder had a good pace which they kept all weekend. In qualfying Lars took the TQ spot with his Sonic powered Velox V8 Pro in front of Timo using the same pacakge and Ingo Bobrowski in third. As the tyre wear was quite high a smooth driving style was required for the final. After the start Lars immediately pulled away followed by Timo and Ingo. Lap by lap he increased the lead and never looked back. After 30min he crossed the finishing line in first position followed by Timo in 2nd with Ingo completing the podium.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 20, 2013

Mikael Fransson wins 2013 1/8th Nordic Championship

Last weekend the Nordic Championship 1:8 Track took place at Hverven Raceway just outside Oslo in Norway. The track hosted the European Championship back in 2003 and is placed with a beautiful view over the Oslo fjord. We had perfect conditions for practice on Friday and the track was super fast. Saturday came with a clear blue sky and sun throughout the whole day. As the weather forecast predicted rain on Sunday we decided to run the entire event on one day, this is possible in the land of the midnight sun. A new time scheme was made with 3 qualification rounds and all finals, with the last final run at 21:30.

Continue reading the report here

June 19, 2013

Vogl & Nähr victorious in Southern Germany Rd3

The 3rd round of the South German Championship in Türkheim saw a clean sweep for Team Shepherd with victories in all three classes. In 1/8 class 2 it was young Shepherd driver Max Günther taking the win while Maxi Vogl won the 1/8 class 1 with Patrick Nähr completing the perfect result by winning the 1/10 touring class. In the south of Germany the 1/8 classes are raced together so the main final was a mix of class 1 and class 2 drivers. Starting from the pole-position after he won his semi-final Maxi immediately took control of the race and pulled away followed by Armin Baier and Bastian Gramlich. At the 20 min mark it was time for some fresh outside tyres for Maxi, while the rest of the field chose to finish the race with one set. Although Maxi retained the lead the gap was closer after the tyre change and due to Maxi’s engine getting a little bit rich the final minutes saw some close racing with Armin Baier and Bastian Gramlich trying to catch up. Maxi stayed calm and crossed the finishing line in first position about 2 sec in front of Armin Baier with Bastian Gramlich completing the podium.

Continue reading the report here

June 19, 2013

Dirk Wischnewski wins Rd1 of mid German regionals

Last weekend the first round of mid German regionals was held at the Kirchhain track. For the first time this year the weather forecast was good for the whole weekend so nice racing could be expected. About 50 racers, separated into the 1:8 and 1:10 classed were presented with a well prepared race track. In Qualifying everybody had more or less problems to run 5min on one fuel tank. Qualifying saw Dirk Wischnewski able to TQ the race in front of teammate Simon Balk. The semi finals were run with no big surprises. Simon won his Semi and Dirk was able to win his in front of Patrick Schäfer. At the start of the final Wischenwski was able to build up a good lead right after the start. Simon and Patrick had a good fight for second spot at the start of the 30min final but unfortunately Simon chunked a tire and so he had to slow down a little bit. Dirk would go on to win the race by 2 laps from Patrick and Simon.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]