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May 4, 2013

Bernhard & Salven win Rd2 in West Germany

Last weekend MCK Dormagen was host for the 2nd round of the West-German championships and Daniel Thiele gave this report. ‘As already seen 2 weeks ago at Rd1 in Bad Breisig, 1/10 and 1/8 were driven on the same weekend. With 30 drivers in 1/10 200mm and 40 in 1/8 class 1+2, it was a really interesting weekend. On Saturday we started with a basic setup with the team working really close to work out the best setup as possible. Due to the high amount of starters and the difference in performance between 1/8 and 1/10, the race director decided to divide training into time block of 20 min. each.

Continue reading the report here

May 3, 2013

Novarossi supports Euro Nitro Series

World famous Italian engine manufacturer Novarossi are to support the inaugural Euro Nitro Series, the multiple reigning World Champions joining Xray and Shepherd Micro Racing as a Primary sponsor of the exciting new nitro onroad series. The sport’s most successful maker of RC racing engines, Novarossi will have a very strong representation at both races that will make up the ENS ‘Pilot Series’ the most notable of whom will be reigning 1:8 World Champion Robert Pietsch.

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May 2, 2013

Video – Tales of the Dirt

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Shot during this year’s Dirt Nitro Challenge, Tales of the Dirt is a look into the life of Joey Christensen brought to you by Pro-Line Racing. Produced by Marcus Gelhard of Zebraworkz the short film is an interesting insight into the RC industry’s foremost track builder and his signature event.

May 2, 2013

John Sotiropoulos wins Greek 1/10th nats Rd2

Last weekend the 2nd round of the Greek 1/10th Nationals was held at beautiful Montelodromio track in Patras. There were a total of 20 drivers signed and the weather was sunny and hot. John Sotiropoulos, who only showed up on Sunday morning with no practice, showed strong and took the pole position in the 2nd qualifier, which kept till the end. In the 45 minute race John had perfect start and clean path in front so he had an easy job to keep his place till the end, finishing 1 lap clear of Nick Karabelas in 2nd with Kuriazis Michalis in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

May 2, 2013

Nähr & Günther win at South German Regionals Rd1

Nähr & Günther win at Rd1 of South German Regionals

Last weekend the MBC Bamberg hosted the first round of the South German Championship in the north of Bavaria with Team Shepherd winning two of the three racing classes. In the 1/10th scale touring car class Patrick Nähr had a hard time during qualifying but when the finals began he and his Velox/Sonic package were back in shape bumping up from the semi to the final witout a problem. When his biggest rivals Thomas Günsel and Dominic Greiner had to retire at the beginning of the final Patrick took over the control of the race cruising to victory 9 laps in front of Martin Schöffel and Mirco Thalheimer. In the 1/8th scale class 2, young talent Maximilian Günther had a brilliant debut with his new Velox V8. After qualifying he was ranked on 3rd position in the combined ranking of class 1 and class 2 nearly one lap in front of the next best placed driver of class 2. In the combined final Max demonstrated his driving skills and crossed the finishing line in third position behind the class 1 pairing of Nico Bähr (Serpent/Sonic) and Dominik Mayer (Xray/Orcan). With this result Max scored the maximum points for the ranking of the South German Championship at his first race with Shepherd.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 2, 2013

Matt Schreffler joins Serpent America

Serpent America has announced they have signed top US offroad driver Matt Schreffler to their team. Matt will be running the Cobra GP Buggy and Truggy, as well as the Spyder 1/10 2wd Buggy that will be introduced in July. The SoCal native will compete in this year’s ROAR Nationals in Gas and electric as well as the IFMAR Worlds which take place in California in September. Matt had this to say:

I appreciate the opportunity that Serpent has given me and hope to have much success with Team Serpent. I would like to thank Joaquin Desoto and Paul Ciccarello of Serpent America for providing me with this opportunity and hope to prove successful in my new venture.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

May 2, 2013

Agustin Cutini wins Rd1 of Argentine Nationals

Last weekend the first round of the Argentine 1/8 off-road National Championships took place at the Speed Paradise track, host of last December’s World Championship. On Saturday, the TQ went to Agustin Cutini (Mugen/Novarossi), the 2012 National Champion was also able to take the win in the main final on Sunday. Second place went to Adrian Castro (Xray/Novarossi) with the third position going to Sebastian Recio (Mugen/Novarossi).

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.com]

May 1, 2013

Adam Drake wins Spring Challenge at Revelation

This past weekend Revelation Raceway hosted the Spring Challenge. The one day event had 100 entries including top driver’s Mike Truhe, Cody King and Adam Drake. In round one of Pro Buggy Mike Truhe set the TQ with his Team Losi Racing 8ight 3.0 followed by teammate Adam Drake and Cody King. Drake set the quickest time in the second round of qualifying followed by Truhe, but Drake wasn’t able to better Truhe’s time from round one. Before the start of the 30 minute final Cody King had a mechanical problem and was forced to start the race late. Drake and Truhe would battle for the win with Drake coming out on top followed by Mike Truhe, Cody Smith and Ronda Drake.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]