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November 12, 2012

Groskamp tops final practice at Worlds

Practice for the fifth running of the IFMAR 1:10 Nitro Touring World Championship has been completed with Capricorn’s Jilles Groskamp topping the time sheets after the Dutch ace set down a blistering pace in the third & final controlled practice in Bangkok, Thailand, bringing Day 3 of the event to a close. The newly crowned electric touring car World Champion knocked over half a second off his CP2 topping time leaving his opposition scratching their heads with Dario Balestri, who set the second fastest time, saying Groskamp was ‘too fast’ referring to the 4/10th extra pace he had over three consecutive laps.

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November 12, 2012

Renaud Savoya wins Pierrefeu GP

The annual Pierrefeu GP recently took place in mixed conditions with the questionable weather forecast kept away many of the international drivers. After a dry Friday rain was predicted from Saturday noon on meaning a rocket round qualifier was held in the morning and it was dominated by Xray’s Renaud Savoya. Come Sunday the track was soaked with water but thanks to the effort of the club members the surfaces was well prepared for the final that saw Renaud taking the lead closely followed by Jerome Aigion. Both drivers changed positions a couple of times and after 30 minutes Renaud crossed the finish line in first position followed by Jérôme Sartel and Rayan Medjoubi.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]  & Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

November 12, 2012

Worlds CP2 Update – Groskamp fastest

In the second round of controlled practice for the Nitro Touring Car World Championships in Bangkok, Jilles Groskamp posted a blistering time to become the first & only driver to complete three consecutive laps of the RC Addict track in under 45 seconds. With a qualifying set-up on his Capricorn, the Dutch ace ran a time of 44.984 to bump CP1 pace setter Atsushi Hara back to second, the Hot Bodies driver unable to improve on his morning time. Describing his LAB C-02 as ‘really good’, Groskamp felt he could have gone even quicker had the tuning of his Maxima engine not been off.

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November 12, 2012

Hara fastest in first controlled practice

In the first round of controlled timed practice at the 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championships in Thailand it was HB’s Atsushi Hara who was fastest from team-mate Teemu Leino with KM Racing’s Dario Balestri completing the Top 3. Fastest in free practice Capricorn’s Jilles Groskamp set the 11th fastest time but once again the Dutch ace was using the track time to work on a set-up for the finals.

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November 11, 2012

Groskamp tops free practice in Bangkok

At the end of the second day of the 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand, it was Capricorn’s Jilles Groskamp who in the final round of Free Practice jumped to the top of the time sheets ahead of arch rival Atsushi Hara who was unable to better his best three consecutive laps set earlier in the day in FP2. With FP3 interrupted by heavy rain causing a long delay to proceedings, the penultimate qualifier resumed on a dry track however the traction built up over the previous runs was washed away with Team Xray’s Surikarn C the only leading driver to be able to improve on his previous best.

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November 11, 2012

Hara leads the way in Thailand

Making their 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championship debut, it is Team HB and Atsushi Hara who lead the way on the second day of free practice at the very well presented RC Addict track in Bangkok, Thailand. The Japanese star, who now lives in Thailand and has his own pitroom overlooking the track, set the fastest three consecutive laps in the second of the day’s four scheduled 15-minute practice runs to head KM Racing’s Dario Balestri who had set the pace in the morning’s opening practice. The fifth running of the bi-annual IFMAR event, this is the first occasion that the reigning champion will not travel to defend their title, a broken hand which is in cast forcing Ralph Burch to withdraw his entry.

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November 7, 2012

2012 Kyosho Fall Classic report

The 2012 Kyosho Fall Classic was held at Revelation Raceway in Ontairo, CA on November 3rd. This 1-day annual event put on by Kyosho America and Revelation Raceway has always brought in top drivers from all over SoCal. Current IFMAR 1/8 Buggy World Champion Cody King, Current 1/8 Buggy Worlds Warm-Up TQ David Ronnefalk, Jesse Robbers, Drew Moller, Josh Wheeler, and Barry Baker were all in attendance. This years event brought in over 130 entries that packed the pits.

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November 6, 2012

Tanner Stees dominates Battle on the Beach

The annual Battle on the Beach race at Lake Havasu was held recently and JQ driver Tanner Stees filed this report. “I traveled to Lake Havasu City, AZ for the Battle on the Beach race for the second year in a row. I really like this track. The people that promote it and attend the race are great. The weather was sunny and about 85 all weekend. The track was new and a bit loose but it packed in and had good traction as the weekend went on. I was racing 4 classes: 1/8 scale nitro buggy, truggy, 1/10 2wd mod buggy and Pro2 Short Course. Open practice was Friday and we arrived in time to get about 4 hours of practice to sort things out.

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