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August 4, 2012

Robert Pietsch is 2012 European Champion

This week saw EFRA’s annual 1/8th onroad European Championship held in Vila Real, Portugal. Approximately 80 drivers made the trip to the huge track in Vila Real. Built about 10 years ago by the local Government near the local Football stadium this is quite a unique place. The track is long, very fast and very demanding on tires. The average driver has probably spent 22-25 pairs of tires even before the final day. The weather in Vila Real was nice and not too hot with temperatures between 22 and 25 degrees with a nice breeze from time to time.

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August 3, 2012

Bill Bridges Benefit Race report

Last weekend was the Bill Bridges Benefit Race hosted by “The Track”. The attendance and atmosphere was great. Practice was cut short on Friday due to rain. On Saturday racers enjoyed three rounds of qualifying and main events for both nitro and electric. Adam Drake and Dakota Phend of TLR were in attendance to show their support for good friend and teammate Bill Bridges. Adam TQ’ed both nitro buggy and nitro truggy. Dakotah Phend TQ’ed 2wd modified buggy and qualified second in nitro buggy. Drake won truck and led the buggy final until just before the start of the final lap where he ran out of fuel after having a fifteen second lead. Dakotah took the win and Drake finished second. Dakotah also won 2wd modified buggy. Everyone had a great weekend of racing and hanging out with Bill and his family. Thanks to all the sponsors and Larry from “The Track” for being such a great host.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

August 1, 2012

Reds Racing USA sign Brian Thomas

Reds Racing USA have announced that Californian Brian Thomas has joined their team. Brian will be running the M7T engine for 2012 in 1/8 on-road and most recently finished 3rd at the KO Propo Grand Prix. He also qualified 2nd in both Sedan and 1/8th at the Airtronics Grand Prix where he went on to finish 2nd in Sedan and was leading 1/8th until car issues got the best of him. The Mugen driver brings years of experience to the Reds Factory Team and which will be a huge asset going forward.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing-usa.com]

July 31, 2012

Joseph Quagraine wins Finnish Nationals

JQ Products is now 3 time Finnish National Champion, having won the first championship back in 2010 with the first THE Car prototype, which included winning the very first race with the JQ Car. Last Year Ari Heinonen won with THE Car, and this year, even though JQ missed the first race of the year, he was able to race the last 3, winning 2 and finishing 3rd in the last one, which was enough to secure the overall Championship. Ari Heinonen was 2nd overall with Kyosho and Teemu Leino 3rd with HB.

Source: JQ Products [jq-products.com]

July 30, 2012

Daan Jocobs takes Dutch title with Rd4 win

Round 4 of the 1/10th 200mm Dutch Nationals took place at the MBC de Sluis in Gouda recently. The weather forecast for Saturday was bad with lots rain expected, the Summer in Holland has still to begin. Between the showers on Saturday there was a little time to do some set-up work and driving. A number of drivers, who made the journey despite the forecast had the luck of a dry morning run and after some heavy rain a few drivers could do some practice in the final hour. The forecast for Sunday would give the drivers hope for drier racing on this tight and technical track. During qualification on Sunday morning, drivers were able to do their first rounds in really sunny conditions, however due to limited track action during the past weeks due to bad weather there was little grip on the track. Unfortunately the drivers only had two qualification rounds in the dry to set their best times.

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July 30, 2012

Merlin Depta takes North German title

The last round of the German regional championships took place in Munster last weekend. The race was set to be a thriller with three youngsters, Lars Hoppe, Merlin Depta and Timo Schroeder, with almost the same points in the overall ranking and all in with a chance to take the title of the north German regional champion. Having won the last two rounds, Merlin only had to prevent his two title competitors from winning to take the title. Starting from pole Merlin had Lars behind him and pushing hard from the beginning. Lars flipped his car at the end of the straight and also broke his engine which increased the gap to second. Unfortunately Merlin hit engine problems again, his Max powered Serpent 966 stopping on the main straight. With only Timo Schroeder the only title contender left in the race, he flamed out, which opened the way for ‘1/10th guru’ Ralf Krause to win in front of Friedrich Roehrs and Timo Schroeder. This result would give Merlin Depta the title ahead of Lars Hoppe in 2nd and Timo Schroeder in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

July 28, 2012

Torsten Müller wins South Germany Champs

The last round of the South German 1/8th on-road championships took place at the Bamberg track. The 21 drivers started with practice on Saturday morning and the first round of qualifiers began just after the lunch break. The challenging track with fast corners called for a special tyre strategy in the 30 minutes long final with the better end for Oliver Lambeck after Maximilian Günther suffered engine damage. Second place went to Torsten Müller with Armin Baier in third. The runner up spot gave Torsten the South German championship title and after a successful season he also is one of the hot candidates for the German Champs that will take place in Dormagen later this summer.

Source: Power-Save-Racing [power-save-racing.de]

July 26, 2012

Swiss nitro on-road champs Rd5

The recent fifth round of the Swiss nitro on-road championships took place at the permanent track in Schaffhausen. The Saturday and therefore the practice sessions where highly affected by the poor weather with loads of rain that called for the prepared rain chassis. Also the qualifiers where distracted by the rain but Biernat, Martinelli, Pesenti and Albanese got everything together in the 1/8th Expert class and took the top 4 sports. Come Sunday morning the weather showed a completely different side with loads of sun and mild temperatures. Bumping up from the semi B where Luca Martinelli, Henzi Thomas, Reto Felix and Christoph Pethoud.

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