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May 10, 2012

Gergely Cseko wins Hunagrian Nats Rd2

The 2nd round of the Hungarian Offroad Championships took place in Apaj on the first weekend of May. Unfortunately the opening round had to be canceled due to heavy rain in April so finally the season could kick-off. The weather was nice finally and the organiser RCOR club put in a great effort to make it a good event. The track is a medium-high speed track with all different kind of jumps and corners. You need a very well balanced chassis setup especially going through the ruts in the fast banked sweeper after the straight.

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May 10, 2012

Ralf Dennenmoser double at 2012 BaWü Cup

With a brilliant debut Ralf ‘Bombe’ Dennenmoser took part in the 2012 BaWü Cup in Nufringen, which saw 100 drivers in attendance. He claimed the victory in the 1/8 buggy class as well as in the 1/8 truggy class. ‘Bombe’ dominated both finals and took advantage of the low fuel consumption of the V.21B allowing him to pit at the 10 min mark. In the buggy class he won the final 4 laps in front of the rest of the field while he crossed the finishing with a two laps gap in the truggy class.

Source: Sonic Engines [sonic-engines.com]

May 9, 2012

Lee Martin wins BRCA 1/8th EP buggy Rd1

Round 1 of the BRCA British Electric 1/8th buggy & Truggy series which runs alongside the nitro truggy series kicked off last weekend with this new format at the Herts track. 97 drivers made the trip and with bad weather all week it was not looking good but with a lot of hard work by the HNMC and Westmill farm the event was given the all clear. Mugen driver Lee Martin TQ’d the Electric buggy class, with Mark Robson TQ’ing electric truggy while TLR factory driver Darren Bloomfield took the top spot in the nitro Truggy class. In the finals it was Lee Martin that took the buggy win ahead of Bloomfield in 2nd and Simon Willets in 3rd while in EP truggy Mark Robson was victorious over Chris Hampson and Dale Knight. In the nitro truggy class Chris Doughty took the win for Durango ahead of Callum Niblet in 2nd and Michael Lewis in 3rd.

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May 9, 2012

Elliot Boots double at Herts Summer series Rd3

With a lot of race meetings cancelled last Sunday due to bad weather there was a massive turn out for Rd3 of the HNMC Summer series on the bank holiday Monday event attracting 122 drivers. Again the weather would play a part with showers midday and clearing up later. Kyosho team driver Elliot Boots took TQ in the buggy class with Lee Martin and Darren Bloomfield close behind while in the truggy class Callum Niblett took TQ in the truggy running the new Team C truggy. In the buggy A final Elliot Boots took the win ahead of Darren Bloomfield with Tony Truman coming in 3rd. In the truggy final Elliot Boots also took the win ahead of top qualifier Niblett with Robert York in 3rd.

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May 9, 2012

Brazilian 200mm nationals Rd1 report

The first round of the Brazilian on-road nitro nationals was dominated by Team Shepherd Brazil with victories in all three classes. Additionally more than 70% of the attending drivers were using a Velox V10, an impressive result of the hard work of Brazilian driver and distributor Eduardo Dulac who provided a tent and seats for all attending Shepherd drivers. In the “Masters” category it was current Touring B champion Luciano Aquino who crossed the finishing line in first position. He was joined on the podium by his new team-mate Edson Lima in third position who changed to Shepherd in late 2011. In the “Touring B” category Evandro Rocchie took the victory for Team Shepherd finishing 5 laps over the second placed driver while in the “Touring A” category it was Shepherd driver Gabriel Brito finishing 5 laps in front of second placed driver with Shepherd team mate Vitor Ohta competing the podium.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 9, 2012

Alex Thurston takes first British Nats win at Rd2

The second round of the British 200mm Championship was held at the superb Stonehaven circuit in Aberdeen, Scotland. The weather was very cold over the weekend and we even had a little snow during Saturdays practice. Mark Green was fastest with his Serpent 747 at the end of practice and actually set a new lap record of 15.1 seconds. New Capricorn signing Adam Catchpole was just behind Mark, running his LAB-C02 for the very first time. After Adam and Mark it was very close between the other top drivers of Simon Wood, Alex Thurston, Joe Kerry, Andrew Hastings, Matthew Cook, and Irish Champion Chris Steele who had made the trip.

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May 9, 2012

Jorg van Leuken takes Rd2 in Holland

The 2nd race of the Dutch 2012 season took place on the circuit of Mach One in Helmond last week end. Practice day was rained out, and it even rained lightly on Sunday, race day, but the track was astro turf, so the race was run. Drivers were searching for the right setup and / or tires but it soon became clear that whatever you did, the track was slippery. The qualifications were a real spectacle of pirouettes and slides and JQ-driver Jorg Van Leuken was fastest. In the afternoon the rain stopped and the final was run on a dry track. In the main final, Jorg van Leuken took off from pole and drove fast. He was never really threatened and drove unchallenged to his first win of the season. After his poor start Jeffrey Halsema took the second spot. The third place was a very consistent Paul Geelen.

Source: JQ [jq-products.com]

May 9, 2012

Davide Tortorici joins VP Pro

VP Pro have announced the signing of 2-times European Champion Davide Tortorici to their factory squad for the 2012 season. The Mugen/Bliss racer was top qualifier at last weekend’s Italian National season opener and won the rain shortened Euros warmup in Fehring Austria in late April.

Source: VP Pro [vp-racing.com]