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April 29, 2012

Mark Green wins BRCA 1/8th round 2

The second round of the 2012 BRCA national championship was hosted by the Halifax circuit in West Yorkshire, the host club for the 2013 European A Championship. The entry for this circuit is normally high and with a good following so far this year, we had around 45 drivers present. With the tire additive issue set to be resolved with an EGM to be held on Saturday with all drivers present having to register for a vote. The item was with regards to changing the existing rule of ‘prohibited’ to ‘permitted’ to therefore allow the use of additive and most importantly prevent the lengthy policing procedure in which the committee had adopted. The outcome however was unanimous in favour to retain the rule prohibiting tire additive with the relevant penalty to be applied if anybody is found guilty of using such additive for the remainder of this season and until this is again reviewed at the BRCA AGM in October.

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April 29, 2012

Dutch 1/10th 200mm Nationals Rd1 report

The 1st round of the Dutch 1/10th 200mm Nationals was held at the MRC Real’80 track. Conditions proved to be tricky with a mostly wet Saturday and Sunday. With special ‘wet’ cars allowed everyone tried to get as much track time as possible and the second and third round of the qualifiers even took place at reasonable conditions. Qualifying for the NK class saw Daan Jacobs take the pole position ahead of Pedro Rombouts, Daan Stuiver and Ruben d’Arco. The wet but slowly drying final saw Daan Jacobs pulling away from the field eventually winning two laps in front of Janwillem Gons who was chased by Arco de Jong and Ruben d’Arco in fourth position. In the Nomac class it was Rik Meijeren who won by 8 laps from Sidney Blokker in 2nd and Marcel Haenen in 3rd place. In the Combi Kyosho class Hans Westerveld was able to leave TQ John Weytboer behind him but only separated by 18 seconds. Two laps down Gerlof Hovingh came in in third position followed by Jan Timmer. Overall everyone had a good and fun weekend which seems to be the important part for these nationals now.

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April 27, 2012

Toedtmann takes wet West German Rd1 win

It was April weather with both rain and sunshine together that greeted the West German 1/8 nitro on-road racers who kicked-off their season at Hamm last weekend. At the end of the race day it was Thilo-Alexander Toedtmann who braved the elements, the Mugen/RB racer taking his very first victory in class 1 following his triumph winning the 2011 German class 2 Championship.

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April 26, 2012

Víctor Peláez wins Spanish 200mm Champs Rd2

The second round of the Spanish 200mm National Championship was held in Gijón, with the weather forecast expecting rain for all the three days. This meant that all drivers had to adapt both their cars and their driving skills to all kind of situations, foreseeing that all qualifiers and all finals will be completely different one to another. Friday was useless, with the track completely wet there was no point on risking the car in free practice. Without being able to test one single minute, qualifiers started and as it was predicted they weren’t going to be easy at all. It was all about which tires worked and at what time. With the track being in a somewhat in-between state, nor flooded, nor dry, the window to choose between different tires was wide open and to make it even more interesting short moments of sun and showers took turn. TQ then went to Edu Escandón who opted for the right set of tires for the last qualifier, which strangely enough were dry tires, despite the track was still humid. Jonnhy Pastor took the runner-up sport with Luis Cayetano and Raul Casado following in third and fourth place.

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April 26, 2012

KM World Cup Hong Kong selection race Rd5

The fifth round of the KM World Cup Hong Kong selection race took place last weekend at the HK-based ACO track. KM H-K1 driver Nicolas Lee from Singapore dominated the qualifiers and took TQ in front of Dirty Tiger and Hung Cheung Hang, both also piloting H-K1 chassis. Come the finals Nicolas had a slow start with Dirty Tiger and Hung Cheung Hang putting pressure on him and eventually overtaking him as the result of two errors made by the pole-sitter. Around the 15 minutes mark Hang made a mistake leading in a flame out meaning Nicolas was able to grab second place. Only a minute later disaster stroke for Dirty Tiger who broke his car making way for Nicolas, with Hung Cheung Hang finishing two laps down in second and Vincent Tang (KM H-K1) in third place.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

April 25, 2012

Cavalieri & Tebo win 2012 Silver State

The 2012 Silver State Nitro Challenge was once again held just 30 minutes outside of Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada in Boulder City. This years event was held April 19th-22nd with scortching temperatures in the upper 90’s even reaching to the 100’s throughout the week. Team Orion would be very well represented at this years Silver State with Jared Tebo just coming off his big Neo12 win, current ROAR Buggy National Champion Ryan Cavalieri, and Current Buggy World Champion Cody King.

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April 25, 2012

Minnesota Off-Road Series Rd1 report

JConcepts dominated this weekend at the first round of the Minnesota Off-Road Series at the Motodome in Staples, MN. With temps in the 30′s all day during qualifying and 40′s during the mains, the JConcepts tires proved they were the best choice given they set the TQ in 4 Classes and 8 podium positions from 3 drivers. Kendall Welch set TQ and finished 1st in 1/8th Scale Pro-Nitro Buggy running a TLR 8B 2.0 with Green Hybrids, & 2nd in Pro-Nitro Truggy running his 8T 2.0 on Green Hybrids on Elevated Wheels. Josh Ford won and TQ’d the 1/8th Scale Electric class running a Mugen / Techno MBX6 on Green Hybrids and a Punisher Body, 2nd in Pro Nitro Buggy with a Punisher Body and Green Hybrids on his MBX6 Buggy, 3rd in Pro Truggy running Green Hybrids on his MBX6T and set TQ with a 4th place finish on his Mugen Eco-ST with a Illuzion Hi-Flow Body and Green Subcultures.

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April 21, 2012

2012 IFMAR World Championships update

The organizers of the 2012 IFMAR 1/8th scale offroad World championship have gotten in touch with us, finally breaking their silence on the event to confirm the location and the running of a warmup race for the event. The event itself will be run on an all new track is located on Highway Richieri in Club Aeromodelista Jorge Newbery, 7 minutes from Ezeiza Interncional Aiport and 15 minutes from downtown Buenos Aires (Capital Federal). In front lies an international resort that is accessed from the track by footbridge. The track will get its first race at the AAPARTT Cup which will be held from the 26th to the 30th of September, 2 months before the December date for the actual Worlds. The event has also got its own official website which hasn’t got any information yet but can be found here.

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