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July 1, 2011

Aigoin tops opening day at Astra Nitro Cross

TLR’s Yannick Aigoin has topped the opening day’s action at the 2011 Astra Nitro Cross in the Czech Republic after setting the fastest time in the fourth and final round of practice to get the better of early pace setter and team-mate Martin Bayer. The final practice run saw few drivers improve with the only other front runner to make an improvement being Xray’s Jiri Mara who ended the day with the sixth best time.

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July 1, 2011

Bayer sets early pace at Astra Nitro Cross

Martin Bayer is setting the early pace at his own race, heading a Losi 1-2 in practice for the 2011 Astra Nitro Cross. The Czech ace topped all three practice rounds but set the fastest three consecutive laps in the second run to topping the similar nVision powered 8ight of Yannick Aigoin. Describing the track conditions as being very similar to that experienced at the Warm-up race for the up coming European Championships, Bayer said he has been using the track time to try a few new ideas in terms of set-up and is pleased with the response.

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July 1, 2011

Fabricio Zamperetti wins Brazilian Light championship

This year’s Brazilian 1/8 scale on-road championship was run in a single event at the Fazenda Vesuvio circuit in Indaiatuba. The qualifying was dominated by Rafael Bob Vieira with Anderson Becheli starting from second, Deiverson Gomes from third and Fabricio Zamperetti starting from fourth position on the grid. Come the final Fabricio Zamperetti secured himself the win and therefore the Brazilian Light championship some four laps ahead of TQ Rafael Bob Vieira, Deiverson Gomes with another lap down and Tiago Amicci who scored 149 laps after the 45 minute final.

Thanks to Fabricio Zamperetti for the report

July 1, 2011

Sonny Ochoa clean sweep at Midwest Nitro series Rd3

This past weekend round three of the Midwest Nitro series made its stop at Raceworld Raceway in Griffith Indiana to a new series record of 150 entries. Raceworld’s track featured a technical layout with many elevation changes. Horizon’s Sonny Ochoa was the man to beat, taking his Losi cars to TQ spot in all three classes he entered. The win though, did not come without a fight in the pro buggy main, as local fast-shoe Randy Carthart put the challenge to Sonny in the first half, only to break a shock and limp, albeit competitively, on three shocks to a 4th place. Second qualifier John Tomljenovic struggled with poor tire choice on his privateer Mugen to salvage a third place after frequent challenges from Scott Shinn’s Mugen. It was Mugen Seiki/JConcepts racer Kevin Bronner with the drive of the day: salvaging his bump-up starting spot to drive a very smart race all the way to 2nd.

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June 29, 2011

Ty Tessmann dominates Alberta RC Pro Series Rd2

This past weekend Round 2 of the Alberta RC Pro series was held at Medicine Hat, Alberta. The track layout was new for this year, with many saying that it was a driver’s layout with some very technical and challenging jumps. Ty Tessmann’s OS powered D8 & D8T equipped Proline tires adapted to the changing track, from wet due to the rain Thursday night to blue groove as the weekend progressed. Ty was able to TQ all 3 rounds of Expert buggy, Expert truggy and 4WD pro Short Course, and went on to win all 3 mains. In Expert buggy he won from Wayne Mah and Cory Drachenberg, while in Expert truggy it was Peter Toszer and Patrick Rogatschnigg who completed the podium.

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June 29, 2011

Jarno Siltanen wins Finnish Buggy National Rd1

Round 1 of the Finnish Championships was held in Jyväskylä last weekend, a nice technical track. In qualifying Jarno Siltanen was showing the pace by winning 2/3 rounds and taking TQ, followed by JQ in 2nd, Ari Heinonen in 3rd and Simo Ahoniemi on 4th place. In the semi finals there was no big surprises, Jarno took an easy win and secured the pole position followed by JQ, Teemu Leino, Matias Kuusinen, Simo Ahoniemi and Tomi Salonen. In the Main final, there was a close battle in the beginning between Jarno, JQ and Teemu. After some minutes JQ had technical problems, which left Jarno and Teemu in the front followed by Ari in 3rd and Simo in 4th. After 15 minutes of racing Jarno started to pull away from Teemu and half way trough the race Ari faced problems and retired. In the final laps of the race there was a close battle for fourth place between Petri and Matias, on the last lap it was Matias who made an awesome overtaking maneuver on the triple jump by overtaking Petri with the highest jump in the race and took the fourth place by half a second in front of Petri. Jarno took an easy win for Mugen followed by Xray driver Teemu in 2nd and Simo, also driving a Mugen in 3rd place.

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June 29, 2011

Pedro Rombouts wins Rd3 of Dutch 1/10th Nats

Round 3 of the Dutch 1/10th 200mm National Championships was held last weekend at the technical Gouda track in the middle of the country. Saturday’s practice was very wet and so nobody got any track time to find a setup for this tricky track, meaning Sunday’s early qualifying rounds saw some people struggling. Qualifying in the NK class went the way of reigning Champion Pedro Rombouts, with Arco de Jong, Sander Borghoff and Remy Moller completing the top 4. In the final the top 2 remained unchanged with Pedro taking the win by less than a lap from Arco, with Dennis van Lameren completing the podium in 3rd. In the Nomac class it was Bart van de Water that was the clear winner from Ad Vissenberg in 2nd with Marcel Haenen in 3rd spot. The Kyosho Sport class was won by Jos Remmerde from Wouter Horselenberg and Mark Been while in the Kyosho Start class Mats van Kleef won with Lars Hovingh in 2nd and Danial Khalesi 3rd.

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June 29, 2011

Yannick Aigoin takes Rd4 in France

The 4th round of the French 1/8th scale buggy Nationals was held last weekend in St Quentin in the very north of the country, close to the Belgian border. Qualifying saw round 2 and 3 winner Yannick Aigoin carry forward his great form with this nVision powered Losi 8ight by taking the top qualifying position, with his brother, Kyosho/Novarossi driver, Jerome Aigoin taking 2nd spot with Agama driver Jerome Sartel taking 3rd. Following the semi finals the top 3 order remained unchanged with Yannick starting from pole position for the 45 minute encounter while UK guest driver Elliot Boots would line up 4th. Yannick would go on to take the win in the final by the small margin of 4 seconds over Jerome Aigoin in 2nd. Edouard Hugon took the final podium spot, less than a lap back in 3rd.

Source: RC Mag [rcmag.com]