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June 21, 2011

TRCCA Taiwan on-road nationals Rd2

Last weekend the second round of the Taiwan on-road national championship series took place in Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan. The race was held at the large and technical Er-Chong Public RC Race Track with its 90 metre long straight and great combination of curves and hair pin corners that make it very high speed and challenging. The weather was sunny and perfect for the race but the high ambient temperate together with the difficult track made it extremely tough on both man and machine. The event attracted a total of around 90 hobby enthusiasts to participate in the three different race categories 1/8 GP, 1/10 GP and 1/10 EP. In 1/8 GP it was local phenomenon Wang Sang-Chun who took the TQ honour and went on to win the 30 minutes final at his home track. His only challenge came from second placed driver Jones Chu, but only for the first 16 minutes before Jones stripped the front belt of his RX8. Afterwards Wong cruised to the victory followed by Chi Hwa-Sheng 1 lap down in 2nd and Chang Jia-Ming another 6 laps down in 3rd position.

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June 20, 2011

Darren Bloomfield wins BRCA 1/8th national Rd4

The BRCA 1/8th national traveled far up north to Wakefield, West Yorkshire with Darren Bloomfield being the point’s leader going into round 4. With MMRX being a new venue and most of the drivers never attending a race at the track it made this race much more challenging. Darren Bloomfield would show why he is the point’s leader with taking the overall TQ after the first two rounds of qualifying and he also lead the 30min A final from start to finish with his TLR 8ight EU 2.0 followed by Simon Willerrs (Mugen/Orion), Graham Alsop (Hot Bodies/RB) and Ed Kerry (TLR/Novarossi).

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June 20, 2011

Patrick Nähr wins South German 200mm championship Rd4

The 4th round of the South German 1/10 scale 200mm nitro Championship was held on the permanent track of the MCC Hof. On Saturday morning the track was open for free practise while in the afternoon the first rounds of qualifying were scheduled. Patrick Nähr participated with his Velox V10 “eleven” to score points for the South German Championship ranking. Already during qualifying he showed a good performance and took the TQ spot being the only driver to score 30 laps. The semi final was no problem for the young Shepherd driver and Nähr started from the first position into the 30 minute main final. With his constant and save driving he was unmatched until the checkered flag and took the victory four laps in front of Serpent driver Toni Gruber in 2nd place and Dominik Schöffel in 3rd place.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 18, 2011

Kostas Zacharopoulos wins 200mm Greek championship Rd1

Last weekend saw the 1st round of the Greek 1/10 scale 200mm nitro Championship held at the Arena Racing Track. The weather was sunny but come the start of the 4th and last qualifying heat heavy rain started to pour down forcing the race director to stop the race and using the qualification ranking list as the final result. Therefore TQ Kostas Zacharopoulos (Mugen) was announced the winner, some 1.6 seconds ahead John Sotiropoulos (Serpent), Vaggelis Totomis (Kyosho) and Soyias Stavros (Serpent).

View the final results here

June 16, 2011

Concialdi & Ripoll win 200mm French Nationals Rd4

The 4th round of the French 1/10 scale 200mm championship was held on the track of ASCAP at Poissy near Paris. On the small and technical track. Basile Concialdi took the TQ honours and victory in the Elite class with his Team Orion powered Capricorn LAB-C01 leaving the Xray NT1/RB T11RS trio Maxime Favrelle, Thomas Correard and Michaël Derderian behind him. The National class was won by Jean-Laurent Ripoll (Xray NT1/RB T11RS) in front of Jonathan Gergen, Rémi Rivard and David Petit after Vincent Berthon lead the final until he run out of tyres with three minutes to go eventually finishing in sixth position.

View the National class podium here

June 14, 2011

Lars Hoppe wins Northern German regionals Rd2

Team Shepherd driver Lars Hoppe won the second round of the Northern german regionals at the tight Tüttendorf track near Kiel. He also claimed TQ by setting the fastest three consecutive laps with his Novarossi powered Velox V8 ’11 in qualifying followed by Serpent driver Jens Stark, Shepherd’s Timo Schröder and Serpent’s Merlin Depta. In the following semi final Hoppe defended his first place and finished three laps ahead of Timo Schröder. The 30 minutes main final saw a clear start with Hoppe pulling away from the rest of the field finishing six laps ahead of Marcel Henriksen (Kyosho) in second, Marcell Sledz (Serpent) in third and Timo Schröder in fourth position.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 14, 2011

Riccobono & Thirion win French nationals Rd3

Last week-end the third round of the French 1/8 scale on-road national championship was held in Evry/France near Paris. The track which held the European Championships many years ago saw close racing in the Promotion and Elite classes. In the Promotion class called “national” in France, Damien Thirion claimed the TQ spot with Jeremy Cassagne and Vincent Nousse in second and third place respectively. It also was Damien who drove his RB-powered Xray RX8 to the first place in the finals with Gregory Tassencourt in second and Stephane Bertrand in third place after the finals. The Elite class was led by Christophe Aygon after qualification with Stephane Bouche and Christophe Louis in second and third place. Come the finals things turned for the better for eight placed Stephane Riccobono who won the 45 minute finals with his RB-powered RX8 in front of the two Motonica drivers Stephane Bouche and Arnaud Mathieu.

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June 14, 2011

Klausner wins RC Hillclimbing World Games

Michael Klauser sen. won the recent X-RC.org RC Hillclimbing World Games at the Hacksteiner-Hills in Faistenau/Austria. Despite the bad weather many drivers attended the meeting to conquer the 65 metres long up-hill track. The first driver who successfully made the whole track was Christian Brachmaier who took 15.5 seconds with his .30 OS-powered HPI Trophy Truggy. The second driver who managed the track was Michael Klausner sen. with his Novarossi-powered Mugen MBX-6T who needed 17.8 seconds. These two drivers have been the only ones during qualification who made the “Full Hill”. Come the finals it was again Michael Klausner sen. who outperformed his competitors by tackling the challenging track three times in front of local hero Rene Rinnerthaler with his SH .28-powered HongNor X2T and TQ Christian Brachmaier. Roland Winklhofer who was on 3rd spot after the qualifying wasn’t able to hold that position as his 2WD FG large scale Beetle struggled in the wet and soapy conditions.

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