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May 22, 2011

Thunder Alley nearing completion for ROAR Nats

Rob Jackson over at Thunder Alley RC Raceway dropped us a mail to let us know that the track layout for the ROAR Off road 8th scale fuel nationals is almost complete. The event which starts on the 31st of May and runs through to the 5th of June is one of this year’s most anticipated events and Thunder Alley are building a track to match. They presented a very challenging layout during the warmup race back in April and the new track will be equally tricky with lots of elevation changes as well as plenty of step ups and drop downs. You can follow Red RC’s coverage of this race on our events page from day 1.

May 21, 2011

Tim Wood wins BRCA 1/8th Rd2

Last weekend witnessed round 2 of the 2011 1/8th scale British national series was hosted by the Wombwell circuit in South Yorkshire. The weather forecast was for showers at some point over the weekend. Saturday was however dry with high winds which seemed to affect the cars badly around the carousal corner. The grip was very low due to a lot of surface dust and required a lot of cars on track to form a clean racing line.

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May 20, 2011

Syach wins Rd4 in Indonesia, Ginting takes title

The final round of the 2011 Indonesian 1/10 200mm national championship session 1 was held at the JITC Race Track in Jakarta, Indonesia. The weather was clear at the start but a little rain came down in heat 2 forcing the organizer to re-run the qualifying round. In qualifying it was Teddy Syach that took his OS powered Kyosho to the TQ spot with 18 laps @ 5.15 followed by Fayakhun Andriadi (Kyosho, 18 laps @ 5.16) and Bowie Ginting (Xray, 18 laps @ 5.17). Chandra Yosef (Xray) and Rama Tribudiman (Kyosho) completed the top 5.

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May 20, 2011

Elias & Campos win Rd2 in Sao Paulo

Last weekend saw round 2 of the Sao Paulo Championship in Fazenda Vesuvio, Indaiatuba, a small city 100km from Sao Paulo. The race was for 1:10 200mm and 1:8 scale. In the 1/8th scale class, new Capricorn signing Flavio Elias broke all track records with the LAB C801, setting a new fastest time of 14.630 and going on to the TQ the event. Flavio would also win the main final ahead the Mugen pairing of Leandro Campos in 2nd and Chung Min Hsu in 3rd. In the 1/10th scale class it was a Capricorn clean sweep of the podium with Leandro Campos taking the win from Erich Heshiki and Chung Min Hsu once again in 3rd.

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May 19, 2011

Basile Concialdi wins French 1/10th 200mm Rd3

Last weekend saw the third round of the French 1/10 nitro touring National take place in Concarneau. In the elite class qualifying it was Maxime Favrelle driving the Xray that took the top spot from Capricorn driver Basile Concialdi in 2nd and Michaël Derderian in 3rd. In the final, Capricorn drivers did the 1-2 with Basile Concialdi taking the win by a lap ahead of Thomas Desmaries in 2nd. Xray driver Thomas Eytard completed the podium in 3rd.

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May 19, 2011

Arnaud Mathieu wins French 1/8th Rd2

Last weekend saw the 2nd round of the French 1/8th scale on road nationals take place in Besançon, a track formed back in 1982. Almost 80 drivers turned up across the Elite and National classes, but unfortunately as rain was expected on both Saturday and Sunday the organisers decided to reduce practice in order to run 2 qualifiers. It turned out to be a good decision as the rain made an appearance in the afternoon. In the Elite class qualifying it was reigning champion Richard Volta that took pole position in front of local driver Romain Baehrel with Arnaud Mathieu 3rd. In the National class, first round winner Nicolas Rosado took an easy pole position in front of Stephane Bertrand and Faisal Affejee.

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May 18, 2011

Lars Hoppe wins North German season opener

The first round of the North German Championship was held at the track of Hamburg last weekend. After the winter break 37 racers in total found their way to one of Germany’s most famous cities, 21 of them racing in the 1/8th scale class. Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning some light rain showers hit the track which resulted in difficult conditions for the qualifying. According to the new rules of the German Federation everybody has to go through the semis to reach the main final. Shepherd/Novarossi driver Lars Hoppe managed to win his semi by 2 laps which secured him the pole position for the 30 minutes main in front of Jens Stark and Andreas Giesa who won the other semi. At the start of the final Hoppe could defend his lead followed by Giesa and Stark. He increased the gap slightly lap by lap but in the middle of the final Hoppe dropped back to second place having to re-adjust his engine. In the remaining minutes Hoppe showed a strong performance and managed to pass Giesa for the lead. With a gap of 4 seconds he crossed the finishing line in first position followed by the Serpent pairing of Andreas Giesa and Jens Stark.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 18, 2011

Adam Drake does double at JBRL Rd2

Saturday was the second stop on Southern California’s JBRL series sponsored by Team Losi Racing. Many of the top driver’s attended in preparation for next months ROAR 1/8th fuel Nationals. Some of the nearly 200 entries included Adam Drake, Cody King, Mike Truhe, Dustin Evans, Matt Schreffler, Drew Moller, Travis Amezcua, Brent Thielke, Steven Hartson, Clint Wachter, Colby Poh, Dani Choi, Chad Bradley, Andy Smolnik and Jessie Robinson. In qualifying it was Team Losi Racing / Novarossi driver Adam Drake who set the pace in both of the expert 1/8th classes. The temperatures in sunny CA started to drop by the time the mains rolled around and the track started getting rough.

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