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September 6, 2010

Fabio Boero wins 2010 Italian title

The fourth and final round of the AMSCI 1/8 Off Road Italian championship was held last weekend at the D&R Dirt Race RC track in Castelnuovo Calcea, Asti. The final saw the fight between Xray driver Riccardo Perin and Davide Tortorici with his Hobao for first position with the former taking the victory. Fabio Boero, who had been sitting in 3rd place by the mid part of the race, brought his Mugen/Reds combination home to claim the final step of the podium and more importantly the 2010 Italian National title. Tortorici took 2nd spot in the final championship standings with Perin in 3rd.

Image: RC Gazette [rcgazette.smugmug.com]

September 5, 2010

Puepke & Vahrenkamp winner at Nitro West Masters Rd3

Round three of the Nitro West Masters saw René Puepke and Ralf Vahrenkamp winning the 1/10 scale and 1/8 scale nitro on-road classes held. The race was held by the MCC Rhein-Ahr at Bad Breisig, located at the river Rhine south of the former capital Bonn. Fortunately the weather was different to the forecast and all heats and finals were run under dry conditions following rain during practice on Saturday afternoon.

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September 2, 2010

Kyle Branson wins Rd7 of British 1/8th Nats

The 7th round of this years BRCA 1/8th scale on road championships was back at the Halifax circuit, and it was yet another well attended meeting with 56 drivers. Chris Heath and Mark Green both made welcome returns and with another strong contingent from Ireland, the competition would again be very strong at all levels of driver skills. With the occasional showers disrupting Saturday free practice, the track eventually dried just prior to the controlled practice in the afternoon. This gave all drivers the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the track and grip levels prior to serious controlled practice sessions.

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August 30, 2010

Eduardo Giardino wins Argentinean Nationals

This year’s Argentinean Championship race was held at the capital Buenos Aires recently. It was Argentinean Team Shepherd member Eduardo Giardino how claimed the 2010 national title with his Velox V8. The practice started already on Friday, the weather conditions cold and damp in the morning, but in the afternoon the traction came up and Giardino clocked some good lap times. On Saturday qualifying started and in the first round Giardino was very fast, but his transponder didn’t count correctly. The problem was solved for the second round and he had a good run which secured him the second position. Afterward nobody could improve so Giardino lined up second in the grid behind pole-setter Augustin Cutini. The 45 minute final was scheduled for Sunday afternoon. At the start Giardino defended his second position and tried to follow the leader. His strategy was not to change tyres and it worked out quite good and he could hold his second position. When Cutini had an accident, Giardino took over the first position and cruised to the end, winning by two laps over Adrian Frigerio in 2nd and Francesco Rinaldi in 3rd position.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

August 30, 2010

JJ Wang wins Guangzhou RCP Inaugural race

The brand new RC Passion racetrack in Guangzhou, China, hosted their Inaugural race this past weekend with close to 100 drivers attending. The event held three race classes, 1/10 EP Touring, 1/10 GP, and 1/8 On-road. With drivers coming from all over China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, it was one of the largest on-road races in China this year. Mugen driver JJ Wang, powered by Murnan Modified Novarossi, won the 1/8 on-road class, while Xray driver Samuel Chiu of Hong Kong won the 1/10 GP Touring class. Race Fuel was provided by Nitro X. Finally China’s top EP driver Wang Hai Feng won the 1/10 EP class with his HB TCX

Source: RC Fans [rcfans.com]

August 30, 2010

Yannick Aigoin wins Coupe de France

This year’s Coupe de France 1/8th buggy race was held in Viglain, south of Paris, close to Orléans. European Championship top qualifier Yannick Aigoin was to sit on the TQ spot following qualifying and he would carry forward that speed to the semi finals, to line up on pole position for the main final. In the 45 minute final Losi race Yannick would cruise to victory by 3 laps at the end from brother Jerome Aigoin with his Kyosho, with Julien Lattanzio driving a Mugen taking 3rd spot some seconds further back.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

August 28, 2010

Simon Ciudan wins Rd6 in Hungary

The past weekend saw the 6th round of the Hungarian 1/10th Scale Championship run at the Modellcentrum Track in Budapest. Last years champion Simon Ciudan joined the Hungarian Shepherd Team just before the race and was pleased with the performance of the Velox V10. After taking TQ with the fastest laptime of the weekend he also dominated the 30 minute final leading from the start to the end and crossing the finishing line with a 3 laps gap over Zsolt Bajusz followed by László Kiss-Orbán.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

August 28, 2010

Zeljaś & Pudewell win GP of Pacanòw

Last weekend saw a group of German drivers of the Race-Center-Munzig take up the invitation from their Polish friends to attend a race called the GP of Pacanòw. The race features a nice mixture of nitro an electric classes from 1/10 to 1/8 scale so visitors could get a good impression of what racing is all about. Although the track was very bumpy it featured a very nice layout with fast sweepers and tight corners and a quite long straight which made for it very demanding to set-up. In 1/8 scale Rafal Zeljas took the TQ honours with his Novarossi powered Shepherd Velox and a clear win on his home track finishing first in front of Norbert Omelanczuk and Marcin Marczyky, both also with Shepherd cars. In 1/10 200mm it was the German Capricorn LAB-C01 driver Frank Pudewell, coming from 5th position, that took the win setting the fastest lap of the race, ahead of young Polish talents Jakub Rozycki (TQ) and Filip Zaremba, both having a strong qualification and great race performance with their Kyosho chassis’.

View the final results here