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August 26, 2010

Drake makes it 4 from 4 at Monster Energy Series

This past weekend saw the final round of the Monster Energy Series run at Revelation Raceway. The series consisted of four rounds with three of them counting. Adam Drake set the TQ in both rounds of qualifying in the 1/8th buggy class with his Novarossi power Losi 8ight 2.0 buggy. Mugen racer Colby Poh was second on the grid, followed by Matt Schreffler also with a Novarossi powered Losi 8ight 2.0. In the final, Adam got a clean start and pulled away from the rest of the field winning the twenty-five minute final by almost two laps over Colby Poh and Drew Moller. Adam TQ’ed and won all four round of the series.

August 25, 2010

Drew Moller wins JBRL Rd5 1/8th Electric & Pro Buggy

Another round of JBRL in the books and another Tekno RC victory in the 1/8th Electric Buggy class. Drew Moller was unstoppable this round at the familiar Thunder Alley Raceway. He took the win in 1/8th Electric with his Tekno RC equipped Mugen MBX6 electric buggy. As usual, Castle Creations put down the power without a flinch. This put Drew back on top of the points race and he is now poised for a repeat of his overall victory from last year. Not only did Drew win in Electric this round, Drew also took his nitro Mugen MBX6 buggy and beat a group of world-class pros to take the victory in the hotly contested Pro 1/8th Nitro Buggy class.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com] / Image: Neo Buggy

August 24, 2010

Simon Kurzbuch wins Rd4 of Swiss 1/8th Nats

Round 4 of the Swiss 1/8th scale Nationals took place under very sunny conditions at the nice Sitterdorf track. It was the first race during the season where the racers could drive their cars in dry conditions. The drivers within the expert class made an exciting main final on Sunday afternoon. Simon Kurzbuch with his Velox V8 had very good qualification runs and started on pole position into this main. He was very fast from the beginning of the main final and could held the first position for a long time, but the really exciting part came in the last 10 minutes.

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August 24, 2010

Rick Vrielijnck wins Dutch 1/8th Nats Rd5

The weather forecast was to expect rain for the 5th round of the Dutch 1/8th scale National championships but thankfully it was wrong and the whole day saw dry weather on the MACH track in Heemstede. Qualifying saw Rick V with the Mugen MRX-5 did take the pole position 2 seconds in front of Ilia v. Gastel, with the 3rd spot going to Robin d’Hondt and in the 4th and final direct final spot was Jordy Block.

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August 22, 2010

Martin Christensen is European Champion

Martin Christensen has won the 2010 1/10th 200mm European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden today, 8 years after he won he won his first European title on the very same track. Giving Italian marque Capricorn their first major title for the LAB-C01 chassis the Danish driver was the fastest driver at the start of the final, getting past Wischnewski for the lead and despite battling for position with Dirk, who would later flame out, was up front when it counted. Fast work by his pit man kept him in the hunt, however his tires were gone by the end of the 45 minute final and struggled with the car especially coming onto the straight but he was always driving within his limits and could cruise home 1 lap ahead of 2nd place.

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August 21, 2010

Wischnewski is Euros top qualifier

Reigning European Champion Dirk Wischnewski has claimed the top qualifying spot at this year’s 1/10th 200mm European Championships in Gothenburg Sweden today. Rain fell on and off today meaning that the front runners were unable to improve their times and so with Dirk’s TQ run from round 1 he was able to take pole position and is now one step closer to retaining his title that he won in Italy last year. Dirk is of course happy to take the top spot but didn’t expect it after what he believes was a disappointing Worlds. With the weather forecast expecting rain tomorrow he has now tested rain tires with his rain car in the last qualifier but he said it was hard to test, as the track was drying again.

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August 20, 2010

No change up front in Sweden as rain returns

The second round of qualifying here in Gothenburg, Sweden has seen no improvements among the front runners as the rain arrived and made the track too slippery to set a fast time. In fact by the time the top heats were out on track, the continuous rain had made it pretty treacherous although some racers including former World Champion Daniele Ielasi, Martin Hudy, Jerome Renaux and Patrick Schaefer took this opportunity to go on track and test for the wet conditions. With the weather not looking good for the rest of the weekend this track time could prove beneficial come Sunday’s finals.

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August 20, 2010

Dirk Wishcnewski takes Rd1 in Sweden

Round 1 of qualifying is over at this year’s European 200mm Championships in Sweden and it was current European Champion Dirk Wischnewski who is sitting on top of the pack. Talking with the factory Xray driver he described his run as ok despite the car having some understeer. For the next run he plans to change the caster to try and get more steering. Second for the round, Capricorn racer Martin Christensen said his car and engine were perfect, he just needs to work on improving his driving.

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