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June 10, 2010

Robert Pietsch wins trofeo Novarossi

The Trofeo Novarossi took place last weekend at the famous Fiorano track in Italy. The weather forecast was more than good with around 30° sunshine the whole weekend and around 70 drivers attended the race, which was perfectly organized by Minicar Fiorano Team. Victory in the 1/8th scale class went to Robert Pietsch, who was running the all new self designed MRX5 car from Mugen, with second place going to Mugen team mates Christian Cavicchioli and Eric Dankel in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. In the 1:10th class it was Walter Ossola that won followed by Vidotto Roberto in 2nd and Massimiliano Vadese in 3rd.

View the final results and more photos here

June 10, 2010

Martin Bayer does double at 1/5th Euros Warm-up

The warm-up race for the 2010 1/5 Scale Formula one and Touring car European championship took place at Slavkov, Brno in the Czech Republic last weekend and it attracted all the big name drivers in these categories. The race in the formula one category was to be a one man show with 1/8th scale buggy ace Martin Bayer driving the RS5 winning the race by 5 laps ahead of team mates Jeffrey van Wijk and Clark Wohlert in 2nd and 3rd. In the touring car category it was also a win for RS5 driver Martin Bayer with a superb drive, followed by former European Champion Mathieu Briere with the FG, with 9 tenths of a second gap on third place finisher Cedric Prevot also with FG.

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June 10, 2010

Sabrina Lechner joins GQ Products

GQ Products have confirmed that top female racer Sabrina Lechner will run their tires in both the 1/8th and 1/10th classes this season. The Hong Kong based company has already achieved success with this new partnership with Sabrina using their tires to achieve 8th place at the European B Championships in Monaco recently. Very happy with the quality of their products Sabrina is looking forward to continue to use them throughout the season, which will include the EFRA GP in Hiddelsheim and the German Nationals later in the year.

Source: GQ Products [gqproduct.com]

June 9, 2010

Erik Demuth wins Rd1 of the Brazilian 1/5th Nats

The first round of this year’s Brazilian 1/5th scale National championship was held at the Clube Conesul in Portão Rio Grande do Sul Brasil. The track was very cold on the Saturday morning and the times slow, but after some qualifying rounds the lap times came down with Erik Demuth with his FG/Abbate Racing car made the best time on the track followed by Renato Brentato, Rui Vlademir and Stener completing the top 4 qualifiers to the final. The Main final scheduled to begin at 15:00 hours saw turmoil after problems with race timing saw the start of race being canceled. At the second start, Erik Demuth kept the lead until the finish. Renato Brentano who started second dropped down the order after a first corner crash but recovered to finish in second place. The third place went to Stener who was running his new car for the first time in this race and has already achieved great results. Young 8 year old racer Nicolas Lucae finished the race in an impressive 5th place showing that he will be one of the strong names for the future in Brazil.

View the final results here

June 9, 2010

Christensen & Fransson wins Nordic Champs in Gothenburg

The Nordic Championship in the IC-Track classes took place in Gothenburg last weekend, also used as the Euros warm up race for the 1/10th scale class. 65 drivers attended the race, 45 in the 1:10th IC-200 and 20 racers in the 1:8 IC Track. In the entry list were several big names listed, including the current European Champion Dirk Wischnewski. With perfect weather conditions and good traction on the asphalt, the race begun on Saturday morning. In the 1:10th class, Dirk set the TQ-pace from the first round, who together with Hagberg, were the only drivers to complete 28 laps in the qualification.

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June 9, 2010

Michael Klausner wins Rd3 in Austria

Last weekend saw the 3rd leg of the Austrian 1/8th on road nationals held at the MBC-RPA track in Vienna-Aspern. Again perfect weather and a good racing atmosphere greeted the drivers at this difficult and dangerous American style track. Already during practice Mugen/Novarossi driver Mikie Klausner was setting the pace with several unofficial improvements (16.40 sec) of the official track record (16.65 sec). In qualifying the lap record was improved to a new absolute best of 16.27 by Klausner who was easily the top qualifier followed by Motonica/Picco driver Herfried Pucher and Serpent/Max driver Patrick Wendy.

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June 9, 2010

Giuseppe D’angelo wins Italian 1/10th Rd2

The 2nd round of the Italian 1/10th touring car championships was run last weekend in Messina, host of the 2005 1/8th scale World Championships. In Saturday’s qualifying it was young Biagio Spataro that took the pole position in front of Giuseppe D’angelo in 2nd, with Francesco Tironi taking 3rd. In Sunday’s hour long main final it was Mugen/Reds racer D’Angelo who led most of the race on his way to the win, followed by the Mugen/Sirio of Tironi in 2nd with Xray/Max driver Giorgio De Felici taking 3rd.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

June 9, 2010

Race for a Cure – Announcement

Race for a Cure is an event taking place at Goshen Fair Grounds in Goshen CT from the 17th to 20th of June, which will help raise money and awareness for the American Cancer Society. A 4 day event it sees practice on Thursday with both 2wd & 4wd Short Course only running on Friday, 1/8th nitro & electric buggy on Saturday and 1/5th scale buggy & truck on Sunday. All classes get 3 rounds of qualifying and mains and the event is limited to 100 entries per day. Making it a fun day for all the family the fairgrounds are also hosting a bigger event called the Goshen Stampede where there are all kinds of cool things going on with full scale trucks, farm animals, fireworks and live music. The race entry form can be found here (PDF).