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May 24, 2010

Mark Christopher wins Halifax BRCA Sports GT round

Mark Christopher took a convincing FTD at the recent UK nationals shattering the existing track record at Halifax for the Sports GT class. His Team Dremel UK, Xray NT1 powered by Novarossi was the only car in the class to make the previously elusive 19 laps, which was achieved in each of the three qualifying runs. Mark also went on to win the final by two laps over fellow Team mate Richard Boult, both running Knack racing 220mm conversions on their NT1’s. The 220mm cars are increasing in popularity in the UK Nationals.

May 24, 2010

Jörn Neumann wins NRW-Cup Rd1

The opening round of the 2010 NRW-Cup was held this past weekend in Kürten, Germany. Perfect 26° degrees weather all weekend, free practice started on Saturday followed by 3 rounds of qualifying. LRP factory driver Jörn Neumann took the TQ spot with Carsten Keller in 2nd and Dario Vita in 3rd. In the 30 minute main final Jörn Neumann took the win by 1 lap, with Carsten Keller in 2nd and Denis Madcek another lap back in 3rd.

May 21, 2010

JP Tirronen wins 1/8th truck at FSS Rd7

Bart Collins and the Broward County R/C Speedway crew put together a fabulous venue for race #7 of the Florida State Series in Ft. Lauderdale. The track provided a great flow with plenty of elevation change, challenging jumps, off-camber turns, and a tremendous groove. JConcepts got off to a great start in the first round of buggy qualifying with 15yr old JP Tirronen laying down some of the fastest laps and finishing 2nd for the round, only 2 seconds behind world champion Bill Easton. JP continued his fast pace in the highly contested truggy class by taking the TQ for round 1. Second and third rounds of buggy had a pleasant surprise with on-road ace Chris Tosolini qualifying 2nd in both rounds running JConcepts tires for the first time all weekend. JP would wind up qualifying 3rd overall with Jared Scott 4th who was also on JConcepts tires. The truggy class was smooth sailing for JP as he TQ’d the overall with a perfect score. JConcepts team driver Brett Kingsbury put on a late charge in the 2nd and 3rd round to take the 2nd overall qualifying position. Main event time saw some crazy weather and had everyone scrambling. The weather was changing by the minute and everyone found themselves racing in and out of the rain showers. At the end of the 30min buggy final Billy Easton finished 1st, Chris Tosolini 2nd, and JP Tirronen rounding out the top 3. The Truggy final saw much better weather and the first place battle really heated up. 2nd qualifier Brett Kingsbury quickly took over the lead from JP and for the next 15 minutes they exchanged positions every few laps. After the dust settled, JP made his way to the top of the podium followed closely by teammate Brett.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

May 20, 2010

Claus Ryeskov wins Rd2 of Danish Nats

Last weekend the second round of the Danish championship took place at the beautiful area of North Zealand. Saturday saw the track receive 24 mm of rain, so it was difficult conditions and on Sunday the track was still not completely dry, there was always a little drizzle. Qualifying saw Martin Lissau take TQ and for the final the track was almost dry, but there were still some wet spots. Some selected normal tires, others rubber and the start saw Lissau take the lead quickly mastering the wet track. Claus Ryeskov took it easy and drove sensibly staying on track and approximately 10 minutes before the finish Lissau’s rear belt was no more and Claus could take the win.

May 20, 2010

Mark Green continues winning form at BRCA Rd2

The second round of this years BRCA 1/8th circuit national championship was located at the famous Wombwell circuit, which is part of a large Karting complex. This track is loved by all the drivers since it contains a combination of slow and fast flowing corners which is a joy to drive when driven on the edge. The weather forecast did not look too good for Sunday, but thankfully it was a dry weekend. With time restrictions in place due to the noise levels, the Committee decided to run open practice with a lunch break. This made the track at times very congested with a lot of fast cars easily catching up the slower cars and damage was inevitable.

Continue reading the report here

May 20, 2010

Adam Drake wins ROAR Nationals warm-up

Last week drivers from all over the US and Canada attended the 2010 ROAR 1/8th Nationals warm-up race at the Colorado Fast Track, including Jared Tebo, Ryan Cavalieri, Ryan Mayfield, Mike Truhe, Adam Drake, Taylor James, Travis Amezcua, Ty Tessman, Josh Wheeler, Jesse Robbers, Cody King, Dustin Evans, and Lars Johnson. The track is located at 6,200 ft above sea level and offered the drivers very technical and flowing layout. Defending ROAR National Champion Adam Drake took home the win for Losi/Novarossi in the 45 minute buggy final by one lap over Hot Bodies driver Ty Tessman and Ryan Mayfield for Associated.

May 19, 2010

Swauger dominates Motonica Grand Prix

Protoform sent us a brief report on the recent Motonica Grand Prix in Las Vegas, where Mugen/Novarossi team driver Mike Swauger was able to TQ both the 200mm gas sedan class as well as the 1/8th on-road class. He then capped this performance with a big win in both categories as well, using the new P56 shell to great effect in the sedan class.

View Mike’s P56 shell here

May 18, 2010

Easy win for Michael Salven in Western Germany

Michael Salven took an easy win at round two of the Western German Championship 1/8 held at Dueren close to the Belgian and Dutch border. Following an incident of Serpent fellow Tobias Hepp in the first lap which caused a short pit stop and a 44 seconds lap time, Salven was never under pressure during the 40 minutes final. Even the handsome crowd saw excellent racing with very fast laps by Salven and Hepp, the 16 years old local hero couldn’t close the gap and came in second three laps down. Third place on the podium went to Mugen/Sirio racer Christian Wurst who lost four laps on Hepp but had an advantage of two laps over Frank Schewiola (Serpent/Novarossi). During the four heats only Salven with his Mega powered 966 and Hepp powered by Novarossi did 21 laps with Salven taking TQ just 1.221 seconds ahead of Hepp while the young talent achieved a new lap record with 14,178 seconds (Salven 14,241s).

Continue reading the report here