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May 10, 2010

Robin d’Hondt wins Dutch 2nd round

Round 2 of the Dutch 1/8th scale nationals was held last weekend on the fast MAC de Baanbrekers track in Rucphen, and fast it was, on the Saturday the fast guys like Van Gastel, d’Hondt, Ermen and Rick V were driving laps under 13.0 seconds giving an example how the competition will be. On Sunday it was dry but the track was still a bit slippery at some points because of the rain the night before which caused a lot of braking problems and one or two serious crashes and the track was for sure not as fast as on Saturday.

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May 10, 2010

Barry Pettit does double in Alabama

JConcepts are reporting that the Shelby County RC Raceway Dash for Cash was held this past weekend in Harpersville, Alabama, just past the Talledega Raceway. Alabama is packed with dedicated racers and competitors. The great weather lasted throughout the day and allowed the track to groove and provide great traction. After 3 rounds of qualifying the mains were set for 45 minutes of red clay battle in the buggy and truggy classes. Mugen Seiki/JConcepts driver Barry Pettit was able to finish on the top step of the podium in both races, after some challenging racing from the fast Alabama crowd.

Source: JConcepts [jconceptsracing.net]

May 10, 2010

Marco Mueller takes Rd2 in Switzerland

Last weekend saw the second round of Swiss 1/8th scale National Championship take place in Aigle, on a very technical track, renamed this year the Sebastien Buemi Circuit and factory Motonica racer Mattia Pesenti sent us this report. Saturday morning we had just 30-45 minutes to practice because the track was wet and in the afternoon we started with the qualifying rounds. I had a perfect car and I had a really good feeling with it and had the pole position for the first two rounds before round 1 winner Shasa Lackner had a really fast round doing 24 laps in 7’17’’ leaving myself and Marco Mueller in 2nd and 3rd with 23 laps.

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May 6, 2010

Martin Lissau wins Danish National opener

Last weekend the first round of the Danish Nationals took place at the Odense RC MiniRace track. Martin Lissau was present to compete the first time with the Shepherd Velox V10 and with limited possibilities for practice because of the rain he went into the first round of qualifying and set a new track record on his way to clocking the fastest time. Right after, the rain arrived again and the rest of the qualifying was canceled. The finals were scheduled for Sunday and finally the track was dry. Right from the start of the final Martin pulled away and never looked back, running flawlessly for 30 minutes to cross the line in first position ahead of Claus Rygeskov in 2nd and Martin Hansen in 3rd. In the 1/8th scale class Henrik Christensen had the lead from the start to the end to take victory in front of fellow Shepherd racer Hans Andersen in 2nd, with John Jessen 3rd.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 4, 2010

Adam Drake wraps up Losi Winter Series title

Losi Novarossi team driver Adam Drake has TQ’d both 1/8th pro buggy and truck this weekend at the final round of the Losi Winter Series hosted by Revelation Raceway. In the final Mike Truhe and Adam Drake made a mistake on lap one which allowed team mate Matt Castellano to take over the lead and never look back. Matt won followed by Mike Truhe and Adam Drake making it a Losi podium sweep. In the truck class Drake and Cody King had a good battle early in the race, but Adam was able to pull a large gap on Cody late in the race and take home the victory followed by Cody King and Matt Schreffler in third. Losi Driver Matt Schreffler took the overall championship in the 1/8th truck class with his Novarossi powered 8ight T 2.0, while it was Adam Drake that took the overall title in the 1/8th Pro buggy class for the second consecutive year.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

May 4, 2010

Glyn Beal wins BRCA Sports GT Rd2

Glyn Beal sent us a report on the second round of the BRCA sports GT championship held at the Cotswold track last weekend. On Saturday morning the weather was dry and sunny, but didn’t get much practice due to painting and cutting out new GTP body shells. A big thanks to Keith from Kamtec for producing this shell in a short period of time. First impressions were that everyone liked this new shell because it made car easy to set up and quicker. When I finally got on the track in the afternoon, the car was very quick from the start and both Lee Chapman and I both set the same best lap times which was a 16.6. I decided not to do much more practice as the car was going great and then of course the rain came.

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May 3, 2010

Taylor James joins Team Losi

Losi have welcomed former Jammin driver Taylor James and his numerous years of top level racing experience to the team. Taylor will be joining the team for the upcoming 1/8th ROAR Off-road Fuel Nationals warm-up race in Colorado Springs, CO on May 13th-18th and will be competing in all the major races including the upcoming IFMAR World Championships this November. Taylor James will be running the Team Losi Racing 8ight 2.0 buggy race roller and the 8ight-T 2.0 truggy race roller powered by Nitrotec engines and controlled by his Spektrum DX3R.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

May 3, 2010

Salven takes West German 1/10th Rd2 victory

More than 20 years after his last visit at the track of the RMC Dueren close to the Belgian and Dutch border Michael Salven achieved victory at round two of the nitro 1/10 Western German Championship. With rain pouring down for most of the day Tobias Hepp made it a 1-2 for Serpent crossing the line just five seconds behind Salven.

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