Capricorn are proud to announce that they have teamed up with international driver Chris Tosolini. Both parties are looking forward to working together, with Chris in charge of the final development of the 1/10th scale 200mm car and other Capricorn products.
We know he will be able to push the products to the limit so we believe joining with him will make our already great products that much better for the public.
Source: Capricorn RC [capricornrc.com]
Last weekend saw the third round of the 1/8th scale Campeonato Argentino take place in Córdoba, host track of the 2007 World Championships. Pole position for the race went to Mugen/Sirio driver Sebastián Recio, who converted his starting position into the win. Runner up on the day was team mate Agustín Cutini with third place going to Serpent driver Francisco Rinaldi. After this race the Championship standings saw Sebastián Recio take the title followed by Agustín Cutini, with Juan Ignacio Matticoli in 3rd.
Thanks to Roxana Palazzo for the report.
Round 9 of the Championship was held at the Cotswold circuit which is located on the Kemble Airfield. A good turn was expected for this the championship decider. This season, the battle for top honours was between the Serpent drivers of Wood, Hicklin and Green. With Green winning 4 of the previous rounds but having to count a very low score, required him to win this race and hope that Wood is out of the top 3 and Hicklin does not finish higher than 3rd. The remaining drivers had to push hard to try and disrupt the overall outcome above.
Continue reading the report here
Nejc Mihelic has claimed the 2009 Slovenian 1/8th scale title following victory in the last round of the National series at the Tolmin track last weekend. With most of the best Slovenian racers in attendance from both nitro and electric classes and with dry weather for the whole weekend it was going to be a great race. After 3 rounds of qualifying Nejc Mihelic TQ’d with his Motonica P81/Picco and in the final he secured the win by 4 laps in front of 2nd placed Uros Kozlina and Amadeo Domenico in 3rd spot. Nejc Mihelic took the title by winning all 5 rounds of this year’s Championship.
Fabio Domanin has claimed the 2009 Italian 1/8th scale title following the last round in Fiorano which took place last weekend. In the race it was Serpent driver Andrea Cristiani that took the pole position in front of World Champion Lamberto Collari with Andrea Pirani and Alberto Picco completing the top 4. In the final it was a reversal of positions as Collari took the win in front of Cristiani, with Francesco Tironi completing the podium. Fabio Domanin could only manage a 7th following an engine change, but this position was enough for him to claim the title in front of Collari in 2nd with Francesco Tironi taking 3rd.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The final round of the British 200mm Nationals took place last weekend at Halifax and it was a wet weekend with most of Saturday written off due to the weather. On Sunday it was wet all morning, and in the first round of qualifying newly crowned Champion Kyle Branson TQ’d just in front of Neil King, while in the second round Neil put in a good drive and tyre choice and took TQ with the track still wet. In the third round it started to dry out but around 5 minutes before the quickest heat went out it rained and while Kyle chose the wrong tyres, Neil would go faster with Simon Wood jumping to second with Kyle dropping to third. In the final round of qualifying the track had dried quite a lot and this time Kyle made a good tyre choice, as only half the track was wet he went out on a rubber tyre, and took TQ just in front of Robin Hammet. Young Alex Thurston driving for Kyosho qualified seventh. For the Final it was dry and pole man Branson got off to a good start leading from start to finish, but when he came down from the rostrum he found that he had finished second as on his second fuel stop when exiting the pit lane he had hit a damp patch causing the car to roll over the line, landing back on its wheel, but for some reason it didn’t count the lap. This gave Serpent driver Neil King a very popular win with Kyle Branson in second and Joe Kerry in third. The Championship was already over with Kyle taking the title at the last round, ahead of Johnathan Dobney in second and Chris Slater in third.
Thanks to Kyle Branson for the report.
Round 9 of the Puerto Rico Nationals were held last weekend and after 2 rounds of qualifiers the racing got underway in the afternoon, with 45 minute A-Mains in all categories. In the Sedan class, TQ spot went to Andy Báez, but early problems in the main drop him down out of a podium spot, making it easy for Kyosho team driver Pedro Alvarado to take the win with 5 laps advantage over 2nd position, Mugen Driver Juan Rodríguez, with RC America driver Tory Santiago in 3rd. In the 1/8 class Mugen Team Driver Andy Báez set the pace and took the win in an easy victory over team mate Fernando Méndez in second and new Kyosho driver Jaime Ramos.
Click here to see the 1/8th podium
The Asian Open took place at the RC Addict raceway in Bangkok, one of the World’s best RC tracks. New Team Orion signing Jilles Groskamp went on to take a great TQ in the 10 minutes qualification, using the latest Team Orion Alpha engine and fuel in the still prototype Shepherd 1/10 on road car. The race also attracted World class drivers like Surikarn C. and Meen V. and so it was sure to be a great battle, and it was for the first 15 minutes in the one hour long final. The final started with pole man Jilles asking for a 10 minutes delay to fix a broken one way bearing and so he would have to start from dead last position. But with a sensational start, it took him 3 minutes to close in to the leading pack of Surikarn and Meen, and for 15 minutes the battle was on, with the lead changing often due to the different fuel stops strategies. After 20 minutes it was clear that it was going to be Jilles’ race and only a technical problem could stop him taking the win. With 3 minutes to go Jilles pushed once more, to set the fastest lap times of the race ending up with an advantage of 7 laps over Meen, who took the runner up spot.
Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]
