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October 2, 2009

Mark Green wins BRCA 1/8th Rd8

Round 8 of the BRCA championship was held at the Mendip circuit for the second time this season. With Bristol airport being a small drive away and due to the completion of the Irish season, a small contingent from Ireland arrived, including the vastly experienced Clive Connelly (Mugen) and Ian Campbell (Shepherd). The entry of 48 drivers was one of the highest all season and with the addition of some old faces, the future is starting to look brighter for this section. The weather forecast for the weekend was bright which would allow a lot of testing to be carried out in order to find the perfect setup. With top 200mm driver, Kyle Branson making an appearance for the first time this season and the presence of the top Irish drivers would make it difficult for the usual top 10 to be sure of a main final qualifying position and so the pressure to perform was considerably increased.

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October 1, 2009

Robitronic Night Race & Race of Champions

Robitronic have the full report from their Night Race and Race of Champions event that was held last weekend in Bischhofsheim close to Frankfurt am Main. The event consisted of a night team race that began at midday on Friday and ended at 5am on Saturday morning with truggy teams and buggy teams taking alternating times on the track to give each team of up to 5 drivers 7 hours on the track. The buggy class was won by the Team Robitronic Losi team that consisted of Joern Neumann, Martin Bayer, Darren Bloomfield and Carsten Keller, while the RC-Car Shop Race Crew was triumphant in the truggy class. On Saturday following the Night race, the Race of Champions got underway with practice followed by qualifying over the next day and finals on Sunday. European Championship podium finisher Martin Bayer did the double in both classes, winning the buggy class from Joern Neumann and Maximilian Cordts, while in the truggy class Maximilian Cordts took the runner up spot with Stefan Petrich in 3rd.

Read the full report (in German) here.

Source: Robitronic [robitronic.com]

October 1, 2009

Chris Steele wins Final 200mm round in Ireland

The eighth and final round of the Irish 1:10 200mm National Championships took place at the Ballymoney track in Northern Ireland over the weekend where Chris Steele took his Murnan Modified powered Kyosho to his 6th win of the season. Having already secured the 2009 title Steele continued his domination despite the welcomed return to racing of Mark Gilliland after an abscence of almost a year. Securing pole over Gilliland, Steele converted TQ honours in to victory to finish of the season in perfect style while Gilliland and the only other race winner of the championship, Chris Lawlor, completed the podium. In the overall championship standings, with a drivers best 5 of the 8 rounds to count, it was Lawlor who took second with Darren Gibb third to make it an all Kyosho Top 3.

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September 30, 2009

Jilles Groskamp confirmed at Team Orion

Team Orion have officially announced what we’ve known for a few months, that newly crowned European Champion and double ETS Series title winner Jilles Groskamp has joined the staff at Team Orion Asia. Now based in Thailand, Groskamp will support the research and development team of Team Orion and Team Orion Asia and will immediately begin using the ABI/CRF/Alpha engines from Team Orion in on-road 1/10 GP and 1/8 GP with Shepherd cars, a deal we announced a few weeks ago, and in 1/8 Buggy with Tamiya.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

September 30, 2009

Trofeo Città di Riccione report

Last weekend saw the Trofeo Città di Riccione take place at the Riccione track in Italy and was open to 1/10th scale as well as 1/8th 4wd and Classic chassis’. In the 1/10th scale 200mm class it was Giammaria Antonelli driving an Xray that took the win from Valerio Rossi in 2nd and Maicol Di Felice 3rd. The 1/8th scale 4wd class saw the win go to Massimiliano Bertozzi ahead of Shepherd team mate Massimiliano Mondini, while Dennis Pazzaglini took the final podium spot. The Classic race was won by Motonica driver Massimo Genestreti, in front of DXF driver Roberto Fabbri, while Hermes Campedelli took 3rd.

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September 30, 2009

Simon Kurzbuch wins final round in Switzerland

The last round of the Swiss Championship took place last weekend in Langenthal in the north of Switzerland. On Friday the track was already very crowded and the organizer prepared the asphalt with 75 liter of CocaCola to improve the grip. Nearly all expert drivers attended this last event, among them also Shepherd driver Marco Müller, who secured himself the Swiss title already in the round before. During qualifying it was young Shepherd driver Simon Kurzbuch who took TQ honors. He already showed his talent during the World championship when he reached the 19th position after qualifying. Marco Müller claimed the 2nd place in the starting grid for the final.

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September 29, 2009

Oscar Cabezas takes Rd3 in Spain

The 3rd round of the Spanish 1/8 nationals took place last weekend at Gijón in Northern Spain. The qualifying was clearly dominated by Motonica racer Oscar Cabezas, recently finishing 11th at the Worlds in Lostallo, who took the TQ in the 4 heats and set a new track record with a 15:280 lap. Starting just behind him would be Kyosho driver Víctor González in 2nd, Nacho López for Mugen in 3rd and Carlos Peracho driving the Shepherd in 4th. The final was dominated Cabezas who conserved his position until the end, finishing 3 laps ahead the second placed Nacho López and 4 laps ahead of Sergio Montesinos in 3rd. With the 4th round to be held in Alcobendas, Madrid at the end of October the Championship is still to be decided with the title to go done to the wire between Oscar Cabezas and Josué Artiles.

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September 28, 2009

Buerge & Hepp on top at NRW Challenge Rd2

Oberhausen, the heart of rc racing in Western Germany, held round two of the new NRW Challenge (NRW = German State North Rhine-Westphalia) under great conditions with blue sky and temperatures around 22 degrees Celsius on both days. Lots of spectators saw hot racing with 46 competitors and exciting fights but also partly over-motivated drivers and lots of flying cars. At the end Tobias Hepp and Sebastian Buerge did it again and – like at round one at Dueren – won the 45 minutes finals of the two nitro classes 1/8 scale and 1/10 scale (200mm).

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