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September 2, 2009

Lars Hoppe wins German North Regional Rd2

Last weekend saw the 2nd round of the North German Qualifier for the 2010 season take place in Eckernförde. After having a lot of bad luck in previous races this time Shepherd racer Lars Hoppe was luckier and he secured himself the pole-position for the 30-minutes final on Sunday afternoon. The start of the final saw Lars defend his first place and could pull away in the first minutes. His Novarossi powered Velox ran very consistent and in the end he took the victory with an imressive 7 lap gap on the second placed Marcel Henriksen. The podium was completed by Joachim Behnken.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

September 1, 2009

Buerge & Hepp win NRW Challenge opener

The first round of the new NRW Challenge (NRW = German state North Rhine-Westphalia) saw Mugen driver Sebastian Buerge winning the 1/10 nitro class and Serpent driver Tobias Hepp catching the victory in the 1/8 nitro category. The race at the permanent track of RMC Dueren close to the Belgian border was held in memory of Dieter Weck and Mike Derwall, two RMC club members and regular 1/10 nitro racers which passed away both in July following a heart attack.

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August 29, 2009

Copa Kaypira Round 3 report

The third round of the Copa Kaypira took place in Piracicaba, a city in the state of Sao Paulo. Early morning rain fell delaying the start of practice but by 11 AM it had stopped and the track dried up enough to begin practice, however the grip was very low following the wet weather. At 1pm qualifying began and in the RTR category it was João Victor Guimarães that took the top spot, breaking the 15 lap barrier with Daniel Paschoal a lap behind in 2nd, while in 3rd was Rafael. In the 1/10th Pro .12 category the TQ went to Luiz Bullo, while in second was four-time Brazilian champion Flávio Elias with third position going to Thiago Breneli.

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August 28, 2009

2009 ROAR Region 4 Championships

Ocoee, Florida and Outtacontrol Raceway played host to the 2009 ROAR Region 4 Championships and JConcepts have the following report. Always an event that brings the best out in every driver within the state of Florida, the ROAR Regional’s displays the best of the best. With early wet weather conditions being a concern, the JConcepts team turned to the trusty combination of Crowbars in the buggy class and Cross Hairs in the 1/8th truck class, all in Soft Blue compound.

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August 26, 2009

Joern Neumann wins season opener in Germany

The opening round of the German 1/8th buggy Nationals were held last weekend in Senden. The event attracted 132 drivers and saw 4 rounds of controlled practice on Friday and 2 more rounds of practice on Saturday morning. In these 2 practice rounds, the 3 fastest laptimes in a row count towards reseeding the groups for qualifying and after that there were 5 rounds of qualifying with the best 3 counting. TQ went to Daniel Reckward, with Jörn Neumann in 2nd place and Tim Bremicker in 3rd. At the start of the 40 minute main final it was Daniel and Jörn that were battling it out for the victory. Jörn made a little mistake that cost him around 3-4 seconds and so Daniel had a 5 seconds lead. With Jörn pushing very hard he closed the gap and at the 30 minutes mark was able to pass Daniel and he never looked back. Joern took the win from Daniel Reckward in 2nd and Tim Bremicker in 3rd. The 2nd round is in 2 weeks in Osterhofen.

Image: Marc Kreisig

August 26, 2009

Barry Pettit takes East Coast Nitro Series Rd5

This past weekend the 5th round of the East Coast Nitro Series was run at the Outlaw RC Raceway in Aiken, S.C. This track is home to the classic ‘Watermelon’ and always provides true off road excitement with loam and sand, hard packed areas, and an ever changing racing surface of ruts and grooves. Young John McGinty took the Sportsman Buggy class and Randy Cooper, The Easley Ninja” took the Truggy class. The Pro Buggy class was won by Barry Pettit, who also TQ’ed the class. His Mugen MBX-6 was on JConcepts blue compound Crossbows with the new Profiled blue inserts throughout the entire day.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

August 26, 2009

Richard Saxton sets RC Jump World Record

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The above video shows Team Associated’s Richard Saxton set the World Record at 137.3 feet for the longest radio controlled car jump with a Team Associated RC8B nitro powered buggy.

August 23, 2009

20 years on & Collari still top of the World

The weather forced us to wait a day longer than originally planned but today we got to witness another great World title drive from the master of 1:8 Onroad racing Lamberto Collari and see just why he is the greatest 1:8 driver off all time. Starting the one hour final from second, the Italian drove the perfect race taking his ninth title 20-years on from when he claimed his very first World Championship. Taking the challenge to Top Qualifier, and the only true dangerman, Robert Pietsch in the opening part of the race Collari hit cruise control once he had forced problems on the German. In the end the Kyosho/Novarossi driver took a very comfortable two lap winning margin over American Mike Swauger who came out top of the biggest battle of the race to claim second over former Champion Adrien Bertin.

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