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October 4, 2008

Kyosho 1-2-3 in the East Midlands Cup

Last Sunday saw the final round of the 10 round East Midlands Nitro Offroad Racing Championship. The championship is competed in and around the East Midlands area visiting each track twice in the year with 6 out of 10 rounds to count. Recent Kyosho signing Steven Bond received his Kyosho STRR Truggy days before the opening meeting and started off the series in the second round on the new Derby track with a TQ and Win. Following this by TQ and wins in rounds 3,4,6,7,8 and missing 3 rounds due to racing in the Truggy Nationals the Championship was won with a maximum score. With a National A final and finishing 15th overall in the UK Nationals followed by a 2nd in the Hongnor Cup Steven stated “I am more than satisfied with the STRR”. The Kyosho reliability and superior handling also helped Tony Drabble and Dean Coupland to second and third to complete the Kyosho 1-2-3.

October 3, 2008

Costa wins Final Portugese 1/8th National

Last weekend the final round of the Portuguese National Championship was run at the Sintra track in Lisbon. It was the first time a Shepherd Velox showed up at a track in Portugal and was also the debut 1/8th scale race for current 1/10th scale Champion Filipe Costa. He quickly got used to the car and was able to claim 2nd position after the qualifying. Because there are no direct qualifiers in Portugal all drivers had to pass the semi-finals to reach the main final and Filipe could win his semi final without any problems and secured himself pole position on the starting grid for the final. At the beginning of the final he lost the lead to Serpent racer Ricardo Nogueira but after 25 minutes he was able to take over the lead again and never lost it until the finishing line.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

October 1, 2008

Simon Kurzbuch wins Swiss Nats Rd6

The final round of the Swiss 1/8th scale Nationals was run last weekend in Langenthal in the North of the country. Qualifying for the Expert class saw Simon Kurzbuch take the pole position by 2 seconds from Thomas Henzi, while Christophe Pethoud and Mattia Pesenti rounding out the top 4. In the 45 minute final, Simon was unstoppable, the Serpent driver winning by 2 laps from Henzi in 2nd and Pethod 3rd, a further 3 laps behind. The Amateur class was won by Shepherd driver Stephan Eschler, 3 laps in front of Angelo Albani in 2nd with Claudio Pasquin 3rd.

Thanks to Mattia Pesenti for the report and pics.

October 1, 2008

Schaefer wins Rd3 in Central Germany

Schaefer wins Central German Rd3

Last weekend saw the 3rd round of the German Championship central regional qualifier was held at the beautiful Ettlingen track where the German Championship was hosted earlier this year. Under perfect weather conditions 34 drivers attended the race and on Saturday the track was open for free practice and nearly all participants were already at the track. On Sunday morning 4 rounds of qualifying were raced and although Patrick Schaefer made a safety run in the first round he could beat his record of the German Championship by one second and secure pole position. At the start of the final Patrick managed to defend his lead and pulled away while current Champion Stefan Hanauer and Philip Sting could pass Jörg Wäldle in the first lap and a tough battle for the second position started. Patrick constantly increased his lead and at the first pit stop after 5 minutes he was half a lap ahead of the rest of the field. Suddenly his Velox started to break out in right corners and the lap times got slower but he could manage to keep the lead for the remaining 25 minutes and won the race one lap ahead of Hanauer. Philip Sting decided not to change tires but he lost too much time with his small tires at the end and crossed the finishing line in 3rd position. After checking the car Patrick noticed that a pivot ball at the lower rear wishbone was completely off and the left upright was only held by the remaining pivot ball.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

September 30, 2008

Hudy takes win, Liptak takes title

The final round of the Slovakian Nationals was held over the weekend at AutoRC-Trnava track in Trnava, Slovakia. The race was TQ’d and won by Worlds podium finisher Martin Hudy, but as the Xray driver was unable to participate in earlier rounds of the series the overall title went to one of the oldest RC drivers in the country, Igor Liptak who finished the race in 2nd place, while Tono Sloboda took 3rd.

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September 30, 2008

Dankel takes South German 1/8th title

Following our report from the 1/10th scale South German Championship that was held on the track of the RCMSC Greuthof, the 1/8th scale racers were also in action. In qualifying Shepherd Velox race Erik Dankel was the only driver to do 31 laps and he improved the track record by 9.4 seconds. Local hero Manuel Dietrich secured the 2nd position for the final, with Shepherd driver Christian Dussinger lining up 3rd. The main final was dominated by Dankel from start to the finish and was constantly able to increase his lead and was even able to save some tires for the last minutes. Behind him it was Christian Dussinger who could secure the 2nd position and with this result the victory in the amateur class, while Bernhard Hummel rounded out the top 3.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

September 30, 2008

Truhe & Drake take wins at JBRL Rd6

The Drake was in touch to tell us about the 6th round of the JBRL Nitro Series that was hosted by Full Throttle Hobbies in Barkersfield CA. The 1/8th Pro Buggy class was TQ’d by the Drake, but it was his Losi/GRP team mate Mike Truhe that took the win, with Adam settling for 2nd ahead of Kyosho team driver Cody King in 3rd. In the Pro Truck class Drake once again TQ’d but this time secured the victory ahead of the Kyosho pairing of Cody King and Ryan Lutz. Team Losi had success in the intermediate classes too with victory in both the buggy and truggy going to Robert Wickham and Kyle Johnson respectively, with the latter TQ’ing both classes.

September 30, 2008

Francesco Tironi wins Italian Open UISP

The 1/10th scale Open gas UISP event was held recently at the Melzo circuit in the north of the country with racers at this event able to use Can-Am style shells. Qualifying was dominated by Francesco Tironi who took pole position by 7 seconds and was the only driver to hit 18 laps, with Cristian Costanzo lining up 2nd, Guido Barbera 3rd and Walter Ossola 4th. In the 45 minute final, Tironi was pushed all the way by Barbera who was able to stay on the lead lap till the end finishing 12 seconds behind the winner Tironi, while Walter Ossola took 3rd, 2 laps down on the leading pair.

Source: Automodellismo [automodellismo.net]