Marco Müller is 2008 Swiss Champion

The 5th round of the Swiss 1/8th scale National Championships were held last weekend at the super big Lostallo track, host of next years 1/8th scale World Championships. Qualification saw Mugen racer Marco Müller take the TQ spot and he would carry this pace through into the final were he was able to take the win from Remy Hasler in 2nd and Thomas Henzi in 3rd, with Shasa Lackner taking the Junior prize coming home in 5th. This win was enough to secure Marco the Swiss National title for 2008.

Feller wins at South German Regionals

Last weekend on the small and technical Augsburg track was a round of the south German Nationals. The weather started off well on Saturday but before qualifying it started to rain and this continued through Saturday’s first 3 rounds. On Sunday things were dry but cold and after 3 more rounds of qualifying it was Xray driver Thomas Günsel on pole ahead of his team mates Sebastian Feller and Michael Heinrich. The final saw a good start for the top 2 qualifiers with Sebastian close to Thomas, but a few mistakes and a dead glow plug dropped the pole man out of the race, leaving Feller clear at the front to take the win from Thomas Schlee in 2nd and Hobao racer Klaus Kramer in 3rd.

Thanks to Sebastian Feller for the report.

Tim Wood wins UK 1/8th Nats Rd7

Last weekend saw round 7 of the BRCA 1/8th scale championships held at the Halifax track and it proved to be very evenly matched racing with no one driver having a clear speed advantage. Qualifying, which saw the first 2 rounds run on a damp track, saw Mugen racer Andy North claim TQ  ahead of Serpent trio Tim Wood, Richard Hicklin and Mark Green. The final was again a very close race with no more than 1/2 a lap separating the top 4 places. From the start, Andy North was slow away and struggled with cold tires in the early stages but was soon on the pace, while Chris Heath was again on a charge from 5th on the grid. After a slow start, Chris started to make back time and with him being able to cut out a fuel stop would be in contention at the finish but unfortunately for him he had a gearbox fail with 4 minutes to go while leading the race. This gave the win to Tim Wood just ahead of Mark Green in 2nd with Andy North taking 3rd.

Thanks to Andy North for the report and pictures.

Van Lierop wins Rd5 Dutch 10th Nats

Last weekend at the MBC de Sluis track, in the centre of Holland, was the 5th round of the Dutch 1/10th scale 200mm Nationals. Qualifying saw Xray driver Daan Jacobs TQ ahead of team mate Maarten can Lierop in 2nd, the qualifying sessions having to be extended by 2 more runs following some time keeping problems. In the NK final, pole man Jacobs encountered engine problems which dropped him down the order and gave Van Lierop an unchallenged win by 3 laps in front of second placed Niels Pourchez, driving a Serpent, while in 3rd spot driving a Kyosho was Sander Borghoff. In the Nomac class final it was a close battle between Ricardo van Dam and Ingeborg Gommers, with Ricardo eventually taking the win by 3 seconds, while Jeroen Jemmens rounded out the top 3, 2 laps back on the leaders.

Thanks to Ruben D’Arco for the report and pictures.