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April 28, 2008

Tosolini wins Italian Open Champion race

Held last weekend at the Gubbio track in Italy, was the first Italian Open Champion Race for 1/10th 200mm touring cars. Featuring a number of big name racers, including Top US racer Chris Tosolini, qualifying saw current European Champion Dario Balestri take the pole position for the main final ahead of Francesco Tironi in 2nd and Sirio team mate Tosolini lining up 3rd. The start of the final saw Balestri jump into the lead where he stayed until 5 minutes when he ran out of fuel, leaving D’Angelo to pick up the lead, but he too had problems and Tosolini could pick up the lead, from where he controlled the rest of the race to take the chequered flag 3 laps in front of Tironi in 2nd, with the final podium spot going to Davide Gallesi, giving Sirio and Kyosho a complete lock out of the top 3. The race was also part of the Italian Championship Expert Class and being the first Italian home, Francesco Tironi picked up the title.

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April 28, 2008

J. Aigoin wins French 1/8th TT Nats Rd2

The 2nd round of the French Nationals for 1/8th scale buggies was held last weekend at the Viglain track in the centre of the country. In qualifying, it was Mugen racer Renaud Savoya that took the top qualifying spot in front of Xray racer Jerome Sartel in 2nd, while Kyosho driver Jerome Aigoin took 3rd ahead of his brother Yannick Aigoin, driving a Losi, in 4th. It was Sartel that won the semi final to take the pole position for the main final, ahead of the Aigoin brothers, with Jerome getting the upper hand once again. In the final there was a close battle between the front 3 drivers with Jerome Aigoin eventually taking the win by just over a second from his brother Yannick, who was 11 seconds ahead of Renaud Savoya in 3rd, while pole man Sartel dropped to 4th, finishing 1 lap down.

Source: RC Mag [rcmag.com]

April 28, 2008

Batlle takes Spanish 1/8th TT Rd2

The 2nd round of the Spanish 1/8th scale buggy Nationals was run at the weekend at the Silla track in Valencia. Qualifying saw round 1 winner Robert Batlle stamp his authority on the event by taking the top qualifying spot from Richi Gomez in 2nd and Borja Hernandez 3rd. After the semi finals it was Robert who would start from pole in the main final and with a clear track in front of him he could claim the lead from the start. The Hobao driver would eventually take the win at the end of the 45 minute final by only 6 seconds from the battling pair of Richi Gomez and Borja Hernandez, Gomez taking the runner up spot by just over half a second in front of Borja.

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April 27, 2008

Christoffer Svensson dominates NXC 08

Neo Buggy are reporting on a fantastic weekend for Christoffer Svensson at the Nordic Xray Challenge, who dominated the whole race from start to finish with double TQ, double pole position and wins in both the buggy and truggy classes. In the buggy main, Svensson took the lead from pole before dropping to 2nd on lap 2, and then retaking the lead before driving away. Hazlewood battled early on with Gustafsson, with Gus eventually opening a gap from Hazlewood, but was unable to fully catch a hard-charging Svensson. In the end Gustafsson was denied a worthy second place by clutch issues and this left Hazlewood in 2nd and Mikael Palsson in 3rd. In the truggy class Svensson started out front but was passed early by Hazlewood, and then proceeded to battle each other for a while, but fast consistent driving and good pit stops gifted Svensson the lead on lap 16. Hazlewood had 2nd place wrapped up until lap 38 where center diff issues forced him to retire and this allowed Henrik Nilsson up into 2nd and Niclas Brunsberg in 3rd.

Source: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net]

April 24, 2008

Schaer wins Swiss 1/10th Nats Rd1

The opening round of the Swiss 1/10th 200mm National Championships was run recently at the MRCL club’s track in Langenthal. Taking place under dry but cold conditions, qualifying saw Dirk Stammler take the pole position ahead of Beat Wälti in 2nd, Traugott Schaer in 3rd and Marc Bösiger 4th. The start of the main final saw Stammler go straight into the lead followed by Beat and Traugott, the latter taking over 2nd place when Walti made a small mistake. Only 4 minutes in and Dirk’s car came to a stop allowing Schaer into the lead, where he stayed, conserving his tyres until 4 minutes to the end when his car ran out of tyres completely, meaning an unscheduled stop. This allowed Walti into the lead but he too had to make an unscheduled stop before the end and this allowed Schaer back into the lead where he could take the win, ahead of a recovering Walti in 2nd and Giovanni Bonetti in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 24, 2008

Spanish EFRA 1/8th GP – Videos

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Our friends at Merlin Fuel were present at the Spanish EFRA GP, or European 1/8th scale Warm up as it was billed, in Valencia Spain last weekend and while there they made some videos of the action. The video above is from practice and some sub finals while the video below is from the main final, that was eventually won by Shepherd Velox driver Robert Pietsch.

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April 23, 2008

Darren Johnson wins BRCA 200mm Rd2

The 2nd round of the 1/10th scale BRCA National Championships took place last weekend at the Brooklands track in south east England. With Saturday being washed out, the organisers gave all competitors some running time on Sunday morning to obtain a setup for the track before going into qualifying. After a close fought qualifying battle it was Darren Johnson that claimed the TQ spot less than a second ahead of team mate Robin Hammett, with Serpent SDD driver Kyle Branson in third ahead of Mark Gilliland in 4th. The start of the final saw Darren and Robbin go out into the lead and while evenly matched on the tack, Johnson gained some time in the pitstops and this was the difference which gave him the win, with Hammet in 2nd and another Xray, that of Gareth Bell, in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 21, 2008

Heremans wins Belgian 235mm opener

The Belgian 235mm National Championships got underway recently at the small and technical Houthalen circuit, where drivers spent Saturday testing on a dry track only to arrive on race day to find a wet circuit. With the rain having stopped, the track was completely dry for start of the final but on the very first lap it started to rain lightly and everyone pitted to change tyres, then 5 minutes later the heavens opened up and another tyre stop was required. With the cars running around more like submarines, and drivers struggling to keep their engines running it was Leo Heremans, who took the win after 30 minutes of racing being the only driver to complete the full race distance. Willy Wuyts took second despite being unable to get his engine restarted in the dying minutes of the race with Luc Steylaerts claiming third for an all Serpent 835 podium.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]