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November 2, 2007

Chris Tosolini wins US Open Fuel Sedans

Chris Tosolini wins Open Fuel Sedan Nats

Last weekend saw the second annual US Open Fuel Sedan Championships held at the Kissimmee track in Florida. The race saw around 70 entries turn up for the 3 day event with 3 qualifying rounds run on Friday, 1 more that originally planned due to Saturday’s weather forecast which turned out be correct and rain caused the cancellation of the further 4 rounds on that day. On Sunday the rain was still there in the morning but it dried up and the finals could be run, including the 20 minute triple A-mains. Starting the each of the main finals from pole position was Xray racer Paul LeMiuex with 2nd and 3rd spot on the grid going to Kyosho racer Chris Tosolini and Serpent runner DJ Apolaro respectively. With two wins, in the first 2 finals, it was Chris Tosolini that came out on top taking the overall win in front of Xray racer Barry Baker in 2nd, scoring three 2nd places, and DJ Apolaro rounding out the podium in 3rd with two 3rd positions.

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October 31, 2007

Sotiropoulos is Greek 1/8th Champion

Serpent are reporting that John Sotiropoulos has made the perfect defence of his Greek 1:8 National Championship title winning the final round of the Championship at Arena track to claim the 2007 crown. Driving a Serpent 960, Sotiropoulos TQ’d the event ahead of team-mate Mimis Papadopoulos and in the final Sotiropoulos stormed to victory ahead of 2nd placed Kirikos Anastasiadis racing a Mugen, while Papadopoulos brought his car home 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 30, 2007

Nicolas Guillot wins 1/8th Coupe de France

Last weekend saw the Coupe de France for 1/8th scale run at the MRTE circuit near the town of Evry, close to Paris. Qualification saw recently crowned French National Champion Nicolas Guillot take the pole position for Mugen from Kyosho racer Stéphane Riccobono, with Adrien Siegfried in 3rd also for Kyosho. As with the Nationals, there are no direct qualifiers and all racers must take part in the Semi Finals to determine the final starting order and it was Stéphane Bouche that was quickest lining up first for the main final in front of Adrien Siegfried. In the main final it was a good start for Bouche and Siegfried who immediately took the lead however it was Bouche that was to have a coming together with another racer, knocking him out of the lead and down to 3rd behind Siegfried who took over the lead and Guillot who moved up into 2nd. Close to the end of the racer Siegfried also had some troubles which caused him to slow and allowed Guillot through into the lead and to take the win and Bouche up into 2nd, while Siegfried eventually finished 3rd.

Source: JP Racing [jpracing.com]

October 29, 2007

Surikarn C. & Paphon C. take FEMCA titles

Surikarn C. wins FEMCA buggy Champs

The 2007 FEMCA Championship for 1/8th off road buggy and truggy classes were run last weekend in Pattaya, Thailand and it saw a win for Surikarn C. in buggy and Paphon C. in truggy. The buggy class was TQ’d by Kyosho racer Panit ahead of Hwang Sun Young with another Kyosho while Hot Bodies racer Surikarn was 3rd, but after the semi finals it was Xray driver Meen V. that was on pole position with Surikarn in 2nd. And the race was battled out between the 2 racers with Surikarn eventually taking the win by 1 lap at the end of the 1 hour final with Meen V. in 2nd and HongNor racer Yeh Hsia Ching a further lap back in 3rd. In the truggy class it was TQ for CEN driver Paphon C. with Mugen driver Chai Kok Chin in 2nd and Alan Looi in 3rd, also for Mugen and it didn’t change much after the semi finals apart from Chai Kok Chin dropping down to 5th in the starting order. The 45 minute long final saw the win go to pole man Paphon C. by 2 laps in front of Alan Looi in 2nd and John Ho in 3rd, 1 lap further back.

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October 29, 2007

Renaud Savoya wins 1/8th Pre Worlds

After almost a week of muddy and super tricky conditions brought on by mid week rain, the Pre Worlds finals for 1/8th scale buggies were eventually run on a muddy track at the Farm 2 track in Charlotte, North Carolina. An extremely tricky qualifying saw Jammin racer Taylor James take the TQ spot from Kyosho pairing of Kelbey Roberts and Lance Norick with Billy Easton rounding out the top 4 with the Serpent protoype. After the Semi finals, in which the tricky conditions once more took their toll, it was Taylor James who would start from Pole position ahead of Mugen racer Daniel Vega from Spain and Mike Truhe racing for Losi in 3rd. The 1 hour final saw a good pace for Truhe, but 2 flameouts cancelled out any performance advantage he had and left him trailing Savoya who was leading. The Losi driver was able to catch the leader by the end, who was suffering from receiver battery problems, but it was not to be as Truhe had to stop just before the 1 hour was up due to mechanical problems although he still came home 2nd with Raul Peris for Kyosho in 3rd.

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October 25, 2007

Paul LeMieux wins Midwest Series

Xray have a report from their team driver Paul LeMieux on the sixth and final race of the Midwest series, which was held in Toledo, Ohio recently. After 4 rounds of qualifying it was LeMieux who was on the pole position with the NT1, ahead of Andy Powers in 2nd and Chris Doseck in 3rd, the latter having ran out of fuel on his final and potentially fastest run. In the finals it was Paul and Andy that could pull away from the pack at the start with Chris settling in to 3rd but after some time Andy started to fall back into the clutches of Doseck, who managed to get passed into 2nd and was able to go after his team mate LeMieux. Bad luck for Chris however who flamed out after a coming together with a marshall with 10 minutes to run, which dropped him down the order. In the end it was Paul LeMieux that took the win from Andy Powers in 2nd and Ira Schultz in 3rd, this win gave Paul the Midwest title with Doseck finishing as runner up in the standings.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 23, 2007

Matticoli crowned Argentine Champion

Serpent are reporting that their Argentinian team driver Juan Ignacio Matticoli has won the 2007 Argentine National Championship for 1:10 200mm. Held in the La Tablada province of Buenos Aires, the National Championship attracted the best drivers from across the country but it was Matticoli, driving a Serpent 720, that won the two day competition in dominant fashion, winning the 45-minute Main Final by 5 laps ahead of Mugen driver Adrian Castro in 2nd with Kyosho racer Enzo Branciforte 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 23, 2007

David Crompton rejoins Crono

Our partners Neo Buggy have the news that 8 times British National Champion David Crompton has rejoined Italian buggy maker Radiosistemi to race their new Crono RS7GR. David left the Italian manufacturer at the end of last year to take on the challenge of the new Team Magic M1B, but then moved to Hobao from the middle of the season onwards after the M1B failed to deliver. David had this to say about his new deal –

I would really like to thank HoBao and CML for all their support this year, I’m happy to be back at Radiosistemi, and the RS7GR is the best handling car I have ever driven, everything is improved, quality, performance, speed!

Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]