Multiple ROAR Florida State Series Champion Gene Hickerson has added another title to his impressive off road racing CV by winning the 2007 Brazil 1:8 Buggy National Championships at Asa Branca Speedway in Fortaleza over the weekend. Starting from 2nd on the grid the CEN Racing team driver used his Matrix Buggy to good effect to win the title comfortably from Mugen pairing Kris Moore and Henrique Winik.
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Steven Hayes won the Irish 1:10 Onroad National Championship in the best way possible over the weekend by taking his 3rd win of the season in the ORCA run series. Racing in the 6th round of the championship at the St. Annes Park track, the Xray/Nosram driver won the event after defending champion Chris Steele dropped out of the lead with engine trouble 3-minutes from the end of the 30-minute final. Serpent drivers Eoin Doran and Chris Lawlor completed the podium.
In 1:8 Clive Connolly headed home standings leader Darragh Fox for his third win of the season but the Serpent pairing will have to wait two weeks till the re-run of the 4th round, which was rained off, to decide who will be crowned 1:8 Champion. Mugen driver Austin Elliot was third.
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Darren Johnson has sown up the BRCA British 1:10 200mm National Championship title in style winning the penultimate round at Wrexham over the weekend. His fifth win of the season, the Team Magic driver secured back to back titles for the G4 which last month achieved the same success at the European Championships. The first time that the 200mm foam championship visited the Wrexham track, it was Ben Cosgrove who TQ’d the event. A wet final saw Ben Cosgrove lead the opening laps but by lap 3 Johnson was all over the back of his car eventually finding a way past. Cosgrove was later to join the long list of retirements as the wet conditions took its toll. Taking the win Johnson was joined on the podium by Chris Slater and Kyle Branson.
In the 1:10 235mm National encounter it was European Champion Glyn Beal who took the win from Jon Withington.
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Having won the 1:8 Onroad German Nationals back in July driving for his employer Shepherd, Robert Pietsch has completed an impressive double by winning the 1:10 200mm National title with Xray over the weekend. Starting from second on the grid Pietsch overtook Top Qualifier Dirk Wischnewski to lead home a 1,2,3 for the NT1 with Martin Christensen completing the podium.
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The 2007 Japanese 1:8 Onroad Nationals took place over the weekend at the Central Racing Park track where Yuya Sahashi took the win from defending champion Keisuke Fukuda. Serpent driver Sahashi TQ’d the event ahead of younger brother Tadahiko with another Serpent driver Takahiro Terauchi and Mugen’s Fukuda the other direct qualifiers. In the Final Yuya Sahashi set the pace for the 45-minute race to win from Fukuda who managed to find a way past both Tadahiko Sahashi, who completed the podium, and Terauchi.
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The 6th round of the Dutch 1/8th scale Nationals was held last weekend at the ultra smooth Apeldoorn track in the east of the country. The drivers were greeted with great weather and in the NK main final it was Kyosho racer Ilia Van Gastel, who won here last year in the Nomac class, that took the win from Marcel Schouten in 2nd and Danny Leeuwis in 3rd. In the Nomac class it was a win for Miquel Hereijgers ahead of Donny Blommers in 2nd with Peter van Marion claiming 3rd.
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Serpent have an interesting story on their site about Champ Car star and soon to be Formula One driver Sebastien Bourdais who tried out one of their F180 formula cars yesterday (Thursday) at Assen where he and his Newman Haas Lanigan Team are preparing for this weekend’s second European Champ Car World Series encounters. The reigning Champ Car Champion drove one of three F180s brought by Serpent to the 1:1 track which is situated in the north of Holland. While light rain made the temporary r/c track, which was situated right in front of the Newman Haas Lanigan Team pitbox, tricky Bourdais proved to be a natural at the controls as he and his Crew Chief Pedro raced one another. Both were impressed with the handling and speed of the 1:8 scale car as well as the strenght of the parts as they made contact on a number of occassions!!
The French Cup for 1:8th Off Road took place over the weekend at the Pertuis track in the South of France where former World Champion Guillaume Vray showed he still has it by taking the victory. The event saw 123 drivers tackle the winding and very dusty track where temperatures reached as high as 35 degrees over the two days. Driving his RB powered Mugen, 2004/2005 World Champion Vray won the 45-minute final from Crono driver Jérôme Sartel with Renaud Savoya making it two Mugen’s on podium in third despite suffering radio problems
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