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June 21, 2007

Juho Levanen wins Fintrack Nationals Rd6

Fintrack Nationals Rd6

Last weekend in Finland at the outdoor Tattarilla track saw the 6th round of the Fintrack series run for Electric touring cars on Saturday, with the 200mm gas cars being run on Sunday. Saturdays electric race was held in dry conditions and it was Juho Levanen, winner of the first 5 rounds of this series, that took the top qualifying spot with his Associated TC5. In the race it was Levanen all the way taking 2 final wins to claim the overall ahead of Sebastian Trzaska who got a win and a 2nd place to get 2nd overall, while Viljami Kutvonen edged out Teemu Leino for 3rd.

Can-Am Challenge / RC-Pro Series Rd1

We were contacted by our partners at the RC Pro Series with a report from the first round of the Great Lakes Division, held in Ontario, Canada at the end of May at the Hamilton track. Here is the full report from that event.

With RC-Pro making its first venture into the Canada this was surely going to be a good race. The Can-Am Challenge has grown on its own merit in the three years the Ontario 1/8 On-Road Racing Club has been in existence. Some big names from the Midwest Series crossed the border for their first trip to the challenging layout in Hamilton. This was surely more of a Can-Am Challenge than in the previous year’s races.

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June 21, 2007

Futaba Nitro Challenge – Race Announcement

Futaba Nitro Challenge

The organisers of this years Futaba Nitro Challenge were in touch to let everyone know that the dates for this great event have been finalised, with the race set to take place on the 19th – 23rd of September. As with last years event, this years Nitro Challenge will be run on the HX Raceway in Bossier City, Louisiana and is expected to draw a large crowd, all hoping to get a piece of the action that saw Taylor James walk away last year with $2000 in prize money.

Go to the official event site to find out more information and get the entry form.

June 19, 2007

Tomaschko wins Rd2 of Austrian Nats

Tomaschko wins Rd2 of Austrian 1/8th Nationals

Serpent are reporting on their site on the 2nd round of the Austrian Nationals that was run last weekend at the Kematen track, near Innsbruck. In the 1/8th scale class it was a win for Serpent racer Daniel Tomaschko who placed ahead of Manuel Gremlica in 2nd and Michael Selner in 3rd. In the 1/10th scale class, it was a win for Mugen racer Hupo Hönigl with Serpent driver Gerhard Kandelhart in 2nd and in 3rd was Xray racer Manuel Singer.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 19, 2007

Wartelle wins Rd3 200mm Belgian Nats

The 3rd round of the Belgian 1/10th 200mm Nationals was held last weekend in Houthalen, and as we already know young Maxim Claes won the Class 2 race at this event, but now we can tell you how the Class 1 racers faired. Qualifying saw top French National runner, and round 1 winner, Sebastian Wartelle racing a Kyosho claim the pole position for this race and in the man final he was once again the man to beat, winning the race and leading home a Kyosho clean sweep of the podium with team mates Jerome Renaux and Maarten Kempeneers finishing in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

June 19, 2007

Great Lakes Championship Series Rd 2

We received a report from the 2nd round of the Great Lakes Championship series for off road which was held last weekend under very hot conditions at Sammys Speedway in London, Ontario, Canada. Attracting 140 competitors over 3 classes, GLORCS is a Canadian Racing series that is in its 3rd season running organized racing in Canada and this year the series includes 7 races which include stops at tracks in New York State, Ontario and Quebec.

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June 19, 2007

Kyosho Masters – Truggy final video

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So we have shown you already a lot of great RC Mag videos from this years Kyosho Masters but we still have one more race to show you and thats the truggy final in which World Champion Mark Pavidis took the win. The first part is above and you can see the other 2 parts below.

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June 19, 2007

Balestri wins Rd2 1/10th Italian Nationals

The 2nd round of the Italian Nationals was held 2 weekends ago at the Padova track in the North East of the country, near Venice. This race was dominated by current European Champion Dario Balestri who, running the new Team Magic G4+, took the pole position after setting fastest times in all qualifying rounds to line up ahead of current European ‘B’ Champion, and Serpent driver, Alessio Mazzeo in 2nd with the 3rd qualifying spot going to former 1/8th scale European Champion Daniele Ielasi. At the start of the 45 minute final a coming together broke the front right shock on Mazzeo’s car losing him 5 laps and forcing him to push hard for the rest of the race to claw back time. Balestri who led from the start was pushing hard as he was the only driver due to make a tire stop and so had to build a big enough time cushion to stay in front, which he managed to do, however his engine stalled and he lost the lead to Mugen racer Giuseppe D’angelo but Dario, on new tires to easily catch and pass him. Balestri took the win, 7 seconds ahead of D’angelo in 2nd with 3rd spot going to Kyosho racer Daniele Ielasi.

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