Eric Dankel has been crowned as the 2010 German Champion 1/10 scale nitro. With his Orcan LR3 powered Xray NT1 he crossed the finish line at the one-event German Championship held at Leipzig just two seconds ahead of pole setter Robert Pietsch with his Novarossi powered Mugen MTX4-R. The podium was completed by 2009 champion Thomas Guensel with his Xray/Orcan.
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To commemorate the winning of their first World title in the hands of Ralph Burch at the 1/10th 200mm World Championships in Houston, Xray have released this NT1 World Champion Limited edition. The car comes loaded with all the option parts used by Ralph to capture the crown.
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The 2nd round of the Italian 1/8th scale National Championships were held last weekend at the Circuito Internazuinale L.Collari in Cassino in the south of Italy close to Napoli. Qualifying saw Michele Romagnoli take pole position ahead of Carmine Raiola in 2nd, Lamberto Collari in 3rd and Andrea Cristiani in 4th. In the 45 minute final it was Alberto Picco, starting from 6th position that managed to work his way to the front to take the win by 5 seconds from 9 time World Champion Lamberto Collari in 2nd, while Carmin Raiola took 3rd spot, less than 3 second further back. In the F1 class it was a win for Andrea Lorenzi ahead of Mattia Rinaldi, with 3rd spot going to Valerio Moccia, while in F2 it was Morgan Renzi who took the victory in front of Francesco Costa and Francesco Caminita.
The super competitive Florida race series started the 2010-11 Season last weekend at the newly paved and renovated Homestead RC Super Raceway host of next year’s 1/8th Scale Nitro Worlds in April. The 1/8th scale finals was a four car battle early on with Joaquin Desoto falling back a bit turning it into a 3 car battle. Sean Lue developed engine problems about halfway and so it was down to Paolo Morganti and Roniel Regalado. Morganti was clearly the fastest car but a tire stop and some unscheduled pit stops made for a very entertaining final as he pushed hard to reduce the gap. Morganti caught Regalado with about 5 minutes to go and never looked back. Desoto finished 3rd but was later found to be 15 grams too light, elevating Tony Rice to the final podium spot. TQ DJ Apolaro had problems and dropped out early.
Source: Serpent America [serpentamerica.com] / Image: Mike Myers
It has been confirmed that Chris Grainger has won his second consecutive BRCA National Modified Championship with Schumacher and the Mi4LP. The BRCA have confirmed that no result in the final round at West London this weekend can affect Chris’ current series lead. Chris has 2 wins at Mendip and Aldershot this year backed up with 2 second places at Cotswolds and Halifax showing awesome consistency. With a best 3 races to count from 5 this can’t be beaten. The season so far has seen awesomely close battles between Chris, the Speed Passion powered car of Elliot Harper and fast charging Olly Jefferies, in what could be classed as the closest and most exciting season for many years. With the final round at West London remaining this coming weekend the rest of the Schumacher team are looking to add to their points. Currently 4 Mi4LP’s lie in the top 10 of the Modified Championship and an amazing 5 cars in the top 10 of the Pro Stock championship, with the overall title in that class still up for grabs.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
New from Team Titan and based on the SAAB 93 Aero, the S93 200mm body was designed to have shorter body length and smaller roof that standard shells. Testing showed that this gave it very good low and mid speed steering with quicker response. The big adjustable rear wing give also makes the car very stable in high speed corners. Made by 0.8mm high quality polycarbonate there is also a 0.7mm and 0.6mm ultra light version which can save 30% weight compared with the standard one. Supplied with highly detailed light decals and good quality window mask, all body sizes follow EFRA GBS rules and they expect it to get EFRA homologation for the coming season. Team Titan have also released their flywheel puller. Made by 7075-T6 aluminium and hard coated, it features a hardened steel screw. Suitable for all .12 and .21 engine flywheels.
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This past weekend the 2010 Swedish national nitro onroad cup had its final race in Eskilstuna. The cup started in May in Vaxjo, then followed by Orebro in June and Trollhattan in July and now the final race in Eskilstuna. Before the final race the two best out of three scores was to be counted with the fourth and final race being mandatory for all racers. Driven in semi dry conditions making everything very challenging and exciting, the 1/10th 200mm race was won by Niclas Nilsson racing a Max powered Xray NT1 borrowed from his friend Alexander Hagberg. In the 1/8th class the race victory was taken by Marcus Lindner racing his Novarossi powered Serpent 966. With the results added up it was Per-Ola Hard that won the 1/10th 200mm series, with Marcus Lindner taking the 1/8th series.
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TMA Motorsports and GQ America have announced the signing of Diatta Collymore to Team GQ Racing Tires for 2010 and 2011. Diatta, a young and very fast driver took a 6th place finish at the 2010 US Nationals in the 1:10th Nitro Sedan Class and with his TQ and win at the Region 1 Nitro On-Road Championships, Diatta has had a successful summer campaign. Diatta is now using GQ Tires on his Nitro and Electric cars.
I’m very happy to have GQ Tires and TMA Motorsports as my tire sponsor for the 2010-2011 racing season. After first trying them in the same shores I used to run from other brands on my nitro car, I felt an increase in traction and consistency. On top of that, the wear on my tires was minimal. I know we will be seeing some great results in the near future.
Source: TMA Motorsports [tma-motorsports.com]
