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April 28, 2010

KM Racing H-K1 200mm prototype photos

We have shown you CAD images of the new H-K1 prototype IV back in April and today KM Racing have sent us photos and more details on their new 200mm chassis. The car is currently in production and they are aiming for a May 20th World release. As these photos are still of the prototype, there will be some changes from this version and the final production version. Firstly the foam bumper will be using a different plastic bumper top plate as standard, with the carbon bumper top plate shown in the pictures will be sold as option. A receiver box will be included as standard, the shock springs will be black in colour as standard and finally the KM Ultra lightweight clutch system will be included as standard.

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April 27, 2010

SpeedMerchant Rev6 1/12th scale

Team SpeedMerchant have released photos of the follow up to their successful Rev5 1/12th scale, the aptly named Rev6. With no concrete information yet from the company on the feature list, looking at the car we can see the immediately obvious update is the all new chassis plate, a follow up to the first single cell LiPo chassis on the previous model. We can expect full details on the new car in the near future.

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April 27, 2010

Dominik Mayer takes victory in South German Rd1

The weekend of the 17th/18th of April saw the first race of the South German 2010 season raced at the fast Bamberg track. Among the 44 participants were the two young Velox drivers Dominik Mayer and Maximilian Vogl that already had some good results last year. In total 5 qualifying rounds were held, two on Saturday afternoon, the remaining three on Sunday morning. Dominik Mayer secured himself the pole-position for the 30min final with an impressive performance, racing only two of the five qualifying rounds. During his best run he broke the old track record by 0,05 sec. Also Maxi Vogl managed to secure a direct-qualifier spot for the final by having the 3rd best time, his best lap was also fast than the old track record.

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April 27, 2010

Mark Green wins BRCA 1/8th Rd1 in Mendip

With an entry of 60 Drivers, this the first round of the Championship at the Mendip track in the west of England was going to be very competitive throughout the field and it is now not a given right that the usual Championship Contenders are guaranteed a place in the main final. To add to this, a strong contingent from Ireland arrived early Saturday morning to provide yet another obstacle to overcome.

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April 27, 2010

Fabio Ferrero wins at Mendoza State champs

Two weekends ago, the Mendoza State championship was held in the city of Mendoza, Argentina. In the standard class Vito Lanzilota claimed the pole position in front of the two Shepherd drivers Fernando Ruiz and Fabio Ferrero in 2nd and 3rd position. At he start of the main final Fabio could pass Vito, but after 4 laps Vito could re take Fabio for the 1st position again. The race was very close all the time and Fabio putted a lot of pressure on Vito, which seemed to work because after 15 minutes Vito crashed his car and Fabio could cruise to the victory. Fernando Ruiz took seconed spot, 8 laps in front of Gustavo Ruggeri.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

April 26, 2010

Dirk Wischnewski wins French 1/10th EFRA GP

Last Weekend the first Efra GP was held at the MAH Herrlisheim track in France. The track was open for free practise from Thursday till Friday, which was used by lot´s of Drivers. On Saturday morning we had 4 rounds of qualifications and two more on Sunday morning. After the qualifying it was current European Champion Dirk Wischnewski that took the pole position ahead of former World Champion Adrien Bertin, with Eric Dankel and Manuel Huber completing the direct qualifiers. From the Semi Finals Patrick Schäfer, Thomas Günsel, Oliver Mack, Bruyer Antony, Maxim Claes and Nicolas Bougnoteau bumped up into the main final.

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April 26, 2010

Francesco Tironi wins Rd1 in Italy

Something we missed last week, but the 1st round of the Italian 1/10th scale 200mm Championships took place in Gubbio the weekend before last and in the expert class it was current World Champion Daniele Ielasi, with the new Velox V10, that took the pole position. In the race however, Mugen Sirio driver Francesco Tironi won the final by a lap, while in 2nd place was former European champion and Team magic driver Dario Balestri, with 3rd place going to NT1, Max power racer Guido Barbera. Good performance in F1 class for the F.V.S.S. driver Mattia Collavo with 3rd place after a good race.

Source: F.V.S.S. [fvssrc.com]

April 26, 2010

Tobias Hepp wins 1/8 opener in Western Germany

Round one of the 1/8 nitro Western German Championship saw Tobias Hepp taking full points for the qualification of the German Nationals which will be held in September in Roetz in Southern Germany. The 16 years old Hepp achieved his victory in class 1 in front of Steven Cuypers and Frank Schewiola while 15 years old Jean-Pierre Roenicke with his victory in class 2 making it a day for the youth.

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