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September 17, 2009

Grainger & Bowden wins BRCA TC Season Finale

2009 saw the BRCA 1:10 electric section return to one of the longest established outdoor tracks in the UK, Mendip, this was the final round of the touring car national series and saw a victory for Chris Grainger. Chris had already secured this years title at the previous round and was under no pressure as he dominated the event with his Mi4. In qualifying Chris set pole position for the A final ahead of the Hot Bodies Cyclone of Ben Cosgrove and the Associated TC5 of Olly Jefferies. The three leg finals saw some great racing, Chris took victory in the first two legs while Ben took leg three, Olly Jefferies was second in all three legs and this left the finishing positions as Chris the winner ahead of Olly and Matt White who had a great weekend with his Schumacher Mi4. In the Pro Stock class championship leader Jon Bowden took FTD, Jon only needed a top three result to secure his title and did it in style with his Hot Bodies Cyclone, Jon won all three legs of the Pro Stock A final to be crowned 2009 Pro Stock champion, behind Jon on the day were Lee Price for Schumacher and a stunning drive from one of the UK’s young up and coming stars Zak Smith who finished third for Associated.

Click here to see the Pro Stock podium

September 17, 2009

Item Software Systems HUI Driver

New from Item Software Systems from Germany is software that not only supports the racers individual setup sheets but offers the possibility to attach the lap times directly to it. HUI driver comes with a special USB stopwatch that stores up to 500 laps which can be hooked up to your system and which imports these automatically. On tracks where the company’s race timing system is installed, transfer of lap times will be done automatically through WLAN based on the personal transponder number. Setup progress can be monitored step by step and as each scale has their own special features, these features will be available separately through plugins for the software. This first release is for 1:8 and 1:10 on road gas and has plugins for this scale such as overdrive calculation, tire wear calculation for each of the four tires individually, refueling strategy as well as race strategy simulation, based on all available data, including refueling and tire wear. You can see for yourself by downloading the demo version of HUI driver 1.0 here.

Click here to see screenshots from the software package

September 17, 2009

Xray NT1 EC limited edition

To celebrate Xray winning the 2009 European Championship with their NT1, Xray have released the NT1 EC limited edition. This high-performance, high-value kit includes over 250Euro/350USD of the same all-high performance option parts that helped the team to dominate the race. The NT1 has earned not only EC victories but also dozens of national titles around the world including US Champion title, not to mention awards and accolades from international press and magazines. Use and race the same car as the Team Xray factory racing team. This quantity-limited offer is available only while stock lasts.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 16, 2009

Swauger & Lemieux take ROAR Fuel titles

We are a bit late on this one, but the ROAR on road Fuel Nationals took place 2 weeks ago in Toledo and combined both the 1/8th scale and 1/10th scale 200mm classes. In the 1/8th scale class it was Ralph Burch Jr that took the pole position ahead of Scott Kimbrow, Paolo Morganti and Paul Ciccarello, while in the 1/10th scale class it was Paul Lemieux that took the pole position in front of Ralph Burch, Bobby Flack and Josh Cyrul. In the 1/8th scale final Mike Swauger was able to come to the front and take the win for Mugen, finishing a lap clear of Serpent driver Paolo Morganti in 2nd, with Paul Ciccarello a further 2 laps back in 3rd. The 200mm final saw a lights to flag victory for Lemieux, bringing his Xray home over 3 laps clear of Josh Cyrul in 2nd with Ralph Burch taking the final podium spot in 3rd.

Source: Mugen [mugenseiki.com]

September 16, 2009

US Open Fuel Championships – Announcement

The organisers of the US Open Fuel Championships were in touch to tell us that the 4th running of the event will take place from the 3rd to the 6th of December. Open to Sedan and 1/8th which sees a Factory and Open class in each, the race will once again be held at the Kissimmee Raceway in Florida. For more information on the event, including details on how to enter, visit the events official site here.

September 16, 2009

Hupo wins Mod as CRC dominate 1/12th at IIC

More news from last weeks IIC which in 1:12th scale modified, saw Austrian racer Hupo Honigl take his CRC Gen-XL to a convincing win in the A-final. Hupo absolutely ran away with the win setting fast lap and running a string of laps that no other competitor could match. In fact, Hupo’s average top 20 fast laps were faster than any other driver’s single fastest lap. In the 17.5 turn 1:12th scale class Brian Wynn took his new Gen-XL to a T.Q. by almost 1 full lap and backed it up with the win . In the main, while Brian drove away from the field, a good battle ensued for second, which in the end went to CRC Michigan Mafia driver Jody Flipse. In the 13.5 turn 1/12th A-main, it was again a CRC sweep with D’Agnolo, Wynn, Calandra and Hönigl finishing 1-2-3-4. With Hupo’s 4th place finish, he won the “non-Advanced” speed control division.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

September 15, 2009

Keven Hébert wins 13.5 Rubber class at IIC

The 5th Annual International Indoor Championship (IIC), presented by Scotty Ernst, was hosted over the weekend at the Riviera in the heart of the Las Vegas strip. With 90 entries in the class, Team Associated/Reedy’s Keven Hébert took his TC5R to the top qualifying position and eventually the A-main victory in the ultra competitive 13.5 Rubber Touring Car category. Hébert was on a mission to add to his impressive career resume by setting the fastest time each time he was on the track. With challenges from former World Champion Andy Moore, multi-time Reedy Race & National Champion Barry Baker, the young Associated star stood up to the pressure and claimed the top qualifying position. As the tone sounded for the main event, Hébert jumped out to a lead that would never be challenged. Waiting in the cat bird seat, Hohnstein took advantage of a tangle between Moore and Baker and jumped in to second position. Three minutes later, Hohnstein had Moore all over his back door and never cracked; even making a clean pass back on the World Champion after a wide corner. With Hébert on a victory lap, all Hohnstein had to do was drive around traffic to claim the runner up spot with Mike Haynes 3rd.

Click here to see a video of the final

September 15, 2009

Maxime Favrelle wins French 200mm Nats Rd4

Round 4 of the French 1/10th scale 200mm Nationals took place at the weekend at the Niort track in the west of the country. Maxime Favrelle won the race after taking the lead when Jacky Mouton made his tyre stop. Maxime kept the same set of Kronos tyres for the whole race and could take the win ahead of Arnaud Chaussard in 2nd and Basile Concialdi 3rd, giving the Xray NT1 the complete podium.

Source: Racing Experience [racing-experience.fr]