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August 25, 2008

Dempsey & Whelan win Irish Nats Rd6

The final round of the Irish National On road Nitro Championships took place yesterday at the St. Annes track in Dublin with the main attention being on the 1:10 200mm class with the title still up for grabs. Team Serpent Ireland driver Clive Connolly, who wrapped up the 1:8 title and won the 1:10 A Final to go top of the standings at the previous round, was absent from the season finale meaning Xray driver Eoin Doran had the opportunity to snatch the title on tie break if he could take Round 6 victory, but it wasn’t to be. In qualifying it was top UK Championship racer Mark Gilliland that would TQ ahead of his Xray team-mate Doran with Team Serpent Ireland’s Keith Dempsey third. In the Final however both Gilliland and Doran would hit problems allowing Dempsey to take his first ever national win ahead of fellow Serpent 720 racer Chris Lawlor, who claimed his fourth podium of the season to finish 3rd in the final standings. Doran would eventually finish in the final podium placing but up front Dempsey’s win ensured the perfect 2008 National campaign for Connolly as he defended his 1:8 title and secured the 1:10 title at his first attempt. In the 1:8 Final Kyosho driver Austin Elliott TQ’d but his race ended on the opening lap after contact with another car broke his throttle servo. This allowed Colin Whelan’s Kyosho to go on to take the win from the Serpent pairing of Darragh Fox and Sean Doyle.

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August 22, 2008

Much More Stock Rubber Tire Nats

We were contacted by our good friend Scotty Ernst, who wished to inform us about an event he started a few years ago that has grown into one of their signature events at Trackside. Kicking off the 2008/09 indoor season, on October 3,4 & 5th, will be the Much More supported Stock Rubber Tire Nationals. The SRTN will feature the new Sweep tires, which have made their mark in Europe at the European Touring Series and will soon be coming to the USA. Many great things are planned for participants in the SRTN and this includes some great Much More products.

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August 21, 2008

Shepherd Velox Adj RR Anti-roll bar

Shepherd Velox Adjustable RR Anti-roll bar

Team Shepherd have announced the release of this new rear adjustable anti-roll bar for the Velox chassis. Making its debut at the European Championship in Valencia last month where they handing prototypes out to different drivers for the first time, the response was good so they have decided to add it to the existing product line. This optional part makes adjusting the rear anti roll bar stiffness really quick and simple as well as giving the racer a wide range of adjustment in this area.

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August 20, 2008

Jansen & Lepelaar win Dutch Nats Rd5

The 5th round of the Dutch Electric Touring car National Championship was held this weekend at the large and fast Groningen track in the north of the Netherlands. The weather was dry for the 5th national in a row, and in the qualifications it was saw Kyosho racer Stefan Jansen that took TQ the only racer to make 19 laps, just ahead of X-Ray racer Hugo Van Den Berg and Corally driver Luke Van Essen. In the Stock class it was Michael Lepelaar (round 3 winner) with his Tamiya who claimed the TQ spot followed by X-ray`s Frans Heinsbroek and Hotbodies driver Vasco Christiaanse on 3th place. Both class finals saw little change to the qualifying positions with Jansen taking the mod win from van den Berg in 2nd and Luke van Essen in 3rd, while in stock it was Lepelaar with the win in front of Heinsbroek in 2nd and Christiaanse 3rd.

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August 20, 2008

Westwood takes BRCA Super Stock title

Along with the modified class run at the 4th round of the BRCA touring car nationals in Halifax last weekend, the guys in the Pro Stock class was also in action. Qualifying saw Championship leader Glenn Westwood, racing the new Schumacher Mi3.5, who took the overall TQ in the variable weather conditions ahead of Dominic Carter and Byron Humphries. Conditions for the finals were also varied and with some super fast pit work on several occasions Dominic Carter got it right and chose the correct tyres to take home the first two legs of the A in fine style. Glenn Westwood needed to secure a good last run to take the overall championship as winning here was not enough for Dom to win the title. Glenn responded to the pressure with a win in leg three’s dry conditions to give him 2nd overall for the meeting which was enough to crown him BRCA Pro Stock Champion for 2008.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

August 19, 2008

Chris Grainger takes title at BRCA Rd4

Chris Grainger retained his national touring car title in fine style with yet another win at the fast flowing Halifax circuit last weekend. Coming into round 4 at Halifax, Chris was lying second in the BRCA National touring series, but despite this was still favourite to take the title as a top three finish would be enough for the Yokomo driver. Chris started his campaign in fine style taking FTD ahead of Olly Jefferies and Ben Cosgrove, two of his main championship rivals. The first final saw Chris ease away from Olly in the early stages, Olly stayed consistent but just lacked that little extra pace to challenge Chris, Chris went on to take leg from Olly and Ben. Leg two and real hard fought race, Ben came through from second as Chris half spun early in the race unfortunately collecting Olly and allowing the chasing pack through, Chris got back up too second but Ben took the leg two win. A win for Chris in leg three was enough to take the overall win and in doing so secure another National title.

Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]

August 19, 2008

Andy Báez wins Puerto Rico Rd8

The 8th round of the Puerto Rico Championship (ACRCPR) was held at the newly resealed Barceloneta track recently and it was Andy Báez who took the TQ spot and win. Andy holds the track record, established in round 7, and so was expected to be very quick at this race and he didn’t disappoint. The 45 minutes final saw a race long battle between Mugen racer Andy and Fernando Méndez driving a Xray NT1, with Andy holding on to the victory to win by over a lap from Méndez in 2nd, while Emilio García took 3rd with his Serpent 720.

Thanks to Zobeida Ocasio for the report

August 19, 2008

Stark & Giesa win German Regionals Rd3

Stark & Giesa win German North Regionals Rd3

The 3rd round of the northern German regionals for 1/8th scale and 1/10th scale gas was held last weekend at the Hamm track. Qualifying in 1/8th scale saw Jens Stark take the TQ spot from Lars Hoppe in 2nd, only 1 second behind, with Andreas Giesa and Jürgen Stark rounding out the top 4. In the 1/10th scale class it was Andreas Giesa that took the pole spot from Jens Stark in 2nd and Bernd Hasselbring and Jürgen Heenemuth in 3rd and 4th respectively. The 30 minute 1/8th scale final saw Jens Stark take a clear win by 2 laps from Giesa in 2nd and Jürgen Stark in 3rd, while in the 1/10th scale class Andreas Giesa won by 2 laps from Bernd Hasselbring in 2nd with Jens Stark taking 3rd.

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