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May 2, 2007

1/10th European B Championships – Day 2

European B Championships

Ok, so we will skip straight to day 2 of the 1/10th scale Euro B Championships as not a lot happened on day 1 in Roeselare except all of the drivers arriving and getting to grips with the track, and day 2 is not much different. Controlled practice started today (Tuesday) and so the first times have come out, but as it is still practice i wouldnt read into the times too much as i heard the track is still trying to lose its coating of dust and for the grip to really come up and people are still practicing and so not running at full race pace for the entire session. Local racer Steve Lambrechts is topping the times, although he is 2 laps up on everyone so he seemed to be pushing it in his practice run, while another Belgian, Henriet Manuel is next up ahead of Swiss driver Traugott SchÃ¤r.

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May 2, 2007

Kyosho Inferno MP7.5 Sports MKIII

Kyosho have announced that this new Readyset version of their World Championship winning Inferno will be available in June of this year. The car comes completely assembled, all you need to do is attach the air filter and antenna, add fuel and batteries and you are ready to race. The Inferno MP7.5 Sports 3 is ideal for first time GP buggy owners, who wonâ€™t fail to recognize the World Champion Infernoâ€™s racing heritage at its core. Turnbuckle tie-rods and upper suspension arms provide wide scope for setting adjustments. Equipped with high torque digital servos, the universal joints on the front axle deliver robust running performance and reliability.

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May 1, 2007

Mark Green wins Rd2 of UK 1/8th Nats

Mark Green was once again on top form as the British 1/8th National series headed south for the 2nd round of the championships. Taking place last weekend this event was run at the Crystal Palace circuit near London under warm Spring sunshine and it was indeed Mark that set the fastest qualifying time but was closely matched by local veteran Dave Dixon. In the main final Mark got away cleanly but Dixon ran into a stray pit man putting him out on the spot, which made it an easy run for Green to cruise home and take the win for Serpent ahead of Neil Diver in 2nd and Andrew North in 3rd.

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May 1, 2007

SoCal Saturday series – Round 1

SoCal Saturday series - Round 1

Last Saturday saw the first round of the SoCal Saturday Series which took place at ‘The Dirt’ facility in California. The race was attended by all the big names including The Drake and World Champion Mark Pavidis as well as many other National and local hotshots. Adam Drake, racing for Losi, won both the Gas Truck class in a close race with Billy Laster, as well as the Pro Buggy class winning from Mugen racer Scott Hughes. Bobby Tullman took the Open Truggy win, only 3 seconds ahead of Ryan Lutz with Pavidis in 3rd.

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May 1, 2007

Eastbourne Electric Car Club open day

EECC Track

The people from the EECC have been in touch to announce their upcoming Open race day that will take place on their excellent new facility in Eastbourne in the south east of England. The Open day will happen on the 3rd of June and will be attended by top drivers such as confirmed entrants David Spashett, Chris Grainger and Andy Moore with the event open to Electric Touring cars in Mod, 19T and 27T categories. This is a great opportunity to run on this new track as well as run with the top guys so be sure to get your entry in soon to be ensured of a place.

Click here to enter directly or find out more about the EECC here.

May 1, 2007

Team Kyosho win Israeli 3h Endurance

Our partners RC Zone in Israel have written to us to report on last weekends Israeli Endurance race took place at the Hot-Wheels racing club. The event attracted many top drivers from all over the country to participate in the event. Each team consisted of 3 drivers, and with the race 3 hours long, each driver in the team had to run for 1 hour making it a true test of endurance for both man and machine. The event was won by Team Kyosho who came out on top by 2 laps ahead of the Pro Line Racing Team in 2nd while Team GS finished 3rd a further 4 laps back, pretty close running considering the length of the race.

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May 1, 2007

Juho Levanen wins Fintrack Rd4

Fintrack Rd4

Round 4 of the Fintrack series was run 2 weekends ago at the mid sized Laukaa track, the last indoor race of the series, with 4 outdoor rounds to follow. As seems to be a recurring result it was once again Associated racer, and last weekends LRP masters winner, Juho Levanen that took the top spot in qualifying ahead of team mate Christer Andersson in 2nd and Corally driver Simo Ahoniemi in 3rd. In the race it was Levanen all the way, taking the win easily ahead of Ahoniemi in 2nd with 3rd place falling to Xray driver Pekka Koivula.

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Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 1, 2007

Jerome Sartel takes Rd2 of French Nats

Last weekend saw the second round of the French 1/8th scale buggy nationals take place at the USB Racing Car track in Bergerac. In qualifying it was European Champion Yannick Aigoin driving for Xray that was the fastest qualifier, but it was Crono racer, and Belgian GP winner, Jerome Sartel that started from the number 1 spot in the race with Yannick starting from 2nd and Renaud Savoya from 3rd. The race saw a close battle between Sartel and round 1 winner Guilliame Vray, racing for Mugen, with the pair only seperated by 13 seconds after the 45 minutes with Sartel taking the win, Vray in 2nd with 3rd position going to Kyosho racer Jerome Aigoin who finished just ahead of his brother Yannick who came home 4th.

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