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June 21, 2007

Giesa wins 1/10th German North Regionals

Serpent are reporting on the final round of the North German National qualifying race held at the Tuttendorf track in changing conditions. Ralf Krause TQ’d with his Serpent 720 ahead of team-mate Andreas Giesa in 2nd while in the final the pairing enjoyed a superb battle for 1st before Krause lost 2nd gear, which allowed Giesa to storm home for the win. A great drive by Guttschau saw him come home in 2nd positions ensuring a podium double for Serpent, while Hasselbring came home in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 21, 2007

Juho Levanen wins Fintrack Nationals Rd6

Fintrack Nationals Rd6

Last weekend in Finland at the outdoor Tattarilla track saw the 6th round of the Fintrack series run for Electric touring cars on Saturday, with the 200mm gas cars being run on Sunday. Saturdays electric race was held in dry conditions and it was Juho Levanen, winner of the first 5 rounds of this series, that took the top qualifying spot with his Associated TC5. In the race it was Levanen all the way taking 2 final wins to claim the overall ahead of Sebastian Trzaska who got a win and a 2nd place to get 2nd overall, while Viljami Kutvonen edged out Teemu Leino for 3rd.

Can-Am Challenge / RC-Pro Series Rd1

We were contacted by our partners at the RC Pro Series with a report from the first round of the Great Lakes Division, held in Ontario, Canada at the end of May at the Hamilton track. Here is the full report from that event.

With RC-Pro making its first venture into the Canada this was surely going to be a good race. The Can-Am Challenge has grown on its own merit in the three years the Ontario 1/8 On-Road Racing Club has been in existence. Some big names from the Midwest Series crossed the border for their first trip to the challenging layout in Hamilton. This was surely more of a Can-Am Challenge than in the previous year’s races.

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June 20, 2007

Mario Rigert wins Rd2 of Swiss EP Nats

Last weekend at the GMC club of Geneva, saw the 2nd round of the Swiss electric Touring car Nationals take place under changing weather conditions. Sundays qualifying started late due to rain but when the sun came out and the track dried it was decided to make the race based on 5 qualification runs with the best 3 counting towards the final result. In the modified class, it was round 1 winner Mario Rigert, driving for Xray, that showed his class winning 4 of the 5 finals to take the overall win ahead of Corally pairing of Marc Bösiger in 2nd and Philipp Huber in 3rd.

View the full race report as well as lots of photos here.

Source: Over RC [overrc.com]

June 20, 2007

Chris Grainger wins Rd3 of BRCA Mod Nats

Rd3 of BRCA Mod Nats

Last weekend saw the 3rd round of the BRCA Electric Nationals take place at both Halifax and Southend for Modified/27T and 19T respectively. In Halifax the wet weather meant that the first 2 rounds of qualifying took place on a damp track but the track dried up for the 3rd round and it was National round 2 winner Chris Grainger, racing for Yokomo, that placed his car on the pole position spot with Associated racer Craig Drescher in 2nd. In the final it was Grainger all the way, taking the 2 final wins to take the overall round win ahead of Craig Drescher in 2nd while Hot Bodies driver Olly Jeffries finished in 3rd. In the 27T class it was Schumacher racer Lee Price that took the top honours with Adrian Bidewell in 2nd and Andrew Twigger in 3rd.

Over in Southend at the 19T class Nationals it was Mark Fuller that took the win ahead of round 1 and 2 winner Chris Kerswell, who took the pole position, but ended the event in 2nd, while Richard Thorpe claimed 3rd.

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June 19, 2007

Tomaschko wins Rd2 of Austrian Nats

Tomaschko wins Rd2 of Austrian 1/8th Nationals

Serpent are reporting on their site on the 2nd round of the Austrian Nationals that was run last weekend at the Kematen track, near Innsbruck. In the 1/8th scale class it was a win for Serpent racer Daniel Tomaschko who placed ahead of Manuel Gremlica in 2nd and Michael Selner in 3rd. In the 1/10th scale class, it was a win for Mugen racer Hupo Hönigl with Serpent driver Gerhard Kandelhart in 2nd and in 3rd was Xray racer Manuel Singer.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 19, 2007

Wartelle wins Rd3 200mm Belgian Nats

The 3rd round of the Belgian 1/10th 200mm Nationals was held last weekend in Houthalen, and as we already know young Maxim Claes won the Class 2 race at this event, but now we can tell you how the Class 1 racers faired. Qualifying saw top French National runner, and round 1 winner, Sebastian Wartelle racing a Kyosho claim the pole position for this race and in the man final he was once again the man to beat, winning the race and leading home a Kyosho clean sweep of the podium with team mates Jerome Renaux and Maarten Kempeneers finishing in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

June 19, 2007

Balestri wins Rd2 1/10th Italian Nationals

The 2nd round of the Italian Nationals was held 2 weekends ago at the Padova track in the North East of the country, near Venice. This race was dominated by current European Champion Dario Balestri who, running the new Team Magic G4+, took the pole position after setting fastest times in all qualifying rounds to line up ahead of current European ‘B’ Champion, and Serpent driver, Alessio Mazzeo in 2nd with the 3rd qualifying spot going to former 1/8th scale European Champion Daniele Ielasi. At the start of the 45 minute final a coming together broke the front right shock on Mazzeo’s car losing him 5 laps and forcing him to push hard for the rest of the race to claw back time. Balestri who led from the start was pushing hard as he was the only driver due to make a tire stop and so had to build a big enough time cushion to stay in front, which he managed to do, however his engine stalled and he lost the lead to Mugen racer Giuseppe D’angelo but Dario, on new tires to easily catch and pass him. Balestri took the win, 7 seconds ahead of D’angelo in 2nd with 3rd spot going to Kyosho racer Daniele Ielasi.

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