2008

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Ballymoney in Northern Ireland was host to the first ever Merlin Fuel Ulster Grand Prix on September 28th with nitro cars making a successful return to the once popular nitro venue. Organised by the Ulster Model Car Club, the GP attracted a quality entry including former Irish National 1:10 200mm Champions Chris Steele & Stephen Hayes, and British Championship race winner Mark Gilliland.

With competitors receiving a very warm welcome on their arrival to the track, many of whom who were making their first visit, the organisers also put on a very tasty complimentary BBQ for all the drivers and their mechanics during the lunch break.

In qualifying it was Steele driving a Kyosho that claimed TQ honours from Gilliland’s Xray. In the final the pair had a thrilling battle for the lead, swapping positions lap after lap, but a small error by Steele was eventually enough to allow Gilliland to break clear and take the victory. 2007 Irish Champion Hayes, also

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La 5ª y última prueba del Cto. de Portugal 1:8 TT se celebró el pasado 7 de Septiembre en el circuito de Torres Vedras, el mismo que acogió este verano la copa RB.

Miguel Matías coronó una estupenda temporada al conseguir la Pole y su quinta victoria de la temporada, que le hace campeón por octava vez desde 1999.

En la final Miguel Matías no dio opción a sus rivales y mantuvo la primera plaza durante toda la carrera. El segundo lugar del cajó fue para el Piloto Merlin Carlos Durães y la tercera plaza fue a parar a un sorprendente Pedro Figueiredo. Rodrigo Luis, por su parte, acusó algún problema de motor que le relegó a la 4ª posición.

Final Classification of the 5th round of Portuguese Nats: 1º Miguel Matias – (Kyosho/Sirio) – 73 Laps 2º Carlos Durães – (Hobao/RB/Merlin Fuel) – 72 Laps 3º Ricardo Monteiro – (Xray/GRPl) – 70 Laps 4º

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The 5th and last round of the Portuguese National championships took place on the 7th September at the Torres Vedras track; used for the RB Cup the weekend before. Miguel Matias wrapped up a fine domestic season TQing and taking his 5th round win of the season crowning him national champion for 8th time since 1999.

In the qualifications, the track was a bit bumpy and dusty, making in some parts of the track being very technical and hard to drive, but still Kyosho Driver Miguel Matias made the TQ, in 2nd was Cen’s Rodrigo Luís and followed by a surprising Pedro Figueiredo in 3rd(Xray), the qualifying were marked by Hong Nor’s Fernando Almeida problems with electronics, putting him in the back of the table. The final went down with the track getting bumpier and dustier, Miguel Matias started from the last place, because he asked some time for technical problems, in the beginning of the A-Main everyone was packed together, trading places

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The 4th and final round for the Spanish 1:8 Off-Road Nat. Championship took place last Sunday at Santa Oliva Track.
Robert Battle gets his 4th consecutive victory in the Championship.

After a light rain on Saturday, Sunday was a nice sunny day. So all the drivers could enjoy the last round of 2008 Nat. Championship.

The main Final was dominated by Ricardo Gómez, but with 10 minutes lefting one he suffered an engine stop proabably caused by a glow plug, that made him go to 3rd, leaving a clear way to Robert Battle who made 4/4 on this season, leaving no options to his rivals.

At the end of the race the final 2008 classification was published  and the 3 first qualified got their Trophies for the overall Nat. Championship.

The Race positions:


1. Robert Battle 79 v.

2. Daniel Vega 78 v.

3. Ricardo Gómez 78 v.

4. Borja Hernández 78 v.

5. Adrián Pérez Mayoral 78 v.

6. Daniel bernabé Nicolás 76 v.

7. Alex Calatayud 74 v.

8. Carmelo Baldo 74 v.

9. Raúl Peris 73 v.

10. Raúl Daras 73 v.

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El 7 de Septiembre, tuvo lugar en Sta. Oliva la última prueba del Cto. de España de 1:8 TT.

Con el campeón ya decidido faltaba por completar los puestos de honor de la clasificación general 2008.

Robert Battle, se adjudicó el pleno, ya que esta temporada, ha sido capaz de ganar las 4 pruebas de que ha constado el campeonato 2008.

La calsifiación final fue:

1. Robert Battle 79 v.

2. Daniel Vega 78 v.

3. Ricardo Gómez 78 v.

4. Borja Hernández 78 v.

5. Adrián Pérez Mayoral 78 v.

6. Daniel bernabé Nicolás 76 v.

7. Alex Calatayud 74 v.

8. Carmelo Baldo 74 v.

9. Raúl Peris 73 v.

10. Raúl Daras 73 v.

11. Alberto García 73 v.

12. Ignacio Candel 71 v.

Al finalizar la carrera se entregaron los trofeos de la temporada Regular. Los 12 primeros clasificados han sido:

1 ROBERT BATLLE SANCHEZ 2 RICARDO GOMEZ MALAGON 3 BORJA HERNANDEZ CORDOBA 4 DANIEL VEGA FRIAS 5 ADRIAN PEREZ MAYORAL 6 CARMELO BALDO LIDON 7 ANTONIO JESUS GOMEZ SALMERON<br

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Un usuario de Youtube ha publicado recientemente una colección de 6 vídeos cortos del Campeonato del Mundo de 1:10 200 mm. que se celebró este verano en Portugal.

Se puede acceder al resto de vídeos pulsando en este enlace

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Last weekend took place the 2008 RB cup at Torres Vedras (Portugal)

Expert series, with 73 drivers had the largest entries and 15 drivers took part in Pro Series.

Pic: RB-Products

Final Results:

Pro Class 

1. Jerome Sartel

2. Miguel Lopes

3. Ignacio Alvárez

Carlos Durães took the victory in Expert Class

1. Carlos Durães – Merlin fuel

2. Angel Roque

3. Pedro Figueiredo

Pic: RB-Products

Full info at: RB site

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