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El pasado fin de semana, se disputó la última prueba del Cto. Nacional de Bélgica 1:8 pista.
Robin D’Hondt, sumó una nueva victoria, 4ª en la temporada regular. Robin ya era matemáticamente campeón desde la 5ª prueba, en la que se clasificó en segundo lugar.

Mención especial al jovencísimo Daan Haling, que se hizo con la victoria en la categoría F2, por segunda ocasión esta temporada.

Desde Bélgica, Robin nos manda su visión de la carrera:

«The 6th and last round of the Belgian championship was also held at the track of Charleroi, the original idea was to have this race at the track of Bierset but sadly enough the track had to close its gates for an airport expansion. Friday evening we arrived there, rain was falling out of the skies. Think the gods don’t like me or so, 6 Belgian championships this year => 6 times rain on Sunday or Saturday … Great! Saturday when the track was finally dry, qualifications had to be run. So I

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El pasado 5 de Octubre, se celebró la Copa de Portugal 2008 (Taça de Portugal) en la pista de Vila-Real, donde se dieron cita los mejores pilotos Lusitanos de la especialidad.

La pista, que no se encontraba en su mejor momento, se fue deteriorando paulatinamente con las series, hasta quedar llena de baches y con mucho polvo. Esto obligó  alos pilotos a extremar la precisión en su pilotaje ya que en estas condiciones, resultaba difícil manetener los coches en el trazado del «Alto Douro».

Durante las clasificatorias, Miguel Matías fue el más rápido y se hizo con la pole, seguido de Carlos Durães y Ricardo Monteiro.

Los dos pilotos, Miguel Matías y Carlos Durães, mostraron que estaban un paso por encima de sus adversarios y se postularon como principales favoritos a la victoria final.

Sin embargo, en las vueltas de calentamiento previas a la Final el recientemente proclamado campeón de Portugal 2008 rompió y no tomó la salida a tiempo. Aún

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The Portuguese Cup 2008 (Taça de Portugal), took place last October 5th at Vila Real Track.
Track conditions, were hard. Bumpy and with lot of dust. Therefore all the drivers had to make an additional effort to keep the car in the track.

Miguel Matías took the TQ followed by Merlin Team Driver Carlos Durães and Ricardo Monteiro.

Both Them, Miguel Matías and Carlos Durães were the fastest during heating, showing that they were one step over rest of drivers and that they were the favorites to final victory.

Track conditions for the Main final, were still worst than in heating. In the Main Final warm-up laps, Miguel Matías broke and came back to boxes, starting too late. Spite the lost time he took place in the final, showing a big competiton spirit.

Carlos Durães completely dominated the A-Final from the first laps, being very fast and showing a consistent and regular driving.

Behind Carlos Durães fighting for Honor Positions, Rodrigo

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Team Merlin Sweden driver Per Ola Hard dominated the seventh and final round of the Swedish Cup Series over the weekend taking his 720 08 to TQ honours and race victory.

Racing at the bumpy low traction Trollhattan track, Peo was fastest in qualifying by 5 seconds and in the 45-minute final took the victory by a massive 3 lap margin.

The victory, Peo’s first of the 2008 series, helped him to secure Swedish Cup Vice-Champion honours. Having just returned from racing in Japan, Peo was quick to thank Japanese team mate Yuya Sahashi for the special «Japan S-720 setup» that worked perfectly at this Swedish track.

Source and pic from Serpent Motorsport

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Ballymoney, en Irlanda del Norte, acogió la primera prueba celebrada como «Merlin Ulster GP»  el pasado 28 de Septiembre con un regreso exitoso a una categoría popular algún tiempo atrás, el 1:10 Touring.

Organizada por el Ulster Model Car Club, contó con una grans inscripción, incluyendo a los anteriores campeones Nacionales Chris Steele y Stephen Hayes y al ganador de pruebas del campeonato Británico Mark Gilliand. 

Muchos de los pilotos pisaban el circuito del Ulster por primera vez. La organización obsequió a los participantes y sus mecánicos con una Barbacoa.

En las clasificatorias, Steele se hizo con la Pole Position por delante del X-Ray de Gilliand. Esta pareja dio mucho juego en la final intercambiando la primera y segunda posición durante la primera parte de la carrera. Un pequeño error de Steele permitió a Gilland adquirir una ventaja clara para mantener la primera plaza. El campeón de Irlanda 2007, Hayes completó el Podium.

La victoria

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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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