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Last weekend took place the erd round of the Netherland  Nat. Championship in Heemstede, near Amsterdam.

Martin Van Lierop Tq’ed with just a tenth of second ahead 2nd. classified. However he was the unchallegend winner in the Main Final.

Remy  Möller and Dan Jakobs both them with some problems left him to take a comfortable victory.

Ruud  Schuitmaker, finished 2nd followed by Jurgen Geerlings closing the podium,.

 

Merlin Fuel - NK3 Podium in Heemstede

Ruud gets a strong position for the Absolute Chamiponship, after his victory in Rd. 2 and his 2nd in the opening race.

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Double Victory in IrelandOver the weekend Merlin driver Clive Connolly dominated the third round of the 2008 Irish National Onroad Championship when he took victory in both the 1:8 and 1:10 200mm A Finals at the St. Annes track in Dubllin. Using Merlin Pro Racing fuel in his IDM powered Serpent 960, the reigning Champion TQ’d the event in 1:8 before going on to win the 30 minute final convincingly setting the fastest lap of the race in the process.

Double Victory in Ireland

In the 1:10 A Final, Eoin Doran took the TQ with his Merlin fuelled Xray ahead of Connolly but Connolly got the better of Doran to head home an all Merlin Fuel podium with Doran second and the serpent 720 of Chris Lawlor in third.

Source: Hobbies Ireland

The Belgium 1:8 On-road Nat Rd 2 was held last weekend in Luxembourg.

 

Merlin Fuel - Podium at Belgium

Too small podium for such a big driver 🙂

Our Team Driver, Robin D’Hont has sent us a complete chronicle of the race.

This is the final result;

1. Robin D’Hont – 103 laps

2. Gunther Van Staey – 100 laps

3. Richard Dirk – 98 laps

Press here to read the complete chronicle and some more pics

“The second round of the Belgian Championship was held at the very nice track of Luxemburg. Nice layout, technical and good grip.Weather could be a little better (sometimes rain) but I had 2 dry qualifies and a dry final so I had a pretty good weekend. I arrived at the track Friday night and qualifies already started Saturday afternoon so I only had Saturday morning to run in an engine and get my setup good. hen I was driving

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The second round for the Spanish Nats 1:10 200mm. took place last Sunday in Pinseque (Zaragoza)

Finally the forecast was not right and the rain did not disturbed over 90 drivers in the track.

Picture: Club Adcaz

 

This is the A-main classification:

1º Iñaki Pahissa – XRAY – 101 laps

2º Víctor Pelaez – XRAY – 100 laps
3º Mikel Angulo – XRAY -99 laps

4º Carlos Agüero – XRAY – 99 laps

5º Javier Alonso – Serpent – 98 laps

6º Toni Mateo – 98 laps
7º Luis Cayetano – 96 laps
8º Marc Moix – 96 laps
9º Eduardo Escandon – 96 laps
10º Josue Artiles – 93 laps

Related links:

Club Adcaz

Video: Final Starting

 

Congratulations to Iñaky Pahissa for his victory.

Last Sunday May 11th took place the Warm Up for 2008 Euro Chamiponship in creta (Greece)

 

Borja Hernández - Warm Up GRecia - Merlin RC Fuel

This is the A-Main result:

1. Renaurd Saboya (FR)

2. Dani Vega (ES)

3. Jèrôme Aigoin (FR)

4. Yannick Aigoin (FR) – (TQ)

5. Borja Hernández (ES) – Merlin Fuel

6. David Tortorici (IT)

7. Fabio Boero (IT)

8. Mark Pavidis (USA)

9. Raúl Peris (ES)

10. Honigl Upo (AT)

11. Robert Battle (ES)
12. Jorn Neumann (Ger)
More info http://www.euros2008.gr/index.htm
Picture credit http://www.18special.com

Podium Catalunya 2008 - Merlin Fuel RC

The 3rd. round of Reg. Catalunya Championship was held last weekend in Ripoll. (The track that held Euros 2006)

Carlos Pineda TQ’ed and got the first place in the starting grid for the main final. After 40 minutes leading the final he suffered several radio problems that made him lose some time. Robert Battle who had some mechanical problems managed to pass Pineda in the last laps.

The final was extremely hard with lot of mechanical problems for many drivers and dropouts.

Here is the Race Result

1-Robert Batlle
2-Carlos Pineda
3-Albert Navarro
4-Patxi Peñas
5-Alex Brujas

OCM – Novarossi Int. Race took place last May 4th in Valladolid Spain..

Here is the race result;

OCM Final Podium

1. Borja Hernández

2. Marín Roca

3. Roberto Díez

4. Alfredo castrilljeo

5. Rubén Darío

6. Antonio Landa

7. David Marcos

8. Carlos Fernández

9. Iván de Vera

10. Norlando Pérez

Nice Picture gallery can be found at NetcomRc

 The 2nd. round of Spanish 1:8 Buggy Nat. Championship  took place last weekend in Silla (Valencia)

Here is the result; Podium Silla 2008

 

1. Robert Batlle
2. Richi Gómez

3. Borja Hernández

4. Dani Vega
5. Adrian Pérez
6. Carmelo Baldo
7. Fernando Pericet
8. Javier Puche

9. Carlos Pineda

10. Brayan Baldo
11. Juanma Vera
12. Martin Roca

 

The Main final was one of the most exciting in the last months. Top three drivers finishing in the same lap within seconds.

Highlight also the success for Roberto Díez «Coyote» reaching the podium in Senior (over 40) as third classified, behind Antonio Baldo and Jose R. López Carrillo.

Podium Silla M40

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