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Endurance Catalunya 2008

Last Sunday, took place the Endurance Reg. Championships of Catalunya at RACBSA track near Barcelona.

7 teams with 2 members each, took part in the 3 hours non-stop race. The race was quite difficult due to mud in the track that made difficult the driving for the first half of it.

Carlos Pineda and Josep Galisteo Managed to refuel over 7:30 minutes with the new Merlin Pro-racing EVO 1, what gave them a good advantage for such a long race.

After a fake first start, due to some technical problems, Jaume Figuls/Pedro Villalba took some advantage and they were leading the race.

However they lost the leading position in the first relay, when Pineda/Galisteo started to push hard and they maintained the leading position until the end of the race.

The final classification;

1 Carlos Pineda - Josep Galisteo Mugen MBX6/RB/DLD/Merlin fuel 295v
2 Jaume Figuls - Pedro Villalba Losi 8eight/Ninja/DLD/ 287v
3 Miki Jardi - Willy Gato Mugen MBX5R/OS/GRP/… 277v
4 Davi Comas - Lluis Franquesa Asso RC8/Thunder/… 265v
5 Jorge Navarro - Josep Sauri Mugen MBX5R/…… 252v
6 Adri Hernandex- Alex Calatayud Asso RC8/GRP/GRP/ 241v
7 David Ayats - Joan Serra Asso RC8/SIIM/Proline/ 170v

Tags: 1:8, Buggy, Endurance

16 Dec 08 | English | Comments (0)

Rally Game Challenge France

The GTB RC Track in Toulouse, held the 1st. Rally Game Challenge last December 7th.

The race was organized by Hobbytech toghether with Imodel and Automodelisme.com
This Race held also the the first official race for the new Rally Game Model from Hobbytech, the STR8-RG,final winner and TQ of the challenge.

The final classification:

1. Stephane Mateo - Hobbytech STR8 RG / GO Engine / Merlin Fuel

2. Rommuald Derenne - Hobbytech STR8 / Nova

3. Ludovic Try - 808 / RB Engine

Pics and info from Automodelisme.com

Click here for picture Gallery

Tags: France, Rally Game

12 Dec 08 | English | Comments (0)

Catalunya Reg. Championship 6Rd.

Last Sunday the RACBSA track held the 6th Rd. of Catalunya Reg. Championship 1:8 Buggy.
Here is the final classification

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Final -A-

1 Carlos Pineda 79 45:15.95431.932 - Merlin Fuel
2 Alex Brujas 79 45:27.25731.545 - Merlin Fuel
3 Alex Calatayud 78 45:16.144 31.859
4 Jaume Figuls 77 45:30.884 31.595

5 David Comas 75 45:00.169 32.122
6 Patxi Peñas 74 45:01.023 31.549 - Merlin Fuel
7 Francisco Navarro 73 45:11.001 33.139
8 Juanma Lerma 72 45:28.351 34.025

9 Marc Moyano 71 45:19.183 33.625
10 Albert Navarro 71 45:41.637 32.419
11 Albert Estevez 70 45:13.996 34.007
12 Gerard Roig 28 23:51.698 32.064

Final -B-

1 Isaac Berga 49 30:19.224 33.948
2 Jordi Vallribera 48 30:09.210 33.696
3 Lluis Franqueses 48 30:33.494 34.097
4 Pedro Villalba 48 30:33.843 33.347
5 Roger Palau 47 30:15.929 33.516
6 Manel Prades 47 30:29.248 34.048
7 Jordi Montanyà 46 30:27.020 35.476
8 Jorge Navarro 46 30:37.364 36.166
9 Jose Marín 45 30:11.479 33.299
10 Mariano Reyes 45 30:26.585 35.229
11 Joan Serra 41 29:00.347 33.588
12 Marc Ponce 40 27:36.083 33.968

Source: auto-rc.net

Tags: Buggy, Off Road, Racing

25 Nov 08 | English | Comment (1)

Trofa Cup Portugal

Trofa Cup took place last Sunday 23rd at “Galerías Araujo Track”, managed by elite Model.

João Pedro Gomes TQ’ed followed by Fábio Ferreira and Carlos Durães.

Carlos Durães managed to lead the final from the very first lapto the end.

Pic. Neobuggy.net

After 30 minutes of the A Final, Durães was leading the race with 2 laps over the second , Ricardo Monteiro.

Behind them, a tight fight for the third by Gabriel Magalães and Nuno Casal Ribeiro.

With just 4 minutes lefting, Carlos Durães broke his shock shaft and had to made the 4 min of the race with only 3 shocks. He lost only one lap with second classified, R. Monteiro.

Race TOP 5:

1st – Carlos Durães (Hobao/RB/Merlin Fuel)
2nd – Ricardo Monteiro (Xray/Ninja)
3rd – Gabriel Magalhães (GS/RB)
4th – Nuno Casal Ribeiro (Crono/Falcon)
5th – Denis Lopes

Info and Pics from Neobuggy.net

Tags: Off Road, Portugal, Racing

24 Nov 08 | English | Comments (0)

Merlin Enduro Race 2008 Videos

We have received from France 2 videos about the Merlin Enduro Race that took place recently at Toulouse.
In the first video, you can notice that not only the cars are fast.

Merlin Enduro Race 2008 Start

Merlin Enduro Race 2008 Restart

Tags: 1:10, Endurance, Videos

11 Nov 08 | English | Comment (1)

Efra 2009 Calendar

Last weekend took place the Efra AGM in Lyon (France).
So, the Racing calendar for next season is already published. Just click the Efra logo.

Rally Game at Athens

Last weekend took place the Kyosho Cup at Athens Aspropyrgos ARENA TRACK

Our dealer in Greece inform us about the race. This was the first official race in Greece for Merlin Fuel, and they were waiting to this race to confirm the good results in the previous training tests.

The final results were:

1st.Abdel Halim Nadir George - Merlin Fuel

2nd.Lignos Akis

3d.Kyritsakis Michael

Rally Game is an upcoming scale in Greece. Final winner, George Abdel, surprised rest of finalists running the whole final under 90ºC with great engine power, when the average engine temperature was clearly over 115ºC.

He got impressed with the performance of the new Pro-Racing EVO 1 Fuel, that corroborates the results in previous tests.

Thanks to Velocity Models for the info.

More pics at www.radiocontrol.gr

Tags: Greece, Racing, Rally Game

29 Oct 08 | English | Comments (0)

Merlin Enduro Race 2008 Report

Last weekend took place the Merlin Enduro Race at GTBRCF track in Toulouse.

No doubt it was a hard test for cars, engines and also drivers, making 6 hours over the Frech track. Everything was perfectly organized by the GTB Rc Club and the weather was great for a racing day.
The endurance race was divided in two series of 3 hours each.
After the 3 hours in the morning the provisional results were;

1/ Team Sapacepa 410 tours
2/ Fashion team 400 tours
3/ Team Gazafond 398 tours

After the lunch break the race started again and the final classification was:

1. GAZAFOND Team 1°/ 794 T 07:29:41.30 ↑
2. SAPACEPA Team 2°/ 792 T 07:30:15.51↓
3. FASHION Team 3°/ 721 T 07:30:14.63↓
4. CHALLENGER Team 4°/ 633 T 07:30:14.38
5. SAUCISSES Team 5°/ 534 T 07:30:17.55
6. CASTELISATORS Team 6°/ 495 T 06:08:45.62

So after 6 hours race just 2 laps between the 1st and 2nd classified,

Picture credit: Jean Pierre Odille

Full picture gallery clicking on this image;

Link to Team Members

Results in Automodelisme.com

Tags: 1:10, Endurance

27 Oct 08 | English | Comments (4)

Merlin Enduro Race 2008

Next Sunday, October 26th will take place the «Merlin Enduro Race 2008» in Toulouse - France.
It will be a 3 hour Team Endurance Race. 6 teams with 4 drivers each, will dispute the Trophy.

The race will take place at “Club GTBRC” track in Toulouse.

Team 1 - Team Spacepa:

Romuald Derenne (Former On-Road French Champion), Gilles Chandonnay, Mathieu Brière (Former 1/5 Euro Champion, Vice-world Champion 1/5), Stephane Matéo (Regional Champion)

Tamiya TG10 - OS TZ12 Gilles Tuned - PMT Tires - Stratus - Merlin Fuel Pro Racing 16 - EVOI

Team 2 - Team Gazafond

Arce Sylvian, Nguyen Van Philippe, Ferrandiz Patrick,

Xray NT1 - RB R3Rc, RB Speed Line - Stratus 3.1. - Merlin Fuel Pro Racing 16 - EVOI

Equipo 3 - Team Challenger

Valentin Bailleul, Jean-Yves Urso, Georges Ribera, Pierre Prosper

Xray NT1 - RB V12 - Merlin Fuel Pro Racing 16 - EVOI

Team 4 - Team Sausicess

Olivier Denoy, Jeff Dumont, Vincent Thiefry

Kyosho V One RR - OS TZ12 - ATS Tires - Merlin Fuel Pro-Racing 16 EVO I

Team 5 - Team Castelisator

Greg Chantalou, Nicolas Miramont , Nicolas Piloquet (Former On-road French Champion)

XRay NT1 - RB R3Rc - RB Speedline Tires - Merlin Pro Racing 16 EVO I

Team 6 - Fashion team

Laurent Beaux, Christophe Combes , Christophe Zanderigo, Marc Asbati

Xray NT1 - OS TZ12 - ATS Tires - Merlin Fuel Pro Racing 16 EVO I

The racing day will start at 9,00. and the 3 hour endurance will start at 14:00

In the following video, which belongs to this year at Nat. Championships 1:10 200 mm., you may take a look of the GTBRC track. We hope to have a better weather than in March.