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La segunda prueba puntuable para el cto. británico de 1/8 pista, se disputó en el conocido circuito de WOMBELL. Este circuito forma parte de una gran pista de karts. A lso pilotos les encanta este trazado, caracterizado por una combinación de curvas lentas y curvas rápidas y fluidas en las que se disfruta pilotando al límite.

Como es habitual en el cto. británico, el pronóstico del tiempo no era el mejor, pero finalmente fue un fin de semana con carrera en seco. Con restricciones horarias debido al nivel sonoro, se acotaron mucho las mangas libres, lo que hizo que la pista estuviera congestionada en algunos momentos y diera lugar a accidentes difícilmente evitables entre los pilotos más rápidos al doblar a coches más lentos.

Accidente y ambulancia

En las sesiones del dábado a media tarde, el coche de Richard Boult perdió el control y fue a parar a ala pierna del defensor del título 2009, Tim Wood. Los entrenamientos libres se suspendieron mientras acudía la almbulancia.Tim Wood se retiró esa jornada para reponerse del susto y de la pierna magullada.

La inscripción, fue de nuevo bastante mayor de lo esperado ya que algunos pilotos habituales de 1/10, se decidieron a probar suerte en la categoría reina.

Clasificatorias:

1. Mark Green – Serpent – Novarossi – Merlin Fuel 18 Laps 311 secs
2. Tim Wood – Serpent – Mega – 17 Laps 300 secs
3. Andy North – Mugen – Reds – 17 Laps 302 secs
4. John Carr – Serpent – Mega – 17 Laps 306 secs
5. Michael Walton – Mugen – Sirio – 17 Laps 308 secs
6. Jason Frost – Serpent – Mega – 17 Laps 309 secs
7. Andy Hastings – Shepherd – IDM – 17 Laps 309 secs
8. Daniel Bancroft – Motonica – Max – 17 Laps 310 secs
9. Richard Hicklin – Serpent – Mega – 17 Laps 311 secs
10.Neil Diver – Shepherd – IDM – 17 Laps 312 secs

FINAL

La final fue una especie de desfile en la que los tres primeros preservaron el orden de salida, abriendo hueco progresivamente entre sus perseguidores y entre ellos mismos.

Mark Green hizo una carrera perfecta y consistente, en su estilo y se coloca comolíder provisional del BRCA al haber ganado también la primera prueba celebrada en Medip 15 días antes.

CLASIFICACIÓN FINAL

1. Mark Green – Serpent – Novarossi – Merlin Fuel 101 Laps
2. Tim Wood – Serpent – Mega – 99 Laps
3. Andy North – Mugen – Reds – 98 Laps
4. Jason Frost – Serpent – Mega – 96 Laps
5. John Carr – Serpent – Mega – 93 Laps
6. Neil Diver – Shepherd – IDM – 75 Laps
7. Andy Hastings – Shepherd – IDM – 73 Laps
8. Daniel Bancroft – Motonica – Max – 51 Laps
9. Richard Hicklin – Serpent – Mega – 47 Laps
10.Michael Walton – Mugen – Sirio – 33 Laps

Tags: 1:8, On Road

20 May 10 | Español | Comments (0)

Mark Green Wins BRCA 1/8 Rd. 2

—– News from RedRC —–

The second round of this years BRCA 1/8th circuit national championship was located at the famous Wombwell circuit, which is part of a large Karting complex. This track is loved by all the drivers since it contains a combination of slow and fast flowing corners which is a joy to drive when driven on the edge. The weather forecast did not look too good for Sunday, but thankfully it was a dry weekend. With time restrictions in place due to the noise levels, the Committee decided to run open practice with a lunch break. This made the track at times very congested with a lot of fast cars easily catching up the slower cars and damage was inevitable.

The main issue happened mid afternoon when Richard Boult accidentally tripped and fell onto the main straight whilst marshaling a team mates car and was hit on the leg by defending champion Tim Wood which total destroyed his car. The result was an immediate halt to the practice session while first aiders attended to his leg and an ambulance was called. The outcome was a bad gash to his leg and he was driven home later that night for rest. This however could have been a lot worse, but the committee first aid representatives have to be commended for a job well done while the ambulance arrived.

The Drivers in attendance was again higher than expected and it was good to welcome a small minority of 10th IC drivers who have decided to try the Formula One section of this hobby. The drivers were all poised for setting a banker time in the first round since rain was a strong possibility at this stage. In Heat 4, it was the returning Mike Walton with his Mugen MRX4 / Sirio chassis who at this stage topped the time sheets prior to the last heat. With a host of top drivers setting banker times, the first round ended yet again with Mark Green on TQ with Mike Walton an impressive second from Richard Hicklin and Andy North.

In the next couple of rounds, the order at the top started to take a familiar look with Tim Wood and Andy North establishing themselves as the main rivals to take victory from the ever dominant Mark Green. The fight for the remaining A final places was a tight affair with anybody from the 4th heat in with a chance with a late charge but fortunately Richard Hicklin and Neil Diver had just done enough in previous rounds to gain a final position 9th and 10th respectively.

The top 10 after qualification are as follows.
1. Mark Green – Serpent – Novarossi – Merlin Fuel 18 Laps 311 secs
2. Tim Wood – Serpent – Mega – 17 Laps 300 secs
3. Andy North – Mugen – Reds – 17 Laps 302 secs
4. John Carr – Serpent – Mega – 17 Laps 306 secs
5. Michael Walton – Mugen – Sirio – 17 Laps 308 secs
6. Jason Frost – Serpent – Mega – 17 Laps 309 secs
7. Andy Hastings – Shepherd – IDM – 17 Laps 309 secs
8. Daniel Bancroft – Motonica – Max – 17 Laps 310 secs
9. Richard Hicklin – Serpent – Mega – 17 Laps 311 secs
10.Neil Diver – Shepherd – IDM – 17 Laps 312 secs

The final was a procession up front with the top 3 slowly pulling out comfortable leads over each other and an even bigger gap to fourth position after an initial threat from John Carr until he made an error on lap 3. The main battle was for second position with Andy North maintaining a consistent gap to Tim with the possibility of Tim making an extra fuel stop towards the end. However, Tim just had enough of a lead and when Andy was forced to make a splash and dash at the end gifted Tim second place. Out front, Mark Green drove a steady and consistent race and on this current form, it is looking inevitable that he will regain the title at the end of the season.

The final results are as follows:
1. Mark Green – Serpent – Novarossi – Merlin Fuel 101 Laps
2. Tim Wood – Serpent – Mega – 99 Laps
3. Andy North – Mugen – Reds – 98 Laps
4. Jason Frost – Serpent – Mega – 96 Laps
5. John Carr – Serpent – Mega – 93 Laps
6. Neil Diver – Shepherd – IDM – 75 Laps
7. Andy Hastings – Shepherd – IDM – 73 Laps
8. Daniel Bancroft – Motonica – Max – 51 Laps
9. Richard Hicklin – Serpent – Mega – 47 Laps
10.Michael Walton – Mugen – Sirio – 33 Laps

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Tags: 1:8, Onroad

20 May 10 | English | Comments (0)

Cto. de España 1/8 Pista. Victoria de Óscar Cabezas

El trazado de Almusafes (Autet) acogió el pasado fin de semana la segunda prueba puntuable para el Cto. de España 1/8 pista.

El buen tiempo, seco y soleado, acompañó la prueba. Óscar Cabezas, marcó el ritmo de las clasificatorias, seguido por Nacho López y Sergio Montesinos.

La final ha sido una de las más bonitas de los últimos tiempos con una lucha increíble entre el actual campeón de España Oscar Cabezas con su Motonica-Novarossi-Merlin y el valenciano Nacho López con su nuevo Serpent. La táctica, el pilotaje y algunos ingredientes en forma de pequeños problemas y un engrasamiento del motor de Oscar determinaron un resultado final apretadísimo, venciendo la prueba Oscar y cruzando después Nacho a sólo dos segundos. Los diez minutos finales fueron de infarto principalmente para los que estábamos en el pit lane. La tercera posición ha sido para el madrileño Sergio Montesinos que pasó a sólo dos segundos de Nacho. Una final muy emocionante de las que hacen afición y de la que disfrutaron todos los presentes. Con este resultado Oscar Cabezas se sitúa como el nuevo líder del Campeonato de España 2010.

La Plus 40 fue ganada por otro piloto de Merlin, Vicente Eres con lo cual la marca hace un doblete en el Nacional en la modalidad más rápida y exigente con los motores.

Clasificación final:

1- Oscar Cabezas Motonica-Novarossi-Merlin Fuel

2- Nacho López Serpent

3- Sergio Montesinos Enneti-Azor

4- Víctor González Kyosho

5- Joaquín Villegas Sepherd

6- Alberto González Sepherd

7- Carlos Echarri Motonica-Novarossi

8- Fernando Castillo Motonica

9- Carlos Peracho Sepherd

10- Paco Lobo Serpent-Novarossi

+ 40

1-Vicente Eres Mugen-Merlin Fuel

2-Ricardo Royo

3-Francisco Lara

Tags: 1:8, Onroad

17 May 10 | Español | Comments (0)

Spanish Nat 1/8 Onroad – 2nd Rd.

The second round for 1/8 Spanish Nats was held at Autet track (near Valencia).

With a nice sunny weather, Oscar Cabezas TQ’ed followed by local ace Nacho López and Sergio Montesinos.

The Main Final was a really close fight between Oscar Cabezas and Nacho López. The last ten minutes were really exciting, and finally Óscar Cabezas finished in first place, followed by Nacho López only 2 seconds later.

With his victory, Óscar takes the provisional Leadership in the overall classification.

Next Round will take place in Valladolid track on July 25th .

Vicente Eres (Mugen-Merlin Fuel) took the victory in +40.

FINAL RESULT

1- Oscar Cabezas Motonica-Novarossi-Merlin Fuel

2- Nacho López Serpent

3- Sergio Montesinos

4- Víctor González Kyosho

5- Joaquín Villegas Sepherd

6- Alberto González Sepherd

7- Carlos Echarri Motonica-Novarossi

8- Fernando Castillo Motonica

9- Carlos Peracho Sepherd

10- Paco Lobo Serpent-Novarossi

Final Podium Oscar Cabezas - Merlin Fuel

+ 40

1. Vicente Eres – Mugen – Merlin Fuel
2. Ricardo Royo
3. Francisco Lara

Vicente Eres +40 Winner

Tags: 1:8, On Road, Racing

17 May 10 | English | Comments (0)

Netherlands 1/8 NK 2 at Ruchphen

The second round for 1/8 Onroad Netherlands Nats, was held last weekend at Ruchpen track.

A really interesting and exciting race were Ilia Van Gsatel made his first race as Merlin Team Driver.

Robin D’Hondt has written this text for us:

“Hey Everybody,

The second round of the Netherlands championship was held at the fast track of Rucphen. Weather forecast looked good, we only had a bit of rain on Friday night, which made training on Saturday morning impossible, but for the rest of the weekend the dark clouds would stay away from the track.

On Saturday afternoon I came on track and the setup felt pretty nice to begin with. I didn’t changed anything at first because I wanted more grip to come, so in the late afternoon I only started changing some small things like down stops, front springs and rear arm positions.

The later it got, the faster everyone went and soon we were with 5-6 people driving lap times in or close to 13.0 (track record 12.8 I was told).

On Sunday morning the first qualify came, and checking the lap times of the lower heats I saw that the track was faster than the day before. The car felt like a train on rails and the engine was a rocket. Like I said the track record is 12.8 and in this qualify I drove a 12.858, sadly however none could tell me the last 2 digits of the current track record.

First qualy:

1 Robin D’Hondt 32L 7:05.942

2 John Ermen 32L 7:06.343

3 Ilia van Gastel 32L 7:08.277

4 Rick Vrielijnck 32L 7:12.476

The second qualify both Ilia and me had a 7:04, Rick made his time better by 2 seconds and John hit problems. Results after 2 qualify’s:

1 Ilia van Gastel 32 7:04.098

2 Robin D’Hondt 32 7:04.615

3 John Ermen 32 7:06.343

4 Rick Vrielijnck 32 7:10.601

In the third and last qualify I was able to better my time by 0,3 seconds which was still 0,3 seconds to slow to have TQ in the final. So results after the 3th qualify and hereby the 4 direct qualified:

1 Ilia van Gastel 32 7:04.098

2 Robin D’Hondt 32 7:04.334

3 John Ermen 32 7:06.343

4 Rick Vrielijnck 32 7:10.055

The final was completed by 3 persons from each half final. Which where: Gunther van Staey, Michiel Renting, Peter Ceyssens, Jordy Blok, Stefan Koenders, Tim Bosmann.

In the start of the final I could jump to first place as Ilia had a rough start. But soon he joined me just behind my rear tires and away we went from the pack for never to be seen again. In the first half of the race we were changing places a lot… sometimes we even past each other 2 or 3 times in 1 lap! I think we both could feel the eyes of the spectators, sometimes I even heard the people around the track yelling when it got really close.

And the fighting continued till Ilia made his tire stop first, 4 minutes later it was my turn to change tires but at least I had 4 minutes to get heart rate down again.

Tires on and out the pits I went, next to an orange car (Ilia off course) we went side by side onto the straight, but I wasn’t counting on having so less steering with the big cold tires so Ilia could take first position and could slowly pull away from me as I was getting used to the fresh tires.

I was about 10 meter behind and as hard as I was trying to close the gap I wasn’t getting closer.

The second from last pit stop Ilia had to make a Stop and Go for refueling over the line, so he thought it was over and out … until after the last pitstop I suddenly heard “Car 2 stop and go bad refueling”.

That’s me… fast into the pits, stop => GO, I could come on track in front of Ilia with a small gap between us, Ilia was pushing hard to get it close and he got it close. We finished over the line 0,3 seconds apart.

Final Result:

1 Robin D’Hondt 132 30:09.386 – Motonica – Gimar – Merlin Fuel

2 Ilia van Gastel 132 30:09.713 – Serpent – Orion – Merlin Fuel

3 Rick Vrielijnck 130 30:13.054

4 Gunther van Staey 129 30:04.446

5 John Ermen 128 30:06.127

6 Peter Ceyssens 126 30:05.162

7 Stefan Koenders 125 30:10.306

8 Tim Bosmann 120 30:08.299

9 Michiel Renting 87 21:56.008

10 Jordy Blok DNS

I would like to thank my sponsors: Motonica, JP GIMAR, Merlin fuel, Sanwa Airtronics,

LRP electronics, Ghiant RC car Colours, Team C and Hobby Pro

And special thanks to my mechanics My Dad Rony D’hondt and Lody Haling for giving me the bit more advantage in the fast fuel stops and tire change.

Tags: 1:8, Netherlands, Onroad

13 May 10 | English | Comments (0)

Victoria de Robin D’Hondt en el Cto. Holanda 1/8 pista.

Se celebraba el día 9 la segunda prueba del nacional de 1/8 pista holandés en el circuito de Ruchphen.

El sábado por la mañana el circuito apareció mojado y el tiempo de práctica quedó reducido a la mínima expresión. Afortunadamente a media mañana la pista comenzó a secarse y el resto de la carrera se pudo disputar con normalidad.
Ilia Van Gastel, reciente 7º clasificado en el Warm-Up del cto. de Europa de este año, hacía su debut oficial con Merlin Fuel, después de haber empleado ya Pro-Racing 25 en el Warm-Up del Cto. de Europa y en varios entrenamientos.

Van Gastel, debutó en con Merlin Fuel en el Cto. de Holanda consiguiendo la pole en una cerrada lucha con Robin D’Hondt, que sería el aperitivo de la emocionante final que nos brindaron ambos pilotos. Apenas 3 décimas separaron a uno de otro en las clasificatorias.El 3er. clasificado, John Ermen, quedaba ya a más de 2 segundos de la pole y el 4º (Rick V) a casi 6 segundos.

Los resultados de las clasificatorias:

1 Ilia van Gastel 32 – 7:04.098 – Motonica – Gimar – Merlin Fuel

2 Robin D’Hondt 32- 7:04.334 – Serpent – Orion – Merlin Fuel

3 John Ermen 32- 7:06.343 – Mugen – Novarossi

4 Rick Vrielijnck 32- 7:10.055

En la final Van Gastel tuvo problemas en la salida y fue superado por Robin D’Hondt. Rápidamente el dúo de cabeza, puso asfalto de por medio con el resto de participantes y durante la primera mitad de la final se intercambiaron la primera plaza en numerosas ocasiones. En alguna e las vueltas llegaron a adelantarse 3 veces en el mismo giro. Ilia fue sancionado con un Stop & Go, por repostar sobre la línea, de modo que Robin D’Hondt, aprovechó esta circunstancia para colocarse en primera posición, pero al poco tiempo, también D’Hondt fue sancionado con un Stop & Go. A pesar de ello consiguió salir de Boxes en primera posición con una exigua ventaja sobre Van Gastel. La diferencia entre los dos fue de sólo 0,3 segundos al final de la carrera.

Enhorabuena a ambos pilotos Merlin por el brillante espectáculo que brindaron en esta prueba.

Resultado final:

1 Robin D’Hondt 132 30:09.386 - Motonica – Gimar - Merlin Fuel

2 Ilia van Gastel 132 30:09.713 – Serpent – Orion – Merlin Fuel

3 Rick Vrielijnck 130 30:13.054

4 Gunther van Staey 129 30:04.446

5 John Ermen 128 30:06.127

6 Peter Ceyssens 126 30:05.162

7 Stefan Koenders 125 30:10.306

8 Tim Bosmann 120 30:08.299

9 Michiel Renting 87 21:56.008

10 Jordy Blok DNS

Tags: 1:8, Holanda, Onroad

13 May 10 | Español | Comments (0)

Racing Weekend in Greece

Last weekend two races took place in Greece.

The 1/10th On Road ‘B’ Greek Federation and Truggy Masters 2010.

Merlin Fuel Drivers took honor places in both them.

The 1/10 scale National Championship Greek Federation, was held at Patra City, FRT2 Track. Linkaris, (Shepherd – Picco – Merlin Fuel) TQ’ed and set a new track record.

In Arena TRack (Near Athens), Stelios Madianos won the Truggy ‘B’ final

Information: Velocity Models

Tags: 1:10, 1:8, Greece, Touring, Truggy

30 Apr 10 | English | Comments (0)

Comienza la temporada 1/8 en Reino Unido

La temporada 1/8 pista en el Reino Unido, comenzó oficialmente el pasado fin de semana con la primera prueba puntuable para el campeonato nacional.

A esta prueba acudió una nutrida representación de Irlanda y en contra de lo habitual no hubo lluvia, aunque sí amenazó durante toda la jornada del Domingo.

Mark Green se hizo con la pole de la prueba y no dio opción a sus rivales en la final, consiguiendo una cómoda ventaja desde las primeras vueltas.

Resultado final:

1. Mark Green – Serpent/Novarossi/Merlin Fuel
2. Clive Connolly – Mugen/IDM
3. Jason Frost – Serpent/Mega
4. Daniel Bancroft – Motonica/Max
5. Dan Jones – Mugen/Novarossi
6. John Carr – Serpent/Mega
7. Tim Wood – Serpent/Mega
8. Neil Diver – Shepherd/IDM
9. Chris Heath – Serpent/Mega (DQ from 5th due to width of rear end)
10.Richard Hicklin – Serpent/Mega (DQ from 9th failed to submit car for scrutineering)

Reportaje completo en redrc.net

Tags: 1:8, Onroad

28 Apr 10 | Español | Comment (1)