Jorg Van Leuken takes Netherlands 2011 title

Last weekend we saw the last race for the 2011 Netherlands 18 Off Road Championship at Pumernend (North  Holland)

Jorg was clear favourite for overall victory, but he still had to place at least 3rd to secure the championship. Jeffrey Halsema, racing at home was the favourite to take the race. However, J. Van Leuken managed to TQ at the very last qualifying  second.

In the final, local driver Halsema confirmed the forecast and took the victory followed for the new Champion, Jorg Van Leuken.

2011 Champion, Jorg Van Leuken

1. Jeffrey Halsema – Mugen Seiki / O.S Engines
2. Jorg Van Leuken  – JQ / JQ / Merlin Fuel
3. Jordy Velder – Serpent / Werks

The overall 2011 Championship:
1. Jorg Van Leuken – JQ /  JQ /  Merlin Fuel
2. Jeffrey Halsema – Mugen Seiki / O.S. Engines
3. Paul Geelen Mugen – Seiki O.S. /  Engines

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Tags: Netherlands, Off Road

Buggy Cup Netherlands Rd. 6

Last weekend was already round 6 of the NK for 1:8 Buggy racers. During qualification there was a fierce battle in between Jorg van Leuken and Bart Mullink which came out in the advantage for Bart.

The finals however were another story and an exiting final was races between Bart and Jorg for which Jorg was simply the fastest with his JQ powered TecnoPower B02T and Merlin Fuel.

1. Jorg van Leuken             The Car /Tecno Power / Merlin Fuel
2. Bart Mullink                    Novarossi / Merlin Fuel
3. Kay Koops                    Losi / Merlin Fuel

Tags: Advance, Netherlands, Off Road

Netherlands Cup last Rd. – RC-Speedhouse report

Last Sunday it was the final race of the Exceedcup. With 59 drivers for the last race it’s obvious that the guys from Exceedcup did a good job during the 2010 season.

The fact that hobby and sportsman class already knew their champion before the start of the last race didn’t slow the drivers. The battle for other top places was still going on.

We saw Jeffrey Halsema taking TQ in front of 2010 champion Jorg van Leuken and Paul Geelen.

A-final had 10 drivers, all sportsman class with exception of Rene Kuijpers. From the start there was no stopping on Jeffrey Halsema who’s Mugen Mbx6 simply outran the others and who lapped everyone during the race. We saw a battle for second place between Jorg van Leuken and Rene van Schaijk untill mechanical problems forced van Schaijk to drop down. Comfortable second place for van Leuken. Paul Geelen toke third place in front
of Jan Eichhorn and Dave Liekens.

Hobbyclass was won by Rene Kuijpers in front of 2010 champ Jasper van Duppen and Rajco van der Sluijs.

After the race Exceedcup sponsors had made a nice tombola where all regular drivers got a nice price.

With this final race we closed a great buggy racing season, the best have won !

A-FINAL
1	Jeffrey Halsema	Mugen Seiki	OS
2	Jorg Van Leuken	X-ray	Novarossi	Merlin Fuel
3	Paul Geelen	Team Rmv – Mugen Seiki	Ninja
4	Jan Eichhorn	Team Rmv – Mugen Seiki	Werks
5	Dave Liekens	Rc-Speedhouse – Mugen Seiki	OS	Merlin Fuel
6	Matthijs Jansen	Kyosho	Orion
7	Jacco Koch	Hong Nor
8	Rene Kuijpers	Mugen Seiki
9	Rene van Schaijk	Mugen Seiki
10	Jordy Velder	Mugen Seiki

SPORTSMAN 2010
Jorg van Leuken	Team Xray	Novarossi	Merlin Fuel
Jan Eichhorn	Team Rmv – Mugen Seiki	Werks
Jeffrey Halsema	Mugen Seiki	OS

HOBBY 2010
1	Jasper van Duppen	Rc-Speedhouse – Mugen Seiki	OS	Merlin Fuel
2	Jordy van der Veen	Mugen Seiki	Werks
3	Bjorn Nagels	Rc-Speedhouse – Mugen Seiki	OS	Merlin Fuel

Tags: Netherlands, Off Road

Netherlands Buggy Cup 2010 4 Rd. – Merlin Advance Success

Last Sunday (June 20th) ,  the Astroturf  Track (Ormco) held the Xceed Buggy Cup Rd. 4

After 2 wet races, was time to enjoy a dry race including final.  Jorg Van Leuken (Xray – Nova – Merlin Fuel) TQ’ed after the qualifications.

Final Result:

A FINAL

1. Jorg Van Leuken X-ray Novarossi – Merlin Fuel Advance
2. Bart Mullink X-ray .. ..
3. Kevin Manders X-ray .. Merlin Fuel Advance
4. Paul Geelen Team Rmv – Mugen Ninja ..
5. Jan Eichorn Team Rmv – Mugen Werks
6. Matthijs Jansen Kyosho Orion ..
7. Jacco Koch Hong Nor .. ..
8. Jordy Velder Losi Werks
9. Jasper Van Duppen Team Rc Speedhouse – Mugen Ninja Merlin Fuel
10. Henoc Luis Associated

-A- FINAL

Hobby Class:

1. Jasper Van Duppen Team Rc Speedhouse – Mugen Ninja Merlin Fuel
2. Mathieau Van Dieten .. .. ..
3. Rajco van de Sluijs Hong Nor .. Merlin Fuel

After 4 rounds, the overall classification is as follows:

Sportsman:

1. Jorg van Leuken X-ray Novarossi Merlin Fuel 395 pts
2. Jan Eichorn Team Rmv-Mugen Werks  384 pts
3. Bart Mullink X-ray .. .. 363 pts

Hobby:

1. Jasper Van Duppen Team Rc Speedhouse – Mugen Ninja Merlin Fuel 302 pts
2. Jordy van der Veen Mugen – 250 pts
3. Rico te Rietmolen Hong Nor – Merlin Fuel .. .. 238 pts

Info: Buggy-Sport.info

Pics: Fred Steenman

Tags: Advance, Netherlands, Off Road

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

Netherlands 1:10 200 mm. Rd 1

The opening round of the Dutch 1/10th scale 200mm National Championship got underway at the Groningen track in the north of the country. Nice sunny weather greeted the racers and using a new qualifying system that saw the drivers 3 best laps count towards your start position it was last year’s champion Pedro Rombouts that took the pole position ahead of Daan Jacobs, Jurgen Geerligs, Ricardo van Dam and Remy Moller, with a new system seeing the top 5 now qualifying directly into the main final. In the 30 minute main final Daan Jacobs was the first to retire, an accident on the 2nd lap ending his race. A lot of errors throughout the field on the bumpy track kept things interesting but up front Rombouts steamed ahead to win the race by 3 laps ahead of Ricardo van Dam in 2nd and Ruud Schuitmaker in 3rd, the only driver to do a tire stop in the final. In the Nomac class Arne Schober took the win ahead of pole man Marcel Haenen, with Rob Kreijssen in 3rd. Finally in the 1/8th promo class it was Peter van Dijk on pole position but problems in the final meant he dropped out of contention allowing Marc Meijer to take the win from Mario Gerssen in 2nd and Robert Krens in 3rd.

TOP 5

1. Pedro Roombouts -  Xray – 107 laps

2. Ricardo Van Damm – Shepherd/Orion – 104 laps

3. Ruud Schuitmaker – Edam/Merlin Fuel – 103 laps

4. Jurgen Geerligs

5. Arco de Jong

Text: redrc.net

Picture: Merlin Solutions

Tags: 1:10, Netherlands, On Road

Cto. Holanda 1/10 2010

El pasado fin de semana se disputó la prueba inaugural del cto. de Holanda 1:1 en el circuito de Groningen, al Norte del país. 

El actual campeón Pedro Rombouts, fue el dominador del evento y se impuso en la final, después de conseguir la pole.

La clasificación final fue:

1. Pedro Roombouts -  Xray – 107 laps

2. Ricardo Van Damm – Shepherd/Orion – 104 laps

3. Ruud Schuitmaker – Edam/Merlin Fuel – 103 laps

4. Jurgen Geerligs

5. Arco de Jong

Este año, se ha comabiado el sistema de clasificaciones, de modo que entran 5 clasificados directos a la fina, valorando además las tres mejores vueltas rápidas personales.

Enlace a la clasificación: <Link>

Fuente: Merlin Solutions www.merlinsolutions.nl

Tags: 1:10, Netherlands, On Road

Netherlands 1/8 Onroad Championship Rd. 1

Robin D’Hondt reports from the 1st Round of Netherlands Nats.

The first round of the Netherlands championship was held at the track of Apeldoorn. Weather forecast wasn’t looking good, however it was dry on Saturday rain came on Sunday to bring an interesting scene in the final.

My arrival at the track on Saturday was much later as I wanted it to be due to traffic. I wanted to test many things but in the end I only had 2 hours of testing to make a good setup. The day before I setuped my car with the setup I think would of worked on the track (small track so high droop, much camber change, much offset) and … it worked !

With some minor adjustments to the car I was driving the same laptimes like John Ermen and Rick Vrielinck. So, happy with the cars performance but still having idea’s to make it better we had to call it a day because after 17 o’clock no engines can be started anymore.

Sunday morning it all looked rather wet, apparently it rained at night but with the sky having a blue colour it looked like qualifying 2 and 3 would be dry. And so it was but from everyone qualifying 3 would be the one to go fast.

Top 4 qualifying results:

1                             Ilia van Gastel   29           7:03.787

2                             Rick Vrielijnck    29           7:09.869

3                             John Ermen       29           7:10.519

4                             Robin D´hondt  29           7:11.680

Starting the quarters and semi’s it starting raining again so at the same time everyone started packing in there electronics for a possible wet final.

For about an hour before the start of our final it didn’t rain anymore and I had a constant eye on the tires that the people were using in the semi’s, Aqua’s seemed to work fine and this I also chose to start the final with. But with the track almost dry enough to run normal tires Ilia, Rick and me were about the only ones to start on aqua’s I think. Eventually it turned out to be the good choice.

The people on normal tires were not so much slower but had a difficult time driving which made them end up off track sometimes.  In the first lap I passed John, Rick and Ilia and together we drove away from the rest of the pack, after 5 minutes I had a small lead over Rick and at that time my mechanic Gunther informed me the people on normal tires were getting faster and faster laptimes. So we decided to change tires on the first fuelstop.

Back on track it was hard for a couple of laps to keep the pace in but soon the tires started to work really fine. With all the chaos of the wet track in the beginning and the tire stops in beginning of the race I had no idea anymore who was on which position. Half race my mechanic Gunther informed me that I was in first postion with 2 laps in front of the second. All I had to do now was keep it on track and bring it home.

Final results:

1                      Robin D´Hondt  109         30:06.239 – Motonica – Nova – Merlin Fuel

2                             Rick Vrielijnck        108         30:11.032

3                             Steven Cuypers      106         30:05.877

4                             Ilia van Gastel        106         30:06.884

Thanks to my sponsors:

Motonica, Sanwa, Merlin fuel, Team C, LRP electronics, Ghiant RC car Colours

And offcourse thanks to my meccanics that make this possible:

My dad Rony D’hondt and Gunther Van Staey

Thanks to Robin for the infos

Tags: Netherlands, Onroad

Cto. Holanda 1:8

El pasado fin de semana se disputó la última prueba del Cto. de Holanda 1:10 200 mm. en el circuito de Hemmestede.

La final se disputó en mojado y como novedad, hubo un participante descalificado por emplear aditivos para ruedas.

La clasificación final ha quedado como sigue:

1 Arie Manten
2 Rob Kuijper – Merlin Fuel
3 Rik Veenma – Merlin Fuel
4 Tjibbe Keller – Merlin Fuel
5 Danny Leewis – Merlin Fuel
6 John Ermen
7 Donny Blommers
8 Michiel Renting
9 Maurice van den Ijssel – Merlin Fuel
10 Daniel van der Drift

Pics from Red RC

Tags: 1:8, Netherlands, On Road

Netherland 1:10 Nat. Championship, Rd. 3

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,.

 

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

Pictures and info from

Tags: 1:10, Netherlands, Racing, Touring