Spanish 1:8 Onroad Nats. 3rd Rd.

The 3rd. round for Spanish 1/8 nats, took place last weeken at Gijón (Northern Spain).

The classification was clearly dominated by Oscar Cabezas (recently 11th classfied in Lostallo Worlds 2009), who took the TQ in the 4 heats.

Oscar, also set a new Track Record with a 15:280 lap. Following him Víctor González (Kyosho-MB-JBTRC.Racing) 2nd, Nacho López (Mugen) 3rd and Carlos Peracho (Velox-Sirio) 4th.

The final was dominated also by Óscar Cabezas who conserved his honor position until the end, finishing 3 laps ahead the second Nacho López and 4 laps ahead Sergio Montesinos.

With the 4th rd. to be held in Alcobendas – Madrid, Oct. 25th, the absolubte Championship is still to be decided. For sure Oscar Cabezas and Josué Artiles will offer a nice show in the last Spanish Rd to get the absolubte Nat Championship.

Final Results:

Pos / Driver	Laps	Time	Fast Lap
1  Oscar Cabezas	165	45:11.126	15.515	Motonica – Novarossi – Merlin Fuel
2  Nacho Lopez Lluch	162	45:03.071	15.605	Mugen- Nova Collari-Enneti
3 Sergio Montesinos Ortega	161	45:05.401	15.867	Mugen-JP Racing-Enneti
4 Josue Artiles Santana	160	45:03.931	15.755	Mugen
5 Carlos Peracho Heras	158	45:14.528	15.466	Velox / Sirio
6 Paco Lobo	156	45:10.105	15.963
7 Oscar Cordon Garcia	155	45:01.093	16.188
8 David Menendez Tejedor	154	45:08.012	16.016
9 Joaquin Villegas Gutierrez	152	45:07.208	16.308
10  Victor Gonzalez	40	10:56.191	15.714

Tags: 1:8, On Road, Racing

Cto. Europa 2009 1:10 Italia – Mangas controladas

Ha finalizado la primera manga de práctica controlada.

Este es el Top-3;

Jilles Groskamp (26/07:10.527)
Alexander Hagberg (26/07:13.009) – XRay / Max / Merlin Fuel
Giorgio De Felici (26/07:13.134)

Sigue sin haber una información completa en referencia a tiempos y clasificación general.
Desde aquí se puede ver la cámara en directo del circuito.

Tags: Euros 2009, On Road

Swedish 1:10 Championship Rd.2

Last weekend the Årsunda Track held the 2nd round of 1:10 Swedish Nats.

Our Team Driver, Per-Ola hard, took the final vitory, TQ’ed and set a new laptime record in the track.

He has sent us a  report about the Race:

“Swedish National Series R:2
In the weekend of 23-24:th of May the second round of the Swedish national series was held in the middle of Sweden in a village called Årsunda.

The track is very technical and nowadays a bit bumpy so demanding for both the car and the setup, so some of the drivers started to practice allready on the Friday to get to know the track. Myself and some other drivers arrived Saturday morning to a wet track after some light rain the evening before, traction was very low so it was decided together with the drivers to add a little bit of sugar water during controlled practice to get the track in decent shape.

Saturday saw four rounds of qualifying first three dry ones in good weather and the last fourth one unfortunately rained out with some light rain in the afternoon. Qualifying went very well for me as my Serpent 720 with a RB T9 engine worked perfect, I could put a new lapreckord and take TQ with a 7 sec margin to second placed Edwin Sunesson running a Xray/Sirio, 3:rd was Markus Hellquist with his Kyosho/Orion car. TQ in the 1:8 class was taken my Magnus Bengtsson running a Mugen.

Sunday was final day and the weather was pretty good around lunch time, I got a clean start and starting working up a good lead to the others, at the end of the final I could drive a little slower to save the tires for the end but doing this I lost some concentration and made some driving errors so I decided to push some more again to get the focus back. After 45 minutes of racing I could score my first win of the season, it felt nice! I won two laps ahead of young Markus Hellquist and 3:rd position a few laps behind went to my good friend Thomas Livbom, all three of us live in Vaxjo in southern Sweden racing for the same club so that was very fun too!
In the 1:8 class Stefan Andersson won the final with his Serpent 966 car, well done Stefan!

I would like to thank the local club in Årsunda for hosting a nice race.
My next race will be the 3:rd round of the series in Gothenburg Sweden the first week of June, this race will also be the Nordic Championsships attracting fast drivers from both Sweden, Denmark, Norway and perhaps Finland.

Thanks to my sponsors for their great support:
Serpent Motorsport, RB Products, Merlin Fuel & GQ Products.

Happy Racing,
Per-Ola “Peo” Hard
Team Serpent”

Thanks to Peo for the report and congratulations for the victory!

Tags: 1:10, On Road, Racing, Sweden

Cto. Alemania Oeste 1:8 – 4

La ciudad de Bad Bresig, en el Sur de la antigua capital alemana, Bonn, acogió la 4ª del Campeonato nacional alemán (División Oste) con buenas noticias para el equipo Merlin Fuel.

Tobias Hepp y Frank Schewiola

La jornada del sábado, con lluvia, no permitió a los pilotos completar las mangas de clasificación de modo que el director de carrera, permitió 2 mangas de calentamiento el Domingo, ya con la pista seca que arrojaron el siguiente resultado;

1. Steven Cupyers                              20 Runden 5.03.895                                         14.907
2. Tobias Hepp                                   20 Runden 5.06.252                                         14.907

3. Jörg Baldes                                    20 Runden 5.08.390                                         14.990
4. Karl Heinz  Meister                        19 Runden 5.00.209                                         15.205

La final resultó muy accidentada y dio lugar a numerosas discusiones posteriores. Steven Cuypers que se había hecho con la pole, tuvo que retirarse a mitad de la final. Varios pilotos se vieron involucrados en una accidentada salida y tuvieron que entrar a boxes en varias ocasiones. Finalmente Hepp, se alzó con la victoria con 5 vueltasde ventaja sobre el segundo clasificado. Destacar la presencia en la final de 3 de los pilotos que eligieron Merlin Fuel para disputar el campeonato, clasificados en 1,2 y 5 puesto.

El resultado final de la prueba fue el siguiente:

1. T. Hepp/Serpent 966/Mega ZX/Merlin – 114 Laps

2. F. Schewiola/Serpent 966/Mega ZX/Merlin – 109 Laps

3. R. Vahrenkamp/Serpent 960/Novarossi – 108 Laps

4. A. Weyhofen/Kyosho/Orion – 103 Laps

5. R. Rosskothen/Mugen/ GRP/Merlin – 99 Laps

6. K.H. Meister/Serpent 966/Mega ZX  – 94 Laps

7. J. Baldes/Motonica/Rex – 88 Laps

8. C. Wurst/Motonica/JP – 86 Laps

9. S. Cupyers/Mugen/Sirio- 47 Laps

10.U. Baldes/Motonica/Orion- 34 Laps

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Tags: 1:8, Alemania, On Road

Cto. Alemania 1:8 – Victoria Merlin Fuel

El pasado fin de semana se disputó en Dormagen la primera prueba para del Cto. Oeste de 1:8 pista alemán, con buenas noticias para Merlin Fuel.

Pole para Tobias Hepp y victoria final para Frank Schewiola
La joven promesa del equipo Merlin en Alemania, Tobias Hepp, se hizo con la Pole position, en una carrera en la que se alternó el buen tiempo con la pista aún húmeda, lo que complicó la conducción en el trazado de Dormagen.

La final con pista húmeda fue realmente difícil y apenas los 4 primeros clasificados pudieron completar la prueba sin incidentes.

La clasificación final:

1. Frank Schewiola, 104 laps – Serpent / Mega / Merlin Fuel
2. Tom Scheffler, 92 – Mugen / Mega
3. Alaion Levy, 83 – Serpent / Mega
4. Andreas Weyhoven, 83 – Kyosho / Team Orion
5. Ingo Odenthal, 81 – Serpent / Novarossi
6. Uwe Baldes, 60 – Motonica / Team Orion
7. Tobias Hepp, 41 – Serpent / Mega / Merlin Fuel (TQ)
8. Karl-Heinz Meister, 34 – Serpent / Mega
9. Michael Salven, 30 – Serpent / Mega
10. Christian Wurst, 2 – Motonica / JP

Tags: 1:8, Alemania, On Road

Resultados de Merlin Enduro Race 2008

El pasado fin de semana se disputó la “Merlin enduro Race 2008 en el cricuito del club GTB RC de Toulouse (Francia)

La prueba consistía en 2 partes de 3 horas cada una en la modalidad 1:10 200 mm. Total 6 horas de carrera. Sin duda una dura prueba para las mecánica y también para los pilotos.

Tras la disputa de la sesión matianl los resultados provisionales eran;

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

Los resultados finales finalizadas las 6 horas de carrera fueron;

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

Las 2 vueltas de diferencia entre el primer y segundo clasificado, dan una idea de lo reñido que estuvo el día, en el que se marcó además un nuevo record del circuito.

Picture credit: Jean Pierre Odille

Galería completa de fotos pulsando sobre la siguiente imagen.

Felicidades a la organización por el perfecto desarrollo de la prueba.

Link – Composición de los equipos

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Tags: 1:10, On Road, Resistencia

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

Robin D’Hondt y Merlin Fuel, campeones 1:8 Pista – Bélgica

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 nearly had no practice time.
First qualifying suddenly my personal transponder didn’t work anymore … As I wasn’t the only one with a “sudden” dead transponder I knew it couldn’t be broken. But ok, after changing some setup things in the computer of the lap timing all worked fine again.
Second qualify my engine was a little bit to lean so I had to come into the pits. I drove 5th time because of the pit stop but I did have fastest lap time with 13.9.
Third qualify was driven on Sunday morning. Wet track … and like this it stayed the whole day.
Most people were packing up their stuff to go home. I was unpacking around 2 in the afternoon to drive the final. Many people with a weird look when they saw me unpack, but why not … the last race of the year. My position in the championship wasn’t gonna change whether I drove or not. Just wanted to have some fun but I do have to admit Werner Smolderen had to convince me to drive the final.
When the final was getting closer I saw that Tom Smolderen and I were about the only ones of the 1/8 F1 that were planning to drive…
In the Final Tom and me had much fun, I won the final and Tom ended up second.
So with 4 wins and 2 second places I am Belgian Champion 2008 1/8 F1
In the 1/8 F2 final youngster Daan Haling (son of my second pitman) won the race and is the Belgian champion F2 2008.
I want to thank all my sponsors for all they did for me during the year:
Serpent Motorsport, Mega, ATS tires, Merlin Fuel, Ghiant Aerosols RC Car Colors and RC Tech.
Special thanks to my father and Lode Haling for the good pitting during the whole year. ”

Tags: 1:8, Bélgica, On Road, Racing

Per-Ola Hard dominates final round of Swedish Nats

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

Tags: 1:10, On Road

Merlin Ulster GP

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 de la categorái “B”, fue a manos del piloto más joven inscrito en la prueba, Calvin Kirby.

Como consecuencia del éxito del Merlin Fuel Ulster GP, se está planeando hacer de esta pista una prueba del Campeonato de Irlanda 2009. 

Gracias a Hobbies Ireland por la información y fotos.

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Tags: 1:10, On Road