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Last Sunday took place the first round of WinterChamps managed by Robitronic.

The Mach One at Helmond (Netherlands) was the first location for the race. However, due to the bad weather and track conditions, it was moved to NBR track at Mol (Belgium)

The weather forecast was predicting bad weather.

Finally it was just some rain during lower finals and the track was dry and in good condition most of the time.

After the first qualifying round, Daniel Reckward (GE) was the fastest in 1:8 Buggy, and Bas De Konik (NL) was the fastest in Truggy.

The local driver Kim Verheyden was the fastest in the 2nd qualifying round, but Daniel Reckward took the TQ, followed by the Dutch Buggy Champion and Merlin Team Driver Jorg van Leuken.

In Truggy Bas De Konik was the fastest again taking the TQ followed by Mark van Waaijenburg and Matthijs Jansen.

In the main Final Jorg Van Leuken took the first place, but after a few laps he had some trouble with one servo and was overtaken

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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.

More info about AGM in this link

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

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

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