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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

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Last weekend took place the EFRA GP at Orihuela -Spain
The weather forecast was not the best for RC Racing. So just about drivers defied the storm at “El Palmeral” track.
This year the traditional Spanish “Copa de Campeones” took place simultaneously with Efra 1:8th Buggy GP.

The heavy rain was the main player during the first day. It allowed just one heating and calssfications Round.

Borja Hernández TQ’ed for the race, followed by Alejandro Candel, Adrián Pérez Mayoral and Carlos Pineda closing the top-quartet.

The final classification;

1. Antonio Salmerón
2. Borja Hernández – Merlin Fuel
3. Carlos Pineda – Merlin Fuel
4. Alejandro Candel
5. Adrián Pérez Mayoral
6. Alberto García
7. Daniel Bernabé
8. Luis I. Candel
9. Rubén Barranco
10. Sergio Fita

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The Portuguese Cup 2008 (Taça de Portugal), took place last October 5th at Vila Real Track.
Track conditions, were hard. Bumpy and with lot of dust. Therefore all the drivers had to make an additional effort to keep the car in the track.

Miguel Matías took the TQ followed by Merlin Team Driver Carlos Durães and Ricardo Monteiro.

Both Them, Miguel Matías and Carlos Durães were the fastest during heating, showing that they were one step over rest of drivers and that they were the favorites to final victory.

Track conditions for the Main final, were still worst than in heating. In the Main Final warm-up laps, Miguel Matías broke and came back to boxes, starting too late. Spite the lost time he took place in the final, showing a big competiton spirit.

Carlos Durães completely dominated the A-Final from the first laps, being very fast and showing a consistent and regular driving.

Behind Carlos Durães fighting for Honor Positions, Rodrigo

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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

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Ballymoney in Northern Ireland was host to the first ever Merlin Fuel Ulster Grand Prix on September 28th with nitro cars making a successful return to the once popular nitro venue. Organised by the Ulster Model Car Club, the GP attracted a quality entry including former Irish National 1:10 200mm Champions Chris Steele & Stephen Hayes, and British Championship race winner Mark Gilliland.

With competitors receiving a very warm welcome on their arrival to the track, many of whom who were making their first visit, the organisers also put on a very tasty complimentary BBQ for all the drivers and their mechanics during the lunch break.

In qualifying it was Steele driving a Kyosho that claimed TQ honours from Gilliland’s Xray. In the final the pair had a thrilling battle for the lead, swapping positions lap after lap, but a small error by Steele was eventually enough to allow Gilliland to break clear and take the victory. 2007 Irish Champion Hayes, also

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The 5th and last round of the Portuguese National championships took place on the 7th September at the Torres Vedras track; used for the RB Cup the weekend before. Miguel Matias wrapped up a fine domestic season TQing and taking his 5th round win of the season crowning him national champion for 8th time since 1999.

In the qualifications, the track was a bit bumpy and dusty, making in some parts of the track being very technical and hard to drive, but still Kyosho Driver Miguel Matias made the TQ, in 2nd was Cen’s Rodrigo Luís and followed by a surprising Pedro Figueiredo in 3rd(Xray), the qualifying were marked by Hong Nor’s Fernando Almeida problems with electronics, putting him in the back of the table. The final went down with the track getting bumpier and dustier, Miguel Matias started from the last place, because he asked some time for technical problems, in the beginning of the A-Main everyone was packed together, trading places

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The 4th and final round for the Spanish 1:8 Off-Road Nat. Championship took place last Sunday at Santa Oliva Track.
Robert Battle gets his 4th consecutive victory in the Championship.

After a light rain on Saturday, Sunday was a nice sunny day. So all the drivers could enjoy the last round of 2008 Nat. Championship.

The main Final was dominated by Ricardo Gómez, but with 10 minutes lefting one he suffered an engine stop proabably caused by a glow plug, that made him go to 3rd, leaving a clear way to Robert Battle who made 4/4 on this season, leaving no options to his rivals.

At the end of the race the final 2008 classification was published  and the 3 first qualified got their Trophies for the overall Nat. Championship.

The Race positions:


1. Robert Battle 79 v.

2. Daniel Vega 78 v.

3. Ricardo Gómez 78 v.

4. Borja Hernández 78 v.

5. Adrián Pérez Mayoral 78 v.

6. Daniel bernabé Nicolás 76 v.

7. Alex Calatayud 74 v.

8. Carmelo Baldo 74 v.

9. Raúl Peris 73 v.

10. Raúl Daras 73 v.

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Last weekend took place the 2008 RB cup at Torres Vedras (Portugal)

Expert series, with 73 drivers had the largest entries and 15 drivers took part in Pro Series.

Pic: RB-Products

Final Results:

Pro Class 

1. Jerome Sartel

2. Miguel Lopes

3. Ignacio Alvárez

Carlos Durães took the victory in Expert Class

1. Carlos Durães – Merlin fuel

2. Angel Roque

3. Pedro Figueiredo

Pic: RB-Products

Full info at: RB site

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