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Last weekend took place the 4th round of Belgium 1/8 On-Road Championship.Without time to rest after the Euro Championship in Valencia, Robin D’Hondt, managed to take the victory in a hard racing day, clearly conditioned by the scattered showers and changing weather.Here is the full Chornicle: Last weekend the 4th round of the Belgian Championship was held at the track of Roeselare. I came straight from “every day 35°” Spain to “4 seasons in one day” Belgium. The weather forecast wasn’t so good for the weekend with sunshine turning to wind & rain and then sunshine again, so grip was changing every hour.On Saturday I was curious how my setup from Spain would work on Roeselare … and like I thought, not really. Springs much to hard, and no stability all around.As I was driving purple all around and front shocks in middle hole I went to all blue springs and moved front shocks in highest hole. After I

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We are pleased to realize that Merlin Fuel has been represented  in six consecutive Euro Finals in just one year;

Six Consecutive Euro Finals

-1- Euro 2007 1:10 – Arca -Madrid – España: Oscar Cabezas, 6th position

-2- Euro 2008 – 1:8 B – Kirchberg – Austria: Tobias Hepp 7th position & Junior Champion

-3- Euro 2008 – 1:8 Buggy B – Bergerac – Francia – Carlos PIneda – 7th position

-4- Euro 2008 1:8 Off-Road – Creta – Grecia:  Borja Hernández – 7th position

-5- Euro 2008 1:10 235 mm. – Heemstede – Holanda – Robin D’Hondt – 2nd position

-6- Euro 2008 1:8 A – Alumssafes – España – Michael Salven – 6th position / Oscar Cabezas 10th position

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Yesterday finished the 2008 Euro Championship 1/8.

We saw a very interesting final with suspense until the end.

The final results:

FINAL

1 122 072-Jernej Vuga SI SIO01 17 05:05.283 V2 [413] 145 45:16.628 Final – A Dry
2 121 006-Walter Salemi ITA I198 17 05:06.384 V2 [314] 145 45:18.210 Final – A Dry
3 123 004-Andrea Cristiani IT I338 17 05:04.378 V2 [134] 145 45:18.612 Final – A Dry
4 138 002-Daniele Ielasi IT I113 17 05:00.679 V2 [341] 144 44:53.799 Final – A Dry
5 130 011-Dario Balestri IT I251 17 05:01.735 V2 [134] 144 44:54.794 Final – A Dry
6 133 034-Michael Salven DE D002 17 05:04.752 V3 [421] 142 45:15.307 Final – A Dry
7 132 036-Robert Pietsch DE D695 17 05:01.505 V2 [314] 135 45:18.116 Final – A Dry
8 136 012-Andrea Pirani ITA I190 17 05:01.195 V2 [341] 134 45:03.198 Final – A Dry
9 131 003-Massimo Fantini IT I016 17 05:00.214 V2 [134] 118 39:37.360 Final – A Dry
10 139 090-Oscar Cabezas ES E395 17 05:01.287 V2 [431] 115 45:09.736 Final – A Dry

Final Podium

All the information about the event can be find in Red Rc at http://events.redrc.

Merlin Fuel Picture Gallery  [Link]

News about the race (only available in Spanish)

Galería Merlin Euro Championship

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David Curtis

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The Portuguese Nat. Championship – North, took place last weekend in Vila Real

North Portuguese 1:10 Championship

Filipe Pinheiro got the 1st place in the extremely fast Portuguese track, where it is quite hard to complete 30 minutes without tyre changing and not every driver is able to run 5 minutes with one fuel tank.

Final results:

Final results North Championship Portugal RC Fuel Merlin

Congratulations to Mr. Pinheiro for hisVictory.

Information: Top Car Modelismo

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With the 6th round yet to be run, Clive Connolly has retained his National Title, winning the 5th round last Sunday in St. Annes Track.

2008 Irish Champion

Picture by Serpent – Colm Gaffney

Starting from pole the Team Serpent Ireland driver cruised to victory, despite an early tyre stop, to win ahead of the Kyosho pairing of Colin Whelan and Austin Elliot.  Afterwards Connolly thanked his sponsors Serpent Motorsport, IDM Engines, ATS tyres and Merlin fuel for their support of his successful campaign.

Clive Connolly Serpent 720 Merlin Powered in St. Annes

Also The 1:8 and 1:10 victories on the same day gave Connolly his third consecutive double National victory of the season.
The Irishman’s next challenge is the EFRA 1:8 Onroad European Championships in Valencia, Spain, which get underway next weekend where the Serpent driver will be looking for a strong showing having done well there earlier this year at the Warm Up race.

Congratulations to Clive for his Title and the best luck for upcoming Euro 1:8 in

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The Euro 1:10 235mm. Euro Championship, took place last weekend in Heemstede (Netherlands).

 Merlin RC Fuel at Heemsetede 1:10 Euro Championship
Picture ® Heemstede

Also the Euro 1:8 +40 took place at the same time.

1:10 235 mm. Qualifying was dominated by out Team Driver Robin D’Hont, followed by Julius Kolff, former champion Glyn Beal and René Cornella, all them taking direct qualifying.

The very first laps in 1:10 were a close fight between Robin D’Hont and Kloff. Julius Kloff whose car seemed to brake better, hit D’Hont a couple of times. After the second refuelling Robin Had an incident when leaving boxes making him lost 3 laps

Robin went to track again and managed get a 2nd ahead Cornella, who finished 3rd.

Podium at Hemsteede - 1:10 Euro by Redrc

Picture Credit REDRC.net

Results;

1. Julius Kolff (NL)

2. Robin D’Hont (BE) – Merlin Fuel

3. Rene Cornella (AT) – Merlin Fuel

4. Jürgen Stark (DE)

5. Bart van Echelpoel (BE)

6. Lee Chapman (GB)

7. Glyn Beal (GB)

8. Gerhard Kandelhart (DE)

9. Jan Pooter (BE)

10.Gabor Laszlo (HU)

A great classification

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Last weekend took place the «12 horas de Rubí» endurance race in Rubí (near Barcelona).  This is a really hard endurance test, not only for car an engine, but for the drivers as well.

12 Horas de Rubí - Merlin Fuel

15 Teams, met in Rubí to complete over 13.000 laps to the Track.
After just five years, this meeting, is becoming a Rally Game Classic in Spain.

Starting the race at 0,00 and finishing 12 hours later, everything can happen.

The Final Classification:
1. Hobby Play Ultimate – 1492 laps

2. Hobby Play Extreme – 1238 laps

3. Flypistons                   – 1195 laps

4. Las Gallinitas            – 1121 laps

5. Team Tarragona      –  1092 laps

6. Hobbyplay 1 Racing  – 980 laps

7. Kibema Racing T

8. Hobby Play 2

9. Hobby Play 3

10. Seta Team

11. RC Racing BCN

12. RC Barcelona                                                                                                                                    

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The Hobao Master Series took place last June 15th in Spain.
Some of the Top European drivers gathered at Malaga (Southern Spain), to fight for the title of the Master fifth edition.

Hobao Master 2008
Picture: Hobao.es

Here is the Final result:

1. Borja Hernández (SP) – Merlin Fuel
2. Graham Alsop (UK)
3. Vicente Muela (SP) – Merlin Fuel
4. Carlos Duraes  (PT) – Merlin Fuel
5. Danny Gil
6. Francisco García (SP)
7. Angel Roque (SP)
8. Antonio Golosín (SP)
9. John Howels (UK)
10. Robert Battle (SP)

Related links:

Speedworld – Spain
Hobao Spain