The construction of a new RC Track is always good news, but today it is a special news, because our Delaer for USA and Caribbean area starts the construction of the Future Merlin Fuel track in Naranjito – Puerto Rico – USA.
This will be the first ever off Road Track at Puerto Rico, and will be near SSF Dsitributors Headquarters at Naranjito – USA. The facilities will include a Mylaps Timing system.
2012 was an exciting year for Merlin Fuel, with 3 National Championships; Spanish 1/8 On-road with Oscar Cabezas, Spanish 1/8 Off Road with Robert Batlle, and Netherlands 1/8th Off Road with Bart Mullink and of course World Champion with Robert Batlle.
Now is time to work on 2103, but first We want to wish you all the best for 2013!
Robert Batlle has won the World Championship in Argentina.
Robert is the first and opnly Spaniard who has won the title, and also the only driver who has won Warm-up and WC. Also the gives back the title to Europe. Since 2004, no European driver managed to win the WC.
Last weekend the 4th and last round of Spanish Nats 1/8 Off Road took place at Silla (Valencia)
Matching the weather forecast, we had some rain on Friday, that forced to stop heating series. However this rain helped to eliminate dust from the track and increase the grip, leaving a very nice surface for Saturday and Sunday.
On saturday, Robert Batlle TQ’ed followed by Andrés Marcelino and Borja Hernández.
«A» semi final was won by Robert Batlle while the rising star Ignacio Candel took «B» semi final, anticipating the final result.
With this Victory Batlle makes 4 of 4th in 2012 Spanish nats and 5 in a row.
Pos
Driver
Laps / Time
1
Robert Batlle TQ
Mugen / Nova / Merlin Fuel
63/ 45:37.189
2
Ignacio Candel
Mugen / RB
62/ 45:38.692
3
Borja Hernández
LRP / Alpha
62/ 45:39.102
4
Bryan Baldó
Mugen / Nova
61/ 45:.14.864
5
Oscar Baldó
Mugen / Nova
61/ 45:19.241
6
Jorge Soler
Mugen / OS
61/ 45:33.895
7
Javi Pombo
Mugen / Nova
60/ 45:12.175
8
Alberto García
Serpent / RB
60/ 45:.22.075
9
Andrés Marcelino
Mugen / Argus
60/45:22.467
10
Albert Navarro
Mugen / Nova
60/ 45:34.963
11
Ramón Nuño
TLR / nVision
59/45:08.911
12
Adrián Pérez Mayoral
XRay / Boss
50/ 45:16.817
Also final season Trophies were given in Silla.
Overall 2012 Top Three
Spanish Nats 2012:
1. Robert Batlle
2. Ignacio Candel
3. Bryan Baldó
Also the +40 Final took place with the following top Three:
The last round of the Spanish championship was held in Gijon, Northern Spain. With the weather forecast not good, the rain was going to be a problem. The title was still open and to be decided between 3 drivers, Nacho López (Serpent-Max-Matrix), Sergio Montesinos (Mugen Novarossi-Enneti) and Oscar Cabezas (Motonica-Novarossi-Enneti). The first 2 have have been on the podium all season, while Oscar had won the last 2 races. On Friday the drivers could not train due to the rain while on Saturday the track remained wet until the beginning of the qualifying heats, the grip improving throughout the day. The best heat was the last one which saw Oscar Cabezas take the pole position.
Oscar Cabezas is Spansih Champion 2012
Sunday dawned wet but the sun was also shining. The first semifinal was run in difficult conditions with a wet track and was won by Carlos Peracho followed by Sergio Montesinos in 2nd. The next semifinal had two title contenders, Oscar and Nacho and a very fast guest, Edu Escandon
The Speed Paradise facilities, near Buenos Aires, saw Merlin Team Driver Robert Batlle win the 2012 Worlds Warmup.
D. Ronnefalk set the peace during qualifying and seemed unaffordable. But 1 hour final is really long and anything can happen. So Robert, as usual was driving smoothly and planned a good fuel strategy allowing him to visit the pitlane once less than Ronnefalk.
The first position was held in the first laps by Cavalieri and Savoya, but soon Ronnefalk took the lead and opened a big gap leaving Batlle, Savoya and Cavalieri fighting for the second place.
With just 8 minutes to go Robert Took the lead and Ronnefalk had several mistakes that made him go down to 6th place.
The final result:
Final result:
Pos
Driver
Laps / Time
1
Robert Batlle – ES
Mugen / Nova / Merlin Fuel
78 / 60:25.0
2
Jared Tebo – USA
Kyosho / Orion
77 / 60:01.7
3
Ryan Cavalieri – USA
Associated / Orion
77/ 60:09.3
4
Reno Savoya – FR
XRay / RB
77 / 60:44.6
5
Ty Tessemann – CAN
HB / O.S.
77 / 60:45.7
6
David Rionnefalk – SWED
Kyosho / Orion
76/ 58.58.0
7
Cody King – USA
Kyosho / Orion
76/ 60:35.3
8
Billy easton – USA
Serpent / Nova
72/ 60:00.0
9
Jesse Roberts – USA
HB / O.S.
70/ 57:10.3
10
Teemu Leino – FIN
HB / LRP
69/ 59:69.0
11
Miguel Matias – PT
TLR / RB
50/ 42:48.7
12
Dakotah Phend
TLR / Orion
47/ 37:35.6
Neobuggy has published an interview with Batlle right after the final:
The 2nd rd. for Puerto Rico Championship Onroad Nitro Series, took place this weekend, with excellent results for Merlin Fuel users, 6 Merlin fuel users in the top 12.
1. Fernando “Choto” Méndez – Merlin Fuel
2. Juan Chalas – Merlin Fuel
4. Carlos Sánchez – Merlin Fuel 6. Alejandro Rodríguez – Merlin Fuel 10. Ángel Caballero – Merlin Fuel
11. René Díaz – Merlin Fuel
Last week the 3rd. round of Spanish Nats was held at ATV Racing Club in Valladolid.
91 drivers attended the race with a nice sunny weather during the whole weekend except Friday, when a few rain drops appeared. Not enough anyway to disturb the race.
During Saturday Qualifications Robert Batlle was the fastest, followed by Andrés Marcelino and Daniel Bernabé.
Batlle had a trouble in A-Semifinal, and had to fight to keep a 4th place. Finally he got the «5» for the final. Quite unsual for the lastest years.
On A-Final Dani Vega took the lead for the first laps with a close fight with behind for the second place between Ignacio Candel and Andrés Marcelino.
Batlle had to wait 29 laps to get the first position, that was kept until the end of the Race. Daniel Vega crashed against a rolled car in the double jump, saying goodbye to his chance in the race.
With this victory (3/3) Robert Batlle secures 2012 Championship. Congratulations!!!
We are pleased to announce that Modelsport, is joining the Merlin Fuel family.
Modelsport is a Larnaca based company that has been part of the city’s primary shopping destinations for RC, nitro and electric cars and accessories for over 15 years. Our company has managed to create and uphold a successful and profitable business environment with its premises located in one of Larnaca’s central streets, providing car modeling lovers with all the necessary means to exercise their most beloved sport – RC, nitro and electric car modeling.
Modelsport is the No.1 shopping destination in Larnaca as well as in the rest of Cyprus for all those who love Car Modeling and everything associated with RC, nitro and electric cars, model RC car racing or even building your own custom design remote control car choosing every little detail according to your taste from beginning to end.
The 6th round for the dutch nationals took place at the high grip Astroturf track in Haren Germany.
The track was very bumpy because they are also running bigscale on this track. On Saturday there was training it was extreme hot (30 degrees) but still 25 people took this opportunity to train for the race. Everybody looked for an setup for this high grip track, going fast true the chicanes without having traction roll.
At the end of the day most people found a good setup and were making the car ready for Sunday. In the evening we had a nice BBQ it was still very warm, and it didn’t cool down.
Sunday in the morning we started at 10.00 it was already very hot and the people said that it was going to be warmer than the Saturday, and it was true. (they have not spent the summer in Spain)
First round of qualification it was Bart Mullink who took the first place just 0.2 seconds behind him was Kay Koops.
Second round of qualification it was serpent driver Kay Koops who took the fastest
