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The British 1/8 Nats started last weekend at Medip track (West England)

Mark Green TQ’ed and won the first UK Nats round. Some Irish drivers as Clive Connolly attended the race.

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The final result:

1. Mark Green – Serpent/Novarossi/Merlin Fuel
2. Clive Connolly – Mugen/IDM
3. Jason Frost – Serpent/Mega
4. Daniel Bancroft – Motonica/Max
5. Dan Jones – Mugen/Novarossi
6. John Carr – Serpent/Mega
7. Tim Wood – Serpent/Mega
8. Neil Diver – Shepherd/IDM
9. Chris Heath – Serpent/Mega (DQ from 5th due to width of rear end)
10.Richard Hicklin – Serpent/Mega (DQ from 9th failed to submit car for scrutineering)

Pics: Redrc.net

Full report at: http://www.redrc.net/2010/04/mark-green-wins-brca-18th-rd1-in-mendip/

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Last weekend took place the 1/8 Onroad Speedmasters in Arena RC track, near Athens.

Leonidas Farmakis, (Serpent – Picco – Merlin Fuel) took the TQ and also the final victory.


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Here is a video of the main final:

Top 3:

1. Leonidas Farmakis – Serpent – Picco – Merlin Fuel – 108 laps

2. John Doucakis – Motonica – 106 laps

3. Andreas Gianakakis – Kyosho – Merlin Fuel – 100 laps.

Info: Velocity Models.

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The opening round of the Dutch 1/10th scale 200mm National Championship got underway at the Groningen track in the north of the country. Nice sunny weather greeted the racers and using a new qualifying NK1system that saw the drivers 3 best laps count towards your start position it was last year’s champion Pedro Rombouts that took the pole position ahead of Daan Jacobs, Jurgen Geerligs, Ricardo van Dam and Remy Moller, with a new system seeing the top 5 now qualifying directly into the main final. In the 30 minute main final Daan Jacobs was the first to retire, an accident on the 2nd lap ending his race. A lot of errors throughout the field on the bumpy track kept things interesting but up front Rombouts steamed ahead to win the race by 3 laps ahead of Ricardo van Dam in 2nd and Ruud Schuitmaker in 3rd, the only driver to do a tire stop in

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Last weekend took place the Italian Efra GP at Fiorano Track.

Lamberto Collari TQ’ed followed by Robert Piestch, Andrea Cristiani and Walter Salemi.

In the final Lamberto Collari, Andrea Cristiani and Robin D’Hondt had the best start, while on the dirty side of the track Walter Salemi managed to overtake Robert Pietsch. After a few minutes Collari was losing some ground due to a broken 2nd gear pinion.Daniele Ileasi Managed to make the whole final without Tyre changing.

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Final Classification:

1. Pietsch Robert – 170 laps in 45:11.842 2. Cristiani Andrea – 169 laps in 45:03.079 3. Ielasi Daniele – 166 laps in 45:01.814 4. Pesenti Mattia – 165 laps in 45:08.922 5. Salemi Walter – 165 laps in 45:09.923 6. D’Hondt Robin – 160 laps in 43:33.196 – Motonica – Nova – Merlin Fuel 7. Romagnoli Michele – 128 laps in 34:22.767 8. Lorenzi Andrea –

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Robin D’Hondt reports from the 1st Round of Netherlands Nats.

The first round of the Netherlands championship was held at the track of Apeldoorn. Weather forecast wasn’t looking good, however it was dry on Saturday rain came on Sunday to bring an interesting scene in the final.

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My arrival at the track on Saturday was much later as I wanted it to be due to traffic. I wanted to test many things but in the end I only had 2 hours of testing to make a good setup. The day before I setuped my car with the setup I think would of worked on the track (small track so high droop, much camber change, much offset) and … it worked !

With some minor adjustments to the car I was driving the same laptimes like John Ermen and Rick Vrielinck. So, happy with the cars performance but still having idea’s to make it better we had to call it a day because after 17 o’clock no engines can be started anymore.

Sunday morning it all looked rather wet, apparently it rained at night but with the sky

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Last weeken the Arena Race track in Athens held the 2nd round of the Greek R/C Buggy & Truggy Masters.

Stelios Madianos (Losi – Picco – Merlin Fuel) took the first palce in «B» categoy in both scales buggy and Truggy.

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Karousos Aris (Losi – Picco – Merlin Fuel) took the 6th overall place in Truggy scale, in a race where about 35% of drivers chose Merlin Fuel.

Info: velocitymodels.gr


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The opening round for Reg. Cataluya Off-Road Championship, took place last weekend on Sta. Oliva Track.

The race was clearly dominated by 2008 Champion, Robert Battle during qualifying,  and also in the A-Main

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Final Result:

1º Robert Batlle – Associated – Nova

2º Alex Calatayud – Associated – Reedy – Merlin Fuel

3º Jaume Figuls – Losi – Ninja

4º Carlos Pineda – Associated – Orion – Merlin Fuel

5º Albert Navarro – Bergonzoni – Axe

Pics: Picasa – Miguel Ángel

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Last weekend took place the Montpellier GP in France.

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Most of the European biggest names in 1/8th buggy attended the anual race. Yannick Aigoin TQ’ed ahead Reanud Savoya and Daniel Vega in his first race with the new Agama.

The final results:

Pré-FINALE PLACE NOM et PRÉNOM RÉSULTAT
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 AIGOIN Yannick 1°/ 105 T 01:00:26.17
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 BAYER Martin 2°/ 105 T 01:00:30.11
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 AIGOIN Jérôme 3°/ 104 T 01:00:09.69
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 VEGA Daniel 4°/ 101 T 00:58:57.15
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5

 HERNANDEZ Borja 5°/ 101 T 01:00:00.50
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 TORTORICI Davide 6°/ 100 T 01:00:25.89
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 FERRATO Bastien 7°/ 98 T 01:00:10.99
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 PITTET Jérémy 8°/ 98 T 01:00:30.84
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 SAVOYA Renaud 9°/ 96 T 01:00:00.12
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 BATTLE Robert 10°/ 95 T 00:55:52.69
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 EZAZIAN Jérôme 11°/ 90 T 01:00:09.07
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 CRAGG Neil 12°/ 6 T 00:03:29.31
1/2 B

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 SARTEL Jérôme 7°/ 34 T 00:20:11.29
1/2 B

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 FARINA Michel 8°/ 34 T 00:20:21.38
1/2 B

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 REYNAUD Nicolas 9°/ 34 T 00:20:29.81
1/2 B

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 RODRIGUEZ Nicolas 10°/ 34 T 00:20:29.91
1/2 A

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 BERMUDEZ Cyril 7°/ 33 T 00:20:09.29
1/2 A

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 DEROCH Stéphane 8°/ 33 T 00:20:14.05
1/2 A

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 PINEDA Carlos 9°/ 33 T 00:20:15.21

This vide shows the «A» half final.

Related links

GP Montpellier 2009 – Merlin News

GP Montpellier en Automodelisme.com

GP Montpellier en RCmag

Pictures: automodelisme.com

Video: RCmag.com

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Next week our team will be in Nuremberg Fair.

We will exhibit at HALL  7 / Stand F25

We will be pleased to meet you in our Stand where we will introduce the new 2010 Range, cinluding the exclusive HI-RES Additive Package, and the new OFF-ROAD BLEND MERLIN ADVANCE 25, ADVANCE 33 and ADVANCE 46%

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In this vide, you can watch some highlights about 2009 season. Also a small referal to new developments for 2010.

Stay tuned for 2010 new developments.