Last Sunday the Club Aspropyros – Arena Track , near Athens held the 1/10 Traction XPERIENCE Race for 1/10 On-road scale.
The young Lykaris Vasilis, whos is a real newcommer (firts year racing), took the absolute victory, despite he was starting the race in «B» level.
Final Result Top 3:
1. Lykaris Vasilis + X-Ray/Merlin Fuel 96 L – 30:07.291
2. Kisrkos Panayiotis Kyosho – 96 L – 30:15.407
3. Vlachopoulos Marios Kyosho – 93 L – 30:10.520
Last weekend took place the 4th and last rd for Spanish 1:8 On Road in Club Arca (Madrid)
Merlin Team Driver, Oscar Cabezas took the victory, TQ and overall Championship.
Óscar dominated the race from the early beginning, being the only driver able to set 18 laps in the recently renewed Arca Track. Moreover he won the 4 classifying heats.
However the Main final, was not as easy as the final result shows. Óscar had a flame out in the first laps, that made him change the strategy and even run out of fuel in the middle of the final. Nevertheless, his pace was so strong and consistent that he could keep the 1st position until the the final flag.
With this Victory, Óscar claims the absolute title, after 2 victories and 2 second places. It was a challenge for Oscar to win again the Nat Championship after having changed his car and engine. (Motonica – Novarossi). So after some adaptation time he is again on top.
Josué Artiles, has finished on
The 5th and final round for Spanish 1/10 200 mm. took place last weekend in Madrid at Club ARCA Track.
It was an extremely interesting round, since the overall title fight was really tight involving more than 10 drivers with real chance to win the aboslubte Spanish Nat Championship.
The weekend looked great for racing, sunny and over 24ºC. Over 80 drivers attended this last round 2009 season in Madrid.
The Saturday qualifying round showed a close fight for the TQ, with the Top 3 almost in the same laptime and a fratricidal duel between Pahissa Brothers.
Saturday Qualifying:
1. Rodrigo Pahissa – 22 laps – 7:13.346 – Xray/Merlin Fuel 
2. Iñaky Pahissa – 22 laps – 7:13.395 Xray/Merlin Fuel
3. Josep Gradolí 22 laps – 7:14.744 Xray/Sirio/
4. Javier Hidalgo 22 laps – 7:19:696 Serpent/Max
Coming from semi-finals Xabier Arana, Juan Hidalgo, Sergi Franch, Victor Peláez, Luis Cayetano and Toni Mur completed the starting grid.
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The 3rd. round for Spanish 1/8 nats, took place last weeken at Gijón (Northern Spain).
The classification was clearly dominated by Oscar Cabezas (recently 11th classfied in Lostallo Worlds 2009), who took the TQ in the 4 heats.
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Oscar, also set a new Track Record with a 15:280 lap. Following him Víctor González (Kyosho-MB-JBTRC.Racing) 2nd, Nacho López (Mugen) 3rd and Carlos Peracho (Velox-Sirio) 4th.
The final was dominated also by Óscar Cabezas who conserved his honor position until the end, finishing 3 laps ahead the second Nacho López and 4 laps ahead Sergio Montesinos.
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With the 4th rd. to be held in Alcobendas – Madrid, Oct. 25th, the absolubte Championship is still to be decided. For sure Oscar Cabezas and Josué Artiles will offer a nice show in the last Spanish Rd to get the absolubte Nat Championship.
Final Results:
| Pos / Driver |
Laps | Time |
Fast Lap |
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| 1 Oscar Cabezas | 165 | 45:11.126 | 15.515 | Motonica – Novarossi – Merlin Fuel |
| 2 Nacho Lopez Lluch | 162 | 45:03.071 | 15.605 | Mugen- Nova Collari-Enneti |
| 3 Sergio Montesinos Ortega | 161 | 45:05.401 | 15.867 | Mugen-JP Racing-Enneti |
| 4 Josue Artiles Santana | 160 | 45:03.931 | 15.755 | Mugen |
| 5 Carlos Peracho Heras | 158 | 45:14.528 | 15.466 | Velox / Sirio |
| 6 Paco Lobo | 156 | 45:10.105 | 15.963 | |
| 7 Oscar Cordon Garcia | 155 | 45:01.093 | 16.188 | |
| 8 David Menendez Tejedor | 154 | 45:08.012 | 16.016 | |
| 9 Joaquin Villegas Gutierrez | 152 | 45:07.208 | 16.308 | |
| 10 Victor Gonzalez | 40 | 10:56.191 | 15.714 |
It was an all Merlin podium at the rescheduled third round of the Irish National Onroad Championships last Sunday as Austin Elliot claimed his second 1:8 win of the season. Racing in beautiful sunny conditions it was Mugen driver Clive Connolly who took TQ honours.
The multiple champion was in dominant form in the half hour final but 43 laps in, the rear pulley came loose on the leader’s car. This handed Serpent’s Michael Byrne the lead but in the closing stages of the race Elliot found his way through to take the win by half a lap. After losing almost 2-minutes in the pits Connolly rejoined the race to record a new lap record of 14.4 seconds with his Merlin fuelled MRX-4R enroute to taking the final step on the podium. Overall Ian Campbell claimed the Champion giving Merlin back to back Irish titles. In the 1:10 Final Merlin enjoyed two drivers on the podium with Thomas Ward and nitro racing debutant Pat Healy finishing 2nd and 3rd respectively
The 4th and last round of Spanish Nat Championship, has taken place today at Valladolid.
With the Overall championship already won by Robert Batlle who made 3/3, everybody was wondering if he could make 4/4 in his last GRP Engine powered Race.
Finally he was unable to make the 4th. The final was really disputed, and 4 drivers have made it to the 1st position during the race; Robert Battle who had some mechanical problems, Richi Gómez, Daniel Vega, and the winner, Borja Hernández.
Carlos Pineda has completed a great weekend finishing on 2nd place, spite he has raced about half of the final race with the broken rear wing, richi Gómez completed the podium.
The final result: 1º- Borja Hernandez 2º- Carlos Pineda – Mugen – Ninja – Merlin Fuel 3º- Richi Gomez 4º- Dani Vega 5º- Carmelo Baldó 6º- Adrian Perez 7º- Bryan Baldó 8º- Albert Navarro 9º
Last Weekend the Arca Club in Madrid, held the European 1:8 Championship Plus 40.
The results are as following:
1 JACKY MOUTON 138 45:09.511
2 LUIS CAYETANO MARTíNEZ 135 45:07.116
3 JOSE ALDUDO 135 45:13.278
4 FRANCISCO LARA 134 45:02.629
5 JOSE ANTONIO DE LARA 133 45:05.187
6 ERIC NOUGIER 133 45:05.881
7 TOMAS MARTIN 129 45:01.278
8 ALBERTO CABEZAS 118 45:12.208
9 SVETISLAV POPOVIC BALDANI 68 31:12.095
10TOMAS AGUADO BARRERO 51 45:20.040
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As a curiosity, Oscar and Alberto Cabezas swithed roles. The recently claimed 11th in 1:8 Worlds 2009, Óscar Cabeza, was pitting Alberto in this European Championship, showing that he is not only a top driver, but an excellent Pitman. racing in 5th place Alberto broke his front suspension, and Óscar managed to make a improvised repair, that allowd Alberto to finish the race in 8th.
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Merlin success at Irish Grand Prix
The inaugural Irish Grand Prix took place over the weekend at the St.Annes track situated on the outskirts of capital city Dublin where the winners of both the 1:10 and 1:8 onroad classes used Merlin fuel to power their cars. In qualifying Merlin claimed TQ honours in both categories as British 1:10 Champion Kyle Branson claimed pole with his Sirio powered Serpent while Ian Campbell was fastest in 1:8 with his Shepherd Velox.
In the wet 30-minute 1:10 final Branson took the early lead but 10-minutes in the youngster suffered a radio glitch on the main straight which sent his Serpent crashing into the pit wall and into instant retirement. This allowed Team Serpent Ireland driver Keith Dempsey to take control of the race as he cruised to a 2-lap winning margin over young ace Alex Thurston from the UK who was also using Merlin fuel in his Novarossi powered Kyosho. Unfortunately poor weather meant the 1:8 final didn’t
The 1/10 2009 Euros is finished.
Dirk Wischnewski has taken the final victory followed by our Team Driver Alexander Hagberg and the Austrian Manuel Huber, all them in the same lap.
The TQ man Dario Balestri was first with a whole lap advantage, but he suffered a problem in the front of the car.
This is the final result;
1 Wischnewski Dirk 159 45:03.983 – 16.123
2 Hagberg Alexander 159 45:15.194 – 16.259
3 Huber Manuel 159 45:15.868 16.593 16.281
4 Hudy Martin 158 45:05.808 16.621 16.219
5 De Felici Giorgio 153 45:01.774 17.181 16.370
6 Renaux Jerome 138 45:13.132 16.245 16.153
7 Balestri Dario 134 38:12.900 17.505 16.138
8 Spataro Biagio 134 45:09.479 – 16.293
9 Kandelhart Gerhard 116 45:02.446 -16.550
10 Tironi Francesco 112 34:23.133 -16.277
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RED RC Has uploaded a video that will help us to get more familiar with the Italian Track which is helding the Euros this year.
Source: REDRC