The Worlds Warm-up Race took place last weekend in Burgdorf Germany, home to this year’s 1/10th ISTC and 1/12th IFMAR World Championships.
  
Red-hot Ronald Volker, the runner up at the last Worlds in Thailand, dominated the qualifying. In the end Sweden’s Alexander Hagberg was declared the winner with Volker and Yokomo teammate Hayato Matsuzaki also on the podium.

 
The PROTOform LTC-R race body was the overwhelming favorite body style of the top runners.
 
  1 – Alexander Hagberg – Pf LTC-R
  2 – Ronald Volker – Pf LTC-R
  3 – Hayato Matsuzaki – Pf LTC-R
  4 – Jilles Groskamp – Pf LTC-R
  5 – Andy Moore – Pf LTC-R
  6 – Takehiro Yamauchi – Pf LTC-R
  7 - Shin Adachi – Pf LTC-R
  8 – Atsushi Hara – Pf  LTC-R
  9 – Christopher Krapp – Pf LTC-R
 10 – Frederik Sudhoff - Pf LTC-R

2010 Reedy Race summary
 
The invitational class at the 2010 Reedy Race of Champions featured ultra close competition. After 2 days of racing it all came down to one last race on Sunday evening with 4 racers capable of the overall victory, Mark Reinhard, Paul Lemieux, Victor Wilck and Juho Levanen. Paul Lemieux jumped out into the early lead. A few laps later Mark made the pass for the lead and started pulling out a sizable lead. There were comments that Paul should just “throw in the towel, the champ won’t make a mistake”, however a few minutes in Marc did make an uncharacteristic mistake clipping the inside of the corner while coming onto the straight, sending his Tamiya racer into the outside wall. Paul regained the lead, battled with Juho briefly, but then pulled away to take the win and the cup.

Tyler Vik was the “darkhorse racer” of the weekend. The local racer who is more noted for his off-road prowess was out to prove “he could do it all” and finished off the event with a surprise 4th place overall in the invitational class. Also worth noting is the fact that Paul Lemieux seems to have closed the performance gap that the pro European drivers have seemed to have when racing electric sedans on rubber tires. This might just be the first ever win at a major event win for an American driver in a rubber tire sedan event.
 
The 2010 Reedy Race lived up to its heritage as an extremely competitive event – enjoyed equally by the racers and the crowd that watched. 

Final Invitational standings

1. Paul Lemieux – USA – PF MazdaSpeed 6
2. Juho Levanen – Finland – PF MazdaSpeed 6
3. Marc Rheinard – Germany - PF LTC-R
4. Tyler Vik – USA
5. Viktor Wilck – Sweden
6. Rick Hohwart – USA
7. Josh Cyrul – USA
8. Thomas Pumpler – Austria
9. Kevin Jelich – USA
10. Keven Hebert – Canada
11. Lex Tyler – USA
12. EJ Evans – USA
13. Scott Kimbrow – USA
14. Jimmy Jacobson – USA
15. Mike Blackstock – USA

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with MUGEN / NOVAROSSI / MLC fuel / SANWA radio / PROTOform body!

Last weekend saw the first EFRA GP 2010 in 1:8 On-road held at Minicarfiorano.it track!

More than 70 drivers with world champions Lamberto Collari, Danieli Ialesi on start!

After very close qualifying – following Top-4

1.      Lamberto Collari

2.      Robert Pietsch

3.      Andrea Cristiani

4.      Walter Salemi

From the Semi finals following drivers managed to come into the main final:

5.      Robin D’Hondt (Semi B)

6.      Michele Romagnoli (Semi A)

7.      Mattia Pesenti (Semi A)

8.      Daniele Ielasi (Semi B)

9.      Stefano Solaroli (Semi A)

10. Andrea Lorenzi (Semi A)

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Just wanted to let you know that this past weekend was the TOUR finals in Greenville, TN. Going into the race I was tied for the lead in points. At the end I was able to TQ and win using the PROTOform THD body!

This not only gave me the TOUR national title but the overall championship in points. This has been a really good oval season, winning three of the four major oval races.

Thanks again for your support!

Monti Panzica

As always the BRL series is a great show case of talent and close racing across the Mid-west or what I refer to the Big Ten states for all of the sports fans. This year’s series was under new leader ship of Chuck Klienhagen and his son Chuck Jr. The finals took place at S/N Trackside in Milwaukee, WI.

PROTOform bodies dominated the event with almost every racing in attendance running one! Going into this weekend I had TQ’ed and won the past two BRL races I attended and had a nine-point lead. During the coarse of the weekend I was able to again TQ and win the finals using the PROTOform THD body. I feel for this racing season the THD body has been hard to beat even with the introduction of the CHD body. With the changes in rules and single cell racing for oval the THD allows the car to turn more coming off the corner letting you carry more corner speed.

I want to say thanks again to PROTOform for all of their help and support for my second BRL championship in a row.

- PROTOform Driver Monti Panzica

This past weekend race #1 of the Novarossi Challenge Series was held at Crystal Park Raceway in southern California. The big winners were Mike Swauger – in the Expert 1/8th class, Darin Ishitani in the Expert Sedan class and Ryan Alfonso in the Sprtsman 1/8th class.
 
It was the first large event that the newly EFRA & ROAR approved PROTOform R5-N sedan body was used in competition. Mike Swauger handily TQ’ed using the R5-N and when qualifying was over there were 8 A-main drivers using the body as well. Mike Swauger succumbed to motor problems and was not able to start the A-Main. Mugen teammate Darin Ishitani got he big “Win”.
 
Sedan Top Ten
Darin Ishitani (R-5N)
Scott Kimbrow (R-5N)
Marco Acosta (R-5N)
Francis Mejia (R-5N)
Diatta Collymore R-5N)
Robbie Collins (R-5N)
Scott Fisher (R-5N)
Michael Palazolla (Stratus 3.1)
Walter Diaz (Stratus 3.1)
Mike Swauger TQ (R-5N)

Mike Swauger dominated the Expert 1:8th A-Main with a TQ and a “Win”.  At times he ran effortless laps a half second quicker than his closest competition.
 
1/8th Top Ten
Mike Swauger TQ (PF P909)
Ron Calangi
Jim Akins (PF P909)
Garen Hagobian
Justin Sheeley
Joel J (PF P909)
Brad Toffelmire
Christian Lopez
Danny Alvarado (PF P909)
Mike Strack (PF P909)

This past weekend the inaugural Can-Am RC Challenge for Charity race was held in the Seaway Mall in Welland Ontario Canada. It was a rousing success to say the least. The unique venue of racing in a large bustling shopping mall gave great exposure to the RC hobby in an all-new way. Many shoppers were able to witness top-level RC racing for the first time in their lives.

The 156 entries raced hard during the 3-day event in classes ranging Tamiya Mini and F1, to Vintage Trans Am as well as more traditional carpet on-road classes. The big winners were Jason Cramer, winner in 13.5 Foam Sedan, Wayne Vince winner and TQ in 10.5 World GT as well as 13.5 1/12^th GTP class. Martin Crisp TQ’ed 1/12^th GTP and went on the TQ and win 10.5 Rubber Sedan class as well.

An invitational Celebrity Race was held with a number of professional racecar drivers, local business owners and PROTOform’s own Dale Epp. Racing with Tamiya Mini’s, all the “celebrities” invited to race were actually holding an RC radio for the first time in their lives. Dale Epp slowly motored through the carnage to a 4^th place finish.

The event was sponsored by Tamiya Canada, PROTOform Race Bodies, LRP, Reedy, APS/Speedmind RC and Orca Racing. A portion of every entry fee was donated to Niagara Children’s Center to aid their work with handicapped children

Can-Am photo gallery:

http://kdactionphoto.smugmug.com/Photography/2009-Can-Am-RC-Challenge/10076618_udBDU#P-1-20

Competition Hobbies hosted the 2009 Southwest Indoor Grand Prix and the race went great!!!

In 1:12 scale a majority of racers opted for the PROTOform body but it was Pro-Line team driver Brian Kinwald who TQed and walked away with the win.

Brian also TQed and won Sedan with Ryan Maifield coming in 2nd. Both reached for the PROTOform R9 body to take them to the front of the pack.

Brian didn’t waste any time taking home the TQ and win in Modified truck using MX Suburbs and coming in a close second in 2WD with the MX Suburbs

Brian even let Josh Rehberg borrow his SC10 and he won with Pro-Line Bow-Tie M3 tires!!

Brian stated, “All in all it was good. Pro-Line tires were the tires of choice. Everyone liked em’ better than anything else!!!”

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Personally, I was kind of out of the running from the start. I had two schedule conflicts, but the overall event success was the focus…not my personal results.

Thanks to Leisure Hour Raceway for building and maintaining a premium on-road facility, and for the super sweet trophies. Be sure to check out some of the attached pics, and just let me know if you’d like larger versions.

Again, thank for supporting onroad racing in the Midwest. For those of you attending the iHobby show here in a few weeks, see you there!

Eric

This past weekend at the 2009 Austrian National Gas On-Road Championships the PROTOform P909 and Michael Klausner took home the top spot. In the highly contested 200mm Touring Car sport class Christian Bartacek chose the DNA as his top performer to capture the win as well. A double victory for PROTOform.