Curiosidades del nacional

- Dos motores OS Engines en la final. Victor Gonzalez con una unidad estrictamente de caja y Alberto Alonso con un motor "tocadito" por JBTRC Racing. Eso si, ambos con carburador de Novarossi.

- ¿Que le pasa a Vicente Eres? De tres finales plus 40 en dos ha sido descalificado por peso.

- El nacional se pone al rojo vivo. Dos pilotos dependen de ellos mismo, Nacho y Carlos, Oscar Cabezas necesita ganar y esperar que los dos anteriores bajen del 5º puesto y que Montesinos no acabe segundo. Si el que ganara la prueba fuera Sergio Montesinos, Carlos y Nacho deberian sumar mas de 561 puntos, es decir, acabar por encima del 5º puesto.

- Mala suerte para Oscar Cabezas, lideraba la prueba de manera holgada pero se le salio el carrete de la correa larga.

- No ha sido una buena jornada para los Motonica P81. Tan solo Cayetano Martinez se puede ir contento de Valladolid. Oscar Cordon tuvo una averia mecanica cuando perdio el carrete del eje trasero, Fernando Castillo tuvo un pequeño golpe que le saco la sujeccion inferior de un amortiguador delantero y a Nacho Garcia lo saco de la pista incomprensiblemente un piloto en la vuelta uno de sus cuartos.

- En la final habia motores para todos los gustos...IDM, OS, Novarossi, BP y Baruzzi. Algunos de precio elevado y otros no tanto.

Seguiremos...

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Nacho Lopez gana...por fin!.

El valenciano de Serpent, Nacho Lopez, gana la 3º del nacional en Valladolid. Llevaba bastantes carreras rozando la victoria y por fin la ha logrado. Ademas con esta victoria pone al "rojo vivo" la clasificacion y ahora Carlos Peracho y Nacho Lopez se ponen al frente de la clasificacion y dependen de ellos mismos, con Oscar Cabezas, Sergio Montesinos y Victor Gonzalez esperando un fallos de los dos primeros.

Madrid espera....y esto promete.

Mañana os pondremos una cronica mas larga de la carrera.

1.- Nacho Lopez, Serpent-35Plus21JBTRC

2.- Carlos Peracho, Velox-IDM Evo4

3.- Sergio Montesinos, NoFacilitado-Novarossi

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3º nacional, series publicadas.

El club Pical ha publicado las series de pilotos para el nacional del proximo fin de semana. Pinchad en la direccion http://www.myrcm.ch/es/pical/20100723_552723/1-8PG/index.html para verlo. Entendemos que el horario esta invertido, es decir donde dice serie 1 debiera ser la 5, lo normal es que la manga de los "buenos" sea la ultima en salir.

Entre serie y serie se dan 7 minutos de margen, tiempo muy correcto que en principio te permitiria calentar el motor sin problemas. En la jornada del sabado estan previstas las dos semifinales +40 como es habitual.

La inscripcion final ha sido de 49 pilotos, casi todos hospedados en los hoteles La Vega y Foxa, ambos bastante cerca del circuito.

Os mantedremos informados.

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News Team Shepherd

"Round 5 of the BRCA 1/8th On-Road Championship took place at the Adur circuit in the South of England. The Horizon Hobby/ DH Modelsport Team of Peter Hastings, Andrew Hastings and Neil Diver were all in attendance at this technical circuit. All 3 drivers were lapping the circuit quickly in the hot conditions on Saturday practice day.Qualifying for the team finished with Neil Diver in 2nd, Peter Hastings 5th and Andrew Hastings 6th for the A final. In the lower finals Lee Wakelin cruised to a C final win with his Velox V8. The A final started with Neil dropping to 4th after a bad start but getting back up into 2nd by the end of the first lap, Peter was less fortunate as a good start had moved him into 3rd at the end of the first lap, but after being hit by another car his race was compromised due to a damaged rear tyre, Andrew did well to avoid other cars and held onto his starting position. Neil continued to follow Tim Wood with a couple of seconds gap between them, just after the last pit stop Tim ran into problems leaving Neil with a 4 lap lead over the rest of the field which he would hold until the end. Andrew Hastings had been consistently lapping the circuit and was up to 3rd place at the end of the final only a few seconds behind 2nd place. Peter finished in 4th with his damaged car. In the final Neil managed to set the fastest lap time of the whole weekend proving the speed of the Shepherd Velox around this technical circuit."

Best regards
Patrick Schäfer

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Andrea Cristiani nos habla del EC 2010

Uno de los pilotos con mas presente y futuro del panorama mundial nos cuenta como fue el europeo 2010 en Locorotondo. Clasifico para semis desde clasificatorias y remonto hasta la final quedando en un magnifico quinto puesto. Los que estuvieron alli nos cuentan que en la final Crisitiani era un tiro, pero el mano a mano con Collari le privo de un cajon.

"Last weekend we were in Locorotondo for the most important 1/8 race of this year, the european champioship. Locorotondo is located in Apulia, in the south of Italy..that is to say sun and great food!! For all the week a great weather permitted everybody to enjoy this event. The track is very fast so if you could find a good engine you already made half of the set-up work.. in fact during the first practice days we focused on choosing the best engine-pipe combo. Another important aspect to keep in mind was the fuel consumption (some drivers couldn't even make 3.30 minutes with the 125cc fuel). With one engine I could make easily 4.30 minutes but the engine power is so important on this track that it costed me about 0.3 seconds per lap!! With the most powerful engine I had to refuel every 3.50 minutes..and after a rapid calculation from my dad it was clear that we needed to prefer the power instead of a low fuel consumption.My car seemed imediatly fast but the main problem was the traction..sometimes I didn't even know where my car would go after the corner..the second problem was that I lost much steering off-throttle when the temperature increased..Me and my dad spoke a bit and we decided to change something in the set-up: we moved from pink to red (softer) spring in the rear in order to gain traction, we moved from black to green (softer) spring in the front in order to loose less steering with the hot and we moved from +1 to +3 the front downstops. After these changes my car was simply perfect..easy to drive and even fast. The last thing we tested were the bodies but, maybe due to the fact that we made the set-up on the V2 Zytec body, we found no improvements with the others. We were then ready for the qualifications.Unfortunately I couldn't take part to the first two rounds which turned out to be the fastest heats..anyway in the third one I could set the 9th overall time under very hot conditions..in the fourth and last one nothing changed..so I had the number 3 in the A semi-final, behind Ielasi and Vrielijnck. After the start I kept my third position but after a few laps Vrielijnck made a mistake so I could move up to second. For me it was already enought to finish like this because it would mean a sure access to the final, but my car worked great and I could follow Ielasi. After some minutes Daniele hit gearbox problems so I could take the lead and wait till the end of the semi. All went perfect till the end so in the final I started with the number 5. At the starting sound I jumped in front of Pirani and we started a nice battle that lasted for some laps with nice overtakings. Pietsch and Balestri started to gain some advantage on the rest of the competitors. After some minutes Pirani suffered some problems that caused his retire. At this point I was behind Collari and I was faster than him but as everyone knows it's not easy to overtake him..I tried to pass him on the track but I never succeded in this..so I decided to take some risk in the pitlane since our fuelstops were made in different laps..and this strategy worked since he came out from the pitlane just behind me. But unfortunately after the tyre change he went again in front of me. I tried again to pass him but I made a mistake in the chicane. My car hit a protection with the rear side and a shock absorber came out from the uniball. I came back in the pitlane but maybe the shock absorber was still in a quite-right position so my mechanics saw nothing wrong and just let me out again. The car didn't work good anymore but I was still in third position since Collari made also a mistake that costed him some time. After the following pit-stop the shock absorber came completely out and at this point the car was undriveable. I came again in the pit and this time my mechanics took the shock absorber in the right position again. The car behaved good again and I was now on 4th position again just behind Collari, but I needed one more fuelstop than him..unfortunately during another overtaking attempt on Collari my engine flamed out and I lost around one more lap..so now also the 4th position was gone and I could just end my race on 5th..it's a shame because the podium was something possible..but in Italy we say that with the "if" and the "but" you can make nothing..so I have to be happy with my 5th place. Serpent proved to be fast with 3 cars in the main final and also the laptimes were good.Congratulation to the new European champion Robert Pietsch for the great performance and win.Thanks to my dad Marcello, to Pasquale for the pitwork and to my sponsors:Serpent, Max Power, Enneti, Sanwa, Runner Time.

Till next time

Ciao ciao

Andrea"

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Nacional Valladolid, poca inscripcion.

A menos de una semana para cerrar las inscripciones de la 3º del nacional 2010, tan solo treinta y pocos pilotos se han apuntado a la cita. Una participacion muy pobre.

Las razones pueden ser varias, la crisis, la fecha, el circuito, el calor...Esta claro que la crisis afecta, se ha notado en las dos citas anteriores y esta no es una excepcion. La fecha es novedosa, no recuerdo una carrera con Julio tan avanzado y son fechas de vacaciones.

Esperemos que por lo menos lleguemos a las 40 inscripciones...aunque si no lo conseguimos, seguro que la carrera sera muy disputada y una cosa esta garantizada, las cenas en tierras vallisolitanas son un "lujo".

El año pasado gano en este circuito Josue Artiles seguido por Oscar Cabezas y Victor Gonzalez. La pole fue para Sergio Montesinos.

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Europeo de "tierra" 2010

En Portugal se esta celebrando el europeo de TT 2010. De momento 3 españoles ese han clasificado para semis (en TT no hay paso directo a la final). Uno de ellos es Dani Vega, que alguna vez se deja caer por una prueba de 1/8 pista gas demostrando su clase tambien en el asfalto. Si quereis mas informacion visitad www.neobuggy.net.

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