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Tornado news

Rick V wins Dutch National season opener

Last weekend saw the first Dutch national for the 2011 season held on the Raco track in Utrecht, in total there was 48 drivers at the start in 2 classes. During the 1st heats the track was wet but drying from the rain the night before, but in the last heats the track was almost dry and saw the fastest qualification times. In the NK class it was Rick V taking the pole followed by Ilia v. Gastel, John Ermen driving the new Xray and Steven Cuypers. Straight from the start of the final these 4 drivers were close to each other with Rick V in front pulling out a small gap. Ilia had to retire due a broken engine and John drove a steady race to finish half a lap behind Rick in 2nd.


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Evaldas Cerniauskas

Evaldas Cerniauskas, a 25 year old student from Rokiškis, Lithuania has joined the Tornado team..

Please visit his website for more information about his results and upcoming events:

http://www.evaldas-rc.com/news.php
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Philip Sting remains with Tornado

After successful years of cooperation with company Jonker, Philip Sting will remain using Tornado fuel this year.
In the upcoming season Philip will take part in a lot of national races including the German Championship as well as in international races like European Championship A in Luxemburg and EFRA GPs.
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AUDI now also official sponsor of MIKIE KLAUSNER!

Back to Back 1:8 Onroad IC Austrian champion Mikie Klausner is now also officially sponsored by AUDI! This week he made a final agreement in sponsorship with AUDI Austria brand manager Richard Mieling to get supported from them for his racing plans in 2011:
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Track Max

To gain comparable lap times and information during testing an consistent level of grip is indispensable. But when testing outside of a race weekend, an on-road asphalt track normally offers a poor level of grip at the beginning which increases lap by lap which makes a comparison of test results quite difficult. Xray/SMI team driver Dirk Wischnewski, a two-time European Champion in 1/10 scale nitro on-road racing, was facing this problem also. However he has come to a solution which makes his testing very effective. Wischnewski is using Track Max which is a special track treatment compound from Dutch based Tornado. Dirk had this to say:

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Rick Vrielijnck wins IFMAR 1/8th Pre Worlds

This past weekend saw the Pre Worlds take place at Homestead RC Raceway in Miami, Florida in preparation for next April’s IFMAR 1/8th scale on road World Championships. The race saw the top qualifier from the past 2 gas on road World Championships Robert Pietsch once again take top spot with his self designed Mugen MRX-5 ahead of team mates Mike Swauger and Keisuke Fukuda, with Serpent driver Paolo Morganti rounding out the top 4. In the race it was Dutch driver Rick Vrielijnck who set the fastest lap on the way to the win taking the flag by less than a second from team mate Fukuda in 2nd, both using the new Protoform P909 shell, with Paolo Morganti rounding off the podium in 3rd spot.


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We made it again !!!

Rc Performance - Serpent Race Team - Brazil won again in Nitrocross Cup ( São Paulo - Brazil) this time during the 5th Round !!

Early in the morning we´ve made the best lap during Free Pratice. It show us that we´re HOT this round! During qualifying once again Heitor made the best laptime and start on POLE-POSITON !

This series format is two mains of 25 minute each. Heitor was on fire and won BOTH mains ! The SERPENT 811, running on Tornado Competition Off-road 25%,  proves his performance and extreme resistence, running all the day in Dust Raising Circuit without a single failure, just FAST and PRECISE !!!

With this win Heitor had a huge advantage in series points, so next november 21th during the 6th round ( and last one) he only need to finish in fourth place to be the NITROCROSS CHAMPION -2010

Till november 21th !!!
RC Performance Brazilian Serpent Team

Thomas Mayr Is The Austrian 2010 1:8 Off-Road Champion

Austrian distributor Hoeco reports that Pro-Line has taken 1st and 2nd positions in the 2010 Austrian Championships. “What is impressive is that Thomas Mayr was able to dominate the series with a relatively limited race budget,” says Hoeco’s Michael Selner. Since Selner supplies the product, he knows that Thomas has only used minimal products such as 1 Pro-Line SHIFT body, 1 motor and 24 pair of Pro-Line tyres to compete in 15 events. Congratulations to Thomas for great results with a good budget on resources.
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Remo Fransen wins Nomac 5th NK

In the NOMAC class it was Tom Smolderen taking the pole as the only one with 20 laps followed by Remo Franssen, Stanley Bauer and Peter v. Koningsveld. A lot of things were happening in the final making it very exciting. Tom was in the lead but several times he had some trouble with his drive train losing laps. Remo took over the lead and went for the win. Slowly Glenn was pushing forward and in the last minute he overtook Remo but sadly one corner after he went off the track due to glitches so Remo could take over the lead again. Remo took the win followed by Glen in 2nd while Tom Smolderen was 3rd.
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Rick Vrielijnck wins Dutch 1/8th Nats Rd5

The weather forecast was to expect rain for the 5th round of the Dutch 1/8th scale National championships but thankfully it was wrong and the whole day saw dry weather on the MACH track in Heemstede. Qualifying saw Rick V with the Mugen MRX-5 did take the pole position 2 seconds in front of Ilia v. Gastel, with the 3rd spot going to Robin d’Hondt and in the 4th and final direct final spot was Jordy Block.
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Patrick Gassauer wins German 1/10th EFRA GP

The German 1/10th scale EFRA GP took place last weekend at the Ettlingen track in the south west of the country. Practice was on from Thursday till Saturday noon and most of the only 20 drivers participating arrived on Saturday. What it lacked in quantity the event made up for in quality attracting the likes of Dirk Wischnewski, Robert Pietsch, Patrick Schäfer, Eric Dankel, Martin Lissau and double electric touring car World Champion Marc Rheinard.

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EFRA Grand Prix 1/8 IC Apeldoorn

At the EFRA Grand Prix 1/8 IC on road run at the beautiful AMCA track in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, a relatively low attendance of drivers for a GP, but with plenty of famous names of European top drivers attending it was sure to be very close racing for everybody and a highly competitive event.
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Thomas Mayr wins his first final at Austrian nationals 1:8 Offroad

Last weekend saw second leg for the Autrian championship 1:8 Offroad at A-Team Graz race track! First leg 2 weeks before could not be run, because of a overflooded race track at MARC Exklusiv in Kirschschlag!

Also last weekend the wheater situation was changing several times (sunshine, rain, ...) - but good track preparation (saw dust, ...) make the event possible!

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Nomac Cup Dutch Championship: Tornado Drivers Vrielijnck and Franssen 2nd and 3th

The 1st round of the Dutch 1/8th scale nationals was just held on the beautiful AMCA Apeldoorn track. Unfortunately there were bad weather forecasts. The weather on Sunday was a bit disappointing, because of rain one qualification round and the NOMAC-Cup main final started under wet conditions. The NK class final was dry, with some sunshine in the afternoon.

Qualifying in the NK class saw Ilia van Gastel take the pole position, followed by Tornado team drivers Rick Vrielijnck and John Ermen in 2nd and 3th, and Robin D’ Hondt in 4th position. After some semi final the line up for the final was complete.


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Tornado Driver Christian Wurst at Mugen Germany Team 2010

Mugen has boosted its German team for the 2010 on road season. Since years Sebastian Buerge, Rene Puepke and Philipp Sting have been pillars of Mugen Team Germany which has now seen Christian Wurst coming home to the Japanese manufacturer as well as Joerg and Uwe Baldes as newcomers. Needless to say that factory driver Robert Pietsch will also keep the Mugen flag flying on German tracks, as well as Steven Cuypers from Belgium

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NL; Top resultaat voor Bas de Konink op Nitromania 2010

De verdeling van de eerste 5 plaatsen was:
1. David Ronnefalk  /  Kyosho  / Orion
2. Elliott Boots  / Mugen  / RB
3. Adam Drake  / Losi  / Novarossi
4. Lee Martin / Losi  / Reedy
5. Daniel Reckward  /  Mugen  / RB
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