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Last weekend, the 2008 1/12th scale European championships were held in Manching, Germany. Since this is less then an hours drive from Munich, I just had to go and check out some of the action. The race was held on a temporary track in a gym on the outskirts of the small town just outside of Ingolstadt. The track was big and had quite a technical lay-out. A short straight and a very twisty infield.
There was some Hot Bodies ended up taking all podium positions. Marc Rheinhard being the quickest man. After taking the top qualifying spot, he took the win in the first two of three mains and thereby securing the championship. This meant he could sit out the last main and let the others battle for the win. Andy Moore managed to do just that with some great driving from fifth place on the grid. Combined with a second place finish in one of the other mains earned him second place overall. Germanies Ronald Völker finished third overall. Serpent had a small booth set up where they showed off their on-road cars, including the new 12th scale racer which looks like a very nice and well thought out car. I couldn't figure out if anybody was racing the car at the race, so it's hard to say anything about it's performance. Most cars used seemed to be from CRC and Associated. For all the results and lots of photo's, check out the euro's official web site. I posted some pictures in the OpenSourceRC Picasa feed and two short video's in the YouTube feed. The guys from RCRacing.tv were also on site so expect to see full race coverage in one of the upcoming episodes.
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