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Last weekend saw 1st Hill-Climbing Event for RC-cars in Faistenau at Hacksteiner-Hills for RC cars in the region of Salzburg/Austria. The event was organized by Christoph Stopper and Willi Rinnerthaler who found a perfect location and made also very simple rules. Every driver had 3 minutes for their heats (2x qualifying and 2x final – the best result in final counts) to get as high as possible or in the case of a ‘Full Hill’ the time would also count. As long the car drives up the hill the time is running, if a car stops the time will be on paused and the height will be measured and after measuring the time will start again and the car has to go back to the starting line downhill.

There was 2 competitions in this event, Hill-Climbing based on height and time and the Action & style category which is reviewed by three judges without RC-Car Experience sitting on a nice leather couch.

No ‘Full Hill’ was made in qualifying – some drivers missed the 65 meter only by few centimeters at the very difficult last few meters of the hill. The final rounds were started after the lunch break and the now completely dry track allowed every driver to get better results than in qualifying. We had following Top-14 results in the Hillclimbing event after the 2 final heats:

Pichler-Connection/Austria/Durango DEX10 Special – 34.40 meter
Lorenz Leitgeb/Austria/Traxxas Slash 4×4 – 35.80 meter
Bernhard Gugganig/Austria/Reely Hummer 1:5 – 42.40 meter
Martin Stöllinger/Austria/HongNor Ultra LX (bought his car during the event!) – 43.50 meter
Rene Ruffner/Switzerland/Hobbytech STR8 EP Brushless – 45,90 meter
Elli Weidendach/Germany/HongNor X2 CRT 54.80 meter
Maximilan Hoeflmaier/Austria/HongNor Ultra RR 55.00 meter
Roland Winklhofer/Austria/FG 1:5 Beetle – 55.00 meter
Kilian Ferstl/Germany/TT-Truggy Brushless – 56.00 meter
Wolfi Janesch/Austria/Hpi Baja 1:5 – 58.00 meter
Ede Mattis/Germany/HongNor X2 CRT – Full Hill/16.8 sec
Rene Rinnerthaler/Austria/HongNor X2 CRT – Full Hill/15.2 sec
Michael Klausener/Austria Mugen MBX-6T – Full Hill/14.8 sec
Michael Selner/Austria Mugen MBX-6T – Full Hill/13.7 sec

The second competition in this event was the “King of Action” – this was decided by the 3 Judges Magdalena, Max and Hubert and here the 7 year old Lorenz Leitgeb with his Traxxas Slash 4×4 took the Top-Spot. In second final leg Lorenz had a empty battery so Michael Selner had the idea during his run to take out a charged 3S Lipo from a EMaxx BL and lend it to him for this final run. Changing the battery within a few seconds, the car of Lorenz now had so much power it was not running normal anymore, doing wheelies everywhere making it easy to find the ‘Action-King’ for the judges.

An absolute perfect event where all drivers, with cars from 1/16 to 1/5, electric or gas, organizer, judges, had big fun. The winners trophy weighed in at 14kg (28 lbs).

It looks like that in 2011 will be the 2nd Hill-Climbing event at Hacksteiner-Hills in Faistenau. I can only recommend to attend this event, if somebody would like to come from far away it should be combined with a few days of holiday in the great lake area of Salzburg/Austria.

Thanks to Michael Selner for the report.

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A-Main number 2 has decided the outcome of the Dutch round of the 2008/2009 Euro Touring Series with Jilles Groskamp and Rob Janssen repeating their opening leg victories to secure the overall win here at the impressive Apeldoorn facility. Groskamp again took an easy win with his Tamiya TRF416 World Edition this time over the Corally of Marc Fisher and the Xray of Bart Wubben.  The only driver to run a sub 16 second lap, Groskamp made it look easy as behind him a number of great battles were fought out.

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Kyosho factory driver Steen Graversen became the fifth different driver in as many rounds to TQ a round of qualifying here in Apeldoorn but it is defending ETS Champion Jilles Groskamp and his Tamiya that will start from pole.  Dane Graversen recorded the fastest 5 minute run of the weekend with his Orion powered Stallion thanks to a fresh set of tyres and cooler track conditions.  Having changed motor for the run Graversen is now much happier with the top speed of his car and said he tried to drive safely so as to not punish his tyres too much as he will have to run them again in the A Main.  Lining up fifth on the grid his aim is to try and hold station in the final for a Top 5 finish.

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Factory Hot Bodies driver Andy Moore has ended Tamiya’s domination of qualifying here at the Dutch Euro Touring Series by taking the fourth and final qualifier on day 2 of the event. After difficult runs in the second and third rounds, the former World Champion had little choice but to use up his second set of qualifying tyres so as to ensure himself a place on the grid for tomorrow’s big race. Despite a half spin on his second lap the new Sweep rubber allowed the Hot Bodies driver to take control and record a time of 19 laps in 5:05.48, the third fastest run of the day. In the same predicament as the British driver, Xray’s Bart Wubben was also forced to run his second set of tyres but this time, his first run on new tyres failing to net a good time, the Dutch National Champion managed a strong second place to put himself in strong contention for a place in tomorrow’s A Main.

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The opening qualifier for the fourth round of the Euro Touring series here at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands has been completed and it is first blood for defending champion Jilles Groskamp. Intially it was Corally team driver Marc Fisher who set the pace but the German dumped allowing Groskamp to pip him for TQ honours. The Tamiya/Speed Passion driver described his run as ‘clever’ saying he didn’t push hard at the start as practice had shown run time would be an issue especially with everyone running new tyres. Fisher, whose GM powered car is proving very fast in a straight line, put his dumping down to a brand new pack of cells which he said could have done with a few extra charge cycles.

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