Race Results for HPI Racing!

2000

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This is where you can find all of HPI's newest race reports from HPI Team Drivers around the world. Race events are listed with the most recent event first. Races that have lots of coverage have their own series of pages. 

First Nordic Scale Touring Car championship won with an HPI RS4 Pro 2!

Check out this link for a report with pictures on the exciting race!

Scott Winter takes the TORC 2000 

For the second year in succession, HPI Factory driver Scott Winter has won the competitive Midlands based TORC Series Championship.

Scott confirmed his win at the second to last round of the 2000 series at the Broxtowe track, with a fantastic record breaking TQ position and time of 20 Laps 300.960 which was followed by the win in the A Final of the ultra competitive Open Class

Scott joined the HPI / Team Orion European Factory Team 2 years ago, won the 1999 BRCA Junior Touring Car National Championship, came 3^rd at the 1999 European Touring Car Championship as well as this, his second TORC Championship in a row, was heard to be absolutely thrilled with the result!

Scott, along with the rest of the Team run the HPI RS4 Pro 2 with World Championship winning Team Orion Chrome Motors (12x3 or 12x5 motors) and the original Team Orion V-Max Panasonic 3000 batteries for incredibly high voltage and long run times.

Scott’s had another great year racing and we wish him the best of luck for the rest of this season along with the other HPI / Team Orion drivers:

Scott Winter

Jamie Booth

Karl Marsden

Ben Elliott

Greg Hill

As always, Scott’s set up sheet are available as well as our other Factory Drivers. If you would like to have copies of this Team Information, please contact Greg Hill @ HPI Europe on 01283 229400, or email with your home address to – greghill@hpi-europe.com

HPI and Team Orion win the Swiss National Touring Car Championship!

HPI RS4 Pro 2 cars dominated the fourth round of the 2000 Swiss National Touring Car Championship the weekend of August 19-20. With five rounds in the series, this year's champion has already been determined. It's Nicolas Pasini, driving an HPI RS4 Pro 2 with Team Orion power! Congratulation, Nicolas!

HPI and LRP take the Stadtmeisterschaft of Andernach in Germany!

Andy Kraemer / HPI RS4 Pro 2 wins the Stadtmeisterschaft of Andernach 
(Trophy of Andernach, Germany)

During the 10/11 of June 2000, there was an annual race meeting called "Stadtmeisterschaft" held in Andernach (Germany). Beside nearly all of the German top drivers, there was also the multiple European champion Craig Drescher (Team Associated / LRP) attending the race. On Saturday, Andy Kraemer from Team LRP was already showing that he was in brilliant form this weekend. Setting TQ by 3 seconds in front of Sascha Falter (Team Associated / Keil) and Craig Drescher. On his last run on Saturday, Andy was TQ by 5 seconds before rain stopped him during the last two laps of his run. After the last heat on Sunday, Craig Drescher was TQ, only 0.3 seconds in front of Andy and 0.6 seconds in front of Sascha Falter.

The first A-main was won by Andy Kraemer. To keep up the excitement for the last final, Andy tried to win the second A-main driving backwards, after realizing that he switched plus and minus... In the third final, a second place was enough to win the race overall!

The equipment used by Andy to win:
Car: HPI RS4 Pro 2
Speedo: LRP IPC V 7.1
Receiver: LRP Phaser
Motor: LRP Fusion Modified "Big Pig" 11x3
Battery: LRP HiVolt plus Panasonic 3000
Body: HPI Alfa Romeo 156 (190mm)

HPI takes the early lead for the 2000 Spanish Championship series!

Valencia (Spain), 6th March:

Javier Navascues, member of Team ModelVico/HPI, and the current Spanish National Champion, won the first round of the Spanish Championship 2000 with his HPI RS4 Pro 2, powered by Team Orion Chrome motors!

Javier took the lap and track record, and won the first two A finals, ahead of Belgian Corally Factory Driver Danny de Richter.

We'd like to thank Javier Navascués del Río for his report! We'll be keeping up with the status of the Spanish Championships all year long!

HPI takes second place at ISTC Cup meeting!

Karl Marsden's HPI RS4 Pro 2

HPI/Team Orion racer Jean-Marc Betticher (winner of the 1999 Swiss Touring Car Championship) took home a hard-fought second place for the HPI racing team this past weekend! Racing on a slightly bumpier track than last year's inaugural ISTC (International Scale Touring Car) track, Jean-Marc was one of only five racers to have perfect scores at the end of three days of racing. Each racer participated in thirteen rounds of racing that pitted them against nearly every other racer, and the lowest six scores were dropped and the finishing times combined. Each racer was scored on the best seven races (20 points for a win) and ties were broken by the lowest combined time. 

While Jean-Marc had the fastest lap of the meeting at 15.72 seconds, he was bettered by Billy Easton by only 8 seconds after the weekend's races were finished! Jean-Marc beat 3rd place Mark Pavidis by nearly 20 seconds and 4th place Barry Baker by a lap! Other notable competitors included former ISTC champion David Spashett, Josh Cyrul, Craig Drescher (the highest-placing UK racer at the event) and Mike Swauger.

All the racers used the same spec tires from last year's competition, the M1 control tires. Jean-Marc used a Stratus body, Team Orion 12x6 Chrome motors and 30 amp discharge RC2000 batteries, even though 3000mAh cells were allowed for use. HPI option parts used by Jean-Marc included the #72027 Aluminum Center Mount, #72039 Pro Spur Gear Hub, #A789 Heat Sink Motor Plate, #72036 Aluminum Hex Hubs, #73006 and #73007 Woven Graphite Shock Towers, #A255 15T One-Way Pulley, our new #A497 Graphite Diff Hubs, upcoming #72030 Aluminum 8 degree Front Uprights and #72024 Aluminum Rear Upper Arm Mount. As Jean-Marc puts it, "The car was absolutely flying!!!!!!!!"

See the full report from the British Radio Car Association here! Pictures from the event on this page are taken from the BRCA website.

The British R/C car magazine Racer has additional details of the ISTC World Cup weekend on their own web page!

For Jean-Marc's setup, click here! For other Team Driver setups, see our Setups Page.

HPI Challenge Deutschland Race Dates!

Click here to see the race locations and times for the 1999-2000 season of the HPI Challenge races held in Germany, presented by LRP Electronic sponsored by AMT magazine! The list is completely in German, and a "hotline" number is available for any questions.