The 5th round of the 2008 is led by the number 2 in the International 1:8 Ranking Giorgio Mingotti from Italy. Sebastian Burge from Germany, who stands at number 4 in the International 1:8 ranking, came in 2nd. The International 1:8 king of the road Antonello Parisi from Italy concluded the qualification at 3rd place.

Mingotti started off with Holmstrom at his side, and although Holmstrom got ahead of Mingotti between the 5th and the 7th lap it can be said that Mingotti had a clear roa ...

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This week we caught up with German VRC racer Michael Winkler for our 'Meet the Driver' column. We put eight questions to Germany’s top 3 1:8 and 1:10 ranked racer and here is what he had to say:

VRC - How did you get started with VRC?

Michael – I started with VRC in December 2004 by searching the Web to RC Sims and I was got started in June 2005. These days I drive with Ric, Matt, Francis, Marc and some other of today’s leading racers.

VRC - Judging from your racing  ...

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Antonello Parisi from Italy finished 1st in the main final of the 2nd round of the 2008 Spring Series 1:8. Sebastian Burge from Germany grabbed hold of 2nd pace and the 3rd place was for the Italian racer Giorgio Mingotti.

In today’s race the A.I. cars have gone wild; multiple racers have reported A.I.’s flying all over the track. Many racers got overwhelmed by this unfortunate circumstance which had a big impact on their lap times. For instance, Mingotti was torpedoed by an A.I. that w ...

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