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May 7, 2012

Riccardo Perin wins Italian season opener

The opening round of the Italian offroad season took place last weekend in Sacile. Qualifying saw Davide Tortorici, driving a Bliss powered Mugen, take the top spot ahead of Kyosho pairing Davide Ongaro and Fabrizio Teghesi with Carlo Jacopini and Riccardo Perin completing the top 5. In the final it was Agama driver Perin who came through to win the 45 minute encounter just less than a lap ahead of Teghesi in 2nd with reigning Champion Riccardo Rabitti, driving a prototype Crono, completing the podium. Pole man Tortorici hit problems in the final breaking his car on pit exit and ended the race in 6th.

Source: Just Buggy [justbuggy.net]

May 5, 2012

Wayne Joelson wins Rd2 in South Africa

Round 2 of the South African On Road Gas Championships were held last weekend at the coastal city of East London. Rain on Thursday practice reduced setup time to just one day, and with high traction and fast sweepers fuel consumption and setup was critical. Reigning 1/8th scale SA champion Wayne Joelson, driving a Novarossi powered Mugen MRX5 took the top qualifying position with a 26 lapper in 5m12 for Sundays final, setting a new lap record of 11.1 seconds along the way. In the reduced 30 minute final Wayne ran 141 laps, to finish 11 laps ahead of 2nd position. The next round will be held in Durban on the 30th of June.

Source: PTA [pt-a.co.za]

May 4, 2012

JConcepts Super Cup Championship Series Rd4

Once again JConcepts hit the road to Coral Springs for the JConcepts Super Cup Championship Series race #4. Friday practice at CSRCCC had threatening skies looming overhead with a thirty percent chance of rain for race day, Saturday afternoon. All thirty percent of the rain seemed to pour down Saturday morning. With a few phone calls there now was a plan B which was put into effect to relocate the event to Basher’s indoor RC Raceway in Palm Beach Gardens. Thanks to modern technology and email, Gmail, Texting, Facebook, RCTech, and any other form of communication you can think of, the word quickly spread to the racers about the move. Special thanks to Brian Buckley owner of Basher’s RC Raceway for having a well prepared venue, able to host 185 racers at a moments notice.

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May 3, 2012

Gillespie leads Associated April Fools Classic haul

For the 24th year in a row, racers gathered at the historic Intermountain R/C Raceway just outside of Salt Lake City, UT and this year the entry count was over 200 for the smooth indoor clay surface race. Qualifying started Friday afternoon and ended Saturday night, with Mains on Sunday. Mod classes included 2WD Buggy, Stadium Truck, 4WD Buggy, and 4×4 Short Course. Team Associated/Reedy/LRP driver Rob Gillespie Jr. made a bold statement in qualifying, earning TQ in all three classes he entered, Mod Buggy, Mod Truck, and Mod 4WD. The hometown driver seemed to be very comfortable on the track with his Pro-Line-equipped Team Associated vehicles all weekend long. Adrian Redding went on to earn the last TQ spot in the 4×4 Short Course field with his Factory Team SC10 4×4.

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May 2, 2012

Hartson & Numan win JConcepts Stock Nats

This year OC/RC Raceway played host to the 1st Annual Stock Nationals in Huntington Beach, California. With four rounds of qualifying on Saturday using qual points and two out of four rounds counting, an emphasis was placed on consistency. On Sunday, the event continued with the running of the lower main events with the top two drivers bumping up to the next highest main event. The Sportsman classes would use a triple A-Main format, while the expert classes were one single 10-minute main.

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May 2, 2012

European Nitro Challenge – Announcement

Shepherd have announced the 2nd annual European Nitro Challenge for nitro on-road cars. The race will be held from the 7th to 10th of June at the Hockenheim Formula 1 circuit’s RC race track and is open to 1/10 and 1/8 scale nitro on-road cars in Open and HobbyCup classes with the latter need to run Novarossi N12T1 or Sonic .12 ProStock engines and Novarossi N21-5T or Sonic .21 ProStock engines respectively. The race which is organised by Shepherd with cooperation partners Serpent, Mugen, Picco, Sonic and LRP will not allow for tyre additives and already received entries from pilots like Robert Pietsch, Michael Salven, Dirk Wischnewski, Simon Kurbuch, Daniele Ielasi and more. You can find additional information about the race on the official site here.

May 2, 2012

Jacky Siow wins MBA Cup 2012

The Minyak Beku Agrotourism Cup, an annual event held at the sea side resort in the southern part of Malaysia has attracted some of the best racers from Malaysia and Singapore, resulting in more than 50 racers participating in the 10.5T boosted class. The first round of qualifying saw Jacky Siow from Team Orca Asia taking the preliminary TQ spot with the fastest lap time of 12.281sec and completing 24 laps in 5:00.937. Michael Lo also from Team Orca Asia achieving 24 laps 5:02.352, with a fastest lap time of 12.291sec and Siow WoonFong achieving 24 laps 5:04.489 coming in 3rd.

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May 1, 2012

Yannick Aigoin wins French Nats Rd2

A quick update from Belfort, France where Yannick Aigion has won the second round of the French 1/8th off-road nationals. The Team Associated driver, who also TQ’d the meeting, took the win with a one lap margin over his brother Jerome (Kyosho) with Renaud Savoya (Xray) coming in 3rd. Jerome Sartel (Agama) and Rayan Medjoubi (JQ) completed the top five.

Source: RC Mag [rcmag.com]