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October 7, 2011

Stuart Mahon wins 2nd annual Race of Champions

Last weekend saw the 2nd running of the ‘Race of Champions’ event taking place at the NNRC track near Blackpool in the North of the country. The event is the end-of-year ‘Race-Off’ between the Top 20 qualifying drivers from each of the 8th Scale Off Road Regions run throughout the year in the UK – it is the brain child of Glyn Morgan (8-11 series organiser) and is organised to challenge the best drivers from the 8-11 Series, NRS, SRS Series and the Scottish Region. It is a one-off race and is a great way of pitting each region against each other in a fun, but competitive end of season race.

Continue reading the report here

October 7, 2011

Renato Tradardi Jr wins Venezuelan Truggy Nats

The Venezuelan National Championship took place last weekend at the Pista Club ITALO track in Cagua. Event though Team Associated Team member Renato Tradardi Jr. had not been racing for a while because he was away in Italy, he and his RC8T were nevertheless able to get up to speed quickly in the controlled practices for his class. He ended a respectable second and his father Renato third for the Grand Final. Not bad for a two-month absence from racing. In the finals it started to rain and the track became slippery. Making a decisive tire choice Renato Jr. led the field from the first round, and as the track dried and traction improved, the Team Associated RC8T excelled and he took the win.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

October 7, 2011

2011 JConcepts Clash warmup – Announcement

The Coral Springs R/C Car Club and JConcepts are gearing up for the 2011 JConcepts Clash. In preparation, a warm-up event for 1/8th scale only has been confirmed for November 6, 2011 on a new layout. The race will take place on the 6th of November and will be open to 1/8th gas buggy & truggy (Expert & Sportsman) as well as 1/8th BL and Pro4 SCT.

More information on the event can be found here.

October 6, 2011

Cesar Salvadori wins Rd6 in Sao Paulo

The 6th round of the Sao Paulo Championship took place recently at the Vesuvio Farm track, which was run on a different clockwise layout. With very little practice time Cesar Salvadori, driving his Novarossi powered KM H-K1 showed some strong performance and took the TQ spot, being the only driver to make 19 laps and also the only one to achieve laptimes below 16 seconds. In the main final Cesar had the race was under control when at 9 minute mark, while about to overtake the 2nd and 3rd placed drivers, an incident with the 3rd placed car cause a flameout for the leader. With a heavily damaged exhaust system Cesar had to work hard to recover the lost time and would eventually win by only 3seconds advantage over Henrique Winik, followed by Sandro Martines. The 4th place went to Chung Min Hsu and 5th place was Paulo Cesar. 4 out of top 5 cars were KM Racing H-K1.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

October 5, 2011

Thomas Jones wins eBuggy at SDRC Race For The Cure

This past weekend SDRC Raceway in sunny San Diego played host to the Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure. Good weather in San Diego and a great day for a benefit race to help fund breast cancer research. In the midst of the 124 entries and perfect indoor track conditions, Tekno RC driver Thomas Jones TQ’d all 3 rounds of qualifying in 1/8th eBuggy. He went on to win the A main and bring home the victory. Thomas was using a Tekno RC V4 equipped HB D8 along with all of the other Tekno RC upgrades for the D8.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]

October 5, 2011

Martin Sørlie wins Norwegian Cup Series

Last weekend the final round of the Norwegian Cup Series was held at Radøy RC’s track, about an hour away from the coastal city of Bergen. It was a bumpy astro track with high grip, and although this place is far away from most drivers and often has bad weather, participation was surprisingly high. In 2wd Martin Sørlie running his Team Orion Powered TLR 22 was nearly guaranteed the win in the Norwegian cup with the most points, and with a TQ & 2nd place finish he did so with a 75 point lead ahead of Frode Pedersen and Niklas Bjørkå Roos, both running 22’s as well. In 4wd it was a lot more competition, as there were five drivers theoretically in contention of the cup win. The points from four out of five races count, and having run and won only two races, Martin would need to win this last race with his Team Orion Powered Yokomo Bmax to be able to win the cup. Qualifying second on the grid and winning two of the mains, meant he did his job. 2nd and 3rd place went to Niklas Bjørkå Roos (Schumacher) and Arne-Peder Flesvik (Yokomo).

Thanks to Martin Sørlie for the report.

October 5, 2011

JConcepts Winter Indoor Shootout & Hillbilly Invitationala

JConcepts and Steve “Hillbilly” Hale have teamed up to bring a special event to Real R/C Raceway in Blue Springs, Missouri on November 19-20, 2011. Properly named the JConcepts Winter Indoor Shootout and Hillbilly Invitational takes place directly in the Heartland of America. The famous track owner and “Hillbilly,” known for running some of the best events in the United States has created a special event at his home track where several of the Midwest’s finest racers do battle on a weekly basis. Simply put, this is music to the racers ears.

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October 4, 2011

Yannick Aigoin confirmed for Arena Offroad Meeting

With the 2011 Arena Offroad Meeting just around the corner (13-16 October), the organisers have announced that former European Champion and newly crowned French National Champion Yannick Aigoin will be back to defend his titles that he won in both buggy and truggy in 2009, the last time the event was held. The Losi/Nvision ace will join a whole host of top European and Italian drivers at this exciting and unique indoor race, more of whom will be announced in the coming days. Organisers have today also published the final schedule for the event on their site, which sees 4 classes run, 1/8th brushless, truggy, buggy F1 and buggy F2 as well as the famous Race of Champions race on Saturday night. Red RC will be in attendance from the beginning of qualifying and you can follow all the coverage throughout the weekend on our Event site.