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.
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]
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]
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.
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.
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.
One week ago the final of the Alpen-Cup, a racing series based in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland, was held at the fast track of the MRT Rosenheim club. Among the 65 participants was Shepherd driver Maxi Vogl, showing good performance all weekend. In qualifying he managed to secure a direct-qualifier spot placing 3rd behind Christian Wimberger and Felix Heyse. At the start of the final Wimberger made a mistake and crashed at the end of the straight. Heyse and Vogl took over the lead and increased the gap on the rest of the field. The lead changed many times due to a different pit strategy but at the middle of the race Heyse made a mistake and slipped into the grass. His mechanic Robert Pietsch had to put him back on the track allowing Vogl to increase his lead to 2 laps which he kept until the checkered flag. Heyse finished 2nd in front of Shasa Lackner who completed the podium.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The JMRCA Japanese 1/12th scale Nationals were held last weekend at the Yatabe Arena on their indoor on road asphalt track which has been covered with carpet. In qualifying it was reigning Japanese and 2-time World Champion Naoto Matsukura, driving for Yokomo that took the top qualifier spot ahead of Corally driver Hideo Kitizawa in 2nd and Daisuke Sakamoto driving the new Kyosho car in 3rd. In the finals it was Naoto that took the win the first two mains to secure the victory ahead of his team mate Murai Masayuki who won the final leg, with Kitizawa taking 3rd overall. In the stock class Naoki Watanabe won for Speedmerchant in front of Corally driver Murai Kazuma and Gou Matsumoto in 3rd with his Associated.
