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January 18, 2012

Daniele Ielasi wins Winter Trophy in Lucca

Daniele Ielasi has won the “Classic” edition of the Winter Trophy in Lucca, Toscana. It was the first race in Europe for the former World Champion with the Velox V10 for more than one year. With Dario Balestri another international top driver was attending and both worked hard for the victory with a small advantage on Balestri’s side as Lucca is his home track. In qualifying Ielasi was placed second behind Balestri but the fastest laps were nearly on the same level. At the start of the final both pulled away and stayed within 2 seconds for the next 10 minutes. After the second pit stop Balestri was hit by technical problems and the way was free for an easy victory for Ielasi.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

January 17, 2012

Báez & Santiago take Rd1 of NOS

After a wet start the organisers took the time to get the track back into top condition for the first round of the Nitro On Road series in Barceloneta. This championship is made up of 6 races and in qualifying it was Xray driver José Martínez that took the TQ honors in the Sedan Class with 14 laps in 5:08. In the main it was Xray driver Juan Rodriguez who took the lead of the 40 minutes main, but with 8 minutes to go Juan started to have tire problems and it was Andy Báez who took the lead and would eventually win the race with his MTX5.

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January 17, 2012

Jared Tebo wins SC 2wd at CRCRC Champs

The 25th Annual CRCRC Winter Mid-West Championships were held January 12th-15th at The Ohio R/C Factory in Jeffersonville, OH. This is known as the first big race of the new year. Racers from as far east as New Jersey and as far west as California made the trip for this great annual event. Team Orion would have their All-Star cast of drivers in attendance which included: Current 2wd & 4wd World Champion Ryan Cavalieri, Current Truck and 4wd ROAR National Champion Jared Tebo, Mike Truhe, Shaun Dunlap, Matt Castellano and Team Orion USA Team Manager Joe Pillars. On Friday and Saturday the qualifiers were set for a length of 5-minutes. Each drivers two best points would count towards their overall qualifying position. Then on Sunday, Triple A-Mains would be ran for 7-minutes to decide the Champions in each class

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January 17, 2012

Arrieta wins Street Buggy at Novarossi Challenge

At this year Novarossi Challenge, there a new class called Street Buggy. It’s 1/8th Off-road buggies running on the asphalt with a chicane on the straightaway in order to keep the engine from over working. It was a big hit since 1/8th nitro buggy are the current biggest class in FL. The “body roll” made this class the most entertaining race for the weekend. During the A main event, the race was a great battle between Alfredo Arrieta and Joaquin Desoto Sr. The 2 drivers using Hot Bodies Pink Megabite tires were never more than a few seconds apart the whole race. With the same pit strategy, it all came down to the driver. Alfredo was able to take the win, with Joaquin close behind. The TQ Ricardo Jordao suffered from the wrong tire choice, but he was still able finish the race on the lead lap. All three, running Novarossi powered Serpents, were separated by only 10 seconds after 30 minutes of intense battle.

Source: Hobby Crap [hobbycrap.com]

January 17, 2012

Neumann & Honigl confirmed for EOS Rd1

The organisers of next month’s Euro Offroad Series season opener (February 10th to 12th) in the Czech Republic have confirmed that Team Durango will be sending their factory team to Hrotovice for round 1. Winner at the EOS Pilot race in Sweden last year, Joern Neumann will be in attendance, coming off a dominant indoor season that has seen him win both the DHI Cup and Petit race in the last fortnight. He will be joined by team mate Hupo Honigl, who also took a win at last weekend’s Petit race and both are confirmed to run in the 4wd, 2wd and 4wd SC classes. More top driver announcements will come in the next days, including a Japanese superstar, as this race shapes up to be a classic. Entry is currently open at MyRCM, so if you want to compete against the best in the World at an awesome venue with a great atmosphere then sign up now. For full event information please visit the EOS site here.

January 17, 2012

Italian ETS attracts World class nitro drivers

This weekend (January 20-22) the Euro Touring Series travels to all new territory as Italy plays host to the second round of the Yokomo backed 2011/12 Series with a massive 300 strong entry set to descend on the town of Scandiano in the North East of the country. A nation famed for its motoring passion and in rc racing for producing world class nitro drivers, the event has attracted one of the sport’s greatest legends Lamberto Collari who will be joined by other big names from the onroad nitro scene such as Dario Balestri, Walter Salemi and Andrea Pirani. A nine-time 1:8 Onroad World Champion, Collari has already shown his ability to quickly adapt to 1:10 electric touring cars having made the A-Main at the Italian Charity Race in December which attracted a quality field as the main factory teams used it as a warm-up event for the first ever Italian ETS encounter.

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January 17, 2012

Top spots for Maifield & Cavalieri at CRCRC race

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the CRCRC Electric Midwest Championship was held for the second year at the Ohio RC Factory in Jeffersonville, OH. A change to the schedule with two qualifiers on Friday and Saturday with mains on Sunday, instead of the usual one qualifier on Friday and three on Saturday, was a welcomed tweak to the popular event that boasted over 380 entries. Team Associated came out to support the event with superstars Ryan Cavalieri and Ryan Maifield. Competing in four classes, Cavalieri took the TQ honors in 2WD Modified and 2WD Stadium Truck and Maifield took TQ in the 4WD Modified and Short Course Modified class, which gave Associated vehicles the top starting spot in the four premier classes.

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January 16, 2012

Jörn Neumann double at 2012 Petit race

JConcepts Team Driver Jörn Neumann competed at the 6th annual Petit race last weekend at Ardent Raceway in the UK. It was 2WD buggy and Pro4 Short Course on Saturday and 4WD buggy on Sunday. Every driver was able to run two rounds of practice and then qualifying got underway with only the fastest time counting. Jörn was able to TQ 2WD with his JConcepts Finnisher equipped Durango DEX210 while in Pro4 Jörn qualified 2nd. The finals were a little chaotic, but in the end Jörn was able to take the win in 2WD buggy and Pro4 short course. On Sunday 4WD qualifying started great, Jörn had really good runs and again the fastest time giving him the TQ spot for the mains. In the finals Jörn started off well but got tangled in traffic and ended up finishing in the 2nd spot behind Durango team mate Hupo Honigl.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]