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January 13, 2012

Lloyd wins Winter warm up

Silverstone RCMCC hosted the warm up for the British Winter Open Championship a couple of weekends ago. This gave racers the opportunity to get some practice in for the BWOC which is due to take place on the weekend of 11th and 12th February 2012. There was a good turnout of drivers for the 2wd, 4wd and shortcourse classes and they were greeted with a flowing track with a mixture of carpet with slippy sections and some challenging jumps to test the drivers. With Lloyd Storey and Danny McGee taking two round wins each in qualifying out of the fours rounds, Danny took TQ honours in the 2wd class by virtue of the faster overall time. Lloyd lined up second on the grid with Ellis Stafford in 3rd. A close fought final with some clean racing and Lloyd took the win with his Cougar SV. Tony Truman crossed the line less than a second behind with Danny McGee took 3rd.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

January 12, 2012

EFRA clarify 1/10th IC Track rules

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EFRA 1/10th IC chairman Franky Noens got in contact to clarify some matters regarding the rules that were decided upon at the recent AGM. Most notably is the fact that the new weight limit for the 1/10th gas class will only change to 1550 grams from the beginning of 2013, meaning the current limit of 1725 grams will be in use for this season. Read the full letter below for more details.

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January 12, 2012

Faur & Cseko win Rd6 of Hungarian Nats

Team Unico Modellsport enjoyed an excellent performance last weekend at the sixth round of the National Championship at Dabas track as their drivers finished on the first three places in both Modified TC class with the Serpent S411 and the 2wd buggy class with the TLR22. 2wd buggy is a fully opened class and the heats are 7 minutes long. Almost every run was a spectacular race between well-established racer Cristian Faur from Romania and up and coming young talent Krisztian Arvai who already clinched the National Championship in the Truggy GP class earlier in the outdoor season with Cristian coming out on top in the end. Laszlo Gabor secured the last podium spot.

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January 12, 2012

JP Tirronen wins Mills Pond New Year shootout

One of the most competitive RC car clubs located in Fort Lauderdale, FL called Mills Pond kicked off their 1st race of the year last Saturday. Race director Bart Collins & the rest of his crew laid down a fresh layout for the New Year in order to get ready for this race. With an amazing 100+ entry, Mills Pond New Year shootout was definitely the race to watch for the weekend.

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January 11, 2012

Neumann dominates offroad at DHI Cup

Alongside the DHI Cup touring car race it was the first time for an international indoor off-road race. Many top drivers from northern Europe countries had showed up for this event. Not very surprising was that Germany’s Jörn Neumann was the man to beat in both 2WD & 4WD classes, in 2WD Oskar Levin from Sweden tried to beat Neumann together with Alex Hardt from Germany and they could put their cars on the grid on 2nd and 3rd spot. Neumann kept the pace up in all three finals and won all three legs ahead of Oskar Levin and Alex Hardt. 1/8 Nitro ace Martin Hansen made great progress in the finals from his 9th place start position as he ended in 4th position overall with a very good run in the third leg where Martin put himself into 2nd place.

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January 11, 2012

Felix Law double at Mills Pond New Year shootout

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January 11, 2012

TLR22 Cup Italia – Announcement

Horizon Hobby have announced the TLR22 Cup Italia, a 4 date trophy series for all 1/10th 2wd electric off road buggies. It will take place in the north of Italy between January and April, with the opener in Mondovi on the 22nd of January. For the final round they are also thinking to open it out to SC trucks. For more more information visit the official series site here.

January 11, 2012

Apolaro & Giorgio take Florida SS Rd5

This past weekend we had the 5th round of the Florida State Series at the famous Worlds track in Homestead Florida and Kosmic Fuel was in the house full force. In Qualifying is was DJ Apolaro taking the TQ in Sedan and having 9 of the 10 cars in the final. In 1/8 scale is was Kenny Ives qualifying 3rd with 5 of the 10 car field running Kosmic. First up was Sedan and some close racing was expected. With DJ Apolaro getting a good start he was able to pull way and never look back. A close race for 2nd, 3rd and 4th would take place with Gianni, Eduardo and Rino ending up on the same lap, just 2 laps behind DJ. Giving Kosmic the Win and taking all the podium spots. In 1/8 scale there was a lot of action early in the race and by the half way point is was all about just trying to finish. Sean Laue would take the early lead just to have his race ended. In the end it was Gianni Giorgio taking the win, with Jamie Gonzalez in second and Kenny Ives taking 3rd. Giving Kosmic the Win and 3rd place.

View the 1/8th podium here