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July 18, 2011

Matsukura tops Day 1 in Finland

Young Japanese ace Naoto Matsukura has ended Day 1 of the 2011 IFMAR Electric Buggy World Championships at the top of the times sheets after producing a blistering lap in the day’s final round of 2WD practice. Quickest in the sixth practice session, only the Team Yokomo driver could better his own time doing so in P8 with a 24.222 second lap which left him 3/10ths clear of Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri who also produced his best time in the closing session of the day.

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July 18, 2011

Tebo setting practice pace in Finland

After five rounds of practice Kyosho’s Jared Tebo tops the time sheets ahead of Japan’s Naoto Matukura and fellow American Steven Harston at the 2011 IFMAR 2WD Buggy World Championships in Vaasa, Finland.

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July 18, 2011

Scott McBride reports on 2011 FEMCA championship

Only a couple of days after Team Durango team member Kyle McBride won the prestigious FEMCA 1/8 scale nitro off-road championship his father Scott wrote a very detailed report about the event in general and the preparation of Kyle’s Team Durango DNX408 in detail. To find out more go over to Team Durango’s exquisite blog page and get all the details.

Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]

July 18, 2011

2WD practice underway in Vaasa

After the low point that was the 2009 Electric Buggy World Championship in South Africa when teams and drivers boycotted the race on the grounds of safety leaving German driver Martin Achter to beat a handful of drivers to become World Champion, the stage is set here in Finland for one of the greatest World Championships ever. Hosting, with great acclaim, the 2007 1:10 Offroad European Championships, Vaasa Motor Car Club is raising the bar in terms of how the biggest showcase for our sport should be organised.

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July 18, 2011

Meen Vejrak wins 4th KM Asia Cup Race

KM Racing’s Meen Vejrak has won the 1/10 scale GP touring car class at the 4th KM Asia Cup race at the RC Addict race track in Bangkok/Thailand. He won in front of Suruth V. (Xray NT1) and Surikan C. (Xray NT1) with KM Racing driver Charlee P. (KM H-K1) in fourth position. This was the last KM Asia Cup Race this year with the next meeting, the KM World Cup, is being held one month before the 2012 World Championship at the same place. In the meantime KM Racing in association with their worldwide distributors plan to run several KM Cup selection races to send the best KM H-K1 racer of each of the participating countries to the 1st KM World Cup. More information abut the race series will be posted soon.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

July 17, 2011

EP Buggy Worlds open in Finland

The 2011 IFMAR Electric Buggy World Championships was officially opened this evening in Vaasa, Finland with a short ceremony at the Pitkamaki Motorsport Centre where over the next 7 days two World Champions will be crowned. Having had rain in the build up to the 14th running of the championships, which first ran in 1985, the arrival of sunshine today was perfectly timed to greet drivers and their teams.

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July 15, 2011

Marco Müller wins Swiss 1/8th Rd3

The 3rd round of the Swiss National Championship was held at the beautiful track of Lostallo in the South of Switzerland. Already during qualifying Shepherd driver Marco Müller showed a good performance with his Velox V8 “eleven” taking the pole-position about 1 sec in front of his Shepherd teammate and World Championship finalist Simon Kurzbuch in 2nd. Both drivers had no problems to win their semi-finals while Müller took the pole-position for the 45min final as he had the faster time. At the start of the final Müller defended his first position and increased the gap on the rest if the field step by step. At no time of the race he was challenged and crossed the finishing line convincing 2 laps in front of the Mugen pairing of Luca Martinelli and Silvio Hächler.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

July 14, 2011

Cody King is Finland bound

In a surprise move, reigning 1/8th scale offroad World Champion Cody King is trying his hands at Electric 1/10th offroad as he travels to Vaasa Finland for the IFMAR World Championships which takes place next week. Focusing on 1/8th offroad for the past number of years he has been putting in some intensive testing recently and was feeling really comfortable with both his Kyosho cars. Cody has been running electric exclusively since last Thursday and was running through the weekend, and just yesterday shook down his Worlds cars prior to his flight to Finland, where he will also receive his race bodies. You can follow his progress along with that of all the competitors live on Red RC next week with our coverage beginning in full on Monday.