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May 27, 2011

RC Hill-Climbing World Games – Announcement

The organisers of the RC Hill-Climbing World Games in Faistenau/Austria on June 11th got in touch to tell us about this fun event. Every kind of RC-car can compete, it doesn’t matter which scale or whether its electric or nitro, you just have to try to get to the top of the hill. Each run will be judged by the highest height as well as action & style, which will be voted for by 3 judges. Deadline for entry will be on Wednesday June 8th 2011 and you can find out more information here.

May 27, 2011

Bro & Linder win Nordic Championships

This year’s Nordic Championship was held at the nice Spydeberg Raceway in Norway with drivers from Norway, Sweden and Denmark taking part, however regrettably no Finnish drivers this year. There was a total of 17 drivers in the 1:8 class and 34 drivers in the 200mm class and the event was very well organized, with excellent food and beverages all weekend. Practice Friday and qualifying Saturday were run in dry and sunny conditions and local young hotshot and rising European star Adrian Berntsen (N) showed who was the boss and TQ’ed both 1:8 TR and 200mm.

Continue reading the report here

May 26, 2011

TLR Super Cup 2011 – Announcement

Eden Park Raceway will be hosting a two-day meeting on 25-26 June at their famous multi-surface racetrack in Beckenham, Kent. Although the organisers aim to attract top drivers from around Europe, it is hoped that the TLR Super Cup in association with Spektrum and Electrix will appeal to local drivers as well. The format sees a change to the norm with racing on both days for each class. On Saturday there will be two practices and three qualifiers, with a short practice, two qualifiers and multi-leg finals on Sunday. Qualifying will use the FTD format and there will be three legs for the A finals in 2WD, 4WD and Short Course with two legs for the other finals. Awards will be presented to the podium finishers in 2WD, 4WD and SC as well as the top three in U14 and U19 classes. There will also be a concourse competition prize kindly donated by RudeBits. Full information can be found here.

May 26, 2011

Kostas Zacharopoulos wins 1/8th Rd1 in Greece

Last weekend the first round of the Greek 1/8 On road Championship was held in Athens at the Arena Racing club. A well attended event, the race was won by the pole man Kostas Zacharopoulos driving a Blitz shod Mugen, taking the fastest lap, to win ahead of 5 time Greek Champion John Sotiropoulos in 2nd, driving a Serpent. Kyosho driver Vaggelis Totomis took 3rd, only 3 seconds back from 2nd place.

Source: Team Titan [team-titan.com.tw]

May 26, 2011

European Short Course Masters – Announcement

Thunder Tiger Europe got in touch to tell us about the European Short Course Masters 2011, that takes place at MC Welden, close to Munich Germany, from the 9th to the 12th of June. The race is open to all racers across 4 classes, 2wd hobby class (only SC10 RTRs), 2wd modified class, 4wd modified class and a 1/8th 4wd Modified and Nitro class. Team Associated will be sending over US superstar Ryan Maifield and they will likely send another named driver also. Entry is now open and you can find out the full details of this event by going here.

May 25, 2011

Olivier Bultynck wins Belgian Nats Rd3

For the third race of the Belgian touring car season last weekend, they went to the track of RCR at Roeselare. On practice Saturday the competitors had a sunny day but during the night some rain was expected. The track was wet on sunday morning but a little sunshine and the track was dry and for the whole day it was cloudy but no rain. Qualifying in the EFRA class it was Corally driver Olivier Bultynck that took the TQ ahead of Thomas Stockman and Nick Joosens. The final results were a repeat of the qualifying results, with Olivier taking the win after the first 2 A-mains despite having to come from behind in the first final. Xray driver Thomas Stockman took 2nd and Nick Joosens driving a Yokomo was 3rd.

View the full report here.

May 25, 2011

Kyle Johnson takes 4wd at Silver State SC race

Fresh off his Silverstate Nitro Challenge win with his Losi 4wd TEN-SCTE Team Losi Racing driver Kyle Johnson TQ’d and won the Silver State Short Court race at 702 raceway in Las Vegas. The event was a two day race with qualifying Saturday and mains on Sunday. Kyle showed speeds that no one could match in qualifying allowing him to start up front on Sunday for the main. Kyle took his blistering speed right into the main on Sunday to take the overall win.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

May 24, 2011

Dave Henry does triple at RC Pro Series Rd1

This past weekend was Rd1 of the RC Pro Series in Ontario, Canada. TLR was in strong attendance with Dave Henry, Taylor and Tommy Giovinazzo there. Dave Henry would have a great weekend taking the TQ and win in Pro nitro buggy, Pro electric buggy and Pro 2wd SCT. The surprise of the weekend was TLR privateer Jay Christiano finishing 2nd in Pro nitro buggy.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]