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April 1, 2011

Durango dominate Russian Indoor Nationals

The Russian National Indoor Championship race took place last weekend in Crocus Expo, Moscow. The indoor carpet track drew more that 150 entries spread over the various classes. Team Durango’s Denis Zuykov dominated the 4WD Buggy Modified class with his DEX410 Spec 2010 taking the TQ and win. Second place in 4WD modified was Dmitry Malyshko, who qualified 3rd position for the final. In 4WD stock the class was dominated by Markin Michael with his new DEX410R, while in the new Expert SC-10 4WD class it was won by Dmitry Malyshko with the new DESC410R, who having started from second place won all finals.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

April 1, 2011

Euro Offroad Series practice update

Practice continues in Sweden at the first ever Euro Offroad Series race with drivers having completed three five minute runs on the indoor clay Tomelilla track. With a racing groove starting to appear drivers have two final opportunities to get their cars dialed-in ahead of the first round of qualifying. While times from the opening three practice don’t count for anything, each driver’s three fastest consecutive laps from P4 or P5 will count towards reseeding the heats.

View our full event coverage here.

March 30, 2011

KO Propo America Mini-Z Grand Prix III – Announcement

KO Propo America have announced that the Mini-Z Grand Prix III will be held on May 7, hosted by Inside Line Racing in Cupertino, CA. The location of the event will be the Vallco Mall in Cupertino, California. The past two years has drawn about 100 drivers from across the US and this year they expect the same. Some of the best Mini-Z racers in the country will be attending to show their skills and the enjoyment of Mini-Z racing. For more information visit the official event site here.

March 30, 2011

Volker & Ielasi win Italian Shepherd Trophy

Earlier in the month the first Italian Shepherd Trophy was held at the very nice Black Tarmac track in Mesero near Milan. For new Team Shepherd member Ronald Völker, who was accompanied by Shepherd mechanic Armin Weihert, it was the first official race with the Velox V10. Also attending was Daniele Ielasi racing the new Velox V8 “eleven” and supporting Völker. With the help of Daniele Ielasi Völker’s feeling with the V10 was excellent, both drivers worked together very well and Ielasi will continue to assist Völker on his way to the European Championship in Ettlingen later this year.

Continue reading the report here

March 30, 2011

Mario Spiniello wins Rd1 of Italian Nationals

In his first race with Xray, after seven years with Team Magic, Mario Spiniello won the first round of the Italian championships in Locorotondo ahead of Biagio Spataro and Fracnesco Tironi. Qualifying saw former European Champion Dario Balestri take the top qualifying spot with a new lap record, while Mario could only manage ninth place but was able to find the right setup for the final. For the final Mario opted not to change tires starting with one 45 and three 42 shore tires and after the first minutes of the race he had moved up to fourth. Race leader Balestri then had an accident which took him out of the race and so after about 20 minutes Mario took the first place and managed to keep it until the end. Fellow Xray driver Spataro was only 3 seconds behind at the end with Mugen driver Tironi 10 seconds further back. The second round of the Italian Championship will be held in Mesero on June 25.

Thanks to Mario Spiniello for the report.

March 29, 2011

Simões & Miguel wins Portuguese TC season opener

Round 1 of the Portuguese Electric touring car nationals took place last weekend and the stock class was dominated by Jorge Simões with his Associated TC6. Topping the time sheets in 2 heats secured the TQ spot followed closely by Bruno Castela with a Hot Bodies TCX. Going into the mains the domination continued as Jorge won the first 2 A mains to secure 1st overall, with Bruno holding second place with a victory on the 3rd A main, Mário Coelho got his hands on 3rd spot.

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March 29, 2011

KBRL Nitro Series champions crowned

The KBRL nitro series made its final stop at the Fear Farm rc facility in Glendale AZ. Racers from all over the state did battle through 8 championship rounds of racing at various tracks around the state. Team Losi Racing vehicles stood atop all classes available including expert buggy, intermediate buggy, Intermediate Truggy and electric buggy. In the Intermediate Buggy class it was Brandon Akiyama who shut down the class with a hot streak of 4 straight wins in the last 4 races to secure the overall win. Brandon picks the 8 2.0 buggy as his race weapon of choice along with Dennis Munteen who finished 2nd with his 2.0 as well.

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March 28, 2011

Ginting & Andriadi win Rd2 in Indonesia

The 2nd round of the Indonesian 1/8th scale National championship and 1/10th scale Jakarta GP series Rd2 was compressed into one day on the newly surface Jakarta International Twin Circuit. Following the new asphalt, the track had awesome grip with the best lap going to be 1 second lower than the times with the previous track surface. In 1/8 qualifying, it was Bowie Ginting with his brand new Xray RX8 in TQ spot, followed by Sadikin Sutrisno also with Xray RX8 2 seconds behind. Toni Kundjung placed his Mugen MRX5 in 3rd spot, 0.4 seconds behind Sadikin. Ricardo Carnadi (Mugen) and Sani Nugroho (Kyosho) completed the top 5.

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