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March 11, 2011

Yatabe International off road Grand Prix

The good people at the World famous Yatabe Arena were in touch to tell us about their International off road Grand Prix that they are hosting from the 23rd to the 24th of April this year. An annual event it will be once again held indoors on their clay track and is open to short course, 2wd buggy, 4wd buggy and truck in entry, modified and world classes, the latter being for invited drivers who have placed highly at World Championships, top 10 in Japanese Nationals and their respective country’s National Championship. A pretty standard race format, with 3 rounds of qualifying and 1 final for all lower mains with the A-mains getting 2 races. Entry is now open here.

March 9, 2011

TLR confirm Reedy Race winner for ‘Euro Offroad Series’ pilot event

Team Losi Racing have confirmed 2011 Reedy International Race of Champions Invitational winner Dustin Evans will travel over from the US to represent them at the ‘Euro Offroad Series’ pilot race in Sweden which runs from April 1-3. The 25-year-old from Denver, Colorado, is the latest big name driver to join the growing entry list that already includes current European Champion Lee Martin, former champions Marc Rheinard, Hupo Honigl & Jorn Neumann, Petit RC race winner Paul Bradby and young Swedish star David Ronnefalk.

Continue reading the announcement here

March 8, 2011

LRP-Offroad-Challenge Solms report

Last weekend saw the new LRP-Offroad-Challenge held in Solms, central Germany. The race was a great success with 69 entries in 4 different classes at only the first round of this new German national offroad series, sponsored by LRP. In the “Rookie-Challenge” it was Martin Klees who took the win, while in the popular “Short-Course Class” Bernd Haas could secure TQ honours as well as the win with his HPI Blitz Shortcourse Truck. The 2WD and 4WD classes were also raced and showed off the highest amount of drivers and competition. A little sensation happened in the 4WD class as Bastian Schäfer took the win with the LRP S10 Blast BX Chassis beginner chassis, in front of two time world championship A-finalist Marcus Lübke, driving for Team Ansmann Racing and Dai Sakaguchi with his Tamiya 511 in third

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

March 8, 2011

JR Mitch takes Mod SC at 2011 Bigfoot Extravaganza

JR Mitch, fresh off his success at round 2 of the Super Cup series, took his talent to Dallas, TX to compete in the 2011 Bigfoot Extravaganza. Located at the famous Mikes Hobby Shop, the Bigfoot race attracts racers from all around and with over 200 entries the race is a continued success. JConcepts Team Associated driver JR Mitch was the driver to beat all weekend in the Modified Short Course class by first taking the overall TQ over Quincy Hughes and Gary “Bigfoot” O’Brien. JR continued his roll into the mains where he used the TQ position to get a clean start and pull away from the competition earning wins in A-1 and A-2 to pad his lengthy resume. JR used the popular JConcepts Raptor body, Double Dees and Bar Codes tires and Rulux wheels all weekend long.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

March 7, 2011

Adrian Bernsten dominates Norwegian Winter Series Rd4

The 4th round of the Norwegian Winter series was held at the big sportshall in the small village of Spydeberg recently, which is 50 km south-east of Oslo, and Adrian Bernsten sent us this report. We saw a 600m2 big track with same layout as was used at the Nordic Championship held earlier this season (November 2010). The only difference was that we now used white and red corner dots to mark the corners better. There were 43 drivers over three classes; 1/10 touring modified, 1/10 Pro Stock and 1/12 scale and we drove three qualification rounds with the best out of three-system.

Continue reading the report here

March 7, 2011

Cody King victorious at SoCal Grass Roots series Rd2

Round 2 of the popular Southern California Grass Roots series was held at Thunder Alley RC Raceway in Beaumont last weekend. This particular series is drawing rave reviews, as the entry fees are reduced to fit the tough economy, as well as encouraging a fun family oriented atmosphere. The series boasts kid classes where racers under 14 years of age can start out with Short Course competition. The attendance would reflect this popularity, as round 2 drew 220 entries, the 2nd largest draw in the history of Thunder Alley for a one day event. Fresh off his Nitro Challenge podium performance, current World Champion Cody King was in attendance at round 2. Cody didn’t disappoint, earning TQ honors in both buggy and truggy, and winning the buggy final in convincing fashion over Team Losi’s Matt Castellano. Cody built a half lap lead in the truggy main as well, only to have a servo horn break ending his bid. Joining Cody in the winner’s circle was intermediate class driver and Southern California hot shoe Jim Pierce, who won his main in dominant style lapping the field. Both drivers were using similar equipment, running the MP9 chassis with Orion power and AKA rubber.

March 6, 2011

Ahoniemi & Honigl claim European 1/12th titles

CRC has done the double at this weekend’s European 1/12th scale championships in Montbrison, France with team drivers Simo Ahoniemi taking the Mod title and Hupo Honigl the Stock title. In Modified qualifying it was Yokomo driver Ronald Volker that took pole position by 2.5 seconds ahead of Simo Ahoniemi in 2nd and Hupo Honigl in 3rd spot, while in the Stock class it was Hupo Honigl that took the top spot by over 7 seconds ahead of Markus Mobers in 2nd and Vesa Yli in 3rd. In the Modified A-mains, it was not a good race for TQ Volker, with a non finish in leg 1 and 2, and despite winning the final leg, this would net the German driver only 6th overall. Leg 1 and 2 were taken by Finnish driver Simo Ahoniemi to wrap up the title with one leg to spare. Austrian Hupo Honigl took 2nd despite a non finish in leg 1, coming back strongly with two 2nd places to take the runner up spot, while rounding out the podium was Associated team driver Olly Jefferies. In the Stock class Hupo took his CRC car to the title with a win in each of the first two legs with Serpent factory driver Markus Mobers taking a consistent runner up spot with three 2nd place finishes. In the final podium spot was Belgian Corally driver Olivier Bultynck who took the win in leg 3 to leap frog Vesa Yli for the 3rd place.

View the final standings here

March 5, 2011

Nitro-West-Masters – Announcement

The Nitro-West-Masters, a soaring series of nitro on-road races in Western Germany, will continue in 2011 for its third year. Five races, a new class and a new procedure as well as the Nitro-West-Warmup are the main novelties for the upcoming season. Following three rounds in 2009 and four in 2010 the championship will extend to five races on five different tracks. Beside the regular categories 1/8 scale (VG8) and 1/10 scale 200mm (VG10), the so called HC8 is announced for the Nitro-West-Masters for the first time. Key point of the HC8 is the mandatory use of a unified engine, the Novarossi N21-ST including the EFRA #2015 pipe. This class is based on the Hobby-Cup, a competition organized by Shepherd Micro Racing and successfully held in the south and mid-region of Germany in recent years.

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