Powermaster has swept the podium in 200mm Gas Touring Car at last weekend’s Florida Winter Nationals. Current World Champion and Xray factory driver Ralph Burch Jr. not only TQ’d the event but won followed closely by Team Powermaster team mates Paul Lemieux in 2nd and newly signed Powermaster drivers Scotty Gray and Scott Rister finishing third and fourth.
Source: VP Racing Fuels [vpracingfuels.com]
Byron Fuels Factory Team Driver, Mike Swauger took TQ and 1st place in the 1:8 on road class this past weekend at the 2011 Florida Winternats hosted by the Ft. Myers RC Car Club. Not only was Mike the fastest during qualifying, he dominated the A Main and cruised to victory using the new Xray RX8 with a comfortable 5 lap lead over 2nd place Paul Lemieux. Following closely behind in 3rd place was another Byron Fuels factory driver Paul Ciccarello.
Source: Byron [byronfuels.com]
Tamiya/Orion factory driver Jilles Groskamp took TQ and the Win in the TC Modified at the 17th annual Snowbirds Nationals held in Orlando Florida. In qualifying it was Paul Lemieux who set early TQ but was bettered by Jilles in the very last round on Saturday. His new 417 equipped with the latest Orion Vortex modified motor was fast the whole weekend and with some latest set-up changes he was unstoppable in the last round taking TQ by 1 sec over Lemieux. In the final Jilles was chased by Lemieux and Cyrul hard but they never really got the chance to get close. All three ran a flawless race and it was Groskamp who took the win over Paul and Josh. For Jilles this was the second time in a row taking the highly competitive TC Mod rubber title.
Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]
Adam Drake has taken victory at the first round of the TLR Winter series in both 1/8th buggy and truck. Last weekend kicked off the series, which consists of four rounds with points being awarded for qualifying and main event finishes, with this opening round attracting 124 entries. Qualifying was controlled by TLR / Novarossi driver Adam Drake, who was able to set the fastest time in both rounds of qualifying for buggy and truck. In the finals Adam continued to put in consistent laps and won the truck final by more than one lap from Jessie Robinson and won the buggy final by more than two laps again from Robinson. Round 2 of the series is February 19th.
Source: TLR [tlracing.com]
The first round of 2011 Jakarta Grand Prix series for 1/10 200mm was held at the JITC Race Track, with this championship series also used for “Indonesian Selection Championship” for the 2012 IFMAR World championship. The start of the race was delayed for about 1 hour to wait for the track to dry after it rained on Saturday night. In qualifying it was Bowie Ginting that took the TQ spot with the only 16 laps in the round followed by Fayakhun Andriadi, Chandra Yosef, Andhyka Pranusatya and Heri Susanto.
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Venom Team Driver Darryn Johnson took the new Gambler Short Course Truck to the top step of the podium after a hard fought battle at last weekend’s JConcepts clash in Australia. After an intense qualifying battle, Darryn started from 2nd on the grid. With tricky track conditions because of intermittent rain, Darryn used the mid mount motor configuration on the Gambler to good effect and took out the first two finals, winning the event overall.
Source: Venom [venom-group.com]
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Live RC produced the above video, which was shown during the heritage presentation of the Reedy International Race of Champions that took place last weekend. Showing the history of this famous race we hear from past winners and some of the best racers in the World about what this race means to them.
The 17th Annual Reedy International Off-Road Race of Champions was held at West Coast R/C Raceway in La Mirada, California this past weekend. This would be the first time the Reedy Race has been back in the USA since 2001. The history of this race is truly amazing, starting back in 1987. Previous Invitational winners in attandace for this years event were: Rick Hohwart (1992), Jeremy Kortz (1994), Greg Hodapp (1995), Brian Kinwald 1998/2000), and Ryan Cavalieri (2009). Along with the Invitational Class, the always highly contested 2wd and 4wd Open Classes made for great racing where the winner of each class would be given the opportunity to race in the Invitational Class the following year.
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