December 7, 2010

Volker & Dankel dominate Italian GP

Volker & Dankel dominate Italian GP

Last weekend saw the second running of the Italian GP in Brescia, Italy. This year the entries were around 80 drivers, divided in two different classes, Sport (10.5 motor limit) and Open. Top drivers like Ronald Volker, Alexander Hagberg, Eric Dankel and Daniele Ielasi decided to join the race along with Andreas Myrberg, Carsten Anghel and Umberto Pernice. The race format covered three days with Friday for practice and timed practice, Saturday for 4 round of qualification and Sunday for 1 qualification round and three finals.

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December 6, 2010

Dustin Evans wins Spektrum Challenge on 22 debut

Dustin Evans wins Spektrum Challenge on 22 debut

Team Losi Racing has already established that their new 22 is the buggy to beat in 2WD Buggy. Team driver Dustin Evan’s TQ’d the 2WD Modified Buggy class at the 2010 Spektrum Off-road Championship and went on to take the win. Dustin also TQ’d the Modified SCT class with his XXX-SCT.

Source: Losi [losi.com]


December 6, 2010

Ardent Winter series Rd3 report

Ardent Winter series Rd3 report

Round three of the Kick Energy Drink sponsored Ardent Winter series took place at the weekend at the popular indoor Ardent venue in Derbyshire. Leading the series going in to round three was a very on form Olly Jefferies, driving his Associated TC6. Olly continued his good form and took TQ ahead of the Tamiya of Elliott Harper and the Hot Bodies of Andy Moore. In the finals it was Olly that went on to take maximum points for round three with a third place and a win, Andy had a poor second final and this allowed Johnny Aird to come through from fifth on the grid to finish third behind Elliott Harper.

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December 6, 2010

Marc Fisher wins Belgian EPS

Marc Fisher wins Belgian EPS

The European Pan Series took place in Belgium on the last weekend of November. Free practice started on Saturday morning followed by controlled practice and Team Corally driver Marc Fischer had a very good feeling with his 12SL from the very beginning, however a lot of drivers had problems with the track layout since it was made out of steel and the cars easily broke. Following practice there was 4 qualification rounds and Marc improved from one qualification round to another. For comparison in the first qualification round Marc’s fastest round was 44 laps and 10,5 seconds fast lap and in the last qualification round for that day Marc ran 45 laps and 10,1 seconds fast lap and so he stood on overnight TQ until Sunday morning when there were two more qualification rounds and the finals. The last two qualifiers were very good and Marc changed a bit on the car to be better which helped, again Marc ran 10,09 seconds and the fastest 46 round which gave him a solid TQ position.

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December 6, 2010

Cavalieri & Due victorious at Spektrum Challenge

Cavalieri & Due victorious at Spektrum Challenge

As the 1:10 electric winter racing season kicks off, the Spektrum Off-Road Challenge, hosted by Trackside Hobbies in Brookfield, WI got things underway with over 300 entries for the three day event. Friday’s schedule had one qualifier with the three remaining rounds of qualifying on Saturday and concluding with main events on Sunday.

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December 5, 2010

2011 Arena Offroad Meeting – Announcement

2011 Offroad Meeting - Announcement

The organisers of the 2011 Arena Offroad meeting in Italy were in touch to announce the next running of the popular indoor event. Back after a break this year to make way for the Worlds in Thailand, it will take place from the 13th to the 16th of October at the Cowboys guest ranch in Voghera close to Milan. The event will once more play host to 1/8th gas buggy and gas truggy along with brushless buggy classes along with the Race of Champions on Saturday night with top drivers from around Europe expected to take part. Expect more details in the coming months.

View our report from the 2009 event here.


December 4, 2010

Cavalieri fastest on Day 1 of Spektrum Challenge

Cavalieri fastest on Day 1 of Spektrum Challenge

Nestled in the heart of Wisconsin, Trackside Hobbies plays host this weekend to the Spektrum Off-Road Challenge. Traveling from sunny Southern California to represent Team Associated is 1:10 electric ace, Ryan Cavalieri. Having ran exclusively 1:8 Buggy for the past few months, culminating with his “A” main finish at the 1:8 World Championship, Cavalieri pulled his Factory Team B4.1 and B44.1 off the shelf and laid down the fastest qualifying time in the first round of qualifying in 2wd and 4wd Modified.  Not to be left out, Reedy’s very own Sean Cochran took his Factory Team SC10 to the top spot in the ultra-competitive SCT 17.5 class. With three more qualifiers on Saturday and the main events on Sunday, Cavalieri is off to a good start at what has become one of the largest indoor events in the country with 300+ entries

Source: Associated [rc10.com]


December 4, 2010

Ricky Gaynor wins 2wd at KBRL Rd4

Ricky Gaynor wins 2wd at KBRL Rd4

Round 4 of the KBRL Electric series was this past weekend in Tucson, AZ at Hobbytown USA. Team Losi Racing driver Ricky Gaynor was on fire in the 2wd Open Class with his XXX-CR, TQ’ing over the field. In the main Ricky used the TQ position to his advantage and checked out on the field in the 10 minute main with fellow Losi driver Billy Fischer finishing second ahead of Brian Kinwald in 3rd.

Source: Losi [losi.com]