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November 24, 2010

Vesa Yli wins the 2010 Nordic Championships

Having brought you a brief report from last weekend’s annual Nordic Championships for modified 1/12th scale and touring car classes in Spydeberg, Norway last weekend, V-Dezign front man Vesa Yli sent us this more in depth report on the 1/12th scale race. About 30 drivers were on the starting list in 1/12th and about 40 in touring car class – all anxious to battle for the Nordics title. The entry list in 1/12th scale included most of the top drivers from Finland, Sweden and Norway were attending including multiple Euro’s A finalists like Vesa Yli (FIN) and Mikael Fransson (SWE), A finalist from this year’s Indoor TC Euros Adrian Berntsen and Swedish and Norwegian top drivers like Alexander Andersson and Helge Johannesen – just to name few!

Continue reading the report here

November 24, 2010

Elliott Harper dominates BRCA 1/12th Nats Rd2

Last weekend saw round 2 of the 2010/11 BRCA 1/12th scale nationals take place at Ardent Raceway. On Saturday, Elliott Harper ran away with the stock class driving is Speed Passion powered CRC Gen-XL. He comfortably TQ’d ahead of current European champion Chris Kerswell, who is still getting to grips with his new Serpent car. The V-Dezign trio of Andy Griffiths, Matt Varah and Mark Stiles completed the top 5. Elliott cruised to a comfortable win in the A final. Chris Kerswell pushed hard to try and keep up, but took too many chances and a mistake left him out of contention. Matt Varah also made an error and would miss out on a podium placing. With Elliott in a clear lead, the focus of everyone’s attention was on the battle for 2nd; Mark pushed Andy all the way but just couldn’t find a way past in the dying laps, so had to settle for the 3rd step of the podium behind Andy.

Continue reading the report here

November 23, 2010

Nak-suong Choi dominates Korean 1/8 onroad Nats

The KMRCA Korean 1/8 Onroad Championship took place recently at the Hitec Race Track in Oh-Chang. This race is held only once a year and is therefore the largest race for this class in Korea. After 3 rounds of qualifying Velox V8 pilot Nak-suong Choi was the top qualifier. At the start of the 45 min final Nak-suong Choi defended his first position and tried to increase the gap on the rest of the field. After a few minutes it was clear that nobody could keep up and he increased his lead lap by lap. In the end he crossed the finishing line in first position 6 laps in front of the 2nd placed driver Sang-jun Nam with Seung-won Choi in 3rd.

View the final standings here

November 23, 2010

Nick Chan wins KM Asia Cup Rd4

The 4th KM of Asia Cup Championships for Hong Kong & Macau region took place recently in Hong Kong. The event saw H-K1 racer Hung Cheung Hang take the top qualifying position ahead of KM team mates Nick Chan and Eddie Chu. In the final Hang hit troubles at the 23rd minute of the 30 minute encounter and retired but not before setting the fastest lap of the race, almost 3 tenths quicker than the next best lap. This allowed Nick Chan to the front where he would take the win by a lap from Lung Chun Wai in 2nd.

Source: KM Racing [km-rc.com]

November 23, 2010

Dani Choi wins Korean Nationals

The KMRCA Korean off road Nationals took place last weekend, with over 70 drivers in attendance. The host track ‘Banwol circuit’ challenged the nation’s top drivers with a twisty layout with a very bumpy surface which gave smooth efficient drivers a huge advantage over the 5 qualifying runs which each lasted 10 minutes. Sweep Racing/Agama racer Dani Choi would line up on pole position having won the semi-final over TQ Chang-soo Si. In the Main Race Choi never looked back, winning the title by a full lap over 2nd place Dong-woo Nam and 3rd place former national champion Sun-young Hwang.

View the final results here

November 22, 2010

Austin Blair does double at NorCal Offroad Champs

Tekno RC are reporting that team driver Austin Blair put on a show at the recent NorCal Offroad Championships held at NorCal Hobbies in Union City, CA. With his Tekno RC V4/Traktion Drive equipped Kyosho MP9 and Mugen MBX6T, Austin TQ’d and won the 1/8th electric buggy and electric truggy classes in convincing fashion. A triple A Main format was used for this race and Austin won A1 and A2 in both classes giving him the win by default allowing him to sit out the 3rd races.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]

November 21, 2010

Hagberg & Yli win the Nordic Championships

The indoor Nordic Championships was held this weekend at Spydeberg, 40 minutes from Norway’s capitol city Oslo, with some of the best of the Nordic drivers from Finland, Sweden and Norway in attendance. In Modified touring it was Xray driver Alexander Hagberg who had the best run and claimed the TQ spot ahead of local star Adrian Berntsen in 2nd and Michael Nilsson in 3rd. In 1/12 scale it was Vesa Yli who was fighting with Helge Johannessen for the TQ spot and after 5 qualifying heats it was Vesa who claimed the top spot in front of Helge Johannessen and Adrian Berntsen.

Continue reading the report here

November 21, 2010

Walter Diaz wins ROAR Region 12 Championships

Last weekend saw the ROAR Nitro Sedan Region 12 Championship hosted by the Greater L.A. RC in the Artesia Transit Center. A very popular race, there were drivers from Las Vegas and Northern California in attendance. The track was on excellent conditions and the weather couldn’t be better in Southern California. The qualifiers on Saturday saw Kyosho Driver Walter Diaz set the overnight TQ, having some run time issues with 16 laps in 4:56, but in the final qualifier on Sunday it was a very close ending with Kyosho drivers Palazzola and Fisher having the exact same time and Diaz with a good pace, but once again was unable to finish due to run time issues. So the top 3 was Michael Palazzola who took the TQ honors, followed by Scott Fisher and Walter Diaz. The main was really close between these 3 drivers, Diaz took the lead in the first few laps and was followed closely by Palazzola, with Fisher running into some small problems that left him behind. Due to different pit strategies the lead of the race changed several times between Diaz and Palazzola, and it was with less than 1 minute to the end thay they were racing for the win. Unfortunately Palazzola had some problems when he tried to make a pass on a back marker that caused the end of his race with few laps to go. Walter Diaz could then cruise the last few laps to take the Victory ahead of Mugen driver Robbie Collins and Michael Palazzola in third to complete the podium.

Thanks to Walter Diaz for the report.