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October 8, 2010

Xray support for 2010/2011 ETS

Xray is proud to announce that the 2010/2011 Euro Touring series will be supported and sponsored by Xray. Both the ETS organisers and the Xray company have agreed to create a mutual cooperation that will see the Slovakian company become a primary sponsor of the world’s biggest r/c touring car championship. This is a great news for all Xray drivers as the Xray factory team will be available at all six rounds of the ETS to provide full support and service. Xray guarantees that their service team will also be available at every race with a complete range of all spare parts and will provide technical and set-up help to all Xray drivers. Just look for the familiar Xray tent.

Read about the FREE Xray promo package here

October 8, 2010

Acorn Racing Cup – Announcement

The Inaugural Acorn Racing Cup for EP On-Road will be held on the weekend of the 24th of October in Glenmarie, KL, Malaysia host of the 2009 off road FEMCA race. This is the first race that is being held by Acorn Innovations since the company started and it is going to be open to 2 classes, F1 and Stock on-road touring. The race will have 3 x 6 minute qualifiers, followed by a 3 x 6 minute finals. There is no restriction on the brand of batteries or cars for this race but handout matched batteries from Acorn Racing will be issued for the second finals of the A-mains in both classes. Drivers from all over the world are welcome and along with a lot of attractive prizes to be won, the winner of the A-main gets a 1 year sponsorship deal directly from Acorn Racing.

More information on the event can be found here.

October 7, 2010

Yokomo back 2010/11 Euro Touring Series

With the start of the 2010/11 Euro Touring Series just one week away the organisers of the world’s biggest r/c touring car championship are delighted to announce they have concluded a deal with Yokomo that will see the Japanese company become title sponsor. The fourth season of the ETS, the championship will be known as the ‘Yokomo Euro Touring Series’ and backs up the company’s continued commitment to the competition r/c market in Europe in what has been an ultra successful season for their BD5 Touring Car. 2010 has been a very fruitful year for the team with factory driver Ronald Volker claiming five major titles in Europe winning the DHI Cup, both the Indoor and Outdoor EFRA European Championships, the LRP Masters along with the highly competitive German National Championships.

Read to complete release here

October 7, 2010

Danish National title for Martin Lissau

The last round of the Danish 1/10th scale nationals was run at GRRC club. The track is very nice but hard to drive without any mistakes. Shepherd driver Martin Lissau arrived at the track already on Friday, but as the conditions were not the best there was not much practice action. On Saturday 4 rounds of qualifying were scheduled. Martin Lissau took the pole-position with his Velox V10 in front of Claus Ryeskov and Martin Hansen. The 30 minutes final was run on Sunday afternoon. The temperatures were really cold and Lissau had some difficulties to find the correct engine setup. He took a time-out to adjust the engine and had to start from the last position of the grid. But already at the first pitstop he was back in front and never looked back for the rest of the race. With this result Lissau had enough points to secure himself the Danish 1/10th scale nitro championship title.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

October 6, 2010

Testing underway in Pattaya

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This week sees a large scale test underway at the host track for next month’s 1/8th scale buggy World Championships in Pattaya Thailand. A large group from the US team are present as well as racers from Asia and Europe, getting to grips with the new track layout. Team Associated team manager Brent Thielke sent us some track shots and also included a video showing some on track action.

View more track images here

October 6, 2010

Francesco Tironi wins Rd3, takes Italian 200mm title

Last weekend saw the 3rd and final race of the Italian 1/10th 200mm Nationals take place on the Leno track in the north of Italy, just east of Milan. Mugen/Sirio driver Francesco Tironi dominated and took the victory at the end of the 60 minute A-main. 2nd spot went to Xray/Max driver Walter Salemi, with Xray/Sirio racer Luca Redaelli in 3rd. In the F1 class, Claudio Codazzi (Xray/REDS) took the win followed by Marco Zagni (Xray/Max) in 2nd, who took the class title, and in 3rd Michele Scaglioni (Xray/Sirio). In the F2 class, the young 12 year old Michele Adami (Xray/BOSS) was victorious in front of Lorenzetti Mattia (Shepherd/IDM) and Biagio Verbicaro (Xray/Sirio).

View more photos from Rd3 here

October 5, 2010

JJ Wang & Howard Zou win at King Power Cup

The King Power Cup EP & GP touring car race was held at the RCP track in Southern China over the October Chinese National Holidays. King Power, makers of electric motors and batteries as well as other racing parts was the main sponsor for the race and racers from around China participated in the two day event with race organizer Energy-DL in Guangzhou managing the event superbly. In the EP Open class, JJ Wang took TQ and won the race with his HB TCX. In the GP touring class, Taiwanese Xray driver Howard Zou TQ’d and won the event edging out Shanghai Mugen driver JJ Wang in a heated battle that saw some very exciting qualifying strategies and racing displayed by both drivers.

View the GP podium here

October 5, 2010

Davis & Underwood win NZ Offroad Nationals

Jerry Davis and Craig Underwood took the top podium spots at the GO Racing 2010 New Zealand IC Offroad National Championships, which was held in Hamilton on a completely redesigned track, featuring a unique cross-over section. The Buggy final was full of action and a few lead changes but Jerry (Xray/MMods) who suffered from a tyre issue for a small period of the race held onto a 1 lap lead over 2nd place Chris Banham (Mugen/Ninja) with Dave Edhouse (Losi/Ninja) in 3rd. In Truggy, Craig Underwood kept his Mugen/GO MBX6T going through a race with a high attrition rate to take the win by 3 laps over Chris Banham (Mugen/Ninja) with Pearce Stephens (HB/Ninja) in 3rd position.

View the truggy podium here