The 2010 Byron Fuels Off-road challenge will take place from the 30th of September to the 3rd of October at the Nitro Pit in Wittmann, Arizona. Open to Expert and Open buggy and truggy Nitro classes as well as electric buggy, 2wd and 4wd short course classes. With top drivers in attendance and a total potential purse of $10,000 entry is now open and you can find the entry form here.
The 2nd round of the Asia EP Buggy Championship China Selection was held last weekend at Shanghai United Raceway. The weather was good, the track was big and the layout was very challenging with plenty of technical turns, a long straight and a pair of banked corners. Due to the dry conditions in the build up to the race the ground was very dry and hard and the track condition was a bit dusty with medium grip surface in the dry. All racers in 4WD & 2WD class were only allowed to use one set of tyres for the entire day’s 3 qualifiers and finals. The 4wd final was won by TQ John Ho, driving a Durango DEX410 ahead of Luo Yong Sheng in 2nd and Beckham in 3rd. It would be Beckham that took the win in the 2wd class with his Team C TC02 ahead of the Schumacher pairing of John Ho and Liu Nan. Round 3 of the series will be again held at Shanghai United Racewa in September.
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Shepherd Ireland has continued their winning streak at the 4th round of the Irish Championship held two weekends ago. Velox V8 driver Ian Campbell and Velox V10 driver Chris Steel both again had a perfect weekend taking TQ, winning the A-final and setting the best laptime. At the beginning of the 1/8th final Campbell battled with Mugen driver Clive Connolly, who started from 2nd on the grid. Both held the top two positions until Campbell pitted for tyres at the half-way mark and dropped to 3rd. Connolly retired a few laps later which moved Campbell up to second, before passing Eoin Doran 13 laps before the end to take the win.
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The organisers of the 2010 Futaba 1/8 Electric challenge were in touch to tell us about this exciting two day competition will take place on August 28 at RJD Hobbies in Lincoln, Illinois and on August 29 at JTec Raceway in Tilton Illinois. The event lasts for two days but only one entry fee is required. The best will win the cash and merchandise but all pre registered drivers will take home a free event t-shirt and goody bag. Open for 4 classes of 1/8th scale competition that include Pro 1/8th electric buggy and truggy and Sportsman 1/8th electric buggy and truggy.
More information can be found here.
The 1/8th scale Spanish national championship moved to Valladolid last weekend and front running Serpent driver Nacho López sent us the following report. We arrived to Valladolid on Friday before lunch, with many new things to test such as W2 Rear uprights, link set for the radio-tray, and other setup changes in order to adapt the car to the sinuous track of Valladolid. Another important issue of this track was the tyre wear! With new tyres, if we pushed hard the life of the tyres were from 15 to 18 minutes. Anyway, after the two firsts fuel tanks I had good sensations and the car worked very well. The rest of the Friday we were testing minor changes in the car and different engines. We changed from Zytec V1 to Zytec V2 with a big improvement in my laptimes! So we ended the free practice day happy with the setup and also with the engine.
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He was last after the first corner but Ralph Burch didn’t let the opening drama get to him as the Texan climbed his way back through the field to take a convincing victory at the Gulf Coast Raceway to become the 2010 Nitro Touring Car World Champion. Starting from fourth on the gird, the 43-year-old American got spun out at the first corner and was hit by most of the pursuing field dropping him down to tail of the pack. Taking a few laps to regain his composure he set about a stunning recovery that would see him hit the front just before 10-minutes after a thrilling battle with the then leader Marc Rheinard and the sensation of these championships Takumi Matsuda.
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The second of the Semi Finals has seen another of Japan’s super quick teenagers take victory even with his Novarossi powered Mugen suffering a late flame out. Takehiro Terauchi won the race with the fastest of time of the two Semi’s recording the only 100 lapper to finish ahead of European Champion Dirk Wischnewski. The race saw three of the last World Championship finalist eliminated with Paul Lemieux and Christopher Tosolini both running out of fuel. Getting back into the race they managed to battle their way back to finish 3rd and 4th respectively but with faster race times in the earlier Semi it is Team Shepherd’s Marc Rheinard and Australian Champion Philip Woodbury who get the final two places in the Main.
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Although its less than two weeks since the climax of the 2009/2010 Euro Touring Series, the organisers of the hugely popular electric Touring Car Championship have already announced the schedule for season number 4. Coming off the back of an ultra successful third series, that saw almost 600 drivers register points, the ETS will once again be run over six rounds and visit five different countries.
View the full 2010/11 calendar here.
