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August 10, 2010

Shook & Burt wins ROAR National titles

Tekin are reporting that their RS was the speedo of choice at the ROAR Paved Nationals last weekend, with over 70% of the entire race group using the Tekin RS line of ESC’s. Brian Shook would lock down the first ROAR title in Expert WGT using a Tekin RS. Brian had a flawless run in A3 to secure his ROAR title. Mark Burt travelled all the way from Florida to attend the ROAR Paved Nats and was rewarded for his hard work, TQ’ing the highly competitive Expert TC 17.5 class. With stiff competition from Martin Crisp, Cory Harpke, James Arluck, and EJ Evans, Mark locked it down in A3 with a near faultless run securing the National Title.

View the 17.5 podium here

August 9, 2010

Herfried Pucher wins Rd5 of 1/8th Austrian Nats

Round 5 of the Austrian 1/8th scale on road Championships was held last weekend at the MAV Aigen track, in the north of Austria, with the weather forecast predicting heavy rain for Saturday and sunny conditions for Sunday’s race. Due to the weather no one tested on Saturday and on Sunday Morning, drivers were greeted by damp conditions for the first qualifying series, but the track was dry by round 2. From the start it was Herfried Pucher with his Picco powered Motonica P81 that set the pace managing to take a comfortable TQ with the only 26 laps run, in front of Mike Klausner who had dominating the previous rounds, with Patrick Wendy in 3rd.

Continue reading the report here

August 9, 2010

Adam Drake wins latest round of Monster Energy Series

This past weekend was round three of the Monster Energy Series. Adam Drake set the TQ in both rounds of qualifying in the 1/8th buggy class with his Novarossi powered Losi 8ight 2.0 buggy. Mugen driver Colby Poh was second on the grid, followed by Matt Schreffler also with a Novarossi powered Losi 8ight 2.0. In the final Adam got off to a clean start and pulled away from the rest of the field eventually winning the twenty minute final by almost two laps. Andy Smolnik finished second running a Losi 8ight 2.0 and Xray driver Chad Nevlin finished third.

August 9, 2010

Phil Sleigh wins 2010 UK Micro X

The first signs of a promising season ahead were seen last weekend when new Castle Creations signing Mark Stiles took 2nd place at the 2010 UK Micro X event. Mark was driving a long wheelbase LRP shark ST equipped with a Castle Creations Micro Pro speed controller and CM20 8000kV motor. Mark is the reigning British champion in the micro off road class, so was among the favorites coming into the event. On the day he lost out to 1/10th electric off road specialist Phil Sleigh, who was driving a pre-production version of Carisma’s new car. The wider track of Phil’s car compared to his competitors rides meant that he had a clear stability advantage over his rivals, and despite Mark managing to TQ the second round of qualifying, Phil was never really troubled on route to taking overall TQ and the A final victory. Mark had a close battle with fellow LRP Shark runner Andy Jones and eventually came out on top in what was a closely fought contest.

Thanks to Mark Stiles for the update.

August 9, 2010

17th annual Snowbird Nationals – Announcement

The dates and location for the upcoming 17th annual Snowbird Nationals are now official. Indoor carpet oval racing and carpet road racing will be taking place inside the Radisson Resort in sunny Orlando, Florida. With classes for everyone, and attendance by all the top teams and drivers from around the world, makes this one exciting race you can not miss. If you reserve by 09/30 you will be able to upgrade to a deluxe room. Check the race website here for complete race information.

August 8, 2010

Volker is deserving Champion

Having won the European Indoor Championship from pole earlier this year, Ronald Volker has repeated the feat outdoors winning the second leg of A-Mains here in Aniche, France to regain the EFRA European Championships which he held in 2007. The German didn’t win by as convincing a margin as in the opening leg saying his LRP powered Yokomo BD5 was very loose but opening up a 2 second gap he was still able to control the race ahead of the Tamiya’s of Elliot Harper and Viktor Wilck.

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August 8, 2010

Volker cruises to Leg 1 victory

Ronald Volker has taken an easy win in the opening leg of a rain effected European Championship Final here in France which saw the Top 3 finish in the same order as they started. Just as the mechanics cleared the grid rain started to fall with the Race Director making a call for a 5-minute delay to the start but this proved unpopular with the drivers and the decision was quickly reversed.

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August 7, 2010

Volker is Top Qualifier in France

Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker will start the 2010 European Championship finals tomorrow from pole position after he topped the penultimate round of qualifying here at the Circuit Léo Lagrange securing himself the overall Top Qualifier honours. The winner of the European Indoor Championship, a title he won earlier in the year from pole, the German said he was very happy to secure the number 1 starting position on a track which is going to prove difficult to pass on.

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