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April 26, 2010

Russian Touring series – Announcement

Russian RC club RC Moscow have announced the creation of the new Russian Touring series. Consisting of 10 races, the winners in Pro Stock and Modified classes will be awarded tickets to one of the ETS races next year. Created to promote RC racing in Russia and help talented drivers to participate in famous European races and develop their driving skills, the first race will take place in Moscow on the 8th – 9th of May. The control tires for the event will be supplied by Xenon, while Speed Passion will be the Pro Stock motor supplier. International playboy Toni Rheinard from Toni Sport will be in attendance at round 1 of the series to offer technical support.

For details of the track location and rules go here or you can contact organizers via e-mail (art-lopukhin@mtu-net.ru).

April 25, 2010

Fabio Boero wins Rd1 in Italy

The Italian 1/8th buggy Nationals got underway this weekend at the Valley Sporting Club in Alberobello in the very south of the country. Reigning champion Riccardo Rabitti managed to TQ the event with his Picco powered Losi, ahead of Mugen/Reds Racing driver Fabio Boero, with multiple Champion Davide Tortorici in 3rd. Things would go badly for Rabitti in his semi final, a number of problems in his race saw him lose too much time and so failed to bump into the main event. Fabio Boero would start from the pole position for the hour long race, with Carlo Jacopini lining up just behind him. In the race itself, it was Riccardo Perin that took the early lead, while behind it was Jacopini in 2nd being chased by a hard recovering Boero who had lost a lot of time on lap 2. Just before the half way point Perin hit trouble, and with Boero up to 2nd he was able to pounce and take the lead, which he held on to until the end. Davide Tortorici took 2nd place, passing Fabrizio Teghesi a few laps before the end, demoting the Kyosho driver to 3rd spot by the flag.

View the final results here

April 25, 2010

Peter Harder takes victory in Danish opener

The opening round of the Danish 1/8th off road Nationals took place this weekend with nice sunny weather in Hillerød on the challenging NXC track north of Copenhagen. Peter Harder with his Novarossi powered Xray 808 took a strong victory leading from early on to win by 3 laps from Losi driver Silas Høgholt Pedersen, with HongNor driver Tim Culmsee completing the top 3.

Click here to see the final results

April 24, 2010

Short Course Nationals – Announcement

The organisers of the 2010 Short Course Nationals to be held at R/C Madness in Enfield, CT were in touch to promote their event which takes place from the 9th to 11th of July. As the name suggests, the race is only open to short course vehicles by encompasses 7 classes including Slash spec, 2wd stock, 2wd open, 4wd electric small block, 4wd electric big block, mini short course open and finally 4wd nitro open. Registration is now open and you can find the entry form here.

April 22, 2010

Hartson doubles up at JBRL Electric Rd2

Continuing on where he left off from round 1 of the JBRL Series, Team Associated/Reedy/LRP driver Steven Hartson dominated the field in both the ultra competitive classes of 1/8th electric buggy and 2wd modified. Starting from the pole in 2wd, Hartson quickly gapped the field and cruised home for an easy victory. However in 1/8th electric buggy he got stuck behind 2nd place for the first 4 minutes of the 10 minute final. Patience and experience from the SoCal teenager proved to pay off as a tangle between 1st and 2nd coming on to the 100’ straight-a-way allowed Hartson to split the gap and never look back and take the win.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

April 22, 2010

RC Pro South Rd1 wins for Skidmore & Branham

This past weekend saw Rd1 of the RC Pro South Division take place in Austin, TX. The field was full of quality drivers from all over the state and even some from other divisions, such as Ryan Lopez, who made the trip over for the 250+ entry event. Team Pro-Line driver Kyle Skidmore put on a show in Pro Buggy by TQ’ing 3 of 4 rounds and he would also take the win ahead of Ryan Lopez in 2nd and Mike Battaile in 3rd. In Pro Arena Truck Jason Branham matched Kyle’s performance by also TQ’ing 3 of 4 rounds and going on to take the win ahead of Mike Battaile and Ryan Lopez in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

April 21, 2010

Harron wins opening round of Irish Buggy Nats

The opening round of the Irish 1:8 Off Road National championship took place last weekend with a 40 strong entry descending on the all astro turf Navan Nitro Nuts track, which plays host to two of the rounds that make up this year’s expanded six round championship. In qualifying it was defending Champion Michael Todd who took top honours with his Losi 8ight over 2008 Champion Mark Harron’s Hot Bodies D8 while Xray’s Barkley Abernethy, winner of the championship finale at NNN last year, secured third on the grid. In the 45-minute final it was a super close racing throughout between Todd and Harron with the latter eventually coming out on top with the pair seperated by just 2.8 seconds at the finish. After terrible luck in qualifying which saw him qualify for the B final, Hobao driver Andrew White bumped up to the A where he put in a great drive to completed the podium. In the Truggy class it was an all Losi podium with Top Qualifier Arron Vance taking the win from Rodger Skelly, while Oisin O’Briain took third.

View the final results here

April 21, 2010

O’Donnell East Coast Championship – Announcement

The O’Donnell Championship race has been a mainstay on the West Coast for years and now with the ever-growing O’Donnell Racing product line it’s time to expand the O’Donnell Championship as well. This summer will mark the first annual O’Donnell East Coast Championship. The event will take place June 4-6 at one of the hottest facilities on the East Coast, RC Excitement. Located in Fitchburg, MA. RC Excitement is a state-of-the-art racing facility with indoor off-road, indoor carpet and outdoor off-road tracks. This race is sure to go down as one of the best on the East Coast. Several O’Donnell factory team drivers, and Steve O’Donnell himself, will be on hand to offer tips for setting up your model and plotting your race strategy around the demanding outdoor track. If that’s not enough, winners of the sportsman classes have a chance to win their very own O’Donnell Z01-B or Z01-T.

See the O’Donnell website at the link below for all the details.