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March 17, 2010

Top Gun Shootout – Announcement

We were contacted by the organisers of the Top Gun Shootout, an event being hosted by Mid America RC Raceway in Arkansas from the 15th to 16th of May. With support from TOP USA, the race will be open to 17.5 and 13.5 Touring, Trans Am, Mini and Nitro Sedan. From the title, to the awards and even the racing format, this event is planning to be unique in every way. The play on words used to title the event is just a hint at the fun the organisers have planned for the race. Every driver will receive a Top Gun movie related gift, compliments of EJ Evans and Michael Odonel from TOP USA. The top three finishers of all classes will also receive Top Gun movie themed awards, with Aviator glasses and special fighter pilot helmets just some of what will be seen in the winners circle.

More information including the entry form can be found here.

March 16, 2010

Adrien Bertin wins French 10th Nats Rd1

The opening round of the French 1/10th 200mm Nationals took place last weekend in Neuville de Poitou in the west of the country. Qualifying on Saturday, with the introduction of 7 minute heats, saw Nicolas Bougnoteau take the pole position in the Elite class with the new Capricorn LAB-C01, while in the National series it was Quentin Leroux at the head of the field. In the Elite main final it was a to be down to who changed tires or not and it was former World Champion Adrien Bertin who made the correct call to not change and he took the win 2 laps in front of Bougnoteau who did change, with Thomas Desmarie taking 3rd. In the National class, pole man Leroux led from start to finish, to win by 2 laps with Michaël Fouin in 2nd and Théry Persyn in 3rd.

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March 16, 2010

Shepherd reports on Worlds Warm up race

The warm-up for this years IFMAR World Championship 1/10 Nitro Touring Car was held in Houston, Texas at the beginning of March. For Team Shepherd it was quite an important event as it was the real first test with the team under race conditions with our latest development, the Velox V10, against other international top drivers. As announced before, Shepherd’s team drivers Jilles Groskamp, Daniele Ielasi and Josh Cyrul joined the factory staff around Patrick Schäfer to prepare for this years major event in July.

Continue reading the report here

March 16, 2010

Tozser wins 2010 WCICS Touring Champs

The Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series (WCICS) is the longest running RC racing series in Western Canada consisting of 4 venues over the winter season in Alberta and Saskatchewan and is attended by most of the top racers from BC, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Montana and the Dakotas. The 2010 WCICS final event was hosted from March 12-14th by the CARCAR club in Calgary, Alberta, fielding 120 entries from across Western Canada.

Continue reading the report here

March 16, 2010

Joe Pillars with Pro 2 SC at Silver State

The 2010 Silver State Nitro Challenge was held at the Silver Bowl Park in Las Vegas, NV. The weather was in the upper 60’s all week long with very windy conditions with entries for this year’s event reaching over 300. Kyosho America Team Manager Joe Pillars was on hand to help the Team and would also compete in the Pro 2 Class. This would be the debut race for the new Kyosho Ultima SC. The race format consisted of 3 7-minute qualifiers and took the drivers 2 best finishes for points. Pillars TQ’ed the last round of qualifying, laying down the fastest run of the weekend. Qualifying was very close and he would start 3rd on the grid, missing the overall TQ by 1 point.

Continue reading the report here

March 15, 2010

Abisset wins opening French 1/8th National

The opening round of the French 1/8th scale on road nationals took place last weekend in Beaumont Monteux in the south east of the country. Qualifying in the Elite class went the way of Shepherd driver Richard Volta, who after 7 minutes was 3 seconds in front of Serpent/RB driver Anthony Abisset, with team mate Stéphane Riccobono and Motonica driver Arnaud Mathieu completing the top 4. In the National class, Serpent racer Damien Thirion took the top qualifying spot in front of Mugen driver Eric Loge in 2nd, with Maxime Tenet and Jérémy Cassagne in 3rd and 4th. The elite final saw Volta lead away with Abisset in close pursuit, this order remained the same until Volta hit mechanical trouble and dropped out of contention allowing Anthony to take over at the front, who close to the end of the race had a close battle with team mate Riccobono, but a small mistake by Stéphane gave Anthony the breathing room to take the win, with Riccobono 2nd and Gérald Colinet in 3rd, giving Serpent and RB the complete podium. In the National class saw an early race battle between Loge and Thirion with the latter taking the lead and able to build up a gap before stopping just before the pits and allowing Loge back into the lead with Antoine Gaschet climbing up to 2nd, while Thirion recovered to take 3rd.

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March 15, 2010

TQ Racing report from Chi Town Shootout

TQ Racing are reporting that their team driver Johnny LoGiudice was the Top Qualifier in both the 2wd Modified and Truck Modified classes at the recent Chi Town Shootout with his TQ Racing SX10 2w and SX10T. Johnny won the 2wd Modified class with fellow TQ Racing team driver JP Richards finishing in third. While Johnny was also the TQ in the Modified Truck class, some trouble in the mains knocked him down the order, but team mate JP Richards stepped up from a lower qualifying position to finish in 2nd place. Also in the 13.5 buggy class – TQ Racing team driver Ray Kindstom finished third in his first major event with the TQ SX10 2w. TQ Racing continues to develop the SX10 4w four wheel drive chassis which will soon be released and development work is continuing on the SX10 SC Short Course chassis for an early summer release.

Source: TQ Racing [tqracing.net]

March 15, 2010

Trofeo Motonica 2010 report

Last weekend saw the Trofeo Motonica take place at the Riccione track in Italy and attracted drivers across three categories 1/8th, 1/10th 200mm and 1/8th Classic. In the 1/8th scale 4wd class it was Maunel Tordi that took the win by over a lap from Paolo Maggioli in 2nd and Stefano Sammarini in 3rd, a lap further back. Pole man Sando Sammarini, easily the quickest man in the race, had to retire after only 6 minutes. In the 1/10th scale class Alex Rinati took the victory, 3 laps clear of Manuel Antinori in 2nd, with pole man Alessandro Bracci a lap back in 3rd spot. In the Classic class, Paolo Gaggiola was able to convert with pole position to a 5 lap victory in front of Simone Giordano and Kevin Pignotti in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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