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February 23, 2010

Neumann dominates Neuffener Indoor Masters

One of the biggest Offroad indoor races in Germany were held last week in Neuffen, near Stuttgart, with 132 drivers making the trip to the Neuffener Indoor Masters. Saturday would comprise of 3 rounds of practice and 4 rounds of qualifying, with one more round on Sunday morning. Jörn Neumann TQ’d both 2WD and 4WD and in the triple A-mains Jörn would convert his qualifying pace into race victory with his LRP powered Yokomo in the 4WD class, while in the 2WD class Neumann would again win, in front of Benni Gröschel and Patrick Hofer.

February 22, 2010

Vesa Yli dominates Rd2 of FinTrack

Finnish indoor season on road nationals aka FinTrack Tour continued at Southern Finland at the city of Tampere last weekend. The venue was a huge sport hall with several separated game fields for indoor games. Due to recent cold weather conditions, the hall was pretty cold inside, only about 12-14C degrees during the day as it was -25C outside with blowing wind making it feel like -50C. The track was pretty bumpy due to plastic carpet on the hall floor which had stretched during the years but the layout was good for 1/12 with lots of technical corners and not so high speed as TC tracks usually are.

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February 22, 2010

Jefferies does double at BRCA 12th Nats Rd5

Round five of this season’s BRCA 1:12 championship was held over the weekend at the popular permanent indoor facility at Maritime Raceway. As per previous rounds day one sees a Pro Stock national for all drivers, with an option to run 10.5 or modified motors on Sunday. Day one went well for team Associated with a win for Olly Jefferies and his LRP / Reedy powered R5, Olly qualified second behind his experienced team mate Keith Robertson. An early error from both Associated drivers saw Elliott Harper take the lead with his CRC car, Olly kept the pressure on Elliott who then run into mechanical problems and dropped back allowing Olly to take the win ahead of the V-Design of Andy Griffith with Keith Robertson completing the Podium. The result opens up the Pro Stock national title, with one round to go a number of drivers can now take the title.

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February 21, 2010

Yannick Aigoin victorious at Montpellier GP

The annual Montpellier GP took place this weekend and attracted some of Europe’s best racers to battle it out for glory. Qualifying saw Losi driver Yannick Aigoin take the top spot ahead of current European Champion Renaud Savoya in 2nd with Spanish racer Daniel Vega in 3rd and Martin Bayer from the Czech Republic in 4th. Following the semi finals it was Losi driver Martin Bayer that would claim the pole position ahead of Renaud Savoya in 2nd with Jerome Aigoin in 3rd. The 60 minute final started off with the front runners maintaining their starting order and due to different fuel strategies the top 3 starters occupied the front spots in various orders until the 20 minute mark when Yannick Aigoin worked his way up through the field to the front to sit just behind his twin brother Jerome. At the halfway point Yannick was into the lead just ahead of Bayer but the two team mates would battle it out for the rest of the final, with Bayer making a mistake under pressure close the end allowing Yannick through to take the win by 4 seconds at the end, with Bayer in 2nd and Kyosho team driver Jerome Aigoin taking 3rd.

Source: RC Mag [rcmag.com]

February 18, 2010

Byron Fuels podium sweep at Winternats

Byron Fuels were in touch to tell us that their Race Gen2 Fuel was well represented at the 2010 Winternats in Florida. Team drivers Mike Swauger (Mugen) and Paolo Morganti (Serpent) took first and second places respectively in the 1/8th scale final. Sharing the podium in 3rd place was Italian driver Marco Vanni (Mugen), who was also running Byron Race Gen2, while in fourth was another Byron racer Tony Rice.

Source: Byron Fuels [byronfuels.com]

February 17, 2010

Bitty Design Contest 2010 – Announcement

Italian company Bitty Design have been in touch to let us know about the 2nd running of their ‘Contest 2010’ event that will take place in Barco di Bibbiano in Italy on the 12th to 13th of June. Open to 1/8th scale buggy, the event will be an exciting affair with the drivers competing in a superpole event with a last chance qualifier also being run to allow drivers secure their place in the final. Combine that format with some of the best drivers in Europe, a live DJ and some beautiful pin-up girls and you have a great event.

Visit the official event site here for more information.

February 16, 2010

Evans clean sweep at Rumble in the Rockies

The 15th annual Rumble in the Rockies took place at MHOR RC Raceway in Aurora this past weekend. Losi drivers Dustin Evans and Matt Chambers both competed at the event in the Modified 2WD Buggy, Modified 4WD Buggy and Modified Truck classes. Dustin was the Top Qualifier in all three classes, and also went on to take first place all three A-Mains as well. Matt took third place in the Modified 2WD Buggy A-Main. Both drivers equipped their vehicles with Xcelorin Brushless Motors and ESCs and Losi Pink compound Taper Pin tires.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

February 16, 2010

Yatabe International Offroad GP 2010

The organisers of the Yatabe International Offroad GP 2010 have asked us to let everyone know about this great event that is taking place at the Internationally famous Yatabe Arena in Japan from the 6th to the 7th of March. So far Ryan Cavalieri (AE), Joern Neumann (Yokomo) and Hupo Honigl (Durango) have confirmed their entry and as usual all of the Japanese factory team drivers from Kyosho, Tamiya, Yokomo, etc will also be in attendance as well. The event is split over the 2 days with 2wd classes, short course, stadium truck, buggy and world class buggy being run on Saturday, while on Sunday there are the 4wd classes, stock class buggy, buggy and world class buggy. Entry forms for both days are available here (Sat 2wd) and here (Sun 4wd) and if you want more information you can e-mail the Yatabe Arena directly at info@yatabearena.com.

Source: Yatabe Arena [yatabearena.com]