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January 7, 2010

IFMAR confirm Worlds dates, Burgdorf now earlier

We have gotten word from IFMAR confirming the dates for this year’s World Championships. The big news is that the World Championships for 1/10th Electric touring and 1/12th scale in Burgdorf, Germany have been moved to a week earlier and will now start on the 27th of June with the 1/12th scale and continuing through to the 4th of July with touring car. The dates for the other events stay the same confirming that the 1/10th 200mm Worlds in Houston, Texas will take place from the 22nd of July through to the 1st of August, while the 1/8th Buggy Worlds in Pattaya, Thailand will be held from the 7th of November until the 14th.

Click here to see the full letter from IFMAR

January 6, 2010

The Dirt Nitro Challenge – Announcement

The Dirt Racing were in contact to promote the 11th running of the The Dirt Nitro Challenge, which takes place at the Nitro Pit in Arizona from the 17th to 21st of February. The event, dubbed the biggest gas race of the year, is open to various skill levels in both gas & electric 1/8th buggy, 1/8th gas truck and 1/10th scale short course trucks. Entry is now open and closes on February 15th, but the race is expected to fill fast so get your entry in soon to avoid disappointment.

Source: The Dirt [thedirtracing.com]

January 4, 2010

Chad Bradley does triple at Tuesday Night Nats

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onmV0bZUGJE[/youtube]

With well over 100 entries at last week’s Tuesday Night Nationals at Hot Rod Hobbies in Santa Clarita CA, it was Jammin team driver Chad Bradley who pulled off the trifecta winning and TQing all 3 classes he entered, 1/8 Truck, Buggy and Mod 4wd Short Course. Chad’s TQ runs for 1/8 Truck and Buggy came from round 1 of qualifying, in the Short Course class Jeremy Kortz TQed round 1 but Chad took the TQ time by 1 second in round 2. In the 1/8 Truck main, Chad lead from the start and never looked back, the main was 10min long and he completed it without a pit stop winning from Losi drivers Steve Burnside and DJ Silva. The 1/8 Buggy main was a similar affair, however Chad had some pressure early on from Hyper driver Scott Wagner. Jeremy Kortz got a bad start in the beginning keeping him from the up front battle between Wagner and Bradley. Chad ended up winning by half a lap over Scott Wagner with Jeremy Kortz taking the 3rd spot, both driving Hyper 9 2.0.

Continue reading the report here

January 4, 2010

LRP 2010 TCM – Announcement

LRP have announced the 2010 running of their TCM race, which is run from the 26th to 28th of March, will see a number of different changes that promise to give everybody more action packed racing. Presenting a completely new racing format that will give all the drivers and spectators a fantastic show and a racing experience, LRP have listened to the wishes from drivers and the most important request from participants include increased track time, less waiting between runs, the possibility for heat re-seeding and a new cool main racing format. Based in this input they have done the improvements and can now present a completely new racing schedule for all racers.

Check out the official TCM website here for full information.

December 29, 2009

Kamibayashi crowned 2009 F1RCGP Champion

Have followed the 2009 F1RCGP series in Japan throughout the year, we were sent the fine overall results from the season. In the end it was team Alex Racing’s Hiroshi Kamibayashi driving the Tamiya F103 Zen that took the overall title ahead of Tech F125 drivers Takatoshi Morita and Hideki Tamura in 2nd and 2rd. In the constructors title it was Futable F1 Racing, whose drivers Takatoshi Morita, Kimura Shinya and David Tse held them seal the title. Next seasons F1RCGP series will have 11 rounds, with the finale set to take place in Hong Kong.

Click here to see the standings

December 28, 2009

Czech Xmas Endurance 2009

As a relaxing way to work off the Christmas excesses, a fun three hour endurance race took place in Trutnov in the Czech Republic on the 26th of December. Teams consisted of two drivers using limited 17,5T brushless motors in their cars. A huge carpet track was built on a 20×30 meter area making a lap of 130 meters and so with the winning team achieving 672 laps, it meant a race distance of 87 kilometers. Eight teams took their place on the starting grid and by the end all but one team would finish. Batteries were changed approximately after 20 minutes and due to slower motors there were really small gaps between teams. In the end the team of Tom Knopp & Petr Grof, driving the Xray T3 emerged winners, 10 laps ahead of Zdenda Beneš & Michal Blahovský and Jiří Vyšín & Dan Nečesaný, the second and the third position teams only separated by 10 seconds after 3 hours.

Click here for the final results and more photos

December 28, 2009

HPI Challenge All Asia Finals 2009

The HPI Challenge All Asia Finals 2009 was held at the world famous Radio Controlled Speedway (RCS) Circuit in Bangkok, Thailand at the beginning of December. Drivers gathered from Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand to battle it out over 6 different classes. After 2 rounds of qualifiers on Saturday, the racers prepared themselves for their finals on Sunday which would see plenty of close racing throughout all the classes. In the Electric Powered Sport class it was Tanes M that took the win ahead of Vittaya L in 2nd, while Allister Lim from Singapore, who was running the new 4900mAh 34C 2S1P 7.4V Carbon Edition prototype from Acorn Racing, took 3rd after a win in the first leg.

Click here for the results in the different classes

December 27, 2009

2010 EFRA 1/12th scale Euros – Event site

The organisers of the 2010 EFRA European Championships for 1/12th scale in the UK have been in touch to let everyone who is interested in competing know that the event site is now online. Still in its early stage, the site contains all the basic information for this event which will be held in Hinckley, in the very centre of England, next March.

View the official event site here.