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November 30, 2009

King of the Desert Championships

The First Annual King of the Desert Championships was held at Phoenix AZ’s newest nitro facility, ET Motopark recently. Losi driver Chris Wheeler TQ’d the Expert Buggy and Truggy classes and would go on to take the win in the Expert Buggy A-Main. Fellow Losi racer Trevor Clement finished in first place in the Expert Truggy A-Main, while Twelve-year old Autie Bender took the win in the Intermediate Buggy A-Main in his first race with his new 8IGHT 2.0 Buggy.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

November 28, 2009

Volker takes opening qualifier in Hungary

Yokomo team driver Ronald Volker has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying here in Budapest where the Top 4 drivers were separated by just 1.7 seconds. The German ace, who opted to run the prototype LiPo chassis BD5, said he wasn’t the fastest on track but keeping the run clean had given him the valuable maximum points for the round as he topped the time sheets by 2/10ths from Xray’s Teemu Leino. Leino reported his T3 as having a little push but was OK with second, having also taken a cautious approach to his driving.

View or full event coverage here.

November 25, 2009

Moller & Hughes claim JBRL EP 1/8th classes

Tekno RC have been in touch to tell us that their drivers Drew Moller and Ryan Hughes put on an exhibition of skill in the growing Electric 1/8th scale classes at this year’s JBRL series in Southern California. 8 of the top 10 spots were using Tekno RC V3 Chassis’ and it was Drew that raced his Tekno / Mugen buggy to the overall win in the 1/8 Electric Buggy class, with Ryan Hughes right behind him in his Tekno / Losi 8B 2.0, both running Tekno RC Lektron motors and the bulletproof Castle Mamba Monster ESC. The truggy class was no different, being completely dominated by Tekno RC chassis’ with Ryan Hughes taking the overall win in his Tekno / Losi 8T 2.0 running Castle Mamba Monster motor and ESC.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]

November 25, 2009

Neo Race 2010 – Announcement

Neo Buggy have announced the return of the Neo race in 2010. Dubbed the Neo 2010, this will be the 5th running of the Neo race, the first being in Belgium in 2005 before moving to the Harper Adams venue in 2006 for the rest of the events, all of which have been organized with the DXR team. This years event will see some changes to the timetable, 7 minute heats and 6 rounds of qualifying rather than five. The event will be run over four days, from the 2nd to 5th April 2010 and comprises of one day of practice, two days of qualifying with a ‘dash for cash’ race Sunday night and finals on Monday. This years race will only run one class, 1/8 Buggy, and they hope to get entries from some of the finest 1/8 offroad drivers to attend, with entry opening on the 1st of December 2009.

For more information visit the official event site here.

November 24, 2009

Swauger and Fukuda win in Shanghai

The 2nd annual TRS Asia Nitro Open Cup was held in Shanghai, China. Drivers from 10 countries/region including China, USA, Japan, Holland, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei and Korea competed at this winter event. After 5 rounds of qualifying, Mike Swauger from the USA was TQ in the 1/8 on road class, and Keisuke Fukuda from Japan was TQ in the touring class. Sunday’s “A” Main Final in the 1/8 on road class saw Swauger lead from start to finish winning the Championship, second place went to Jimmy Qian from Shanghai and 11 year old JJ Wang from Shanghai took third. In the 1/10 touring “A” Mains, a close fought battle between Fukuda, Meen Vejrack (Thailand) and Jilles Groskamp provided the crowd with some exciting racing. At the checkered flag, it was Fukuda who took the Championship with Meen Vejrack in second and Jilles Groskamp in third. Race organizers will be aiming to make next year’s race larger and more competitive.

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November 24, 2009

Cody King scores Pro Buggy win at KFC

Following on from the report we received on the truggy and brushless classes at the Kyosho Fall Classic, held at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA last weekend, today we received a report on the hotly contested buggy class. Kyosho team driver Cody King, driving his Team Orion powered Inferno MP9, TQ’d and won the highly contested 1/8 Nitro Pro Buggy class, taking the victory in front of Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri and Hot Bodies driver Travis Amezcua. Cody also finished 2nd in Pro Truggy and 3rd in Pro Electric Buggy, landing on the podium in all 3 classes he competed in making it a great weekend as Kyosho’s top driver at the event.

Click here for final results and more photos

November 23, 2009

Cristian Costanzo wins Motonica Race

Last weekend saw the Motonica Race held in Fiorano, Italy and on Saturday’s 1/10th scale 200mm race it saw the new Capricorn Lab-C01 claim the win. Having TQ’d the race Cristian Costanzo, would go on to win the A-main using his Novarossi powered Lab-C01 from Xray NT1 driver Walter Ossola in 2nd, with another Capricorn driver Victor Coggiola taking the final podium spot. Capricorn has 4 of their new cars at the event and all made the final with 6 of the 10 drivers in the main final using the company’s new hard light tires.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

November 23, 2009

Cavalieri wins Kyosho Fall Classic

The final race of the Revelation Racing Series took place over the weekend of November 21 & 22 at Revelation Raceway in Montclair, CA. This month’s event is the Kyosho Fall Classic and Ryan Cavalieri quickly ascended to the top spot in the Expert Truggy “A” main from his 2nd qualifying position. Clearly the class of the field, Cavalieri and his RC8T CE checked out from the competition and easily cruised to the victory.

Continue reading and watch a video from the truggy final here