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December 11, 2009

Atsushi Hara TQs Buggy Party final

Following qualifying, the grid has been set for this years Buggy Party final, an event attracting much more attention than usual due to it being held on the 2010 Worlds track in Pattaya, Thailand. Expected to be better attended than the actual official warm up event, due to the current conditions more similar to those during the World Championships compared to February, the race sees current World Champion Atsushi Hara and current European Champion Renaud Savoya in attendance alongside other top drivers like Greg Degani, Joern Neumann, Teemu Leino, Adrien Bertin, Surikarn C, Meen Vejrak, Kenji Osaka to name but a few. The track layed out by the organisers is large and tricky with a very long lap time, and combine that with warm and humid conditions and you have the recipe for a tough race. Coming out on top was Hot Bodies’ own Atsushi Hara who is in a league of his own finishing 11 seconds in front of Renaud Savoya for Mugen in 2nd. Gerg Degani took 3rd with his Z-car, while rounding out the top 4 was Teemu Leino with the Xray. Hara also went on to TQ the Truggy class in front of Leino. Saturday is for sub finals, giving the front runner time to relax and get their cars ready, with the main event taking place on Sunday afternoon. We will keep you posted.

Click here for a short video and buggy results

December 11, 2009

Durango Japan in search of the right stuff

Durango have been in touch to tell us that their Japanese distributor Tresrey is going to hold an off-road race on January 24, 2010. This race will be an ‘Audition’ to choose a new Team Durango Japan support driver for the 2010 season. The top 3 drivers from each class and selected others will get an interview from Tresrey, following which they will choose one driver to be their Team Durango Japan support driver for the 2010 racing season. The chosen racer will get a DEX410 from Team Durango Ltd, and Tresrey will support them with spare and option parts for the next 12 months and they can also work and pit with the main team at big races such as the Japanese nationals and Reedy race at the world famous Yatabe Arena. The top 3 drivers for both classes will also receive prizes from SpeedPassion.

For more information go here.

December 9, 2009

Evans wins big at Spektrum Off-Road Champs

Team Losi are reporting from the 2009 Spektrum Off-Road Championships, hosted by Trackside Hobbies in Milwaukee, WI. With around 200 entries in the race, triple A-mains were only run for the modified 2wd class, leaving the modified truck and 4wd class to a single A-main. In the Modified 2wd class, Dustin Evans was the Top Qualifier and in A1 Dustin took advantage of his TQ by leading for the duration of the race. In A2 Ryan Cavalieri took the win with Matt Chambers finishing in 2nd and Dakotah Phend in 3rd. In A3 Dustin again led the race, winning from Ryan in 2nd and Matt in 3rd. This sealed the overall for Dustin. In the single A-main for Modified truck it was Dustin again starting from TQ and claiming the victory with Matt finishing in 3rd and Dakotah in 5th.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

December 9, 2009

Al Horne does double in FTMS Series

The 2009 Factory Tracks Midwest Series (FTMS) just finished and Team Orion Factory Driver Al Horne has won both the 2wd and 4wd Modified Championships. This summer the FTMS visited 5 different tracks to test the skills of the drivers in the Midwest and out of the 5 races, 4 would count for points in the overall championship. In the 2wd Modified Class, Al TQ’ed 4 rounds of the series with his Team Orion powered Kyosho RB5-SP. He then went onto win 3 of the rounds and finishing 2nd at the other. This easily gave Al the overall win and his first Championship for the series. In the 4wd Modified Class, Al TQ’ed 2 rounds of the series with his Team Orion powered Kyohso Lazer ZX5-FS and would win 3 rounds and finish 2nd at the other to give him his second championship for the series.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

December 8, 2009

Ryan Maifield TQs and wins 2009 Fall Brawl

The annual Fall Brawl at the Badlands Supercross R/C Track in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was held over last weekend. Although Mother Nature decided Saturday wasn’t particularly a good race day with a torrential rain storm, the Badlands crew had the track ready for qualifying and racing early Sunday morning. With the challenge of getting 200 racers through 2 rounds of qualifying and the mains, the fast paced day still provided some of the best 1/8th off-road racing on the East coast. When the dust settled it was JConcepts driver Ryan Maifield taking the top spot in both of the 1/8th buggy and 1/8th truck pro classes. In Pro Buggy Ryan drove his Associated RC8B on Double Dee tires to the win while Barry Pettit took second with his Mugen Seiki MBX-6 using the new JConcepts Subcultures.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

December 8, 2009

Jefferies, Copsey & Randall win at Rug Racers Rd3

Round 3 of this seasons Muchmore Rug Racers series took place at Woodson Park and attracted a strong entry including some top UK national drivers. Drivers were split across three classes for stock, pro stock and open modified, all running on the controlled Sweep pre mounted tyre. In the open modified class a good quality entry included Elliott Harper, who was using this meeting to debut his new Tamiya, and UK national touring champion Chris Grainger who was also giving the Schumacher Mi4 a run out on carpet. Elliott took FTD in the final run of qualifying but it was the TC5 of Olly Jefferies that took the overall victory for Associated, Olly winning the second leg of the three leg finals which he followed up with a two second places, Elliott was second with Schumacher’s Matt White completing the podium in third.

Continue reading the report here

December 8, 2009

Adam Drake wins Truggy at Toys for Tots

Thunder Alley hosted their 5th annual Toys for Tots event over the weekend, attracting nearly 200 racers. In the 1/8th buggy class it was Hobao racer Jeremy Kortz that edged out Losi/Novarossi team driver Adam Drake by less then two seconds to take the win, with Tamiya’s Ryan Lutz taking 3rd. In the 1/8th truck class Adam Drake took the win for Losi in front of Dylan Rodriguez driving a Mugen, with Ryan Lutz again in third for Tamiya.

December 8, 2009

PRCR Toys for Tots race report

The 1st Annual Toys for Tots Race was held last weekend at Portland R/C Raceway. PRCR is the newest electric off-road facility in the North-West that opened their doors only 1 short month ago. Top drivers from Washington and Oregon came to support this great cause and helped raise a lot of gifts for underprivileged children. At the end of the 1-day event, over 80 gifts were donated by the racers.

Continue reading the report here