The last round of Andalucian Championship in Spain was held in the new track of Antas recently. Running on a multi surface, Alberto Garcia managed to win in the last lap of 45 minutes final using the Pro-Line Revolver M2 ahed of Bryant Baldo Cecilia in 2nd and Juanma Vera in 3rd. With this win, Garcia has dominated 2 out of 2 races in the last 2 weeks in Spain having just won in Madrid the previous week.
Source: Pro Line [prolineracing.com]
Losi are reporting on the CRCRC Halloween Race which saw driver Chuck Berg, Jason Hudson, Chad Wallace and Kevin Wilson all competing in the 1/8 Buggy class. Chuck was the top qualifier and he and Kevin were the only drivers to complete 24 laps during qualifying. All four Losi drivers finished in the top five places in the A-main with Chuck finishing in first, Jason in second, Kevin in third and Chad in fifth. Fellow Losi driver Curt Schliester competed in the 1/8 Truggy class and was the top qualifier and also took first place in the A-Main.
Source: Losi [losi.com]
The Team 966 with Tobias Hepp, Alain Levy, Frank Schewiola (all of them with Serpent 966) and young Jean-Pierre Roenicke (Kyosho) have won the “3 hour race” at Oberhausen, the heart of rc racing in Western Germany. When the checkered flag dropped the team had covered 482 laps and an advantage of 19 laps to Motonica Team Germany with Christian Wurst, Joerg Baldes and Uwe Baldes (all Motonica P81). Another 35 laps down was Team Odenthal Racing Parts with Ingo Odenthal, Ralf Vahrenkamp and Carsten Pruessmann (all Serpent 966).
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The beginning of this month saw the 1st Shepherd Asia Cup held at the TRC race track in Hong Kong. In 1/10th scale the race was open for everybody while in 1/8th scale only Shepherd drivers could attend. To support the local drivers Shepherd Micro Racing has sent the international top drivers Jilles Groskamp and Daniele Ielasi. Additionally factory member Armin Weihert attended the event to help the 72 participants with all technical questions.
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The Stans Winterchamps took place this weekend in Stans in the centre of Switzerland. The stock touring class was dominated by the TOP Racing team with former Swiss Champion Philipp Tschupp taking the TQ spot ahead of his team mates Stefan Helbach in 2nd and Florian Hauser in 3rd. In the race itself the results remained the same from qualifying with Tschupp taking the win in the first 2 legs of the A-main to take the overall win the Helbach taking 2nd spot and setting a new lap record of 9.77 seconds, while Hauser took 3rd spot.
Source: HS Online Distribution [hsonlinedistribution.com]
Having already touched on the pan car classes at last weekend’s Halloween Classic in Cleveland we received some brief news on the touring class. As has become the norm, Keven Hébert drove his Reedy/LRP-powered TC5R to a convincing victory in the Super Stock 13.5 Rubber Class a class which has started to become the most prestigious touring car class in the U.S., and Hébert’s specialty. Qualifying on the outside of the front row, Keven quickly gained the lead and never looked back to cap another successful weekend. In the Pro Foam TC class, Drew Ellis debuted the LRP X-12 Stock Spec 10.5. After qualifying third, Drew steadily worked his way into the lead and held on for the win. The Classic also served as round 1 of the 2009/2010 Northeast Grand Slam Series and with their victories, Keven and Drew take their Northeast Grand Slam points lead heading into the Holiday Challenge at The Track in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Source: Associated [rc10.com]
The Halloween Classic has traditionally been known as the official warm-up for the Indoor Champs that follow in November and this year the crew at the Gate put the race on in a Holiday Inn with 190 entries taking on the 96 x 40 CRC Fasttrak road circuit. As part of the Northeast Grand Slam series, the Pro classes would be limited to 10.5 brushless motors. In the Pro-12 division, CRC cars, tires and the new Advanced speed control were up to the task as Max Kuenning used his Gen-XL car to T.Q. the division. In the A-main, Aaron, Max and Associated’s Kevin Hebert battled for the win. The 3 drivers were quite close with Max slightly quicker but unfortunately for Max he had an early race board meeting dropping him to 3rd position trying to find a way around Hebert in 2nd. All the while, Buran driving steady and cool under pressure was able to keep enough distance between the battling duo to take the win. Max made a couple moves on both Kevin and Aaron but couldn’t hold on and ended up 3rd. A great result for both drivers.
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The 2009 Off Road Meeting Arena is only weeks away and it will bring together some of the best drivers and manufacturers together to battle it out for the overall titles. The indoor race will take place at the 3500 square meter Wild West style rodeo ring and the organisers promise something that has never been seen before in off road racing in Europe, with title races, special events and a professional atmosphere not just for the participants but also the viewing audience. Entry is now closed and the race will have 67 drivers in F1 class, 91 drivers in F2 class, 25 drivers in truggy class and 33 drivers in the new electric 1/8 brushless class. Drivers from all over Europe will be in attendance including such names as Boots, Boero, Dapporto, Gomez, Hernandez, Jacopini, World Champ Laffranchi, Perin, 2008 & 2009 Italian Champ Rabitti, Teghesi, two times European Champ Tortorici, Willets, 2009 Italian Champ Seminario and more, ready to fight for the victory. As a special event the best 16 drivers in F1, F2 and the best truggy drivers will be called to fight in the Arena with a spectacular format race on Saturday night. The 16 drivers will start with an inverted order from the official time table with an EFRA start. After 5 minutes of racing a bell will be rung and the last placed driver over the finish line will be eliminated and must come to the pit at the end of the next lap. From the first ring, every 2 minutes the bell will sound again and this will go on until there are 3 drivers left and these will battle it out in a straight race to the finish line to be crowned the Race of Champions winner. Red RC will present throughout the entire event reporting live from the track and you can follow the coverage from the 20th till the 22nd of November.
For more information on the race, visit the official event site here.
