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October 6, 2009

Jilles Groskamp dominates the Asian Open

The Asian Open took place at the RC Addict raceway in Bangkok, one of the World’s best RC tracks. New Team Orion signing Jilles Groskamp went on to take a great TQ in the 10 minutes qualification, using the latest Team Orion Alpha engine and fuel in the still prototype Shepherd 1/10 on road car. The race also attracted World class drivers like Surikarn C. and Meen V. and so it was sure to be a great battle, and it was for the first 15 minutes in the one hour long final. The final started with pole man Jilles asking for a 10 minutes delay to fix a broken one way bearing and so he would have to start from dead last position. But with a sensational start, it took him 3 minutes to close in to the leading pack of Surikarn and Meen, and for 15 minutes the battle was on, with the lead changing often due to the different fuel stops strategies. After 20 minutes it was clear that it was going to be Jilles’ race and only a technical problem could stop him taking the win. With 3 minutes to go Jilles pushed once more, to set the fastest lap times of the race ending up with an advantage of 7 laps over Meen, who took the runner up spot.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

October 5, 2009

Ryan Cavalieri wins Pro-Line Gas Champs

This past weekend was the 1st Annual Pro-Line Gas Championships held at Thunder Alley in Beaumont, CA. The race format consisted of 2 10-minute qualifiers on Saturday and 1 10-minute qualifier on Sunday, then each driver’s 2 best points would seed them into the Semis. A 15-minute Semi would be ran to fill the A-Main. In the Pro 1/8 buggy class, Ryan Cavalieri won his Semi by 11 seconds as well as the fastest time and would start first on the grid. Team Orion teammate Cody King won his Semi by 9 seconds and would start 2nd for the 30-minute A-Main. At the start of the main, Cavalieri go off to a clean start. King was involved in a first lap crash and would be shuffled back to 6th position. Cavalieri would leave from start to finish, with Cody recovering to take 2nd place, with Travis Amezcua taking 3rd spot.

Click here for a few videos from the event by Upgrade RC

October 4, 2009

Offroad Meeting Arena – Announcement

Run from the 19th to the 22nd of November, the Offroad Meeting Arena will take place again this year in Italy, at the Arena of Cowboys Guest Ranch of Voghera, near Pavia. The annual indoor race, which was won last year by Hupo Honigl, once again has attracted some of Europe’s best off road racers, who are taking part in the buggy, truggy and brushless classes. Running alongside the ultra competitive racing format that sees the champions crowned on Sunday, the organisers have created a ‘Race of Champions’ race that is made up of the best 16 drivers in buggy, in F1 and F2 class, as well as the best 16 truggy drivers. On Saturday night they will go together in a race that sees the last placed racer eliminated every 5 minutes until the 4th placed driver is eliminated and the podium positions are taken. This, together with all the other racing and activities planned, will make this an event to remember and Red RC will be there to cover all the action Live from the track throughout the weekend.

For more information on the Offroad Meeting, and how to enter, visit the official event site here.

October 3, 2009

2010 Snowbird Nationals – Update

The organizers of the 2010 Snowbird Nationals were in contact again to let everyone know that the 16th annual ‘Speed Week’ racing schedule is now posted. Featuring the first ‘RC Racing Golf Tournament’ and the first pre-race ‘Pool Party’ with band this year, both help kick off a great week of racing action. The ‘birds are 115 days away and the r/c world is counting down. Over 15 event sponsors are locked in and coming with their teams with more details to be finalized soon. Be sure to reserve your rooms now. Expect classes to be posted any day.

Check out the schedule at the official Snowbirds site here.

October 1, 2009

Robitronic Night Race & Race of Champions

Robitronic have the full report from their Night Race and Race of Champions event that was held last weekend in Bischhofsheim close to Frankfurt am Main. The event consisted of a night team race that began at midday on Friday and ended at 5am on Saturday morning with truggy teams and buggy teams taking alternating times on the track to give each team of up to 5 drivers 7 hours on the track. The buggy class was won by the Team Robitronic Losi team that consisted of Joern Neumann, Martin Bayer, Darren Bloomfield and Carsten Keller, while the RC-Car Shop Race Crew was triumphant in the truggy class. On Saturday following the Night race, the Race of Champions got underway with practice followed by qualifying over the next day and finals on Sunday. European Championship podium finisher Martin Bayer did the double in both classes, winning the buggy class from Joern Neumann and Maximilian Cordts, while in the truggy class Maximilian Cordts took the runner up spot with Stefan Petrich in 3rd.

Read the full report (in German) here.

Source: Robitronic [robitronic.com]

September 30, 2009

Trofeo Città di Riccione report

Last weekend saw the Trofeo Città di Riccione take place at the Riccione track in Italy and was open to 1/10th scale as well as 1/8th 4wd and Classic chassis’. In the 1/10th scale 200mm class it was Giammaria Antonelli driving an Xray that took the win from Valerio Rossi in 2nd and Maicol Di Felice 3rd. The 1/8th scale 4wd class saw the win go to Massimiliano Bertozzi ahead of Shepherd team mate Massimiliano Mondini, while Dennis Pazzaglini took the final podium spot. The Classic race was won by Motonica driver Massimo Genestreti, in front of DXF driver Roberto Fabbri, while Hermes Campedelli took 3rd.

Click here to see the other podiums

September 29, 2009

Drake does the double at 2009 Horizon Shootout

Team Losi are reporting on the 2009 Horizon Shootout was held at J-Tech Racing and Fun in Tilton, Illinois this past weekend amidst the rain drops early in the weekend, but the weather finally broke and the racing began. During Friday’s practice rain out Losi drivers Adam Drake, Billy Fisher and Mike Truhe were on-hand to answer questions, lend advice and offer setup suggestions to anyone in attendance. One round of controlled practice and two rounds of qualifying set the stage for the mains with Billy Fisher TQing both Truggy and Buggy while Dakota Phend TQed the Electric Buggy class. It was the Drake however who took the win in the both classes, beating Fisher to the truggy win by just over a second, and the result was the same in buggy, with the gap slightly larger, while Derek Weatherholt took the 3rd spot in both classes. The 12 minute electric buggy class was won by Alex Sturgeon from Ben Burtle and Dave Henry.

Click here for the final class results

September 28, 2009

Jared Tebo sweeps 2009 Reedy Truck race

The 2009 Reedy Truck Race of Champions was held this past weekend at Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, California. Scorching temperatures hit the San Fernando Valley all week long even reaching triple digits at some points. Kyosho’s Jared Tebo made the trip out to defend his Factory Modified Truck title he won last year. This would also be the first year Tebo would run in the Factory Truggy class with his ST-RR. Jared went on to TQ 3 out of the 4 rounds in the Factory Modified Truck class with his Kyosho RT5 guaranteeing him the top spot on the grid. Tebo went on to win A-Main 1 and A-Main 3 to take the Factory Modified Truck Championship ahead of Ryan Cavalieri in 2nd and Ryan Maifield 3rd.

Continue reading the report here