April 19, 2008

Henderson wins 1/12th at ROAR Region 5

Henderson wins 1/12th at ROAR Region 5

Team Associated has a report from the ROAR Region 5 On road Championships, hosted by Summit R/C Raceway, who provided the racers with a fast and flowing layout, with the exception of the S section coming onto the straight. Team driver Walter Hendersen went into the race with only one days testing with the new 12R5 and after a few small adjustments he was ready for the first day of qualifying, where he was able to secure the TQ spots in both Super Stock and Modified, both by over 2 laps. The mains went just as well for Walter, as he used his pole position to great effect, jumping straight into the lead and never looking back, taking both wins.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

April 14, 2008

Velder & Eichhoorn win Brother Cup Rd1

Velder & Eichhoorn win Brother Cup Rd1

The first round of the Dutch Brother Cup was run over the weekend under superb weather at the MVW in Purmerend and was open for Sportsman and Hobby classes. The hobby class was won by Jan Eichhoorn with Jan Wagemakers in 2nd and Robbert Walden 3rd, while in the Sportsman class it was Jordy Velder who took the win, while also setting a new track lap record, with Jeffrey Halsema the runner up and Wouter Bouwens in 3rd.

A full gallery of the event can be found here.

Source: Brother Cup [brothercup.eu]

April 14, 2008

Adam Drake wins JBRL Series Rd1

Adam Drake dominates SoCal SS Rd1

We got sent a brief report from last weekends JBRL series round 1 race that was run at Revelation Race in California. With an entry of 225 drivers, it was Losi racer Adam Drake that claimed the TQ in both the Pro Buggy and Pro Truggy classes and in the finals, the Drake was able to convert his good start position into a win in both classes. Runner up in the buggy class was team mate Mike Truhe with Kyosho team driver Ryan Lutz in 3rd while in the Truggy class the 2nd spot belonged to Cody King, just ahead of his Kyosho team mate Ryan Reece. The Open buggy and truggy class saw an equally dominant performance by Kyle Johnson, the Losi driver TQ’d truggy and won both classes. Completing the clean sweep for Losi was Chris Nelson, who won the 1/10th truck class running a Losi AD2.

April 13, 2008

Renaud Savoya wins Lyon EFRA GP

Renaud Savoya wins Lyon EFRA GP

The French EFRA GP for 1/8th scale buggies was run this weekend in St Exupery in the Lyon region. After qualifying it was Losi driver Yannick Aigoin that claimed the top qualifier spot but after the semi final it was Mugen driver Renaud Savoya that line up on pole position for the main final. Savoya eventually won the 45 minute by a few seconds in front of Kyosho driver Jerome Aigoin with Spanish driver Borja Hernandez almost a lap further back.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

April 12, 2008

Groskamp & Christiaanse TQ Dutch ETS

Groskamp & Christiaanse TQ Dutch ETS Race

Jilles Groskamp and Vasco Christiaanse have secured the TQ for the latest round of the Much More backed Euro Touring Series which is taking place at the MACH track in the Netherlands this weekend. Racing in his backyard, Tamiya ace Groskamp won three of todays four heats thereby putting the pole position out of reach of his rivals. Toughest of those rivals is current Dutch National Vice-Champion Hugo Van der Berg who took victory in the second of the heats and is currently on target to line up on the front row with his fellow countryman. In Pro Stock Vasco Christiaanse appears to be the class of the field securing the pole with relative ease taking a hat trick of wins in the first three heats that allowed the Kyosho driver to sit out the day’s final qualifier and save his tyres for tomorrow’s final. Chris Van Der Hagen, at the controls of a Tamiya took the final heat win of the day to move into fourth in the overall qualifying standings behind Schumacher pairing Jimmy Maddison and Ronald Bestman.

Full coverage of today’s ETS qualification can be seen on the official ETS site here.

April 9, 2008

Nuno Gancho wins Portugal Nats Rd2

Nuno Gancho wins Portugal Nats Rd1

Last weekend saw the second round of the Portuguese 1/10th EP Touring car Nationals take place at the Monsanto track, home of this year’s 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring Worlds and the track provided all the racers present with very good grip thanks to the rubber layed down by the nitro cars at the recent Worlds Warm-Up. The Modified class was won by Xray driver Nuno Gancho, finishing in front of Hot Bodies driver Francisco Henrique in 2nd, while the 3rd spot went to Daniel Ferreira driving a Serpent. The stock class saw another win for Xray, with Pedro Pita winning from Schumacher driver João Miguel in 2nd and Robitronics racer Gonçalo Alves in 3rd.

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April 8, 2008

Adam Drake dominates SoCal SS Rd1

Adam Drake dominates SoCal SS Rd1

We received a brief report from round one of the 2008 Southern California Saturday Series, that was held at Pro-Line’s track in Banning, CA. Team Losi racer Adam Drake TQ’d both the buggy and truggy classes and went on the win both as well. In the buggy class, he won from Kyosho’s Cody King in 2nd and Hobao driver Jeremy Kortz in 3rd, while in truggy, it was the Kyosho pairing of Levi Jackson and Ryan Lutz that rounded out the top 3.

April 8, 2008

ETS Round 4 in Austria Cancelled

2008 European Touring Series

The organisers of the Much More backed European Touring Series have informed us that their 4th round, which was due to take place in Vienna Austria on the 9th – 11th of May, has had to be cancelled. Due to conflicts with other events on the same weekend in Austria, the host club were unable to hold this event on the same weekend and due to busy schedules there are no other options to move this round to another date. The plan is to race in Austria for the 2008-2009 series so the ETS will be happening in Vienna at some stage.

Heemstede, The Netherlands

This weekends round 3 in the Netherlands is going ahead as usual and is looking to be a great race with some super quick drivers present and most importantly the weather is looking like it will be dry. The MACH track will be open all day Friday for practice, while for those racers that cant take time off on Friday and want to still race at this event, Saturday morning there is 2 more practice rounds before qualifying begins. The control tyre has also been confirmed for this weekends race and it will be Much More Sweep 32 tyres with Sweep Pink insert mounted on Sweep Rims.

Do you want to race against some of the World’s top touring car racers, while being commentated on by the legendary Scotty Ernst, in a fun and friendly, yet professional racing atmosphere then be sure to get your entry in for round 3 of the ETS by going here.

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