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March 1, 2007

CochesRc.com Race 2007 – Announcement

CochesRc.com Race 2007

Our good friends over at Spanish site Coches RC have asked us to put up a post about their upcoming race to be held in Bilbao, Spain. Being run for the 5th time, this years event will take place on the 16th to 18th of March at the Mega Park circuit in the city and will run with 1/10th 200mm as well as 1/8th Rally Game and 1/18th Micro classes. The event is open to everyone and international visitors are welcome to race and take part in the fun in the sun.

To find out more information go here, and to sign up go here and leave your details.

February 28, 2007

John Sotiropoulos wins Rd1 of 2007 Greek Nats

John Sotiropoulos

Defending Greek National Champion John Sotiropoulos has started this year where he left off last year by taking the win in round 1 of the Greek 1/8th scale Nationals held at the Arena Racing circuit. The Serpent driver topped the timing sheets after qualifying and was able to convert that position into a win in the main final despite a problem in the race that dropped him back a lap on the leader. Sotiropoulos finished 1 lap ahead of Kyosho racer Vagelis Totomis who finished 2nd with another Serpent racer Mimis Papadopoulos in 3rd.

In the final Sotiropoulos was having a good battle with Kyosho driver Totomis but an error during his first pit stop saw the Serpent driver drop a full lap. Rejoining the race the defending Champion chased down leader Totomis and with 2 minutes of the 30 minute final remaining retook the lead.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

February 28, 2007

Bernhard Bopp wins German South Rd4

Bopp Bernhard

Hot Bodies racer Bernhard Bopp has won the modified class at round 4 of the South Germany regionals that took place 2 weekends ago on the MCSS Althengstett race track. Bernhard who only started from 3rd position after qualifying behind Dominik Fleischmann and Felix Bischoff managed to win the 1st and 3rd finals to take the overall win, with Fleischmann and Bischoff finishing in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the Stock class it was Erik Dankel that took the round win after starting from the TQ spot with Reto Dobler and Florian Ring coming home in 2nd and 3rd to complete the podium.

You can read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 27, 2007

Marc Kreisig wins Kyosho on-road Masters, Austria

Kyosho on-road Masters

Marc Kreisig has shown he was the class of the field at last weekends Kyosho on road Masters held in Wiener Neustadt near Vienna, Austria. The Kyosho racer managed to win the aggregated finals to take the overall win and was followed home by Xray NT1 racer, and race TQ, Manuel Huber who finished 2nd. In third was the NT1 designer and Xray owner Juraj Hudy who had a very good result despite the tough competition and a few problems in the race itself.

Although the driver had some bad luck they were very satisfied with the car’s performance because Martin and Manuel made very fast lap times in each final and were faster than the rest of the pack. However, with the touring bodies they were not able to beat the winner Marc Kreisig who was using a Lola body. For the next race with open bodies Team XRAY will be ready with Lola body.

You can read the full event report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 27, 2007

Ari Heinonen wins Valkeakoski Challenge

Ari Heinonen

As we reported recently, Werks had signed their first European driver Ari Heinonen and in his first race for his new sponsor, the Valkeakoski Challenge in Finland last weekend, Ari won both the truggy and buggy classes. The HoBao driver easly won the 45 minute buggy final by over 3 laps from team mate Markku Honkanen who in turn was 2 laps ahead of 3rd place finisher Arto Heinonen. And it was a similar story in the Truggy final where Ari once again won from the pole position spot to win by a lap from Arto Heinonen and Jiri Jokinen, the Cen and HongNor drivers finishing 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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February 26, 2007

Jonas Kaerup wins Corally Days event

2007 Corally Days

Xray have a report on their site about the recent Corally Days event held in Megadrom Geilenkirchen in the west of Germany. The event was won by Jonas Kaerup, who managed to dominate all 3 main finals from his top qualifying position, winning easily ahead of Steven WeiÃŸ who finished in a clear 2nd position with BjÃ¶rn PrÃ¼mper rounding of the podium in 3rd place.

Final 2 was very similar to the first one. After 2min B. PrÃ¼mper again made a small mistake and Steven jumped into 3rd place closely behind Yannic PrÃ¼mper. They battled the rest of the race for 2nd place. Steven was able to pass Yannic with 2 laps remaining and finished in 2nd place only 2sec behind Jonas Kearup.

You can read the full race report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 26, 2007

Dirt Nitro Challenge – Buggy Finals

Dirt Nitro Challenge

We reported yesterday on the truggy and stadium truck finals from the Dirt Nitro Challenge and now it is the turn of the buggies. In what was an exciting race pole man Mike Truhe, the winner of the truggy class at this years event, took another win for Team Losi by leading home the A-main just ahead of a hard charging Jared Tebo. Tebo, who was driving the new O’Donnell buggy, had to bump up from the B-main to take his place in the main event and then went on to lead the race for a while before having to settle for 2nd position. Jammin racer Chad Bradley finished 3rd just ahead of 2nd place qualifier Adam Drake who dropped back during the race to finish 4th. Something to note was the lack of Kyosho cars in the final, despite their factory team being present at the event, including World Champion Mark Pavidis, also worth noting was the poor showing of the Associated buggies that had problems and finished the race in the last two spots in the final.

Click here to view the final results… content

February 25, 2007

Dirt Nitro Challenge – Truggy & Stadium truck Finals

Dirt Nitro Challenge

Our partner site Neo Buggy has the Saturdays final results from Truggy and 1/10th Stadium truck classes from the 2007 Dirt Nitro Challenge held at The Dirt facility in Arizona. In the truggy class it was Team Losi racer Mike Truhe who lead from start to finish to convert his 2nd position into a fine win over second placed racer Chad Bradley who was driving for Jammin whilst rounding of the podium in third place was Cody King racing for Kyosho. Pole man Travis Amezcua had some problems in the race and dropped out of contention finishing in 9th, whilst Yannick Aigoin in his and Xrays first truggy race came home in a respectable 6th position.

In the stadium truck class it was Ryan Maifield who took the win for Team Associated, beating pole man and ROAR National Champion Jared Tebo who finished in 2nd position just ahead of 3rd placed finisher Philip Atondo driving for Losi. The buggy finals will take place today, Sunday, and we hope to bring you the results when we get them.

Click here to see the final Truggy results… content