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October 31, 2006

Taylor James wins Futaba Nitro Challenge

Futaba Challenge Podium

Team Jammin racer Taylor James has TQ’d and won the Pro Buggy and Pro Truggy classes at the first Futaba Nitro Challenge held in Bossier, Louisiana. In taking pole in both classes, Taylor also got to walk away with both $1000 Top qualifier prizes, not bad for a days work. Second place in the buggy race went to Quincy Hughes with Ray Norte ending the race in third whilst in truggy it was Andrew Smolnick and Gene Hickerson that took second and third.

Hit the jump for the full results… content

October 30, 2006

2006 Asian Tamiya cup, Thailand

Tamiya Asia Cup

Tamiya have a report on their site from their recent Asian cup that was held in Bangkok, Thailand in September. Staged in the centre of southeast Asia’s busiest shopping mall, the event not only attracted 104 racers from six countries but also large crowds of spectators, some 20,000 during the weekdays and over 50,000 on the weekend.

You can see more pictures after the jump… content

October 30, 2006

CML Raceway 2006 Race 1

CML Raceway

Oople.com have some amazing shots taken at last weekends opening race at the equally amazing new CML raceway in the UK. The event saw Ellis Stafford win the 4wd event ahead of Paul Bradby and Alec Springer while in 2wd the event was won by Neil Cragg with Chris Rowcliffe in 2nd and Lee Martin in 3rd.

~~You can view the full results from the event here. [doughtyuk.net]~~

UPDATE: You can read Jimmy Storey’s (Oople) full race report here.

You can check out some more pics from the CML track after the jump… content

October 30, 2006

Yuichi Kanai wins 2006 Kyosho Masters

Kyosho Masters Podium

This years Kyosho Masters race, held in Nagano, is over and at the end it was former World Champion Yuichi Kanai who won the Pro event, ahead of fellow Japanese driver Atsushi Kawamoto with Raul Peris Eugenio of Spain rounding out the top 3. Of course the racing at this type of event in itself isn’t so important, but good for building team moral as well as building a few egos and settling some inter team rivalry.

You can view the full Pro results here.

More pics after the jump… content

October 29, 2006

Yannick Aigoin wins RB Meeting in Italy

RB meeting

This weekend saw the 2nd running of the RB Meeting race, organised by the local importer RB Italia, at the Pista di Capua in Italy. All racers had to run with RB motors and as expected, French racer, RB employee and European Champion Yannick Aigoin took the victory ahead of Samuele Lenzi with fellow Italian Gerardo De Lucia in 3rd.

Source: ModellismoRC [modellismorc.net]

October 28, 2006

Reedy Truck Race of Champions

Reedy Truck Race

The 2006 Reedy Truck Race of Champions takes place this weekend at the Hot Rod Hobbies facility in California. This prestigous event attracts top level competition from around the US and beyond. After 2 rounds of qualifying it was Ryan Maifield who was TQ with his Associated GT2.

We will bring you more on this event as we get it. In the mean time you can check out more images after the jump… content

October 27, 2006

Buggy event at Telstra WRC event attracts stars

Telstra Rally

Neo-Buggy reports that Ian Haley took another convincing TQ and win at the Telstra WRC Rally RC event. But more importantly this event was held during the World Rally event and attracted former RC racer and WRC World Champion Petter Solberg, who joined in, along with top WRC young gun Dani Sordo. The picture above has nothing to do with either driver but its better to look at the Miss WRC girls than a middle aged Norwegian and a young Spaniard.

Solberg drove CEN driver Paul Cornwall’s car for a while; who with Haley ended up on the podium with the Miss WRC girls!! Petter Solberg was himself at the age of 13 a keen RC Racer; back in the day he won his fair share of events in Norway, before moving onto bigger and faster cars….;)

You can see a picture of Petter Solberg with Paul Cornwall after the jump… content

October 27, 2006

French RC tracks from Space

Track from Space

French site Petit RC have a post on their site showing lots of French tracksÂ photographed from space. The quality of the images aren’t great, probably limited by the zoom available in the mapping program used, but it’s still interesting none the less.

You can view these tracks from space here.

Source: Petit RC [petitrc.com]