Red RC » Gas

June 13, 2016

Mathieu & Billard successful at French 1/8th Nats Rd3

The third round of the French 1/8th On-road Championship was held this past weekend at the Macon track with almost 90 drivers attending in the Elite and National categories. After the qualifiers, Anthony Abisset took the TQ spot in the Elite class in front of Christophe Aygon and Romain Picard while Arnaud Mathieu rounded out the top 4. On Sunday, while rain affected the lower finals during the morning, the semis were run on an almost dry track. Arnaud Mathieu took the win in the semi final B on a mixed dry and wet track while Anthony Abisset won the semi A on a fully dry track, taking the pole position for the main final.

Continue reading the report here

June 13, 2016

Niklas Johansson wins at Swedish Cup

The Swedish Cup was held this past weekend at the SMK Trollhättan club in the three classes of 1/8th and 1/10th Nitro as well as 1/10th Electric Touring. In the 1/8th category, Mikael Fransson would take the TQ but in the 45-minute main final it was Niklas Johansson who took a narrow win of about 5 seconds over Mikael. Bengt Andersson completed the top 3 result some six laps down on the leading pair.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 13, 2016

Rivkin & Maifield successful at ROAR Fuel Nationals

This past weekend saw the running of the 2016 ROAR 1/8th Fuel Off-road Nationals at Thornhill Raceway in Hutto, Texas. TLR’s Ryan Maifield would double TQ the event but in the hour-long Nitro Buggy A-main it was Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin who stole the show by taking the win with a narrow 1.5s from Maifield. Spencer would take the lead in the early stages of the main while Maifield dropped down the order, letting Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated) and Ryan Lutz (Tekno) by. Also in the mix was HB’s Ty Tessmann who even lead in the early stages of the race but once things settled in, Spencer would control the pace from the front with team mate Ryan Cavalieri in tow. The latter would then fall back in the closing stages, allowing Maifield to put pressure on Rivkin while also Tessmann regained a podium spot shortly after. Ultimately Rivkin would bring home his first big national title in style to add to his Stock Buggy and Short Course Championships and his IFMAR 2WD World Championship title.

Continue reading the report here

June 13, 2016

Juan Carlos Canas takes 1/8th Buggy B Euros title

The Clube de Radiomodelismo in Freixedas, Portugal played host to the 2016 EFRA 1/8th Buggy European Championship B over the weekend. Gonçalo Melo took out the Top Qualifer honours after four rounds of high-intensity driving, just pipping fellow Junior driver Juan Carlos Canas on a tie-breaker. Both finished with 224 points after the four rounds, but a slightly better result for Melo in round four gave him the edge when dropped scores, of which each driver had two, were taken into account.

Continue reading the report here

June 12, 2016

Ryan Maifield double TQs ROAR Fuel Offroad Nats

Qualifying of the 2016 ROAR 1/8th Fuel Offroad Nationals at Thornhill Circuit in Hutto, Texas saw TLR’s Ryan Maifield walking away with double TQs in Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truck. Scoring four round TQs on the opening day of qualifying, Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin denied Maifield the same spectacle on the second day by coming out fastest in the final Truck qualifier. Maifield had to settle for second, only a couple of tenth of a second shy of Rivkin’s time. Behind Maifield, Kyosho’s Jared Tebo, HB’s Ty Tessmann and Tekno’s Ryan Lutz would complete the top 4 while in Truggy Spencer Rivkin, Ty Tessmann and Jared Tebo made up the top 4.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

June 12, 2016

Neal King wins BRCA 1/8 Circuit Nationals Rd4

Neal King wins BRCA 1/8 Circuit National Rd4

The fourth round of the BRCA 1/8 Circuit National series, took place at the Yorkshire Radio Control Model Car Racing Club, host to the 2013 1/8th scale euros, in stark contrast to round 3 at Adur, this is a fast flowing track where engine, gear box and clutch are critical to a strong performance. During Saturday’s practice the usual top contenders of Mark Green, Tim Wood, Neal King and Andrew Hastings were setting lap times in the high to mid 14 second bracket, which signalled the track was unlikely to be in lap record breaking condition for qualifying and finals following day. After four rounds of qualifying the Nitro A final would line up as follows:

Continue reading the report here

June 10, 2016

Tyler Jones signs with LRP

Up and coming US racer, Tyler Jones has joined forces with LRP to run the company’s nitro engines, brushless motors and controllers as well as using LRP chargers in his upcoming campaign. Tyler achieved a lot of titles in his young but already 7 years lasting career, such as the 2015 ROAR Jr. National Champion, qualification for the 2016 1/8 IFMAR Worlds, a 2nd place in Pro Nitro Buggy at the AMS 5.0 and he was A-finalist in all three Pro A-Mains at the 2015 CRCRC Midwest Championships.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

June 10, 2016

Martinelli & Schär win at Swiss IC Track Nats Rd3

Martinelli & Schär win at Swiss IC Track nats Rd3

Round three of the Swiss Nitro On-road Nationals was recently held in Schaffhausen. In the premier 1/8th class Simon Kurzbuch and Silvio Hächler would lead the proceedings at first but in the semifinals things would look a bit different. The first semifinal would be held in dry conditions until the very last minute when it started to rain. Silvio would bring home the win from Mattia Pesenti. The second semi than was run on a wet track with Luca “The orange submarine” Martinelli coming in first while Simon ran into trouble that now allowed him to proceed into the A-main.

Continue reading the report here