Red RC » Gas

September 4, 2014

Mizan wins Malaysian National Championship Rd4

The 4th round of the Malaysian 1/10th scale 200mm National Championship took place at the 3Stone Park GP track in Shah Alam with around 40 drivers in attendance. Top Malaysian Shepherd racer Mizan showed good performance and claimed the TQ with a gap of 3 seconds to Kimie and Baha in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the 45 minute main final Mizan crossed the finish line two laps in front of Kimie with Baha completing the podium another 2 laps down. Scoring the maximum points Mizan extended his lead in the national championship standings with two races to go.

Source: Shepherd [team-sheperd.com]

September 4, 2014

Josh Wheeler doubles at Labor Day Shootout

This past weekend in Chico, CA A-Main Hobbies and The Dirt Racing put on the Labor Day Shootout and the last round of the US Pro Cup. For the US Pro Cup it came down to Ryan Lutz and Josh Wheeler to compete for the title and a $5,000 price. Qualifying started Saturday morning with great weather and the track looking good. In the Truggy class Josh ended up 3rd the first round with Ryan Lutz getting the TQ and Phillip Atondo with 2nd. The second and third round had Wheeler getting the TQ in both rounds which gave him the overall TQ for the Truggy class.

Click here to continue reading the report

September 3, 2014

Widmeier wins German 1/8th nitro buggy junior title

Serpent’s newly signed Micha Widmeier has won the 2014 German 1/8th nitro buggy junior title at last weekend’s Munich round of the championship. After coming in 5th a week ago at the first race in Landhut and finishing 18th during the second and final round in Munich last weekend, Micha ended up on a combined 8th place in the overall championship. This result handed him the title as the best junior in the 2014 national championship.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 3, 2014

Xray Challenge Hungary – Announcement

Xray announce the Xray Challenge Hungary for the weekend of the 7th of September. The race will be held at the World-famous Hungaroring track and sees the running of modified and stock 1/10th electric touring car classes as well 1/10th 200mm nitro, 1/8th nitro and 1/5th large scale racing. More information about the race and registration can be found here.

September 3, 2014

Swedish nitro on-road championships – Report

The annual Swedish nitro on-road championships took place at the Staffanstorp Raceway close to Malmö in the South of Sweden. Drivers came from all over Sweden and also some guest drivers from Denmark and Norway made the trip to compete with the best Swedish drivers. Saturday morning started with a dry track despite some rain on Friday evening, but during practice and in the first round of qualifying the rain came back. At the end only the final round of qualifiers would count as a dry round for all drivers.

Click here to continue reading the report

September 3, 2014

Rainer Ressar wins 1/8th class at Baltic Champs

This year’s Baltic Championships were held at the Peleka-Cuka track with some of the best racers from the Baltic states in attendance. The 1/8th nitro buggy final was highly affected by the weather conditions that changed massively throughout the whole weekend. In the beginning the race was lead by pole position holder Hendrik Lainemae followed by Taurius Sinkevicius. With the rain coming and going, Rainer Ressar, who fall back early in the race, made the best out of the difficult conditions as he climbed up the field to take the 2nd spot in the closing stages of the final despite a broken wheel due to contact with a concrete track marker. A few laps later 1st place driver Hendirk made an error causing a flameout, handing Rainer the lead. At the end he won the race a lap ahead of Taurius Sinkevicius and Martin Steins, who rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Click here to view the final result

September 3, 2014

Wenger, Calvo & Eschler win at MC-Best Cup

Round 9 and 10 of the Swiss MC-Best Cup were held last weekend. Round 9, taking place on Saturday in dry conditions, had Martin Wenger taking the win in the 1/10th 200mm nitro class ahead of Nuno Santos and Silvio Scheidegger. Round 10 on Saturday started dry but then strong rain came up. Marco Calvo made the best out of the conditions and he took the win in the 200mm class in front of Donato Larocca and Marco Schwab. In the 1/8th class Stephan Eschler came out successful in front of Andrej Bostjancic and Beat Heiniger.

Click here to view the other podiums

September 3, 2014

Jens Roland wins final round of Danish 1/8th nats

Capricorn driver Jens Ronald has won the final round of the Danish 1/8th on-road championships. Rainy conditions made things not easy for the pilots but Jens kept his cool and steered his Reds-powered C801 to the win that also secured him the 2nd place overall in the championship.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]