Young Danish driver Oliver Fischer has signed with Horizon Hobby UK for the 2012 season. Oliver will run the TLR 8ight buggy & truggy as well as the TLR 22 1:10th buggy. Oliver had this to say about the deal:
I really wanna thank David from Horizon Hobby UK to letting me get this good opportunity and I am really looking forward to represent Horizon Hobby, and get a good year in 2012, with a good package.
Source: Horizon Hobby [horizonhobby.co.uk]
With the 2011 Arena Offroad Meeting just around the corner (13-16 October), the organisers have announced that former European Champion and newly crowned French National Champion Yannick Aigoin will be back to defend his titles that he won in both buggy and truggy in 2009, the last time the event was held. The Losi/Nvision ace will join a whole host of top European and Italian drivers at this exciting and unique indoor race, more of whom will be announced in the coming days. Organisers have today also published the final schedule for the event on their site, which sees 4 classes run, 1/8th brushless, truggy, buggy F1 and buggy F2 as well as the famous Race of Champions race on Saturday night. Red RC will be in attendance from the beginning of qualifying and you can follow all the coverage throughout the weekend on our Event site.
One week ago the final of the Alpen-Cup, a racing series based in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland, was held at the fast track of the MRT Rosenheim club. Among the 65 participants was Shepherd driver Maxi Vogl, showing good performance all weekend. In qualifying he managed to secure a direct-qualifier spot placing 3rd behind Christian Wimberger and Felix Heyse. At the start of the final Wimberger made a mistake and crashed at the end of the straight. Heyse and Vogl took over the lead and increased the gap on the rest of the field. The lead changed many times due to a different pit strategy but at the middle of the race Heyse made a mistake and slipped into the grass. His mechanic Robert Pietsch had to put him back on the track allowing Vogl to increase his lead to 2 laps which he kept until the checkered flag. Heyse finished 2nd in front of Shasa Lackner who completed the podium.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The seventh round of the JBRL series took place last weekend at Revelation Raceway. In the 1/8th expert truck class Team Losi Racing / Novarossi’s Adam Drake took TQ honors with his Novarossi powered TLR 8ight T 2.0. The beginning of the 25 minute final was a great battle between Adam Drake and Cody King. King had mechanical problems 10 minutes into the race and was forced to retire. This opened the door for Castellano to move up to second. Drake took the victory followed by teammates Castellano in second and Schreffler in third.
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The 3rd and last round of the Greek Nationals took place this past weekend at the Arena Racing Club in Aspropyrgos, Athens. Four different drivers were fighting for this year’s championship, but once again the title went to Stelios Theologitis. The Xray/O.S. driver had the lead from the start of the 45 minute final but a number of errors allowed Dimitri Tsigkos (Kyosho/Bullit) to get in front and open a reasonable, but not secure, gap over Theologitis. In the last 10 minutes, Theologitis managed to recover and took advantage of Tsigkos’ mistakes securing the first place and his 15th Greek Championship.
Source: RC Devil [rcdevil.gr]
TLR’s Matt Chambers was on hand for round #17 of the RC Pro National Series. Dirtworks R/C in Burlington, CO played host to the event that brought in racers from many surrounding states. In the Expert 1/8 Buggy class Matt was in top form taking the TQ in all 4 rounds of qualifying and cruising to a 2 lap victory in the 45 minute A-main ahead of TLR privateer Chris Peralta and Vincent Ringler. In the 1/8 Expert Truggy class, Chris Peralta took home the TQ and win making it a TLR sweep of the Expert Classes.
Source: TLR [tlracing.com]
The Swedish cup consists of 6 races with the best 3 results counting plus the result from the final race. Since it was 60 points for a win in the final race instead of the normal 50 at the previous races it was an open affair for many of the top drivers. After the nitro smoke had cleared from the final race of the season it was Markus Hellquist who stood on top of the podium in the 1/10 200mm class for the Örebro Race finale and with this result was the overall winner of Swedish Cup. Mikael Fransson ended up in second place overall and Per-Ola Hård claimed third place. All drivers competing for the same club Wäxjö MS, and also running the same cars, the Serpent 733. In the 1/8th class Bengt Andersson took overall cup win with Marcus Lindner in second and Niklas Johansson in third place.
The Summer Novarossi challenge took place this weekend at the Ospy Team track in Italy. Traveling over from the US for the race Billy Easton and the Serpent team set the pace in the qualifying with the S811 Cobra and would TQ the event in front of Mirko Bianchi with current European Champion Robert Batlle in 3rd. Easton would win go on to win his semi in front of Batlle by a clear margin to line up on pole position for the 45 minute encounter. The pair would continue their battle up front in the main final with Easton taking an untroubled win by just less than a lap ahead of Mugen star Batlle with Agama racer Riccardo Perin coming home in 3rd only 1 second behind 2nd. The podium saw a lock out for Novarossi engines.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
