Team C Racing have been in contact to promote their HobbyPro Open event that takes place from the 5th to 6th of November at the TRC Track in Hong Kong. This gas event is open to 1/8th on road, 1/10th 200mm and 1/10th 220mm and will once again attract the Shepherd factory team with confirmed entries from Patrick Schaefer, Ronald Volker, Simon Kurzbuch and Jilles Groskamp. Open to all brands of car, you can find more information here.
This past weekend TLR driver Anthony Mazzara attended the 11th Annual Race against Cancer at McCulloughs Raceway in Sarver, PA. There were over 150 entries that included racers across six different states. Anthony TQ’d and Won the 1/8 Electric Buggy class with his TLR 8ight-E 2.0 while qualifying second in both 1/8th Nitro buggy and truggy. After the 30 minute A-mains in the nitro classes Anthony was able to pull off the win in both 1/8th Nitro buggy and truggy with his TLR 8ight 2.0 and 8ight-T 2.0 respectively. This gave Anthony the podium sweep in all three 1/8th classes. This was the 11th year of the event and their goal was to raise at least $10,000 dollars donating all proceeds to the American Cancer Society. Something that makes this more special is each year Anthony Mazzara raffles off his TLR 8ight 2.0 that was raced during the event and donates the proceeds to the event. Anthony raffled off his TLR 8ight 2.0 to the winner of the raffle Mike Lloyd (seen in the photo holding his new TLR 8ight 2.0) adding an additional $400 to the $11,000 dollars for the weekends race.
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TLR was out in full force for the 18th annual Tumbleweed Classic hosted by the ARCOR R/C Club in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In recent years the club has raised enough money to add a separate Nitro only track. This keeps the heavy 1/8th cars off of the super high bite surface of the electric track. A mixture of loamy dirt and 600 pounds of sugar is known for its smooth high traction and 2 ROAR Electric National events. The two separate tracks make for an event that offers a challenge to any driver on the two opposite ends of the race surface spectrum.
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Glyn Beal has successfully defended his BRCA Sports GT title after victory at the Colchester circuit last weekend. Round 7 of the British Nationals were at the Colchester circuit with the weather for the weekend mainly dry and sunny. In qualifying Glyn took a comfortable FTD with his 220mm Serpent 733 and in the final Glyn got an excellent start off the line and soon opened up a decent lead. At the end of the 30 minute race Glyn took the win several laps ahead of second place. With this result Glyn has now retained the title for the seventh year in a row.
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Last weekend saw the last round of the Portuguese gas on road nationals at the Vila Real track where the European championships will be held next year. The race was all about Bruno Coelho, having found a good setup in Saturday’s practice session, he went on to TQ both the 1/8th and 1/10th scale class. In the 1/8th final he would go on to win with his Novarossi powered Mugen by 8 laps over José Felix in 2nd with José Pequito in 3rd. In the 1/10th class it was an equally dominant win for Bruno, taking his Mugen to the win by 4 laps over 2nd placed Fabio Romas with Antonio Silva in 3rd. The wins in both classes was enough to give Bruno the 2011 National titles in both 1/8th and 1/10th.
The organisers of this year’s JConcepts Southern Nationals & R/C Expo in West Monroe, LA that takes place on October 21-23 got in touch to tell use about their event. Last year they had 260 entries and this year they will have over 325 paid entries, more have entered but entry is capped. The event will take place in a 5000 seat arena with a 300’x190′ dirt floor that they will build a 100’x200′ track in the center with a 15′ tall drivers stand. Adam Drake said last year that stand was the 2nd largest that he’s ever seen after the one at the World’s in Las Vegas. The facilty is air conditioned along with an exhaust system so that the race environment is second to none. Ryan Lutz, Barry Pettit, Jason Rouna & Jason Branham are some of the marquee names that are confirmed to race at this years event and they are waiting on more confirmations for more nationally recognized drivers. You can view more information and place your entry for the event here.
Steven Cuypers is the new German Champion 1/8 scale nitro. The Belgian took the title with a blistering performance during qualifying on Saturday when he caught pole position. But the German Nationals, held at the Motodrom Rhein-Ahr 25 kilometres south of former capital Bonn, was aborted on Sunday afternoon because of heavy thunderstorms in this area. Neither the semi finals nor the final were raced in class 1 which left the competition with an unusual result. Obviously 1/8 racing in Germany seems to be star-crossed because although the German Nationals 2009 in Hildesheim and 2010 in Roetz were affected by rain. This time the one-event German Championship was hampered by rain on all four days. On Thursday and Friday only five of ten practice rounds were run on a dry track. Also the first of five rounds of qualification was lost due to a wet track. And on Sunday rain came back about noon, followed by fearsome thunderbolts.
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The last round of the Swiss national championship took place one week ago in Langenthal. Before the race three drivers could still win the championship with worlds and euros finalist Simon Kurzbuch having the best chances on his home track followed by Marco Müller and Mattia Pesenti in the ranking list. In Qualifying it was local hero Kurzbuch who dominated his rivals being the only driver clocking 34 laps in 7:10.843 in front of Silvio Hächler (33 laps 7:06.574) and Müller on 3rd place (33 laps 7:10.355). Unfortunately it started to rain during the semifinals and for the rest of the race the track was extremely wet.
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