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July 26, 2011

Martin Bayer wins 2011 1/5th European title

Last weekend saw the European Championships for large scale touring cars held in Leipzig, Germany. Qualifying would see Czech driver Ales Bayer take the pole position running the prototype RS5 Rx12 chassis ahead of Lauterbacher driver Markus Feldmann, but following the semi finals, in which Ales would run out of fuel while leading, it would be the German on pole starting just ahead of Martin Bayer in 2nd. In the final Feldmann would lead but after only 10 laps engine trouble would take the reigning champion out of the race allowing BA Arnaldi from France to inherit the lead. A later battle with Martin Bayer saw the Czech driver get past and bring home the win at the end of the 30 minute main to claim the European title ahead of Croatian Dario Vesali in 2nd with Arnaldi finishing in 3rd.

Image: RS5 Modelsport [rs5-modelsport.com]

July 23, 2011

Tony Knauth wins Aussiemove Rd2

Tony Knauth has won the recent second round of this year’s Aussiemove off-road series at the OCR circuit. The Mugen driver was hard chases for the win by Marc Christianson (Mugen) and Serpent driver Tim Nicol. Fourth place after five rounds of running went to Nathan Tampe (Hyper) with Daniel White (Mugen) in fifth place.

Source: OCR Raceway [ocrraceway.com]

July 22, 2011

Video – 2011 Futaba/O.S. Engine Nitro Challenge

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Check out the highlights from the 2011 Futaba/O.S. Engine Nitro Challenge “Dash for Cash” at the Dirt Burners Greentree R/C Raceway in St. Louis, MO by clicking the video above.

Source: Hobbico [hobbico.com]

July 22, 2011

Merril Myers wins @ Blue Diamond Park

Merrill Myers has won the 1/10 touring 200mm class at the 3rd annual Pete Johnson Have a Nice Day memorial Race at Blue Diamond Park. Merrill Myers (Shepard Velox v11) took down the win, sweeping two of the three legs with Mike Keely (Xray NT1) in second, and Irvine Cole (Capricorn Lab-C01) finishing third seven seconds over the TQ driver Juan Amador in fourth. It was a hard fought battle for third and fourth with the position changing many times of the course of the triple A’s. Merrill and Mike couldn’t be touched in first and second respectively.

Source: Sky Rocket Racing [skyrocketracing.com]

July 21, 2011

Nogueira & Coelho win Portuguese on-road nationals Rd4

Ricardo Nogueira and Bruno Coelho won the recent fourth round of the Portuguese on-road nationals in 1/8 scale and 1/10 scale 200mm respectively. Bruno TQ’ed both classes but it was Ricardo Nogueira (Serpent/Novarossi) who won 1/8 scale after Mugen driver Bruno hit engine problems with 10 minutes to go. This helped Ricardo Costa (Mugen Seiki/Novarossi) to claim the second place with Coelho in third place.

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July 21, 2011

Hungarian Offroad Championships Rd4

The 4th round of the Hungarian off-road Championships took place in Bokor last weekend at great weather conditions. The track raced on is about 370m long and made from a mix of soil and sand with many different artificial surfaces like carpet, stones and more at different places. The track owners, the Szebelledi family, did a great job again to make it a superb event. In the Buggy class it was Cseko Gergely who grabbed the TQ by winning 4 out of the 6 qualification rounds. All the usual frontrunners bumped up into the main from the semis except young Palla Balazs who forced to retire. The main final started without Bruzsa Richard who looked to be the main contender for the win showing great pace in the semi but was hit by throttle servo problems during the 3min warm-up and had to retire. After the start Gergely opened the gap ahead of the trio of Gabnai Gergo, Toth Bence and Szebelledi Laszlo. Laszlo looked to be the fastest among them but an inconsistent engine and several cut-offs prevented him to finish any of the top places. Gabnai Gergo and Toth Bence continued to battle with mainly Gergo being in front. However at the closing stage of the race Bence remained in front of Gergo and finished 2nd.

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July 20, 2011

Adam Drake sweeps at Bring the Heat

Adam Drake has won both the 1/8 scale nitro Buggy and Truggy class at the Bring the Heat event at the Flowood R/C Indoor Park in Mississippi. TLR’s Mark Pavidis took TQ in both classes but only managed to finish second behind team mate Drake. Third on the podium was in Expert Buggy was TLR’s Josh Glancy who left Alan Burton (Agama) and Ronda Drake (Mugen) behind. In Expert Truggy that certain Mrs. Drake finished forth with Denver Houghton (TLR) in fifth position.

View the final results here

July 18, 2011

Scott McBride reports on 2011 FEMCA championship

Only a couple of days after Team Durango team member Kyle McBride won the prestigious FEMCA 1/8 scale nitro off-road championship his father Scott wrote a very detailed report about the event in general and the preparation of Kyle’s Team Durango DNX408 in detail. To find out more go over to Team Durango’s exquisite blog page and get all the details.

Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]