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June 28, 2011

Bill Bridges Benefit race

The Bill Bridges Benefit race was at “The Track” in Carleton, Michigan this past weekend. This is Bill’s home outdoor track in the summer and the classes raced consisted of both electric and nitro with the event attracting more than 300 entries. It was amazing to see so many racers and manufacturers come together for this great cause. Racing started at 9am and the mains finished just before 2am. The event raised a substantial amount of money which will help Bill and his family in the months to come. The event itself saw a double win for Losi/Novarossi driver Adam Drake in both buggy and truck with Jason Jakubczyk doing the double in the electric class taking his Kyosho/Orion combo to wins in the mod buggy and SCT mod classes. The event also saw the winners of both Adam’s 8ight and Dustin’s TLR22 picked and it was Pat Schreffler and Dean Ferrari respectively that took them home. Bill’s wife Chrissey had this to say “I want to thank everyone that came out to the benefit race this weekend. We are beyond blessed to have you in our lives and to be able to call you friends. A heavy burden has been lifted off of our family. It meant so much to Bill to see so many people rooting for him. This race did wonders for his spirits!! RC Racers pulled together for an amazing event!! We will be forever grateful!!”

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

June 28, 2011

Ryan Maifield does double at AMS

Ryan Maifield has won both the nitro buggy and truggy class the recent Alabama Manufacturer Shootout, a race that packed over 400 entries into a quick three-day format with three rounds of qualifying and 45-minute main events. The newly crowned ROAR truggy national champion and ROAR buggy vice national champion swept both classes with his Associated RC8 FT and RC8T FT CE controlled by an Airtronics M11x transmitter and powered by LRP engines.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

June 28, 2011

Richard Infanti wins Canadian Off-Road Championship Series Rd1

This past weekend round one of the Canadian Off-Road Championship series was held. TLR team driver Richard Infanti secured himself both the TQ and win in the Pro Truggy class and also took the overall win in Pro Buggy after missing the TQ and starting from second place.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

June 28, 2011

Dino Giacalone wins 200mm Italian Championship Rd2

Last weekend saw the second round of the Italian 1/10 nitro 200mm championship fought out at the Miniautodromo Black Tarmac in Mesero. Young Dino Giacalone (Capricorn/Capricorn) took the win in the Expert class some three laps in front of Guido Barbera (Xray/Max) and Cristian Costanzo (KM/Novarossi). Both Guido and Cristian made 140 laps and where only separated by eight seconds.

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June 26, 2011

Luis Cortez wins Portuguese regionals Rd3

The third round of the Portuguese 1/10 scale 200mm nitro regionals was held at the Circuito Automodelismo do Funchal. In the main final the hot ambient temperatures meant that the engines would make five minutes on a tank of fuel and therefore extra pit stops were needed for refuelling. Also the track temperatures of 65 degrees Celsius let tire wear became an issue. Serpent driver Paulo Rodrigues started from pole position followed by Mugen drivers Hugo Exposto and Rui Cortez. Luis Cortez, the current champion and championship leader had fuel problems in the half final and started from fouth position. In the opening stage of the race Luis Cortez took the lead followed by Hugo Exposto and Paulo Rodrigues. The top 3 were setting the race pace but half way into the race Hugo Exposto came in trouble due a broken front belt forcing him to quit. At the end Luis Cortez won the race for the third time this season, with Paulo Rodrigues in second and Rui Cortez in third position.

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June 23, 2011

Bruno Coelho wins Portuguese GP nationals Rd3

The third round of the Portuguese national nitro 1/8 scale and 1/10 200mm championship was held at the Sintra track last weekend. Both classes were dominated by Bruno Coelho, the young driver having just re-signed with Novarossi to use their engines in his Mugen cars. In 1/8 scale he won by some eight laps ahead of João Malveiro (Serpent/Novarossi) and José Pequito (Xray/Picco). In the 200mm class it was again Bruno who won, this time by two laps, in front of Fabio Ramos (Serpent/Novarossi) and Rogério Araujo (Xray/Novarossi).

June 23, 2011

Roenicke & Bastians lead 1/8 Western German championship

Jean-Pierre Roenicke is the new leader in class 1 of the Western German Championship 1/8 nitro on-road following his victory at round three. The race on the new track at Hamm was affected by rain on Saturday and Sunday. Beside Roenicke who switched from Serpent to Mugen only a few weeks ago it was only Serpent racer Ralf Vahrenkamp who started into the wet finale but was one lap down after 30 minutes. Fortunately the qualifying with four heats was run under dry conditions. Michel Salven caught pole position ahead of his Serpent fellows René Puepke and Karl-Heinz Meister with Mugen driver Uwe Baldes on fourth spot but these four racers refused to join the finale under wet conditions to leave Roenicke and Vahrenkamp for a “pas de deux”. In the ranking youngster Roenicke is now leading with 351 points ahead of Uwe Baldes (347). René Puepke is on third (345) followed by Karl-Heinz Meister (341) and Rainer Rosskothen (Mugen/330). So far 17 racers have collected points in class 1.
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June 22, 2011

Adam Drake wins RC Force Challenge

The 2011 RC Force Challenge took place the weekend of June 18-19 2022 and was hosted by Ansan Jungwong Circuit. The facility had containers for racers to pit in, car cleaning station, snack bar, and two tracks. One for 1/10th racing and a larger track for 1/8th nitro racing. When the racing was finished there were lots of free giveaways to racers and spectators which included everything from air-filters to engines and signed wheels and a signed body from Adam Drake. Everyone played rock, paper, and scissors to determine the winners of the prizes. It was TLR / Novarossi driver Adam Drake who dominated qualifying with his 8ight 2.0 buggy. Adam used TLR’s 8ight 2.0 buggy, Novarossi’s BTTS engine and 9901 pipe, Spektrum DX3R Pro transmitter and Losi Digit tires with Losi’s closed cell foam. The final was 60 minutes and Adam’s buggy and engine worked flawless for the entire race and he was able to take home the victory.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]