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May 29, 2011

Race for a Cure – Announcement

The organisers of the second annual ‘Race for a Cure’ got in touch to tell us about this year’s event that runs from the 17th-19th of June at the Goshen Fairgrounds in Goshen CT. It is a wonderful event combining a good old fashioned New England Country Fair along with an exhilarating RC offroad race. Several popular classes are being run including nitro buggy & truggy as well as 1/8th scale electric and various short course classes. This is a real must-do event and best of all it helps raise money for the American Cancer Society and have fun at the same time. More information can be found here (PDF).

May 29, 2011

Teddy Syach wins rain effected Rd4 in Indonesia

The 4th round of the Indonesian 1/8th scale national championships was held recently in JITC Senayan circuit, Jakarta. The weather was cloudy from the start of the race and the qualifying had to have the second heat re-run due to rain. It was Teddy Syach who took his Mugen MRX5 to pole position setting the only 20 lapper @ 5.15, followed by Toni Kundjung (Mugen MRX5) with a 19 laps @ 5.02. Xray drivers, Sadikin Sutrisno and provisional standings leader Bowie Ginting took 3rd and 4th place respectively with a very close gap of 0.048 seconds. Suwardi Suliandy (Xray) completed the top 5. Seven minutes into the grand final, the rain suddenly came down hard and forced the organizer to stop the race. Because there wasn’t 75% race distance run yet, the result was taken from the qualifying result.

View the final standings here

May 27, 2011

Xray sign Ales Bayer

Xray have announced the signing of top Czech driver and multiple junior national champion Ales Bayer to their team. The former Losi driver, and brother of European finalist Martin Bayer, Ales will run his XB808 buggy and XT8 truggy at all upcoming National and International events.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 27, 2011

Bro & Linder win Nordic Championships

This year’s Nordic Championship was held at the nice Spydeberg Raceway in Norway with drivers from Norway, Sweden and Denmark taking part, however regrettably no Finnish drivers this year. There was a total of 17 drivers in the 1:8 class and 34 drivers in the 200mm class and the event was very well organized, with excellent food and beverages all weekend. Practice Friday and qualifying Saturday were run in dry and sunny conditions and local young hotshot and rising European star Adrian Berntsen (N) showed who was the boss and TQ’ed both 1:8 TR and 200mm.

Continue reading the report here

May 26, 2011

Kostas Zacharopoulos wins 1/8th Rd1 in Greece

Last weekend the first round of the Greek 1/8 On road Championship was held in Athens at the Arena Racing club. A well attended event, the race was won by the pole man Kostas Zacharopoulos driving a Blitz shod Mugen, taking the fastest lap, to win ahead of 5 time Greek Champion John Sotiropoulos in 2nd, driving a Serpent. Kyosho driver Vaggelis Totomis took 3rd, only 3 seconds back from 2nd place.

Source: Team Titan [team-titan.com.tw]

May 25, 2011

Motonica signs Raimondo Gilletti

Motonica have announced the signing of Italian ace Raimondo Gilletti. Raimondo has been racing RC since 2000 and has acquired great experience for his young age. For the last 3 years he has been ranked in the Italian Top 10 and has already taken part in the most important racing events at both National and International Level. The first events that will see Raimondo running the P81 RS are the Ecomodel Trophy in Gubbio, Italy (11/12 June) and the Euro Nitro Challenge in Hildesheim, Germany (23/26 June).

Source: Motonica [motonica.com]

May 24, 2011

Dave Henry does triple at RC Pro Series Rd1

This past weekend was Rd1 of the RC Pro Series in Ontario, Canada. TLR was in strong attendance with Dave Henry, Taylor and Tommy Giovinazzo there. Dave Henry would have a great weekend taking the TQ and win in Pro nitro buggy, Pro electric buggy and Pro 2wd SCT. The surprise of the weekend was TLR privateer Jay Christiano finishing 2nd in Pro nitro buggy.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

May 24, 2011

Seyong Oh & Sangjun Nam win Capricorn NC Rd1

The 1st round of the 2011 Capricorn Nitro Challenge Open, which had been postponed due by bad weather, finally took place last weekend in South Korea. In the 1/10th class it was Hyunho Ahn that took the pole position with his Capricorn LAB-C01, but in the final it was Seyong Oh that took the win ahead of Hyunho Ahn and Sangho Lee, to give the LAB C01 the complete podium. In the 1/18th scale class, it was Shepherd driver Jinwoo Park that was top qualifier but problems in the final meant he was not able to threaten for the win. The race was won by Capricorn LAB-C801 drier Sangjun Nam that took the win from the Serpent pairing of Youngjun Kim and Seyong Oh in 2nd and 3rd.

View the 1/8th podium here