CML have announced that multiple British Champion, European and World finalist Mark Green has chosen Byron Gen2 as his fuel of choice for 2011. The Factory Serpent team driver will use Gen2 in both 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm nitro circuit classes in a move that further rubber stamps Byron as one of the Worlds leading fuels, having previously secured the 1/8 IFMAR World Championship title in Thailand in November.
Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]
Last weekend saw the South American championships for 1:10 and 1:8 held at the Hernan Matticoli circuit in Buenos Aires, Argentina and it attracted more than 70 racers accross two classes to compete for the title. In the 1:10 class Juan Pablo Golobic dominated the whole race, closely followed by Edward Dulac. At the end of 45 minutes only 3 seconds separated the first and second-placed drivers. In third position it was Agustin Cutin, a lap behind. In the 1:8 class it was total domination for the Brazilian driver Flavio Elias who finished 3 laps ahead of Sebastian Recio in 2nd position, Patrick Schafer from Germany in 3rd spot.
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Agama USA has announced that 31 time ROAR National Champion Josh Cyrul has joined their racing team. Josh is world renowned in the on road racing scene and will now be competing in the premier 1/8th nitro class on behalf of Agama USA joining the likes of Gene “The Machine” Hickerson and Levi Jackson in the team.
Source: Agama USA [agamausa.com]
Racing in Southern California is always very competitive and it was no different at last weekends Kyosho Fall Classic hosted by Revelations Raceway. The event had over 120 entries. Adam Drake and newly crowned 1/8th Buggy World Champion Cody King were on hand and battled in the 1/8th buggy class. Adam Drake driving his Novarossi powered Team Losi Racing 8ight 2.0 and 8ight T 2.0 was in top form all weekend and TQ’ed every round in both classes. In the 1/8th truck class Drake lead from start to finish and took home the victory by two laps in the 30 minute final. The final event of the weekend in the 1/8th buggy class, Drake got a clean start and Cody made a few mistakes early in the final which allowed Drake to pull away early. Cody continued to push hard during the final, but Drake’s pace and consistency paid of and Drake won the 30 minute final by just over one lap.
The first Horizon Nitrocross were held from last weekend in Quakenbrueck and with 163 entries from Germany, Italy, UK and Czech Republic it was a large success. The famous Quakenbrueck track is indoor, but temperatures are the same as outdoor and it was around 0° degrees the whole weekend. Friday was practice, Saturday saw one more round of practice and then 4 rounds of Qualifying, with the best 2 rounds to count. Martin Bayer TQ’d the Buggy class ahead of Jorn Neumann and Riccardo Rabitti. Sunday was finals day and in the semi finals Carsten Keller had the fastest time and would start the final from Pole Position. The Final was 40 minutes and in the first minutes Carsten, Riccardo and Jorn battled for position. Then Jorn took the lead and never looked back winning by 2 laps in front of 2nd placed Carsten Keller and Riccardo Rabitti in 3rd.
Thanks to Joern Neumann for the report.
Italian company Bittydesign have announced that the 2011 running of the off road contest will take place from the 6th to the 8th of May. Already in its 3rd year, last year’s event was a big success and they hope to improve on that again this year. Expect more details to be released in the coming months.
View videos from last year’s event here
Neo Buggy & DXR have announced that the Neo Race for 2011, Neo11, will be held 22nd to 25th of April 2011, the 6th running of the race and 5th at the Harper Adams indoor facility. The timetable will be similar to the last event, a 4 day format is planned with practice on Friday 22nd, six rounds of qualifying on Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th finishing off with finals on the Monday (25th). Qualifying will use 7 minute heats and the best four rounds from six will count. After the Dash4Cash success at Neo2010 the organizers plan to add a few more ‘special races’ to the schedule which should provide entertainment every day. The entry date will be announced soon.
Further details can be found on the official site here.
The 3rd annual Xceed TRS Asia Cup was held in Shanghai, China just a weekend ago with over 50 drivers from 13 countries participating. In the 1/8 class, it was Michael Salven who took TQ and the win over second place Suruth from Thailand, while in third was Howard Zuo from Taiwan. In the 1/10 Sedan class, Samual Chiu of Hong Kong driving his NT-1 battled TQ Wang Hai Feng from China to win by only 1.1 seconds. Both drivers exchanged the race lead over 15 times in the 30 minute final. Wang Hai Feng drove a Mugen MTX4 and is China’s number one electric touring car driver in this his very first nitro race. In third place was Per-ola Hard from Sweden.
