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May 27, 2010

DJ Apolaro to run ABEC35 bearings

SPDMunki Power products, US Distributor for ABEC35, has just signed top US on-road driver DJ Apolaro for the 2010 season. DJ will be promoting their product line and proving the quality of the bearings through his racing season and results. DJ Apolaro, will be running the ABEC35 bearings for the 2010 season, in all his Serpent cars and had the following to say about the deal:

I would like to thank Steve Pak at SPDMunki Power Products for the opportunity to run the ABEC35 bearings. I have read good things about the bearings and got a chance to test them for myself. After using them to build my car and having felt the true smoothness of the bearings I was very pleased. The next step for me was if they could handle the durability test and they passed with flying colors. I have been searching for months now for quality bearings and ABEC35 are definitely the ones. I can’t wait to show these great bearings at the races to come. These ABEC35 Bearings Rock.

Source: SPDMunki [spdmunkipp.com]

May 26, 2010

Pietsch & Dankel win Rd3 of South German Nationals

Last weekend saw the third race of the South German Championship held at the MAC Nürnberg and with fine weather all weekend it attracted a lot of racers. In the 1:10 class it was Robert Pietsch who took the race win followed by Michael Heinrich in 2nd and Nobuhiro Kanabe in 3rd. In the 1:8 class Eric Dankel took the win, 2nd was Nicolai Bähr and 3rd Manuel Dietrich.

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May 26, 2010

Pro-Line Challenge – Announcement

The UK’s premier International Race Meeting, the 5th annual Pro-Line Challenge, will once again be held in Slough outside London in late August. The race has become a must-attend for all the top UK drivers not only because of the nationals round the week after but the strong international presence as well. Open to 1/8th Nitro Buggy and using a control Pro-Line tire, on-site camping, toilets, refreshments etc. are available.

More information on the event can be found here.

May 26, 2010

Yannick Aigoin wins Rd3 of French Nats

Last weekend saw the third round of the French 1/8th scale buggy Nationals run at Dolus D’Oléron on the west coast. Qualifying saw Losi/Novarossi driver Yannick Aigoin take the top spot followed by Xray/RB driver Jerome Sartel in 2nd and championship leader Jerome Aigoin with his Kyosho/Novarossi in 3rd. A disaster for Jerome Aigoin in the semi final meant he wouldn’t take part in the final, while Yannick and Sartel both won their Semi finals. With Yannick starting from the pole position, he romped ahead to win the hour long race by 2 laps ahead of Sartel in 2nd, with Mugen/Novarossi driver Guillaume Vray claiming 3rd, 11 seconds further back.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

May 26, 2010

Mike Truhe wins the ROAR Region 10 Champs

This past weekend was the ROAR Region 10 championships held at Dirt Works in Burlington Colorado and Mike Truhe gave us this report. The race was a two day event with qualifying Saturday and the finals on Sunday. I was unable to attend Saturday’s qualifying as I was finishing up some final testing at Colorado Fast Track in Colorado springs. Qualifying went well for Matt Chambers as he went on to TQ the buggy class convincingly. Myself and Lars Johnson arrived Sunday morning in the hope we could bump up into the final. The B-main went fairly well with me and Lars taking to top two spots after the 30min B-main. The 45 minute final was really exciting. The wind picked up a little bit making some of the jumps a little more difficult. In the end it was a Losi podium with me taking the win, Matt Chambers in second and Lars Johnson taking the final podium spot. Big thanks to Bill from Dirt Works for the awesome event and hospitality.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

May 26, 2010

Mark Green wins BRCA 200mm Nats Rd2

Last weekend saw the 3rd round of the British 1/10th gas Nationals take place in Halifax and current national champion Kyle Branson sent us the following report. The weather was good on Saturday with temperatures around 26 degrees, The track had good traction to start with and gradually improved through the day, My car was good at the start but i gradually got understeer and so did Mark Green but he had it worse than me, we seemed to be the only drivers suffering with it, we tried a lot of things but for some reason we couldn’t get the steering back, although the car was still pretty fast by the end of Saturday. On Sunday the car felt better in the first run in the morning but I suffered with a little oversteer which was strange as it had changed from the day before, Mark made some changes in the morning and had made a big improvement in his car. I was TQ in the first qualifying ahead of Mark, in the second Mark got TQ just a second ahead of me in second place and in the final round I managed to improve by just about half a second, this put me one second behind Mark.

Continue reading the report here

May 25, 2010

Phillip Atondo double win at Novarossi Challenge

This past weekend was the Novarossi challenge at Riverfront RC and Phillip Atondo and his crew put together a fabulous race track. The people in northern Ca. really know how to have a good time at a race. It’s a really nice track with trees in the pit area and a super nice motocross track behind the driver stand. The event was a two day event with three rounds of qualifying on Saturday and mains on Sunday. Team Losi driver Phillip Atondo would take TQ in both Buggy and Truggy over Team Losi’s Team Manager Kevin Gahan that made the trip up North to support the race. When mains day came Phillip would put in two great runs to win both buggy and truggy over Kevin Gahan which would be runner up in both classes.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

May 25, 2010

Riccardo Rabitti wins Rd2 of Italian Nationals

The 2nd round of the Italian 1/8th scale buggy nationals took place last weekend in Sacile in the north east of the country. Current national Champion Riccardo Rabitti was fastest qualifier ahead of round 1 winner Fabio Boero, but after the semi finals it would be Davide Tortorici that would start the main final from pole position. In the final, Losi/Picco driver Rabitti would manage to break clear of the chasing pack close to the end to win by 12 seconds ahead of Mugen/Reds driver Fabio Boero in 2nd with Hobao/Sirio driver Davide Tortorici in 3rd, a further 13 seconds back.

Source: RC Revolution [rcrevolution.net]