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May 3, 2010

Taylor James joins Team Losi

Losi have welcomed former Jammin driver Taylor James and his numerous years of top level racing experience to the team. Taylor will be joining the team for the upcoming 1/8th ROAR Off-road Fuel Nationals warm-up race in Colorado Springs, CO on May 13th-18th and will be competing in all the major races including the upcoming IFMAR World Championships this November. Taylor James will be running the Team Losi Racing 8ight 2.0 buggy race roller and the 8ight-T 2.0 truggy race roller powered by Nitrotec engines and controlled by his Spektrum DX3R.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

May 3, 2010

Salven takes West German 1/10th Rd2 victory

More than 20 years after his last visit at the track of the RMC Dueren close to the Belgian and Dutch border Michael Salven achieved victory at round two of the nitro 1/10 Western German Championship. With rain pouring down for most of the day Tobias Hepp made it a 1-2 for Serpent crossing the line just five seconds behind Salven.

Read the full report here

May 3, 2010

Mike Klausner wins 1/8th Rd2 in Austria

Last weekend the 2nd of 6 rounds for the Austrian 1/8th on road championship took place at MORAC-Graz host of the 2008 European ‘B’ Championships. The event was again dominated by Mike Klausner, who took pole position, won his semi final (no direct qualifiers in Austria) and took the final to cap a nearly perfect weekend for him.

Continue reading the report here

May 3, 2010

Luis Cortez takes the win at 2nd Portuguese Regional

Last Sunday the second round of the Portuguese Regionals was held in the Circuito Automodelismo do Funchal. Mugen driver Luis Cortez, took the pole and another perfect win, the temperature variations having a big influence in the outcome of this event with a lot of drivers having engine trouble all weekend, getting the engine perfectly tuned was a challenge. In the main final Team Magic driver Fabio Barros drove a smart race managing the second place of the podium, while Veteran Serpent driver Alcino Camacho, after a difficult year, returned to the podium in 3rd place showing us that experience and know how is far more important than a top engine or chassis.

Thanks to Paulo Rodrigues for the report.

May 3, 2010

Tom Smolderen victorious at Luxembourg opener

As a guest Belgian Shepherd driver Tom Smolderen attended the first round of the 1/8th scale On-Road nationals in Luxembourg. Claiming the pole-position after 4 rounds of qualifying he had an excellent position for 30-minutes final. After 101 laps Smolderen crossed the finishing line in first position in front of Patrick Beltrallo with 99 laps and Jerome Hirtziger on third another 5 laps down. As a guest starter Tom didn’t receive any championship points so Belltrallo took over the first position in the ranking list in front of Hirtziger and Jacques Libar.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 2, 2010

ROAR drawing up provisional 1/8 Super GT rules

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ROAR is authoring rules for the “GT” category, which it will refer to as “1/8 Super GT” to avoid confusion with other categories that are also called “GT.” The rules pertain to the 1/8 off-road based vehicles that feature on-road passenger and road racing body shells. This is a category that’s been gaining in popularity due to reasonable cost, high durability, lower maintenance and the scale appearance of these big machines. ROAR desires to preserve the most appealing elements of what has made this a popular and growing category. ROAR invites all industry affiliates and current members to inquire with questions or additional suggestions for the rules.

More information can be found here.

April 29, 2010

Hupo Honigl reports from Pre Season testing

New Team Durango signing Hupo Honigl attended last weekend’s pre-Season race held at the Rhein-Mein Circuit in Bischofsheim, Germany and filed this report. A lot good drivers attended the race at Bischofscheim including Neumann, Drescher, Ronnefalk, Svenson, Reckward, as well as many top German drivers. Gerd made some subtle changes to a couple of parts and all I can say is that they work awesome. In the first practice run the car felt already pretty good, but the shocks were too soft and also the diff oils were too soft. I changed from 5k-5k-2k to 10k-10k-2k and changed the shockoil to 10 harder in the front and 5 harder in the rear. This helped a lot.

Continue reading the report here

April 29, 2010

Hungarian National Off road Championship Rd1

Last weekend the Hungarian national offroad championship kicked off with more than 60 drivers. The race was held in Apaj, a small city about 50km’s from the capital city of Budapest and organised by RCOR club. The layout of the track is really nice, very enjoyable, it has all kind of jumps (table, double, triple, step-down) and corners (sweeper, hairpin, chicane). The racing line was visible but covered with some dust and the track held up really well all weekend, thanks to the proper preparation of the organiser club.

Continue reading the report here