Some brief news on the first round of the Delta RC Indoor Winter Series which just kicked off in NorCal on a tight and very technical track with great traction. With one of the toughest obstacles trying to keep warm, it was Phillip Atondo who TQ’d both buggy and truggy and was the only person to go the extra lap in buggy qualifying. Running 30 minute mains, Atondo finished first in both classes with his Novarossi powered 8ight 2.0s.
Source: Losi [losi.com]
The First Annual King of the Desert Championships was held at Phoenix AZ’s newest nitro facility, ET Motopark recently. Losi driver Chris Wheeler TQ’d the Expert Buggy and Truggy classes and would go on to take the win in the Expert Buggy A-Main. Fellow Losi racer Trevor Clement finished in first place in the Expert Truggy A-Main, while Twelve-year old Autie Bender took the win in the Intermediate Buggy A-Main in his first race with his new 8IGHT 2.0 Buggy.
Source: Losi [losi.com]
Last weekend the 6th and final round of the Malaysia National Cup 2009 was held at the NRC racetrack near Singapore. For this final event drivers from Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia were invited to celebrate the last race of the season. After three rounds of qualifying Motonica driver Jesse Wu from Singapore claimed the TQ followed by the Shepherd drivers Luk Chee Hung from Hong Kong and Niko Cheng from Malaysia. These three drivers were the only ones to complete a 22 lap qualifier. At the start of the 45 min final Niko Cheng showed good pace and took over the lead followed by Jesse Wu and Luk Chee Hung. For the first 20 minutes the order remained the same until a small driving error of Cheng allowed Wu and Hung to pass him. Soon Hung had to retire due to some problems and the battle for the lead was between Wu and Cheng. But also Wu suffered some technical problems and for the last 15 minutes Niko Cheng cruised to the victory. By winning the grand final of the Malaysian National Cup he also secured himself the championship title.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Neo Buggy have announced the return of the Neo race in 2010. Dubbed the Neo 2010, this will be the 5th running of the Neo race, the first being in Belgium in 2005 before moving to the Harper Adams venue in 2006 for the rest of the events, all of which have been organized with the DXR team. This years event will see some changes to the timetable, 7 minute heats and 6 rounds of qualifying rather than five. The event will be run over four days, from the 2nd to 5th April 2010 and comprises of one day of practice, two days of qualifying with a ‘dash for cash’ race Sunday night and finals on Monday. This years race will only run one class, 1/8 Buggy, and they hope to get entries from some of the finest 1/8 offroad drivers to attend, with entry opening on the 1st of December 2009.
For more information visit the official event site here.
Last weekend was the third and last round of the Argentinean Touring car nationals, which took place in Buenos Aires. Pole position for the race went to Sirio/SAC Proyect/Xray driver Sebastián Recio and he also would go on to win the race followed by Juan Pablo Golobic in 2nd with Juan Ignacio Matticoli in 3rd. With his win in this race Sebastián Recio took the title followed by Juan Pablo Golobic and Hernán Lebenban.
Thanks to Roxana Palazzo for the report.
The 2nd annual TRS Asia Nitro Open Cup was held in Shanghai, China. Drivers from 10 countries/region including China, USA, Japan, Holland, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei and Korea competed at this winter event. After 5 rounds of qualifying, Mike Swauger from the USA was TQ in the 1/8 on road class, and Keisuke Fukuda from Japan was TQ in the touring class. Sunday’s “A” Main Final in the 1/8 on road class saw Swauger lead from start to finish winning the Championship, second place went to Jimmy Qian from Shanghai and 11 year old JJ Wang from Shanghai took third. In the 1/10 touring “A” Mains, a close fought battle between Fukuda, Meen Vejrack (Thailand) and Jilles Groskamp provided the crowd with some exciting racing. At the checkered flag, it was Fukuda who took the Championship with Meen Vejrack in second and Jilles Groskamp in third. Race organizers will be aiming to make next year’s race larger and more competitive.
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Following on from the report we received on the truggy and brushless classes at the Kyosho Fall Classic, held at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA last weekend, today we received a report on the hotly contested buggy class. Kyosho team driver Cody King, driving his Team Orion powered Inferno MP9, TQ’d and won the highly contested 1/8 Nitro Pro Buggy class, taking the victory in front of Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri and Hot Bodies driver Travis Amezcua. Cody also finished 2nd in Pro Truggy and 3rd in Pro Electric Buggy, landing on the podium in all 3 classes he competed in making it a great weekend as Kyosho’s top driver at the event.
Click here for final results and more photos
Last weekend saw the Motonica Race held in Fiorano, Italy and on Saturday’s 1/10th scale 200mm race it saw the new Capricorn Lab-C01 claim the win. Having TQ’d the race Cristian Costanzo, would go on to win the A-main using his Novarossi powered Lab-C01 from Xray NT1 driver Walter Ossola in 2nd, with another Capricorn driver Victor Coggiola taking the final podium spot. Capricorn has 4 of their new cars at the event and all made the final with 6 of the 10 drivers in the main final using the company’s new hard light tires.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
