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October 5, 2009

Ryan Cavalieri wins Pro-Line Gas Champs

This past weekend was the 1st Annual Pro-Line Gas Championships held at Thunder Alley in Beaumont, CA. The race format consisted of 2 10-minute qualifiers on Saturday and 1 10-minute qualifier on Sunday, then each driver’s 2 best points would seed them into the Semis. A 15-minute Semi would be ran to fill the A-Main. In the Pro 1/8 buggy class, Ryan Cavalieri won his Semi by 11 seconds as well as the fastest time and would start first on the grid. Team Orion teammate Cody King won his Semi by 9 seconds and would start 2nd for the 30-minute A-Main. At the start of the main, Cavalieri go off to a clean start. King was involved in a first lap crash and would be shuffled back to 6th position. Cavalieri would leave from start to finish, with Cody recovering to take 2nd place, with Travis Amezcua taking 3rd spot.

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October 5, 2009

Chris Tosolini wins Season Finale in Greece

The 5th and final round of the Greek 1/10 Nitro National Championships took place at the Arena Track in Aspropyrgos recently with two special guests, Chris Tosolini and Mirko Rossi. Greek Federation EL-ME in cooperation with Kyosho Hellas have continued their effort to improve the level of radio control races in their country this year and gave Greek modelers the opportunity to compete with multiple World finalist Chris Tosolini and collect knowledge for their Sirio engines from Mirko Rossi. Chris Tosolini dominated the race holding best lap, TQ and 1st position, this is despite the fact that he spent the whole weekend giving setup tips and advice to all racers, instead of focusing on his car. Mr. Rossi on the other hand took the opportunity to help racers better understand their Sirio engines and clutches with tips for mileage and performance. Runner up on the day was Kostas Sidiropoulos, with Spiros Piknis taking 3rd.

Source: AMRC [amrc-rc.com]

October 5, 2009

Barend Myburgh is 1/5th scale World Champion

Eighteen year old Barend Myburgh has won the 1/5th scale World Championships, held in South Africa, as a result of an impressive meeting long performance, winning all his qualifying heats and thus taking pole position for the one hour final. Jumping straight into the lead and being never headed, Myburg won by almost 14 laps from Rodney Michael with Simon Bradley a further four laps away in third position. Whilst Myburg dictated the terms of the race throughout, Michael drove determinedly from fifth on the grid to earn second the hard way – battling Bradley and Andries Oosthuizen (fourth) for a podium spot for much of the race. Despite at one stage having to pit to replace a failed battery, Michael’s consistency and reliability eventually was rewarded as both Bradley and Oosthuizen suffered mechanical problems in the second half of the race. Willem Hendrick Barnard was fifth, followed in by Willem Vorster and 15 year old Jean Pierre Oosthuizen. Disappointingly this major international race attracted only 7 drivers, all South African.

Source: TRAP [trap.co.za]

October 5, 2009

Merlin Depta takes German Regional in Hamburg

Last weekend saw the German regional and national qualifier take place in Hamburg, North Germany with great weather and warm temperatures. Starting from position two in the grid behind Lars Hoppe, youngster Merlin Depta was able to take the lead after Lars made an error lapping another driver. What followed was a spectacular fight between Lennart Skornia and Merlin Depta, the Serpent pairing were at each other for 29 minutes trying to go for the victory. Only one lap before the checkered flag came down, the 2-speed team driver Merlin was able to gain the lead back again and finish the race first completing his 137th lap with Lennart Skornia taking 2nd and Michael Paetz in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 4, 2009

Offroad Meeting Arena – Announcement

Run from the 19th to the 22nd of November, the Offroad Meeting Arena will take place again this year in Italy, at the Arena of Cowboys Guest Ranch of Voghera, near Pavia. The annual indoor race, which was won last year by Hupo Honigl, once again has attracted some of Europe’s best off road racers, who are taking part in the buggy, truggy and brushless classes. Running alongside the ultra competitive racing format that sees the champions crowned on Sunday, the organisers have created a ‘Race of Champions’ race that is made up of the best 16 drivers in buggy, in F1 and F2 class, as well as the best 16 truggy drivers. On Saturday night they will go together in a race that sees the last placed racer eliminated every 5 minutes until the 4th placed driver is eliminated and the podium positions are taken. This, together with all the other racing and activities planned, will make this an event to remember and Red RC will be there to cover all the action Live from the track throughout the weekend.

For more information on the Offroad Meeting, and how to enter, visit the official event site here.

October 4, 2009

Lars Johnson does double at Colorado Nitro Series

The Colorado Nitro Series wrapped up its season last weekend, with the series consisting of two races at Rat Raceway in Denver, two races at Dirtworks in Burlington and two races at Colorado Springs Fast Track in Colorado Springs. Losi driver Lars Johnson had a great year in the Pro Truggy, he TQ’d and won three of the six rounds and had the overall win wrapped up before the 6th and final race. In the Pro Buggy class Lars and Dustin Evans battled in out until the end. Dustin was able to TQ the final race, however Lars was able to come back for a first place finish in the A-Main and take the overall title.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

October 2, 2009

Mark Green wins BRCA 1/8th Rd8

Round 8 of the BRCA championship was held at the Mendip circuit for the second time this season. With Bristol airport being a small drive away and due to the completion of the Irish season, a small contingent from Ireland arrived, including the vastly experienced Clive Connelly (Mugen) and Ian Campbell (Shepherd). The entry of 48 drivers was one of the highest all season and with the addition of some old faces, the future is starting to look brighter for this section. The weather forecast for the weekend was bright which would allow a lot of testing to be carried out in order to find the perfect setup. With top 200mm driver, Kyle Branson making an appearance for the first time this season and the presence of the top Irish drivers would make it difficult for the usual top 10 to be sure of a main final qualifying position and so the pressure to perform was considerably increased.

Continue reading the report here

October 1, 2009

Robitronic Night Race & Race of Champions

Robitronic have the full report from their Night Race and Race of Champions event that was held last weekend in Bischhofsheim close to Frankfurt am Main. The event consisted of a night team race that began at midday on Friday and ended at 5am on Saturday morning with truggy teams and buggy teams taking alternating times on the track to give each team of up to 5 drivers 7 hours on the track. The buggy class was won by the Team Robitronic Losi team that consisted of Joern Neumann, Martin Bayer, Darren Bloomfield and Carsten Keller, while the RC-Car Shop Race Crew was triumphant in the truggy class. On Saturday following the Night race, the Race of Champions got underway with practice followed by qualifying over the next day and finals on Sunday. European Championship podium finisher Martin Bayer did the double in both classes, winning the buggy class from Joern Neumann and Maximilian Cordts, while in the truggy class Maximilian Cordts took the runner up spot with Stefan Petrich in 3rd.

Read the full report (in German) here.

Source: Robitronic [robitronic.com]