October 22, 2006

2006 Paris Memorial race – Qualifying

Ron Paris

This weekend sees the annual running of the Paris Memorial race in Las Vegas. Set up after the death of engine master Ron Paris in 2001, this event has turned into a huge event stateside, even attracting racers from as far away as Europe.

This years race is no exception with over 80 racers spread over 3 classes competing to win this prestiquous event. Weather for this years event is hot an sunny as you would expect from Las Vegas and after 5 rounds of qualifying the outcome looks like this: content


October 19, 2006

Nico Rodriguez joins Crono

Nico Rodriguez

Neo Buggy are reporting that 1/8 off road European front runner Nico Rodriguez has left GS for SVM Crono. Nico who previously placed on the podium at the 2005 Europeans in France will drive the RS03 buggy with JP motors for the 2007 season.

Source: Neo-Buggy [neobuggy.net]


October 19, 2006

Sam Cheng wins Singapore Open

XB8 Singapore

Top Singaporean driver, and all round nice guy, Sam Cheng has taken top honours at the Singapore Open Championships driving his Xray XB8 ahead of team mate Glenn Phuah with young driver Ah M in third. Sam is an experienced International driver in on-road racing too and a real RC enthusiast as well as being distributor for many brands in his home country.

Towards the end of the finale, somehow luck was with Sam that allowed him to pull away a little ahead that put him ONE lap ahead and took away the A Main 1st trophy!

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


October 12, 2006

Ralph Burch wins ROAR Nats

Roar Nats podium - Image by Mike Myers

Mike Myers over at Starting Grid has a nice daily report of the ROAR 1/8 On-Road Nationals in which Ralph Burch from RC America TQ’d and won the event with his Max powered Kyosho Evolva. In fact it was a very good event for the Japanese company getting 6 into the main final and Kyosho America Vice President Joel Johnson rounding off the podium with 3rd position.

Source: Starting Grid [sgrid.com]