August 25, 2007
…class bumping out the slowest racer in the factory class down to the Open class spot of the wild card. The wild card spot can only bump-up as high as the A and B Semi finals. – The Qualifying rounds will be a minimum of 4 rounds with a maximum of 6 rounds used to position drivers using fastest round for the IFMAR Christmas tree mains. The standings will be decided by rocket-round (time based). There will be a re-sort after Friday’s qualifying to establish the next day’s racing order. – The six fastest drivers of each class automatically make…
August 24, 2007
…2007 (just like in the past). Last year we had 368 entries and we are expecting more this year so when entries are opened for your division be sure to get registered as soon as possible. We will have an online entry like last year I strongly suggest doing it online but mail in will be accepted. (3) also this year anyone in the top 12 Nationally not covered by the division rankings will also get an early invitation. Remeber this year you can score points outside of your division toward national points. (4) Each racer will be allowed 2…
August 21, 2007
Serpent have a report online from the 3rd round of the South African 1/8th and 1/10th scale Nationals held at the very large Durban track recently. In qualifying it was Mike Wiseman all the way, taking the TQ with his Serpent 720 and 960 respectively continuing his dominant form from the first 2 rounds of the National series. In the 1/10th scale race it was a great dice between Mike Wiseman and Travis Carlyle, as they fought for the win with Wiseman eventually coming out on top. Finishing 2nd, Carlyle now leads the Championship with one round to go while…
August 19, 2007
…he won that final for a place in the semi, which he also won, to line up 5th for the 45 minute A-Final. After some great driving and having some luck come his way, the Team Magic driver crossed the line in 1st place to claim the 2007 crown. A fast charging Jilles Groskamp from Holland was 2nd for Xray while young Italian European ‘B’ Champion Alessio Mazzeo was 3rd for Serpent. Our trackside reporter Oisin O’Briain will have a full report online tonight. View our coverage from the event here or take a look at our championship gallery here….
August 14, 2007
The 11th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about after market parts and goes about justifying the use of genuine performance enhancing parts from Xray as opposed to those anodised bling bling parts from other companies. After the huge initial success of the NT1 worldwide, aftermarket companies jumped right in and introduced plenty of aftermarket “bling-bling” option parts for the NT1. Looking at the parts I just can only say one thing: “You get what you pay for.” Of course anybody is free to…
August 2, 2007
Jason Breiner from BMI Racing posted these images online of these new balance tools by IRS. Essentially they are two hemispheres with a pin sticking out of them and what they do is help you set the balance of your chassis by allowing the car sitting on top of them to lean, showing how the car is balanced. The pins are inserted into the cars chassis plate along the center line and gravity does the rest and the beauty of them is you can leave them in the chassis as you play around with weight distribution receiving instant confirmation. Click…
July 29, 2007
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up: > oOple has his complete report from the Buggy Euros now online – Link [oOple.com] > Nanda podium finish at Sunshine Coast Cup Challenge – Link [buggy-sport.info] > Pavidis and Hughes win Rd3 2007 SoCal Saturday Series – Link [neo-buggy.net] > Linus Thern wins the Swedish Buggy Nationals – Link [minioffroad.se] > Announcement, Nitro Cross World Champs – Link [neo-buggy.net]…
July 24, 2007
…you enter the code ‘redrc’ in the comments section when checking out. RC Pro Center is a new and ambitous online RC Car shop based in the US, and caters for a multitude of racers by selling many different scales and classes of cars, as well as spare parts and accessories for those cars. If you are in the market for circuit cars or buggies, gas or electric, tires or radios, be sure to check out RC Pro Center. You can go to visit their site here, or click on their banner under the 2nd news story on any page….
