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September 16, 2010

2010 Rose City Scale Racing Grand Prix

On a beautiful Labor Day weekend in Portland, Oregon, Rose City Scale Racing hosted the 2010 RCSR Grand Prix. Drivers were faced with a technical layout, with multiple fast kinks, off-camber turns and elevation changes, thanks to the nature of the landscape. Traction was high, but due to the changing temperature, drivers were faced with decisions on tire management and setup. The format for the weekend was 3 qualifiers on Saturday, LCQ and Mains on Sunday.

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September 16, 2010

Xray T3 2011 – Coming soon

Xray have announced on their site the impending release of the 2011 version of their T3 chassis. No other information is given, but we can assume with it being a new platform for this season that the changes will be minor tweaks rather than major updates.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 16, 2010

KO Propo America Electric Touring Car GP – Announcement

The 7th annual KO Propo America Grand Prix will once again take place in Southern California. West Coast R/C Raceway (WCRC) in La Mirada, CA will again host this year’s event on October 2nd-3rd. Classes offered will be Touring Car Modified (Open & 17.5T), Touring Sportsman (17.5T & 21.5T, No advanced timing ESC) and 2wd mini (Silver Can). This will be a controlled tire race and tires will be available for sale at the event.

Further information can be found on the KO Propo website here.

September 15, 2010

Kurzbuch wins Rd5 in Switzerland, Pesenti takes title

The 5th Round of the Swiss 1/8th scale gas on road Nationals were held in the beautiful Swiss Alps on a short and bumpy track in Oey-Diemtigen. With dry and sunny weather all weekend, the first training sessions got underway on Saturday morning at 10am. All drivers were testing their material and setups on this track for the first time as normally everyone can test this on Friday afternoon, but the organizer had his own rules and there was no chance to change them. So the 7 minute training sessions in the morning were very hectic for all drivers.

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September 15, 2010

Atsushi Hara wins big in Vegas

HB/HPI racing team driver Atsushi Hara won both the Modified Rubber Tire Sedan and the Super Stock 17.5 Rubber Tire Sedan classes at the 2010 IIC in Las Vegas last week. In the modified class Hara won from triple World Champion Marc Rheinard in 2nd and current European Champion Ronald Volker in 3rd. HB Team drivers Ty Tessman also did well, finishing 3rd in Super Stock 17.5 Rubber Tire Sedan with 2006 World Champion Andy Moore finishing 10th in the A-Main Event of the Super Stock 17.5 Rubber Tire Sedan and Modified Class.

View the results and more images here

September 15, 2010

CRC report on the IIC in Vegas

Team CRC are reporting that their cars, tires and LiPo cells performed very well taking 4 out of 5 Top Qualifying positions at the 2010 International Indoor Champs held at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ‘Brians’ Bodine and Wynn took pole in 3 classes, with Bodine taking pole in both limited speedo classes and Wynn taking the Expert WGT TQ. New Mexico CRC driver, Max Kuenning, won all 4 rounds of qualifying in 1:12th Super Stock taking TQ and finishing second. The only division CRC missed the top spot was the 1:12th Modified class where 2-time defending champ Hupo Hönigl narrowly missed the top spot by 0.3 seconds. Hupo was on a TQ pace with 1 lap to go in the 4th round, however, he played it a little too safe and a slow last lap cost him the pole position. The pan car podiums at the 2010 IIC were filled with red, CRC cars and the Maxxcell LiPo pack. In 1:12th scale, CRC Pro Cut tires were found on more than half of the podium finishers.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

September 15, 2010

Polish EP Nationals Rd5 report

Last weekend saw the final round of the Polish National On-Road Championships run at the Automobilklub Polski race track in Warsaw. In the fastest ProStosck class, the race win went to Blazej Orlowski, with Michal Orlowski in 2nd and Andrzej Trella in 3rd. The championship title went the way of young Tamiya driver Michal Orlowski who finished in front of Kamil Rzepka in 2nd and Bartek Pochopien in 3rd. In the national 540 class the race win and the championship title went to Tamiya driver Maciek Chalas. Second place in the race and championship was Blazej Chlodzinski. The final championship podium spot went to Michal Fedor who was 4th in this race. In the junior class using the Tamiya TT-01 chassis, the championship title was won by young driver Maciek Kajko who is only 6 years old.

View the other podiums here

September 15, 2010

Richard Volta wins French 1/8th title

Last weekend the 5th and final round of the French National Championship took place at the BMRC track in Bourg-en-Bresse. In total the race saw 53 drivers in attendance divided into national class and elite class. Being the championship leader before this race Shepherd racer Richard Volta had the biggest chance to win this years national championship title in the elite class. Volta confirmed his intentions by taking the pole-position for the 45 minutes final with a gap of 4 seconds over Jérôme Papaconstantinos, clocking the fastest lap times of all drivers. During the final he took it easy as he only had to arrive on 5th place to take the title. Volta opened the door for Papaconstantinos and followed him with a save distance to cross the finishing line on 2nd place, gaining enough points to win this years French Elite National Championship title. On third place Stefan Riccobono arrived taking the runner-up spot in the National Championship.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]