November 14, 2006

Riley & Bradby win the Batley Indoor Regional

Batley Indoor - image oOple

oOple.com is reporting, through images, on last weekends Batley Indoor Regional which saw wins for Ben Riley in 2wd and Paul Bradby in 4wd.

105 Drivers turned up to the second in the North East regional series, held at Batley Buggy Clubs indoor venue. The track was a mix of carpet, polished floor and gym mats – a real challenge.

View all the fantastic pictures from the event on oOple.com here.


November 13, 2006

Asian GS Cup Malaysia

Asian GS Cup

Just last weekend, the GS Cup for off road was held in Malaysia and attracted a large attendance. In the main buggy final it was Scott Yang driving a GS that took the win ahead of 2nd place finisher Ah M with a Hong Nor and David Lim with a Kyosho back in 3rd. The truggy class was won by Hengster with a Hong Nor followed by Ah Leng with his GS in second and just ahead of fellow GS racer Pegan who finished 3rd.

View the final results after the jump… content


November 13, 2006

Video from RC Pro Finals

RC Pro Finals action

Yeh i know what your thinking ‘more RC Pro final news!’, well yeh it seems not much else happened last weekend so you gotta work with what you’ve got. So what we do have is a video from the big event which shows the super sweet track and the awesome setting, its a shame that no one turned up to watch it seems.

You can view the video here.
You can also view some images of the event here.

You can view the final Pro Buggy results after the jump… content


November 12, 2006

Tebo and James win the Pro Series Final

Jared Tebo

As we reported yesterday, Jared Tebo, in a last minute move decided to switch to a Jammin X1 buggy just before the qualifying at the high stakes RC Pro final being held in Illinois. Well, not only did he TQ the event with his new ride but also went on to win the event too.

In the truggy class that saw a close battle beween eventual TQ Chad Bradley and Taylor James, it was Taylor who took the win after Chad dropped out with a clutch bell bearing failure.

Image: RC Tech [rctech.net]


November 11, 2006

Jared Tebo TQ’s RC Pro finals with Jammin X1

Jared Tebo

Jared Tebo (old pic) has made the very last minute decision to switch over to the Jammin X1 buggy at this weekends RC Pro finals, being held in Rockford Illinois, and go on to take TQ in the Pro Buggy class at the event.

Jared Tebo picked-up Taylor’s Jammin X-1 back-up buggy to run in the R/C Pro finals. I quess Tebo, not being in the winners circle the last year, opt for the best buggy for the job. Tebo literally threw the car together just prior to qualifying and set the best combined times to take TQ honors. Taylor qualified third, Matt Gosch qualifies fifth, and Chad Bradley also getting in the A final.

In the Pro Truggy class it was Chad Bradley to took the top qualifying spot ahead of Futaba Nitro Challenge winner Taylor James. With both drivers winning 2 qualifiers each, Chad took it by having the fastest 3rd time.

Source: OFNA [ofna.com] 


November 11, 2006

Malyshko Dmitriy wins Russian off road Nationals

Xray XB8 of Malyshko Dmitriy

Slovakian manufacturer Xray have a report up online regarding there win in the Russian off road nationals. Russian racer Malyshko Dmitriy won the final round of the championship, held in Moscow, to take the overall win in the championship.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com] 


November 10, 2006

Team Losi officially release the 8ight Truggy

Team Losi 8ight Truggy

Team Losi have officially released their new 1/8th scale truggy to the eagerly awaiting masses of off road nuts enthusiasts. Based on the recently released, and already successful, 8ight buggy, this chassis has had the standard buggy to truggy conversion; longer wheelbase, longer chassis, longer wishbones etc. With the truggy class blowing up all across the globe and considering this cars pedigree on dirt we’re sure that the 8ight truggy will be at the sharp end of the grid come race day.

Created with passion and perfected by obsession, the 8IGHT-T will redefine Truggy racing with what might be called an unfair advantage. The 8IGHT-T Race Roller is the first competition-level, performance-built truggy based on Team Losi’s ground-breaking 4WD nitro platform.

You can check out the Team Losi 8ight truggy here.


November 10, 2006

Schumacher enter the 1/8th off road tyre market

Schumacher Tyres

Schumacher Racing are set to enter the 1/8th scale off road tyre market with their new Spiral and Mini Pin tyres. The Northampton, UK, based company has set mid November as the launch date for the tyres only and December for the pre mounted versions.

Based on our extensive competition racing knowledge we have designed two new tyres, the ‘Schumacher Spiral’ and the more traditional ‘Schumacher Min Pin’ these will each be available in Yellow and Silver compounds to suit a wide variety of surfaces such as grass, dirt and astro.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]