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October 3, 2011

Stelios Theologitis takes 14th Greek title

The 3rd and last round of the Greek Nationals took place this past weekend at the Arena Racing Club in Aspropyrgos, Athens. Four different drivers were fighting for this year’s championship, but once again the title went to Stelios Theologitis. The Xray/O.S. driver had the lead from the start of the 45 minute final but a number of errors allowed Dimitri Tsigkos (Kyosho/Bullit) to get in front and open a reasonable, but not secure, gap over Theologitis. In the last 10 minutes, Theologitis managed to recover and took advantage of Tsigkos’ mistakes securing the first place and his 15th Greek Championship.

Source: RC Devil [rcdevil.gr]

October 3, 2011

Matt Chambers takes Expert Buggy at RC Pro Rd17

TLR’s Matt Chambers was on hand for round #17 of the RC Pro National Series. Dirtworks R/C in Burlington, CO played host to the event that brought in racers from many surrounding states. In the Expert 1/8 Buggy class Matt was in top form taking the TQ in all 4 rounds of qualifying and cruising to a 2 lap victory in the 45 minute A-main ahead of TLR privateer Chris Peralta and Vincent Ringler. In the 1/8 Expert Truggy class, Chris Peralta took home the TQ and win making it a TLR sweep of the Expert Classes.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

October 3, 2011

Mibo Sport Cup – Announcement

Mibo Sport with support from Yokomo, have announced their new winter race series. The series will take place in the Czech Republic, in the popular city of Hrotovice, where previously the ETS and European Indoor Championships have been held. This season Hrotovice is proud to host the EOS as well. The event will take place indoors, in a hall that has enough space for 2 separate tracks, on-road and off-road. The on-road track will be 30x20m in size, and the off-road track will be 30x16m. Race categories will be: Touring Car Open (only LRP CPX tires allowed), 4wd buggy and 2wd buggy (open tires). The series consists of 7 races, from which the best results from 5 races will count towards the overall standing. All races will be held on a single day, always on a Saturday. Free practice will be allowed from 18:00 on the Friday prior to the day of the event. Round 5 will see European Champion and Yokomo team driver Ronald Volker make a special appearance. At the end of the race series, overall winners will be awarded a Yokomo chassis kit. Kits will also be raffled to all participants. Team driver Michal Bok will be on hand at the events to provide any help. Complete details can be found here.

October 3, 2011

Team C T8TE brushless truggy

Team C have released pictures of their new brushless truggy, the T8TE. Its twin battery pack design chassis sees a pack mounted to the rear of the chassis and to each side of the centre driveshaft giving excellent balance. Other features include a 3mm T6 7075 chassis, 5mm front & rear shock towers, CVD shaft system and high downforce rear wing and cab forward body. Expect an early November release.

View more images of the truggy here

October 2, 2011

Hellquist & Andersson win 2011 Swedish Cup

The Swedish cup consists of 6 races with the best 3 results counting plus the result from the final race. Since it was 60 points for a win in the final race instead of the normal 50 at the previous races it was an open affair for many of the top drivers. After the nitro smoke had cleared from the final race of the season it was Markus Hellquist who stood on top of the podium in the 1/10 200mm class for the Örebro Race finale and with this result was the overall winner of Swedish Cup. Mikael Fransson ended up in second place overall and Per-Ola Hård claimed third place. All drivers competing for the same club Wäxjö MS, and also running the same cars, the Serpent 733. In the 1/8th class Bengt Andersson took overall cup win with Marcus Lindner in second and Niklas Johansson in third place.

View the 1/8th podium here

October 2, 2011

Xray X12 coming soon

Xray have announced the impending arrival of the all new 1/12th scale chassis, the X12. Giving no details in a teaser statement on Twitter, the Slovakian company simply stated “The all-new Xray 1/12 platform coming soon. Good bye XII…welcome X12.” We will keep you posted as we get more updates.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 2, 2011

Billy Easton wins Summer Novarossi challenge

The Summer Novarossi challenge took place this weekend at the Ospy Team track in Italy. Traveling over from the US for the race Billy Easton and the Serpent team set the pace in the qualifying with the S811 Cobra and would TQ the event in front of Mirko Bianchi with current European Champion Robert Batlle in 3rd. Easton would win go on to win his semi in front of Batlle by a clear margin to line up on pole position for the 45 minute encounter. The pair would continue their battle up front in the main final with Easton taking an untroubled win by just less than a lap ahead of Mugen star Batlle with Agama racer Riccardo Perin coming home in 3rd only 1 second behind 2nd. The podium saw a lock out for Novarossi engines.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 2, 2011

Kyle Branson wins Rd8 takes British 1/8th title

The 8th Round of the Championship was hosted by the Cotswold Club situated within the Cotswold airport complex. The weather forecast was for a wet Saturday and a dry Sunday, but this turned out to be the opposite which had all the drivers frantically adding wet setups to their cars and changing to damp tires. Every driver decided a banker time was required since due to the open nature of the track surroundings and no wind would result in the track taking a long time to dry out, if at all. In first round of qualifying, it was the top 5 who pulled out a good lead. Kyle Branson then broke away with Tim Wood chasing hard. Neil Diver who was on a charge had engine trouble and Andy North / Richard Hicklin made errors which resulted in slower times and no place in the top final at present. Round 2 was similar conditions to round 1 but times were generally slower but Neil Diver did improve to guarantee a final position.

Continue reading the report here