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September 20, 2011

Kajiwara & Kametani win Tresrey Offroad race Rd6

Round 6 of the Tresrey Off-Road race series was held last Sunday at the RC Park Kers in Gyoda-city, Saitama-ken, Japan. It was the first time Tresrey held an Off-road race event around Tokyo area and a total of 52 racers took part, 48 entrants in the 2WD class and 42 in the 4WD class. In qualifying, Kenji Tsuruta (Tresrey) took TQ for the 2WD class and Jyuliya Kajiwara (Kyosho) for the 4WD class. In the 2WD class, Jyuliya Kajiwara won the race from 2nd on the grid, with Tsuruta (Tresrey/TD) taking 2nd and Takeshi Kinoshita 3rd. There were 10 Durango DEX410/Rs in the 4WD class and 2 of them made the A final. Takaaki Kametani (Kyosho) won the race from 2nd on the grid, with Kajiwara(Kyosho) taking 2nd and Tsuruta (Tresrey/TD) 3rd. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big prize draw which included the DEX410 2010spec kit, Speed Passion ESCs/motors and Tresrey ESCs/motors.

View the 4wd podium here

September 20, 2011

Victor Gonzalez is Spanish 1/8th Champion

Last weekend saw the final round of the Spanish gas on road nationals at the Pinseque track in Zaragoza. The race was all about local driver Victor Gonzalez, having found a good setup in Friday’s practice session, he went on to TQ and set the fastest lap of the weekend and produced a new track record. In the final he would go on to win with his OS powered Kyosho Evolva by 1 lap over Iñaki Pahisa (Xray) in 2nd with Carlos Preacho (Shepherd) in 3rd. The Victory was enough to give Victor Gonzalez the 2011 National title ahead of Oscar Cabezas (2nd) and Nacho Lopez (3rd)

Source: JBT Racing [jbtrcracing.blogspot.com]

September 20, 2011

Zacarias Villalba wins Andalusian regional Rd4

The fourth and final round of the Andalusian (Spanish south region) electric 2WD buggy regional series was hosted this past weekend by the Club Deportivo Radio Control Jerez, some 10 minutes from the center of Jerez. This was the inaugural race for the club’s great newly built facilities which hosts three different top notch tracks (offroad, onroad and mini-z). The race saw a record attendance with no less than 57 drivers signing up for the highly anticipate race. Ansmann Racing factory driver, Zacarias Villalba dominated the race with his Viper powered X2TE taking all four rounds of qualifying and all three A-finals. He also set the fastest lap of the race with 25.3 seconds, more than one second faster than anybody else.

View the final results here

September 20, 2011

Neil Cragg takes victory at Noux Les Mines GP

The Noux Les Mines GP, located in the city of Noux Les Mines some 50 miles south of Calais, France is one of the up and coming events in Europe featuring the fast drivers from France and many drivers from neighboring U.K. Making the drive and ferry ride for Team Associated was Neil Cragg and his freshly built RC8.2 having just completed it the Thursday before the event. Cragg set the fastest time in all three rounds of qualifying and a new lap record however the weather changed for the worse and the finals were rained out causing the organizers to use qualifying order as the final positions. With his dominant qualifying performance, Cragg was awarded the victory in front of new Xray signing Renaud Savoya in 2nd and Elliot Boots, running a Kyosho, in 3rd.

Source: Associated [rc10.com] / Image: Automodelisme

September 20, 2011

Drake & Moller win at Nitrohouse Open

This past weekend saw the Nitrohouse Open take place at Revelation Raceway attracting 100 entries and consisting of two qualifiers and mains. TLR / Novarossi factory pilot Adam Drake set the pace in both rounds of buggy and truck by being the only driver to turn 10 laps. In the buggy final Drake was followed closely by Jeremy Kortz and Drew Moller in the opening laps, but Drake ran solid the entire 30 minutes and won the final by more than one lap. In the truck final Drake and Moller had a great race until Drake ran out of fuel. This gave Moller a huge lead and he cruised to victory. Drake came back to finish second and Chris Nunez was third.

View the truggy podium here

September 19, 2011

Marc Fischer takes German National title

The German outdoor electric touring car nationals were held last weekend at the Megadrom Gelienkirchen. The event saw new Serpent signing Marc Fischer take the TQ spot ahead of reigning ETS Champion Ronald Volker for Yokomo and Hot Bodies race Freddy Sudhoff. In the first A-main leg it was Yokomo’s Yannic Pruemper that took the win ahead of 3 time World Champion Marc Rheinard in 2nd and Volker in 3rd with Fischer failing to finish. In the 2nd leg Fischer bounced back and took the win by 4 seconds from Ronald Volker in 2nd and Rheinard 3rd, Yannic failing to finish, setting up a 3rd leg decider. The final leg would once again go to Fischer, this time by a smaller margin of 2.5 seconds over Volker giving Marc Fischer the overall victory and with it the National title, a first major victory for the new S411 chassis. Ronald Volker would take the runner up spot with Yokomo team mate Yannic Pruemper completing the podium in 3rd. Serpent also took the Hobby class with Majuran Tharmalingam winning and the 40+ title with Andreas Giesa finishing 23rd overall.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 19, 2011

First Look – X-Factory SCX-60CF

While attending the final round of the Short Course Showdown Nationwide tour at Mike’s hobby shop in Dallas, Texas, X-Factory driver Clayton Easley showed us the very first run of the company’s new SCX-60. Expected to be available in weeks rather than months the new chassis features a mid motor configuration and a very narrow chassis which they believe to be large benefit, for clearance reasons and to reduce the parachuting effect on big jumps. The version we saw was sporting a saddle pack mounted at the very rear of the car and due to the cars top decks and rear brace it is very stiff. While the car Clayton was using sported an aftermarket bodyshell, the SCX-60 will come with its own design shell when it becomes available.

UPDATED: See the information below from Chazz Sinclair

View more images of the new car here

September 19, 2011

DXF Speed 8 1/8th scale LMP bodyshell

iModel in France have announced that French ‘Classic’ chassis manufacturer DXF Racing’s new Speed 8 1/8th scale LMP bodyshell is now available. EFRA homologated (#31520) the shell incorporates some innovated aerodynamics with the front sporting a channeled airway which helps increase front downforce. Suitable for 1/8th gas and electric chassis’.

View more images of the new shell here