This weekend saw the 2nd running of the RB Meeting race, organised by the local importer RB Italia, at the Pista di Capua in Italy. All racers had to run with RB motors and as expected, French racer, RB employee and European Champion Yannick Aigoin took the victory ahead of Samuele Lenzi with fellow Italian Gerardo De Lucia in 3rd.
Source: ModellismoRC [modellismorc.net]
After qualifying it was Team Associated drivers Ryan Cavalieri and Ryan Maifield that top qualify the Factory Modified and Factory Gas Truck classes. California is 9 hours behind us so their race day has just begun, so most likely we will be able to give you the final results of the race Monday morning.
In the meantime you can check out pics of the latest prototype of the Losi XXXT-CR truck of team racer Amezcua… content
The Japanese 1/12th Nationals are over and it was Kitazawa that took the win followed by Matsumoto in 2nd and Arai who took the final step on the podium in 3rd. The event, held at the Kawaba RC plaza, managed to avoid the bad weather which threatened the event earlier in the week and ended up producing a great race.
You can read the full report of the final day over at Kimihiko-yano.net.
The 2006 Reedy Truck Race of Champions takes place this weekend at the Hot Rod Hobbies facility in California. This prestigous event attracts top level competition from around the US and beyond. After 2 rounds of qualifying it was Ryan Maifield who was TQ with his Associated GT2.
We will bring you more on this event as we get it. In the mean time you can check out more images after the jump… content
Neo-Buggy also have shots of the Kyosho STR truggy being driving by former World Champion Yuichi Kanai at the Kyosho Masters off road race in Japan.
You can view them here.
Source: Neo-Buggy [neo-buggy.net]
This weekend sees the Kyosho Masters event being held in Japan. This off road event, which is being covered by Neo-Buggy, has attracted all the top Kyosho drivers from around the world.
World Champ Mark Pavidis is there along with Miguel Matias, Reckward, Thern, Peris, Kawamoto, Kanai, John Agus and young German Philipp Guschl.
Results after practice sees Miguel Matias on top followed by Daniel Reckward with Atsushi Kawamoto in third. You can view the top 10 results sheet here.
Check out Neo-Buggy here for the full picture set.
Kimihiko-yano.net have their report from the 2nd day of the Japanese 1/12th scale nationals online. It seems the wet weather held of and they got 4 rounds of qualifying done. Again i must apologise for my Japanese being as poor as it is but because of that i cant tell you who heads the leaderboard after qualifying.
You can view an image of the results sheet here: position 1-20, 21-43
More car pics after the jump… content
Flabouris Kostas has won the 2006 12T Greek Electric Touring Championship. The report on the Xray site shows that Flabouris won 2 of the 3 A-final heats at the last round of the championship on his way to claiming the title.
Greek Championship 12T class FINAL positions
1 Flabouris XRAY T2
3 Bougalis XRAY T2
4 Balasis XRAY T2Greek Championship Open class FINAL positions
2 Katikas XRAY T2
3 Nikolakopoulos XRAY T2
5 Antoniou XRAY T2
You can read the full report on Xray’s site here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
