Last weekend saw the Team Orion Cup run in the town of Zillisheim in France. This annual international race was won by Finnish racer Simo Ahoniemi driving his Corally RDX prototype. Second place, and also driving Corally RDX prototype was Marc Fischer from Germany with the final place on the podium going to another German racer racer Toni Rheinard racing the Kyosho Stallion.
You can view the final results sheet here.
Source: Petit RC [petitrc.com]
We’ve all seen the pictures of the new 35 Plus .21 Lamberto Collari engine on the Novarossi site but here is a much nicer pic from Lamberto’s site tself. It is a nice looking motor from Novarossi and it comes in a limited edition pack that contains an exhaust pipe, 3 manifolds and 3 plugs, but wait for the price – RRP EUR750 (US$950)!!! This is a purchase you need to definitely clear with the wife first and perhaps even talk with your bank manager about it too and despite all that if you want one you’d probably want to put your name down now for one before they’re all gone.
Source: MLCollari [mlcollari.com] via RC-Junkies [rc-junkies.com]
New from Orcan is this ‘extreme motor cooler’. Now anything with ‘extreme’ in the name, no matter how uninteresting the actual product is, is bound to draw ones attention and this one did just that (plus it looks cool in the picture). Apparently once fitted into your electric car, in little or no time it manages to not just cool your motor, but bring it down to ‘Winter in Finland’ levels of coolness and keep it there. I dont need to explain why thats a good thing. Available now for EUR 89.
Source: SMI [smi-motorsport.de]
Buggy-Sport have the scoop on the new Sirio Kanai Evo III STI 3.5cc off road motor. Now we don’t know whose car this is in but the engine is seen in a Kyosho buggy and because of the timing we reckon it was taken at last weekends ‘GP International De Pierrefeu‘. Now Sirio employee and Kyosho racer Adrien Bertin was there so we are going to call it and say that this is his car….just like that (we’ll write a correction when found to be wrong :). By the way Adrien finished 9th after some problems in the final.
UPDATE: The car belonged to Stéphane Deroch and you can see him here with his car.
Also seen in the same car was a new Sirio pipe system, which you can be seen over at Buggy-Sport so check that out.
Source: Buggy-Sport.info [buggy-sport.info]
Now, if you haven’t yet had your fill of off road buggies, here is a video from Robin Frischkopf from the 5th round of the Swiss Championships held back in September. Apart from the not very appealing country/rock music its a pretty good video, made at what seems to be a very rough track.
You can view the streaming video here.
Source: SN Viper [snviper.ch.vu] via Buggy-Sport.info [buggy-sport.info]
Rodrigo Luis has TQ’d and won last weekends Torres Vedras Cup held in Portugal driving a Picco powered Hong Nor. Buggy-Sport.info have the full story with a statement from Rodrigo himself:
“In the qualification i made TQ after 3 rounds, i only made 2 of them and i TQ booth. In the main final, i managed to get 1st place after a bad start and an engine cut in the middle of the final. I had to fight hard with the very good driver Fernando Almeida to get the 1st place.”
Source: Buggy-Sport.info [buggy-sport.info]
As we reported yesterday Xray/RB racer Yannik Aigoin has won the GP International De Pierrefeu held in France. This international event attracted over 110 racers and saw the European Champion win by two laps ahead of a close battle for 2nd place between Julian Lattanzio and Renaud Savoya. After 45 minutes only 2 tenths of a second seperated the two drivers and in the end it was Julian that took the position with Renaud in third.
You can view the results sheets and a lot more pictures from the event here.
Image: V.A.M.P. [97339.aceboard.fr]
Neo-Buggy has got our backs once more with the news that European B Champion Riccardo Acciari from Italy will switch from OS motors to the GRP made Falcon engines effective immediately.
2006 Euro-B champion; Riccardo Acciari will be moving from using OS engines to the GRP produced Falcon engines. Riccardo was present at the Pierrefeu GP this past weekend, he finished 16th overall. Riccardo as he has shown this year is one of the many exciting talents emerging from Italy.
Source: Neo-Buggy [neo-buggy.net]
