Red RC » News

October 10, 2013

Wayne Mah wins at WCICS Rd1

The Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series (WCICS) Season kicked off Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Racers from across Western Canada and even the US battled it out in the seven different classes. In the Awesomatix sponsored Touring Car Modified class, after 4 rounds of qualifying, Wayne Mah (Xray) set TQ ahead of Steve Soon (Serpent). It was an exciting race on a challenging track, but Wayne kept it fast and clean and took the win Sebastian Vettel style by taking the pole position, win and fastest lap, with Korgae Scales (Awesomatix) moving to second, and Peter Tozser (Associated) in 3rd. The next WCICS race will take place in Edmonton, Alberta, on October 18th.

Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]

October 10, 2013

RB/Xray Cup – Report

The RB/Xray Cup took place at the SAMC club in La Motte Servolex in France. 65 drivers attended in 1/8 Buggy Open and Promo as well as 1/8 E-buggy. Friday allowed for a lot of track time but come Saturday the heaven opened its gates ruining most of the day. Fortunately the club was well prepared offering good lighting to continue running in the evening. The qualifiers and finals were run on Sunday in an electric race format with 6 minute qualification runs and three 10 minute finals. The short runs made for lots of action on the track and especially the Open class saw hard battles between Miguel Matias, Marco Baruffolo and Lorenzo Crolla. At the end the three came in in the aforementioned order handing Matias the Open class win. In Promo Tanguy Vandre took the winning honours in front of David Restani and Joel Santos. The E-buggy class saw Yannick Brozzini taking the win with Corentin Precoma and Youssef Lesbir in tow.

Click here to view the other podiums

October 10, 2013

CRC Formula 1 prototype spotted

During this week’s International Indoor Championships in Las Vegas CRC is running what appears to be a prototype Formula chassis. The car in question features a double wishbone front suspension with lower carbon fibre A-arms and adjustable upper plastic arms. The rear motor pod looks like a redesigned 1/12 scale slider pod with the chassis and rear suspension being of the now-poplar link-type design to allow the in-line mounting of the battery pack. We keep you up to date with more information as soon as the become available.

Click here to view a body-off photo

October 10, 2013

Armand Lantheaume wins French Cup 2013

The French Cup for 1/10th off-road buggies took place in Nantes this past weekend. Xray driver Armand Lantheaume dominated the race by first taking TQ in the 4WD class in front of Stéphane Deroch (Xray) and Florent Jadot (Xray). He then also went on to win the A final, again with Stéphane and Florent in tow who completed the podium.

Click here to continue reading

October 10, 2013

Adam Drake triples at Southern Nationals

The 2013 Southern Nationals and R/C Expo took place at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center in West Monroe, LA. The event was a huge success with over 300 entries. Three rounds of qualifying were run on Saturday, followed by lower nitro mains and the first round of electric mains. The remaining two rounds of electric mains and upper nitro mains were run on Sunday. Adam Drake had a mechanical issue in the first round of nitro buggy, but TQ’ed round two and three to take the top qualifying honours in 1/8th nitro buggy. At the start of the 45 minute nitro buggy final, Drake was hit and sent to the rear of the field but he was able to quickly move his way back to the front and had a good battle with Taylor Peterson and Ryan Lutz before taking control of the race and settling into a comfortable lead. Drake took the victory followed by Lutz and Peterson.

Click here to continue reading

October 10, 2013

STRC SCX10 & Wraith suspension options

ST Racing Concepts introduce new option parts for the SCX10 and Wraith rock crawlers. Starting with the SCX10 parts, first up are upper and lower suspension links and a steering upgrade kit. The CNC machined aluminium suspension links for the truck are cut from solid 6mm high quality aluminium and greatly increase the durability while adding awesome looks to your rig. The aluminium steering links replaces the stock plastic links and not only increase the durability but also greatly improve the precision and movement of the steering. All needed hardware is included with these link kits and they come in black, gun metal, silver or green anodising.

Click here to continue reading

October 10, 2013

Rebels Race Winter series – Announcement

Team Rebels announce their seven round Winter race series, the Rebels Race. The meetings will be held in Turtnov, Czech Republic, not far from the Polish boarder and are run in Touring Car Open, Stock 17.5T, Hobby 4WD, Formula, GT and Yokomo GT classes. The first round starts this weekend, October 12th with round number seven being held in April 2014. More information and all dates can be found here.

October 9, 2013

Tadahiko just one run away from being Top Qualifier

Tadahiko Sahashi is just one qualifier away from securing the honour of Top Qualifier at the 1:8 Onroad World Championships and based on today’s qualifying the Team Serpent driver can already get the glasses ready for the champagne to celebrate. After yesterday evening’s rocket round, today’s hot conditions meant no one came near to challenging Sahashi with the Top 16 remaining unchanged from yesterday. The highest placed driver to post their quickest time today was HB’s Hideo Kitazawa who holds 17th position. With the top drivers using today’s three qualifiers as a test run for the finals, it was the Sahashi brothers who still locked out the top of the time sheets. Having posted the fastest time in the days opening & third qualifier, when the only 36-lap runs were recorded, Tadahiko also ended the day with the fastest time of Q5 & the day albeit it over a full lap of his TQ pace. In Q4 his brother Yuya took his Serpent 977 to the fastest time again a full lap off the Q2 topping time.

Continue reading this story here or view our complete event coverage here.