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September 12, 2007

Matsuzaki is 2WD World Champion

Hot Bodies driver Hayato Matsuzaki is the 2007 IFMAR 2WD Off Road World Champion. The Japanese driver won the crown on home soil from fellow B4 drivers Jared Tebo and Ryan Maifield after winning Legs 2 and 3 of the A Main. Having TQ’d the event, Matsuzaki got off to a poor start finishing only seventh in Leg 1 as Maifield took the win. Rising to the occassion the Japanese ace came back in style to win the next two legs to lift the World title. World Championship action continues in Japan with the 4WD World Champion set to be decided over the coming days. For full coverage and great pictures from the event vist our friends Oople.com who are in Japan thanks to the support of Team Associated/Reedy/LRP.

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September 12, 2007

Hickerson wins Brazil Buggy Championship

Gene Hickerson wins at Brazil Nationals

Multiple ROAR Florida State Series Champion Gene Hickerson has added another title to his impressive off road racing CV by winning the 2007 Brazil 1:8 Buggy National Championships at Asa Branca Speedway in Fortaleza over the weekend. Starting from 2nd on the grid the CEN Racing team driver used his Matrix Buggy to good effect to win the title comfortably from Mugen pairing Kris Moore and Henrique Winik.

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September 11, 2007

10th Offroad Worlds Video

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Our friends Oople, who are over in the Japan, have produced this video showing a lap of the track where the 2007 1/10th Scale IFMAR World Championships are underway. Currently after four rounds of qualifying it is Japanese driver Masami Hirosaka that holds the TQ with one round of qualifying to run.

Source: Oople [oople.com]

September 7, 2007

Billy Easton joins Serpent

Following on from their announcement last week that they would re-enter off road racing again Serpent have anounced top American racer Billy Easton will join their R&D and race team. Easton joins fellow American Jeff Cuffs and young German Jörn Neumann will each play a big role in the Dutch companies future plans.

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September 3, 2007

Serpent sign young talent Neumann

Following on from their announcement last week that Gerd Strenge will spearhead the design of their re-entry into offroad racing competition, Dutch company Serpent have announced the signing of young German talent Jörn Neumann.

Neuman has been racing intensively with 1/10 Offroad cars and has been topping the podium in the European Championships and is a regular finalists at the big races. 4WD is his number one class but he has also proved very qiuck in 2wd. Jörn has been a dedicated racer and promotor of the Durango 1/10 Project and has travelled to many races with Gerd Strenge, the designer of this unique car.

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August 31, 2007

Serpent sign Mr.Durango for return to Offroad racing

Serpent sign Mr. Durango for return to off road racing

Serpent have just announced that they are to return to off road racing and have signed one of the sports top designers in the process. Gerd Strenge, better known as Mr.Durango from Germany, has entered into a long-term cooperation with Serpent, for the development of offroad rc racing cars. Strenge is famous in the electric offroad scene, for his very innovative Team Durango 1/10 scale 4wd offroad project. Gerd started this project in 2002 and he has been developing the car ever since. His Team Durango car has been European Champion and his cars have reached many GP, EC and even WC finals in the hands of famous drivers like Hara and Marc Reinhard.

This obviously also announces a return of Serpent in the offroad arena. Serpent has been very active in 1/8 offroad racing from mid 80-ties until late 80-ties. Cars like the legendary and EC winning Serpent Cobra and its successor the Serpent Spirit.

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August 31, 2007

Former World Champ Vray wins French Cup

Former World Champ wins Vray wins French Cup

The French Cup for 1:8th Off Road took place over the weekend at the Pertuis track in the South of France where former World Champion Guillaume Vray showed he still has it by taking the victory. The event saw 123 drivers tackle the winding and very dusty track where temperatures reached as high as 35 degrees over the two days. Driving his RB powered Mugen, 2004/2005 World Champion Vray won the 45-minute final from Crono driver Jérôme Sartel with Renaud Savoya making it two Mugen’s on podium in third despite suffering radio problems

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August 30, 2007

Harder closes in on Danish Offroad title

Harder wins Danish 1/8th Offroad Championship encounter

Peter Harder was the man to beat in the fifth round of the Danish 1/8th Offroad Championships which took place over the weekend in Naestved, south of Copenhagen. Perfect racing conditions saw the Team Xray driver TQ the event with his XB8 EC.

After an easy win in his Semi, Harder amost saw all his good work go by the wayside in the A Main when he made a mistake at the triple jump on the opening lap which allowed CEN driver Rune Gustavsen and Xray team-mate Claus Nielsen to take up the lead battle. Recovering his composure Harder, winner of Round 3, closed in on the pair and at 8 minutes took the lead from were he never looked back.

Making it a good day for CEN, Rune Gustavsen and Steffen Culmsee completed the podium.
The 6th and penultimate round of the championship takes place in 2 weeks time when Harder has the chance to wrap up the National title.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]