Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Dmitriy Chub wins Rd1 Ukraine Champs Categories - Electric, On Road, National, Racing - comments closed
The first round of the Ukrainian Championships took place recently at an indoor track in Nikopol. The race was open to both touring car and buggies and in both it was LRP team driver Dmitriy Chub that took the win. Racing a Tamiya chassis in each class, he TQ’d the touring class and won ahead of team mate Nikita Dimbitskiy, with Xray driver Anton Buga in 3rd. In the buggy class, it was Evgen Brajko that was quickest in the qualifying session, but he dropped to 3rd by the end of the final behind 2nd placed Andriy Boyko, while Chub managed to work his way to the front and take the win.
Source: LRP [lrp.cc]
oOple have a report from last weekends sixth round of the Schumacher Indoor Off Road Masters, held at the indoor track in Worksop. With the ‘National Indoor Finals’ held at the save venue in a months time - it was a chance for drivers to get some practice in before that event, so there were 12 heats in total. The 4wd class saw the win go to the Richard Lowe driving the JConcepts BJ4 WE, who had qualified 2nd behind X-Factory racer Ellis Stafford, while in 2wd the victory went to pole man Mark Stanley racing a Losi. Contained within the same report, is a review of the new range of TrakPower hard cased LiPo packs.
Read the full report here.
Source: oOple [oople.com]
Last weekend saw the running of the Carpet Wars World Cup, a 2 day event that saw International interest with Marc Fisher making the trip from Germany for the race. After Saturdays qualifying it was Kevin Brunsden on pole but a quick run in the final qualifying heat on Sunday saw Olly Jefferies take the top spot by 0.6 of a second. Leg 1 of the finals saw some problems for the front runners and this allowed Glen Doman through for the win ahead of Elliot Harper, with Olly recovering to 3rd. The 2nd leg was better for Olly, taking the lead from the start and converting it into the win in front of Harper and Doman, while the final leg was again won by Olly, who took the overall win, in front of Elliot in 2nd who claimed the overall runner up spot and Glen coming home in 3rd overall.
Source: Mirage [mirageracing.com]
Monday, February 25, 2008
Daily News Round-up Categories - Round up, Racing, Products - comments closed
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> David Crompton wins Panther Cup round - Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]
> Jared Scott gives his account of the Winternats - Link [serpent.com]
> New Dimonaco big bore shock absorbers - Link [modellismorc.net]
> JP Racing report from the 2008 Winternats - Link [jpracing.com]
> Team Xray at the Nürnberg Toy Fair - Link [teamxray.com]
> Cyclone D4 WCE Wins Big at Yatabe - Link [hbeurope.com]
> Modified A-main Final videos from the TITC - Link [rcforum.co.kr]
Serpent are reporting that their team in Cyprus concluded another almost perfect weekend in during Round 2 of the Cyprus Nitro Challenge as the ‘Dream Team’ completed a 1-2 finish in the A-final. This time it was new signing, Andreas Charalambous’ turn to take the victory only seconds ahead of reigning Champion and team mate Nicholas Ζachariades. The two Serpent 960 drivers led the race throughout, after qualifying on the front row of the A Final grid. Both drivers pulled away from the rest of the pack right from the start of the race and battled each other for the win.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
RC TV Live - Show 715 Categories - Video, Racing, Products - comments closed
You can now view the latest video from RC TV Live in the player above, with this episode focussing on this year’s Snowbird Nationals. The world’s best touring and oval carpet racers battled it out at the Radisson in Orlando, Florida, at the beginning of February and RC TV managed to bag some great interviews with Andy Moore, Paul Lemieux, Barry Baker, and more, as well as some awesome r/c car racing and some new products that were found at the race.
Source: RC TV Live [rctvlive.com]
Puerto Rico National Championship Rd2 Categories - Gas, On Road, National, Racing - comments closed
The 2nd round of the Puerto Rico National Championships was run last weekend at the country’s Isabela Track. Qualifying in 1/8th scale went the way of round 1 winner and Mugen racer Andy Báez and he carried forward that form to the final, taking an easy win ahead of the Kyosho pairing of Ito Nieves and Fernando Méndez. In the 1/10th 200mm class, the pole position went to Serpent racer Alfred Aeschliman but he had bad luck in the final and this enabled the Mugen driver Juan “My Bad” Rodríguez into the lead from where he could take the win. Just behind a recovering Andy Báez came up behind Serpent racer Edgar Tirado and with 3 minutes to go in the 45 minute final, was able to take the 2nd position from him.
Thanks to Zobeida Ocasio for the report
Corally release various products Categories - Corally, Accessories, Products - comments closed 
Corally have released a number of accessories for general RC car use, including this small assortment case. Made from transparent plastic, it features the Corally logo on its lid and is used to organize parts for your brushless motor and anything else you need to sort out. Also new is a 1.8m long roll of double sided Corally foam tape used for sticking your RC electronics in your car. Because of the dampening and shock absorption ability of the special foam it helps to protect your electronics from vibrations. Finally, Corally have all new 13-14 Teeth 48 pitch hard anodized lightweight aluminium short pinions, which are a must have to achieve the desired rear ratio as required by today’s brushless motors, especially on short tracks.
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