Saturday, November 18, 2006
Masami Hirosaka is TQ for Japan EP Nationals Categories - Electric, Events, On Road, National, International, Racing - comments closed
Masami Hirosaka has shown his competitors why he’s the main man of Japanese RC by further improving his qualifying time to finish an amazing 4 seconds ahead of second placed Atsushi Hara. Hara had improved his time in round 5 to squeeze a 20 lapper in to confirm second place whilst Naoto Matsukura was the only other person to manage a 20 lap run to end qualifying in third.
For the non Japanese runners it was again a difficult time with Billy Easton not improving on his time from Friday but still managed to maintain his 10th position. Marc Rheinard stayed in 16th position despite improving his time in the 6th and final run by 1/10th of a second. Both Chris Grainger and World Champion Andy Moore both improved their time and positions to finish qualifying in 20th and 24th respectively. 2002 World Champion Surikarn Chaidejsuria is having a terrible time here and only managed 48th position.
Final top ten results after the jump… (more…)
The Taiwanese racer Scott Yang, driving a GS CL-1, has won the recently held GS cup in Malaysia. The rain affected race meant that the main final was not run and results were based on semi final standings which gifted Yang the win with Ah M driving a Hong Nor in second and David Lim with a Kyosho in third.
Around 70 drivers who came from Malaysia, Taiwan, Australia and Singapore attended this great events. The weather was not stable due to the raining season. Some rounds were even finished in the mud and water…
You can read the full report and view more pictures here.
Source: GS Racing [gsracing.com.tw]
Friday, November 17, 2006
Quick Japanese Nationals update Categories - Electric, Events, On Road, National, International, Racing - comments closed
Just a quick post to tell everyone that there are new pictures from the Friday action at the Japanese Expert EP Nationals now online here. You can also view a few laps with provisional pole man Masami Hirosaka here. In this video you see just how narrow the track is and how potentially difficult it will be pass on this track, TQ man definitely has the advantage.
Image: Mirage Japan
At his home track, Multiple World Champion Masami Hirosaka is in TQ position after the first 3 rounds of qualfiying today at the Yatabe Arena. Masami was the only driver to get 20 laps and in his last run managed to improve his time by nearly 3 seconds to take the top spot even further out of reach of 2nd place Atsushi Hara who is less than a second off a 20 lap run. Naoto is in third and in a close battle with Adachi, the two seperated by less than 2 tenths of a second.
The non Japanese racers seem to be struggling somewhat, perhaps due to the non familiarity of running 4 cells in their cars or maybe its just they dont have the home track knowledge that the Japanese obviously have. The top non Japanese racer is Billy Easton who is in 10th position, Marc Rheinard is in 16th, Chris Grainger is in 21st position and current World champion Andy Moore all the way back in 31st. Qualifying continues tomorrow with the final 3 rounds.
View the top ten results after the jump… (more…)
Thursday, November 16, 2006
2006 Japanese EP Expert Nats - Thursday Categories - Electric, Events, On Road, National, International, Racing - comments closed
Whilst the event doesnt officially start until Friday, as with all major events, practice goes on for days beforehand. Already clear at this years event is that it looks like a 2 horse race between RC titan Masami Hirosaka and pretender to his throne Atsushi Hara (what is up with his hair?). The event takes place at a narrowed Yatabe Arena which happens to be Masami’s home track, or as someone on RC Tech mention ‘his home’, so he should be pretty difficult to beat. Also at the event are World Champion Andy Moore and 2004 World champ Marc Rheinard amongst other top names.
We will inform you of the results as we get them but until then you can look at the event images here and a video of Hara in action here.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
2006 Singapore HPI Invitational Challenge 3 Categories - Events, HPI, Electric, On Road, International, Racing - comments closed
Although the race took place at the end of October, the report from the 2006 Singapore HPI Invitational Challenge 3 is only online now. Being hosted at the East Coast Park Raceway, the event attracted racers from all around South East Asia including Australia. After the race was over it was Alvin Koh who had gotten TQ and won the event ahead of Ong Chee Yong in second with 15 year old Nicolas Lee rounding off the podium.
Located at the center of Southeast Asia including Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand, Singapore is one of the best countries to host an international event. With TV crews and many spectators, the event made an exciting weekend for the whole nation. HPI was the main sponsor of the event, aiming at vitalizing the RC market in Singapore.
You can read the full report here.
Source: HPI Japan [hpiracing.co.jp]
Monday, November 13, 2006
Asian GS Cup Malaysia Categories - Events, GS Racing, Gas, Off Road, International, Racing - comments closed
Just last weekend, the GS Cup for off road was held in Malaysia and attracted a large attendance. In the main buggy final it was Scott Yang driving a GS that took the win ahead of 2nd place finisher Ah M with a Hong Nor and David Lim with a Kyosho back in 3rd. The truggy class was won by Hengster with a Hong Nor followed by Ah Leng with his GS in second and just ahead of fellow GS racer Pegan who finished 3rd.
View the final results after the jump… (more…)
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Daniel Tomaschko wins the AMT Cup Friedrichshafen Categories - Events, Gas, On Road, International, Racing - comments closedDaniel Tomaschko has won the 2006 ‘AMT Cup Friedrichshafen’ held last weekend alongside a hobby fair, at the Bodensee Friedrichshafen in southern Germany. The event attracted a lot of top 1/10th scale racers from across Europe and in a close qualifying which saw the top 10 racers covered by 3.5 seconds it was the Austrian driver Gerhard Kandelhart who took the top spot.
In the main final, held on the Sunday, there was again some very close battles, but in the end it was Austrian Serpent racer Tomaschko that emerged the winner, in a race that saw the top 5 covered by less than 10 seconds after 30 minutes of racing. Second place went to top German Mugen racer Manuel Huber with another German Günter Mürdter, driving a HoBao GPX4, in third.
View the full results after the jump… (more…)
