Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Jon Hazlewood UK Vice-Champion 2006 Categories - Gas, Xray, Off Road, National, Racing, International, Drivers - comments closed
Xray are carrying a report on their site from their team driver Jon Hazlewood that outlines in detail his super busy and successful 2006 off road race season. Its a good read that outlines the ups and downs of a top RC racer.
The world’s was a good event for me. I managed to qualify into the semi’s. I won my side and made it into the main final. | was very happy to achieve this. Unfortunately my motor eat half the track and stopped working, ending my final. I was still very pleased with the result. Making the main at a Worlds is so hard.
You can read the full report from Jon here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Nicolas Decamps has won the Belgian off road gas Nationals at the last round of the championship in Bouffioux with 4th position in the race enough to give him the title. 2nd in the championship went to Guy de Werd who could only manage fifth in the race with third in the championship going to Raphael Robert who took a fine 2nd position in the final race.
View the full event gallery here.
Full results from the final round can be found here.
Final Belgian Championship standings can be found here.
Source: Automodelisme.com [automodelisme.com]
Monday, October 23, 2006
Robert Batlle wins Spanish Champs Cup Categories - Gas, Off Road, National, Racing, Drivers - comments closed
From Neo-Buggy.net: Robert Batlle won a fast race in Albacete, Spain. Competition came in the form of Borja Hernandez and Adrian Perez; Batlle dominated from the start till the finish.
1. Robert Batlle - HoBao/Falcon/GRP/Ultimate
2. Adrian Perez - Kyosho/OS/GRP
3. Borja Hernandez - Mugen/Ninja/GRP
Source: Neo-Buggy [neo-buggy.net]
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Nico Rodriguez joins Crono Categories - Crono, Gas, Off Road, Drivers - comments closed
Neo Buggy are reporting that 1/8 off road European front runner Nico Rodriguez has left GS for SVM Crono. Nico who previously placed on the podium at the 2005 Europeans in France will drive the RS03 buggy with JP motors for the 2007 season.
Source: Neo-Buggy [neobuggy.net]
Top Singaporean driver, and all round nice guy, Sam Cheng has taken top honours at the Singapore Open Championships driving his Xray XB8 ahead of team mate Glenn Phuah with young driver Ah M in third. Sam is an experienced International driver in on-road racing too and a real RC enthusiast as well as being distributor for many brands in his home country.
Towards the end of the finale, somehow luck was with Sam that allowed him to pull away a little ahead that put him ONE lap ahead and took away the A Main 1st trophy!
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Team drivers sought for German Market Categories - Gas, Off Road, Racing, Drivers - comments closed
According to the post on the GM Racing site there are still a number of team drivers positions available on the Graupner Off Road team for 2007. Drives are available for both the Hobao hyper 8 and Team Losi 8ight and as well as German drivers, racers from Switzerland and Austria will also be considered. Prospective racers are asked to contact Gunther Mürdter Tel: 07021 722128 or by email on: g.muerdter@graupner.de
Source: GM Racing [gm-racing.de]
Belgian TV report on the recent Euro Indoor Race Categories - Gas, Off Road, International, Racing - comments closed
This is a great piece (again in French) by Belgian channel RTBF on the recent Off road Euro Indoor Race held in Charleroi, Belgium. I dont speak French but the coverage seems favorable and interviews are well done, even without understanding the words i still enjoyed it.
Source YouTube [youtube.com] via Automodelisme.com
Monday, October 16, 2006
Indoor Holland 2007 cancelled Categories - Events, Gas, Off Road, International, Racing - comments closed
It seems that the hugely popular Indoor Holland race that took place for 1/8th scale off roaders will not be run next year after the organisers failed to find a suitable replacement venue for the event.
The statement from the organisers site -
Dear sponsors and participants of Indoor Holland,. With regret we inform you that there will be no Indoor Holland 2007 race. Looking for a new location was needed for several reasons. Indoor Holland organisation could not succeed to find a new location nearby the current location. Therefore we have to skip the Indoor Holland 2007 race. The past 5 years we could not achieve the high standard of racing at Indoor Holland without your support. We hope to have all things sorted out for 2008 and come back then stronger then ever before and hope we can rely on your support again.
Source: Indoor Holland [indoorholland.com] via NeoBuggy [neobuggy.net]
