Sunday, October 15, 2006
Rémy Puyrajoux and B-A Arnaldi are 2006 French Champions Categories - Gas, On Road, National, Racing, Drivers - comments closed
French site RC driver have reported (in french) on the conclusion of the 2006 French National Championships in which Rémy Puyrajoux, driving a JP powered Mugen MRX4, won the ‘B’ title and B-A Arnaldi driving his Picco powered Kyosho Evolva took the Elite title.
The full race report can be found here (translated to English)
Source: RC Driver [rcdriver-online.com]
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Serpent Nations Cup, Dutch team win Leg 1 Categories - Serpent, Gas, On Road, International, Racing - comments closedIt looks like the racing in Lisbon, Portugal is very tight with the experienced 3-man Dutch team taking the lead after day one in this years Serpent Nations Cup.
Team Netherlands denied host nation Portugal a home win in the opening leg of the 2006 Serpent Nations Cup claiming a 3 point victory over Team Portugal(4) at the end of today’s (Saturday) 24 races.
Portugal initially headed the standings but problems in the 4th round of today’s competition saw the Dutch team of Danny Leewis, Rob Kuijpers and Stanley Bauer overtake the local to secure the Leg 1 winners trophy.
Good consistent performances by defending Champions Great Britain puts them just one point adrift of Portugal (4) to hold an overnight podium placing.
Read the full report from day one here
Source: Serpent [mytsn.com]
Xray have a report on the Curitibano Championship in Brazil in which Fabiano Franco driving his Xray T2 won the Championship.
XRAY TEAM BRASIL was very satisfied with this season. This round was full of XRAY T2 cars. In the TOP eight, 4 drivers were using the XRAY T2 chassis and 1 driver was using FK’05. FS MODELSPORT was very proud to see that and to announce that XRAY T2 was the champion of Modified Class.
For the full report go here
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Friday, October 13, 2006
Schumacher Cup 2006 Categories - Electric, On Road, International, Racing - comments closedTeam Xray have a report from the recent Schumacher Cup 2006 that took place in Denmark. The race report is by Martin Lissau who finished 2nd in the event with his Xray T2. Read the full report here
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
‘Serpent Driver Development’ team member Oscar Cabezas took victory in the EFRA Spanish GP at Elche over the weekend and with it the Spanish 1:8 National Championship title.
Qualifying on the front row of the grid, the 19-year-old got away from the line perfectly getting the jump on pole sitter Sergio Montesinos. Once in front Cabezas took control of the race and at the 15 minute stage had a commanding 1 lap advantage over second.
Maintaining his lead Cabezas took his Mega MF powered Serpent 960 to a superb victory and his second EFRA Spanish GP win.
Source: Serpent [mytsn.com]
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Ralph Burch wins ROAR Nats Categories - Events, Gas, On Road, National, Racing - comments closed
Mike Myers over at Starting Grid has a nice daily report of the ROAR 1/8 On-Road Nationals in which Ralph Burch from RC America TQ’d and won the event with his Max powered Kyosho Evolva. In fact it was a very good event for the Japanese company getting 6 into the main final and Kyosho America Vice President Joel Johnson rounding off the podium with 3rd position.
Go to the Starting Grid for the full details and check out the images taken by Mike at the event.
Photo by Mike Myers
Source: Starting Grid [sgrid.com]
