Friday, December 22, 2006
2006 Neo Invitational video Categories - Events, Video, Gas, Off Road, International, Racing - comments closed
Philip over at Neo Buggy has posted a video compilation of the 2006 Neo Invitational, an event he organised. This years race attracted large amounts of top quality drivers from lots of different classes and turned out to be a big success, especially for Adam Drake, with the organisation and track being very well received by all. Check out the video above to get a feel for the event.
Source: Neo-Buggy [neobuggy.net]
Our partner site Neo Buggy are reporting that top US Kyosho off road racer Cody King has made the move to Sirio engines after previously running with the Team Orion made WASP motors. This is of course the exact opposite move made by Adrien Bertin 2 days ago, but of course thats just coincedence.
Source: Neo-Buggy [neobuggy.net]
We reported previously on round 3 of the Rug Racers championship held at the Wodson Park Leisure Centre. Well Helger Racing have a more detailed report on the event that saw Adam Rogers take the win in the Modified class ahead of Elliot Harper in 2nd and Kit Jones in 3rd.
During this leg Adam charged hard and it was obvious to everyone that he was getting faster all the time with his new car; he led from start to finish and put in a time that was five seconds faster than his FTD time. His average lap time was faster than everyone, but Elliott Harper held onto the fastest single lap time.
You can read the full report from round 3 here.
Source: Helger Racing [helgerracing.com]
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Oren Levy is Israeli HotWheels Champion Categories - Events, Xray, Gas, Off Road, National, Racing - comments closed
Xray are reporting on their site that they have won last weekend HotWheels Israeli Championship for 1/8th off road buggies. The championship results were decided in the final race of the year and it was Oren Levy driving the Xray XB8 that took the title ahead of Yaniv Sivan in 2nd place and another Xray racer Yosi Stern in 3rd.
The XRAY team was driving awesome this season. All team members reported that the car was handling very well and all were very satisfied with the car’s performance and handling. Most racers succeeded in improving their results during this season using the superb XRAY XB8TQ kit.
Read the full report here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Alex Lopez signs for Schumacher Categories - Schumacher, Electric, On Road, Racing, Drivers - comments closed
Wow it seems everyone wants to get their driver announcements in before the holidays. Latest announcement is that of former Xray driver Alex Lopez, the multiple National Champion signing to race the Schumacher Mi3, but judging by the photo he will have to make do with the Mi2. Alex had this to say about the deal:
I am really looking forward to running a Schumacher. They have some pretty amazing things in the works. The Mi3 is going to blow a lot of people away. I also like that their team is very organized and works as a unit to make everyone go faster. I got my start with Schumacher so this is kind of like coming home. (Alex Lopez)
Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]
In the 4th installment of his column Juraj Hudy (great picture) delves into what is the thought process behind designing a new car and how Xray approached the design of the T2007. A very interesting read as were his previous columns.
The T2 platform has really superseded all of our expectations and I was extremely happy that this car was so successful both with performance on the track and mostly with the overall satisfaction of the consumer. As such, I could not afford to make any mistakes in development that would negatively influence either the performance or the overall satisfaction of the current car.
Read the full column here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Andy Griffiths is British 1/12th National Champion Categories - Electric, On Road, National, Racing, Drivers - comments closed
Andy Griffiths has won the 2006 British 1/12th National Championships with 2 rounds still left to run having taken a perfect score from the first 4 rounds of the championship. Whats particularly noteworthy about this title is that it was the first major title in the UK won using a brushless motor, this particular one being from Nosram.
Andy has won many national titles in the past and has made numerous European and World Championships A finals. This result is the first major title for Brushless in the UK and fittingly it was Nosram who pulled it off after lots of hard work and development.
You can read the full report with some more pictures here or a different report from the event here.
Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]
Adrien Bertin joins Team Orion Categories - Team Orion, Racing, Drivers - comments closed
2-time IFMAR World Champion, French man Adrien Bertin has joined Team Orion to race its WASP CRF motors. The factory Kyosho racer has up until now raced for Sirio and in the last 2 years worked for the Italian Manufacturer in Italy so we presume this deal will mean a move to Geneva to work. This is a pretty big signing even by Team Orion standards.
Adrien will be supervising the development of the new Wasp CRF engine range. Adrien’s expertise in the field of nitro engines will ensure that Wasp CRF engines supply outstanding performance at race tracks around the world.
With Sirio the engine of choice for the Kyosho factory team, one must ask if Adriens future is with the Japanese company, perhaps, considering Josh Cyrul has managed to run with the WASP motor and continue to run Kyosho and of course why lose a top notch driver like Bertin over what engine he runs. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]
