Friday, March 30, 2007
Andy Moore heads up Euro 1/12th practice Categories - Electric, Events, International, On Road, Racing - comments closed
Current 1/10th Touring car World Champion Andy Moore (not pictured above) is setting the pace after Fridays practice at the 1/12th European Championships held in Sweden. The British driver was 4 seconds clear of second place Simo Ahoniemi from Finland with German driver Markus Mobers in 3rd, a further 4 seconds back. Its, of course, only early stages and the drivers are still trying to find their best setup to go into qualifying, which starts tomorrow, so todays times are just a very rough estimation of who is quick. Finish gas racing specialist Teemu Saarinen was 4th fastest after todays practice sessions with dominant British champion Andy Griffiths lying in 5th.
Click here to see the Friday practice top 10… (more…)
Japanese company Eagle Racing have announced today, the release of this small and effective comm lathe that weighs in at only 604grams and has a very small footprint too, meaning it won’t take up much space on your pit table and apart fromt that, it does exactly what every other comm lathe does, and we’re sure it does it well to. Also available from Eagle Racing today is a range of aluminium option parts for the Losi Micro-T, such as wishbones, shock towers, uprights, wishbone mounts and gears some of which you can see below.
Click here to see some of the Micro-T options… (more…)
Last weekend saw the biggest off road race in Chile for this year when the country played host to the 2007 South American Championships at a track in Santiago. The race saw competitors from Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina and even some drivers from the United States, Canada and Germany, and so National pride was as important in this race as the individual result. In the end the race was won by Argentinian Mugen driver Adrian Castro with 2nd place going to Venezuelan, and pole position man, Daniel Ferreira driving a Jammin buggy, Patricio Concha from Chile rounded off the podium in 3rd also running a Jammin buggy.
Click here to see some more pictures from the event… (more…)
The producers of the great RC TV show RC Racing were once again in contact to inform us of the upcoming Episode 6 which premieres next Wednesday on European cable channel Motors TV. Expect to see episode 5 online in the next couple of days.
Episode 6 sees RC Racing return to the Neo Invitational meeting but now we concentrate on the premiere Buggy class, we’ve got race coverage of the first Semi final as well as interviews with 2 world champions (Andy Moore and David Spashett) who were trying something different. We also take an in depth look at the rapidly growing RC Motorbike class, and once again Nick gives it go, with mixed results!
Click here to see the airtimes for Episode 6… (more…)
EFRA 1/8th GP Lostallo, Switzerland Categories - Events, Gas, International, On Road, Racing - comments closed
We have been asked to announce the upcoming EFRA 1/8th scale GP at the Lostallo circuit in Switzerland, so here it is. The event takes place on the 27th - 29th of April at one of the Worlds largest and fastest tracks in the scenic Swiss mountains and what is significant about this event is that it will be seen as a warm up race for this years EFRA 1/8th scale European Championships that take place on the same track later in the year.
If you are interested in racing at this event, you can see the event invitation here (PDF) and the race entry form is here.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
2007 EFRA European 1/12th scale Championships, Sweden Categories - Electric, Events, International, On Road, Racing - comments closed
For those who dont know, this years EFRA 1/12th scale Euros, being held in Eskilstuna Sweden, will start tomorrow (Friday) with group practice followed by 6 rounds of qualifications and the main finals on Sunday. Back in the start of December we reported on the warm up race, in which this years Snowbirds Mod 1/12th winner Marc Fisher reigned supreme, taking the win for Corally driving his SP12X. This win and his current form sees Fischer as one of the favourites for this years European title but also at the event are a number of other extremely quick drivers like TCWC Andy Moore, Simo Ahoniemi, Yli Vesa, Teemu Saarinen and Hubert Hönigl amongst others, so expect some close action. Below, are some useful links to some event resources and if you know any more that should be added to the list drop us a message.
Official event site - here
Some pictures - here
Live Webcam - here
Entry List - here
Image: Little Truckers [littletruckers.co.uk]
Jamie Guy wins Thrashnall Junior 27T Championship Categories - Electric, Events, On Road, Racing, Schumacher - comments closed
Thirteen year old Jamie Guy has won the Thrashnall Junior 27T Championship driving a Schumacher Mi2EC. This championship is aimed at 16 year olds and under and consists of 8 rounds with 5 to count. Jamie could only manage to compete in 5 rounds due to school commitments which makes this result even more impressive with not being able to drop any results. He was a regular in the senior B finals and hopes to continue his success in this years BTCC.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
RC Pro Series expands to South Africa Categories - Events, Industry, International, Off Road, Racing - comments closed
The RC Pro Series is going global, following their first move to the Caribbean, the top racing series in the US is now expanding to South Africa with the announcement that RC Pro South Africa will be running their own National Series for Nitro Offroad, similar to the series in the US. Members of RC Pro SA will be full RC Pro members and be eligible to compete in any RC Pro event and together the Series organisers are working on plans for a World Finals in the future.
The first RC Pro South Africa event is this coming weekend hosted by Avion RCX in Kempton Park. The board of directors for RC Pro South Africa are working feverishly to put everything together for a live broadcast of this event. We will keep everyone informed of start times etc as soon as they have everything setup.
You can view the series flyer here and read more about it here.
