Thursday, December 7, 2006
Joel Myrberg to race for Associated Categories - Xray, Team Associated, Electric, On Road, Racing, Drivers - comments closed
RC Touring have the news that top Xray racer Joel Myrberg has left the Slovakian manufacturer to race for Team Associated in 2007. Joel will make his race debut at next months DHI cup in Denmark were he will Join Drescher and Levanen in driving the TC5 prototype. This is the second top driver confirmed to be leaving Team Xray after Viktor Wilck was confirmed to be joining Tamiya on Tuesday. This of course comes after the signing of top French race Cyril N’Diaye and of course former European Champion Teemu Leino who joined from Schumacher, so there is obviously a major shake up at Xray going on.
Source: RC Touring [rctouring.nl]
Xray have a report on their site about the first round of the Western Canadian series held in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Xray dominated the event managing to win all 3 classes - Stock, 19T and Modified.
When the tone went for the start of the main Rodney and I took off from the pack. Rodney was quick but I was right there behind him. A couple of laps in Rodney got tangled with a back marker and opened the door for me to get by. Being a short track with the lap times being around the 8 second range, by the time Rodney got going again I was half a lap ahead. He really pushed his T2 ‘007 and caught back up in a couple of laps. We diced it out until the end of the race which I managed to hold him off for the win.
You can read the full report from the event here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
If you are a major fan of buggy racing then you should already know about this event but for those of you who dont know, this annual indoor race is organised by our partner site Neo-Buggy. Called the Neo Invitational, last years event took place alongside the docks somewhere in Belgium and attracted top racers from around the world and was eventually won by US racer Jared Tebo. This years event still attracts the top international racers but will instead take place in the UK in the Harper Adams College, Newport, Shropshire. This will be a cool event so if you are in the area then you definitely drop by and have a look. Check out the video above for a taster.
You can read more about the event on the official site here.
Source: Neo-Buggy [neo-buggy.net]
On Tuesday I reported about the news that Technokit was to enter the 1/8th scale buggy market. At the time I noted that its a very flooded market and it would be bigger news if a manufacturer stated that they werent going to enter this class. Well i did a little research to follow up on that comment and was amazed to have come up with a list totalling 29 31 manufacturers (that i know of) that currently have, or are close to releasing, a 1/8th scale gas powered buggy. That is a huge number of players all fighting for the same piece of the pie, in a market that is becoming more crowded than a rush hour train in Bangladesh.
Who are these manufacturers and who really is left that can join in? Read More… (more…)
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Marc Fischer wins the Swedish 1/12th EFRA GP Categories - Events, Corally, Electric, On Road, International, Racing - comments closed
Corally team driver Marc Fischer has won the 1/12th EFRA GP held last weekend in Eskilstuna, Sweden, an important win as it took place on the same track that will host next years European 1/12th scale Championships. Marc, driving a Corally SP12X, TQ’d the event by 5 seconds ahead of 2nd place qualifier Sakke Ahonniemi who in turn was 1 second ahead of Teemu Saarinen, both drivers also driving the Corally SP12X. In the race it was Marc who was the class of the field finishing comfortably ahead of Saarinen in 2nd who managed to get ahead of Ahonniemi who ended up in 3rd.
You can view the results of the event here.
Source: Corally [corally.com]
Just a quick heads up to inform you that our site partner RC Infos has published an extensive report on last weekends Carpet World Cup from Switzerland. The report itself is in French which doesnt matter so much because we already know what happened, but the best part of the report is the extensive images from the event.
Check out the full report here.
Image: RC Infos [rcinfos.com]
Ryan Cavalieri wins the 2006 SoCal Supercross Categories - Events, Electric, Off Road, National, Racing - comments closed
Team Orion have a report on their site about last weekends SoCal Supercross in which Ryan Cavalieri dominated proceedings. Held at SoCal Raceway in Huntington Beach, CA, the Supercross brings the best drivers from the Southern California area together to compete on a challenging Supercross inspired track layout.
Team Orion factory driver Ryan Cavalieri earned top qualifying honors in both the 2wd and Truck Modified classes. Unchallenged, Ryan drove his AE buggy and truck to victory in both classes!
You can read the full report here.
Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com] Image: RC Forum [rcforum.co.kr]
4th Annual Maxy’s Fuel challenge Categories - Events, Gas, Off Road, National, Racing - comments closed
Buggy-Sport have a report on last weekends Maxy’s Fuel Challenge held in Hudson, Florida. Due to a last minute date change the 4th running of this event didn’t get the turnout that it expected but racing was still competitive. In the 1/8th Truck main it was Gene Hickersen driving a CEN Matrix that dominated the race ahead of Bobby Moore, driving for Mugen, in 2nd with another CEN racer Kyle Sokol finishing the event in 3rd place. In the 1/8th buggy class it was JR Mitch driving for Thunder Tiger that took the win ahead of 2nd place Losi racer Nathan Wincek with Gary Mazar rounding off the podium for Jammin in 3rd spot.
By the 20 minute mark, Hickerson had lapped the field twice and went into cruise control. Sokol has some problems and dropped back a ways from Moore. Moore was able to get back on the lead lap but ran out of time and that was how the top 3 finished.
You can read the full report here.
Source: Buggy-Sport [buggy-sport.info]
