Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Ivan Laptev dominates the Russian Outdoor Championships Categories - LRP, Electric, On Road, National, Racing - comments closed
LRP are reporting on their site on the success of their products in Russia and particularly the 2006 Russian Outdoor Championships that was won by 3 time National Champion Ivan Laptev. Ivan, using with a brushless LRP motor, has captured his third consecutive outdoor title on the back of having just taken the Indoor National title as well.
As in most other world-wide countries the racers in Russia are free to choose between a brushless or brushed power source. For sure, Ivan trusted in the LRP Brushless Technology and did not give any chance to his opponents. In a total domination, Ivan won all qualification runs, all three A-mains and also set the fastest lap time!
You can read the full report, with results, here.
Source: LRP [lrp-electronic.de]
OK, i know this race took place over 3 weeks ago but it was an important race and the event report only just showed up on the Novarossi website. The Trofeo Novarossi is an annual event and a celebration of all things Novarossi and even all the factory staff are bused to the event to join in on the festivities. This year it took place at the Gubbio track in Italy and as it turned out Novarossi’s returning prodigal son Lamberto Collari won the event ahead of Euro B champion Andrea Cristiani and Worlds finalist Walter Salemi in third position.
You can view all the results and more pictures from the event here.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.com]
More RC Pro Series news, this time its the turn of the off road guys or in this case, guy, as top international racer Adam Drake took the title in both the Buggy and Truck classes. In the 1/8th buggy class, he edged out Futaba Nitro Challenge winner Taylor James and Chad Bradley to the title whilst in 1/10th truck Adam beat Kyle Skidmore and Cody King to the series title.
You can view the final 1/8th buggy standings here and 1/10th truck here.
Image: Neo-Buggy [neo-buggy.net]
Last weekend the RC Pro Series had their final gas on road race at the Gulf Coast Raceway, a race that was TQ’d by Paris Memorial winner Scott Kimbrow but won by Dave Campbell. This result didn’t affect the final outcome of the championship however which ended with Mugen racer Jeremy Cupps taking the National title ahead of fellow Mugen racer Terry Brown with Kyosho team racer Scott Kimbrow ending his campaign in third.
The event also played host to the Expert Sedan Nationals that was TQ’d and won by Ron Atomic (best super hero name ever) who also claimed the overall national title too.
You can view the full results here (PDF).
Source: RC Pro Series [rcprosites.com]
Monday, November 20, 2006
Fredy Andres wins Rd7 of Carioca Championships Categories - Gas, Off Road, National, Racing - comments closed
Fredy Andres has won round 7 of the Carioca Championships that were held last weekend in Brazil. The penultimate round of the championships Fredy won the pro buggy class driving a GS ahead of Helio Mattos with a Thunder Tiger in 2nd with Kyosho racer Ricardo Queros in 3rd. The last round of the championship takes place next week and all three classes are still wide open after 7 races.
You can view the top 3 placings from the other classes as well as some more photos here.
Source: RB Racing Team [rbracingteam.com.br]
Just a quick post to mention that last weekend the 2006 Tamiya World Championships were held at a large indoor exhibition hall in Shizouka, Japan. The annual event featured many different classes as well as many different nationality of racers, and Japanese website RC Car Trend were there and have results and lots of images from the race which you can view here.
Image: RC Car Trend [rct.jp]
Brunet wins Rd1 of French 1/12th Nationals Categories - Electric, On Road, National, Racing - comments closed
Our partner site RC infos has a brief report on the 1st round of the French 1/12th Nationals that took place at Bonneville last weekend. Pierre-François Brunet driving an Associated RC12L4 took the win ahead of Corally racer Arnaud Constanty with Mathias Rascol again driving an Associated in third. RC Infos will have the full report on the event soon, but in the meantime you can check out the top ten results on their site here.
Source: RC Infos [rcinfos.com]
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Sönke Matz to leave Kyosho Categories - Gas, Off Road, Racing, Drivers - comments closed
Buggy-Sport has had received some information pertaining to a team change for top German off road racer Sönke Matz. Sönke was the 2005 European B Champion in the off road category and had, up until Buggy-Sport published htis announcement, driven for Kyosho. We dont know anything further as to where he is going or why he left but when we find out we’ll let you know.
Source: Buggy-Sport [buggy-sport.info]
