Sunday, October 15, 2006
Video Interview with Jérome Sartel (in French) Categories - Gas, Video, Off Road, International, Racing, Drivers - comments closedTop French site Automodelisme.net have carried out an interview with top French Losi Racer Jérome Sartel. The interview was done at the recent Euro indoor race and although the whole thing was done in French we’re sure its well done and of interest to the French speakers among us.
Source: Automodelisme [Automodelisme.net - Translated to English]
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]
Worlds Flashback Part 2 - Xray column Categories - Xray, Gas, Off Road, International, Racing - comments closedIn his second and final column concerning this years off road Worlds, Xray chief designer Juraj Hudy gives of us the latest news and behind the scenes information from this epic event.
The entire team has worked very hard during the last few months testing plenty of new ideas to be well prepared for this most important race. Winning the European Championship and the latest excellent results world wide were giving us great confidence, and we landed at Jakarta with nothing less than 100% preparation and motivation.
Hit the link to read the full column, definitely worth a read. Read the full column.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Crazy Small Stadium Truck from Team Losi Categories - Team Losi, Electric Off Road, Cars, Products - comments closed
Just when you thought your 1/18th trucks were small enough for you, along comes this little gem from Team Losi. Coming in at 1/36th scale, this amazing 2wd off roader literally fits in the palm of your hand. And they haven’t skimped on the features with this car having fully independant suspension with friction dampers, Differential-equipped transmission and electronic speed controller.
Packed with a Ni-MH battery pack, independent suspension, differential equipped transmission, automatic peak charger and 27MHz Team Losi radio system, the Micro-T has the speed and handling to tackle everything from the tabletop to the tile.
More pics after the jump… (more…)
Cabezas wins EFRA GP & Spanish Nats Categories - On Road, Gas, National, International, Racing, Drivers - comments closed‘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]
