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January 25, 2013

Cavalieri doubles up in Round 2

Ryan Cavalieri has made it 2 wins from 2 races at the Reedy Race of Champions in California, the Associated driver again converting his second pole position start into a victory to put himself in an early lead of the standings. In the other two races that made up the second round of 2WD Buggy at the famous event HB’s Atsushi Hara and Tamiya’s Lee Martin secured the wins. The drive of the second round came in Race 2 from Ryan Maifield who starting 10th on the grid came through to finish second just a second behind Martin. Afterwards the Team Associated ace said it was a ‘good result’ but he wished he had been able to get through the pack a little faster, his fastest lap almost 6/10th faster than that of European Champion Martin.

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January 25, 2013

Cavalieri biggest winner of opening Reedy Race encounter

Cavalieri

Ryan Cavalieri, Brent Thielke and Travis Amezcua have opened their Reedy Offroad Race of Champions with victories of their respective races with former champion Cavalieri taking the biggest win in a race that featured four electric offroad World Champions. The opening race of the 19th running of the famous event, the current World Champion cruised to a 7-second win over Jared Tebo with Ty Tessmann coming from 8th on the grid to complete the Top 3.

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January 25, 2013

Tebo tops practice at Reedy Race

Kyosho’s Jared Tebo set the pace in practice for the Reedy Race of Champions, the America topping the times sheets at West Coast RC Raceway in California in both 2WD & 4WD. Although times have no meaning due to the head to head race format of the world famous race, they do give an indication of each drivers form with Tebo declaring himself happy to end Day 1 as the fastest of the 29 invited drivers who will battle for the 19th Reedy Race title over the next three days. In 2WD it was defending Champion Joern Neumann who was 2nd fastest, with his Durango team-mate Travis Amezcua the closest on pace to Tebo in 4WD.

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January 25, 2013

World’s best ready to battle at 19th Reedy Race

World's best ready to battle at 19th Reedy Race

The Reedy Race of Champions is one of the most famous races in the world and was the brainchild of one of the sports greatest pioneers Mike Reedy. Looking to celebrate his birthday by hosting a race, in 1987 the motor guru created an all new concept for an event in which 32 of the best offroad drivers in the World where invited to race both 2WD and 4WD buggies in a series of head to head races with the driver achieving the best points tally over the 8 races being declared Champion. First run in 1987, when Chris Allec took the title, the 2013 Reedy Race of Champions is the 19th running of the event which after an 8-year break due to a decline in the 4WD class was resurrected in 2009 when Ryan Cavalieri won the title at the Yatabe Arena in Japan, which is so far the only time the event has been hosted outside of the USA.

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January 24, 2013

Elliott Boots joins Pro-Line

Pro-Line have announced the signing of Elliott Boots to their factory team. The World Championship top qualifier has made the decision to return to Pro-Line rubber following a successful term with AKA, with the new deal set to take him through to the 2014 Worlds. Boots had this to say:

Hey everyone, just wanted to say how good it feels to be back with Pro-Line for the 2013/2014 seasons. I’m really looking forward to getting to know everyone at the factory and working with my teammates. I believe together, as a team, we can accomplish great things. Thanks to everyone at Pro-Line for the support. It’s good to be back.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 23, 2013

Dario Balestri returns to Capricorn

Capricorn have announced the return of Dario Balestri to their factory team. The top Italian driver will use the Capricorn Lab 801 for the next European Championships in the UK and World Championships in Japan and for all other races this season. Dario had this to say:

I’m happy to came back to the Capricorn team that gave me a lot of satisfaction at the World championship in 2011 in Miami with a third place and pole position at the European championship as well as the Italian championship title. I hope to have good results in the season 2013.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

January 22, 2013

Team Orion Advantage ONE 405 charger

Team Orion’s new Advantage ONE 405 is a very attractively priced AC/DC entry level charger opening the doors to the quality and design of the Team Orion Advantage charger family. With a charge power of 50W this super compact charger can handle LiPo batteries with 2, 3 and 4 cells and NiXX batteries with 1-8 cells. The charge current can be chosen from 1, 2, 3 or 4 Amps. The Advantage ONE 405 comes with 4 buttons and 4 LED’s showing the charge current.

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January 22, 2013

Scotty Gray wins Panamerican GT race

The Panamerican GT race took place this last weekend in Homestead Florida with racers from all over the country including Puerto Rico and countries like the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela in attendance. Scotty Gray driving an Xray GT conversion TQ’d every round of qualifying followed by Joaquin Desoto Jr. and Paolo Morganti, both driving Serpent Cobras. The main was full of action, switching the lead between Morganti and Gray several times. In the end Scotty took the win for a remarkable weekend of the Xray Team, Paolo Morganti was second and Maxy Velazco third.

Thanks to Alfonso Lino for the update.