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October 24, 2006

Magnus Vassmar takes 2006 Swedish 1/12th Champs

Magnus Vassmar

Team Orion is reporting on their site that team driver Magnus Vassmar (old picture) has won the Swedish Indoor 1/12th scale Championships. This very talented youngster has now won back to back indoor titles in 1/12th scale as well as 1/10th.

Magnus Vassmar conquered the competition in the 1/12 Modified class at the 2006 Swedish Championships. Utilizing the latest voltage enhanced V-Max Plus RDS IB4200 WC cells, Magnus became double consecutive Swedish Indoor Champion in 1/12 and 1/10 classes.

You can read the full report here.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]Â

October 24, 2006

2007 EFRA 1/10th IC track A-list drivers

Roeselare Belgium

EFRA (European governing body) have released their list of A list drivers for 1/10th IC Track for 2007. This list basically shows who is not allowed to compete at the first ‘B’ licensed European Championships for 1/10th scale taking place in Roeselare, Belgium next year. This ‘B’ championship was added to the calendar due to the huge popularity of the class and the fact that previous European Championships have been oversubscribed. The ‘A’ Europeans for 1/10th scale are held in Madrid, Spain in 2007.

See the full list of A drivers here (PDF).

Source: EFRA [efra.se]

October 24, 2006

Gary Guest wins Mapston Memorial

Gary Guest

The well connected team over at Neo-Buggy.net have this event totally covered so best leave it to them to explain how it panned out:

The 1/8 Buggy class was the most competitive and largest class with almost 90 entries. Gary Guest took home TQ honours by posting the fastest overall time of the event and then when on to take the win, piloting his Jammin X1-CR FTE across the line first.

1. TQ Gary Guest â€“ Jammin / Picco
2. Marcus Anzivino â€“ Kyosho / Nova Rossi
3. Rick McCrery – Jammin / Picco

Read the full report right here.

Source: Neo-Buggy.net [neo-buggy.net]

October 24, 2006

Jon Hazlewood UK Vice-Champion 2006

Jon Hazlewood

Xray are carrying a report on their site from their team driver Jon Hazlewood that outlines in detail his super busy and successful 2006 off road race season. Its a good read that outlines the ups and downs of a top RC racer.

The world’s was a good event for me. I managed to qualify into the semi’s. I won my side and made it into the main final. | was very happy to achieve this. Unfortunately my motor eat half the track and stopped working, ending my final. I was still very pleased with the result. Making the main at a Worlds is so hard.

You can readÂ theÂ full report from Jon here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 23, 2006

Robert Batlle wins Spanish Champs Cup

Robert Batlle

From Neo-Buggy.net: Robert Batlle won a fast race in Albacete, Spain. Competition came in the form of Borja Hernandez and Adrian Perez; Batlle dominated from the start till the finish.

1. Robert Batlle – HoBao/Falcon/GRP/Ultimate
2. Adrian Perez – Kyosho/OS/GRP
3. Borja Hernandez – Mugen/Ninja/GRP

Source: Neo-Buggy [neo-buggy.net]

October 21, 2006

Ben Cosgrove joins Team Xray

Ben Cosgrove

Top British electric racer Ben Cosgrove has been confirmed to drive for Team Xray for the 2007 season. Ben has already raced the new T2007 with some success but has now decided to make the make the move to the Slovakian manufacturer official.

As Ben himself says: “It’s hard to believe the amount of effort and design that has gone into the design of all the XRAY cars, not just the new T2’007. I’m proud to be driving an XRAY again!”

Ben will start his official team duties at Rd.2 of the British Indoor winter series.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 19, 2006

Andy Moore takes Rd1 at BIWS

BIWS Rd1

Current World Champion Andy Moore took victory in the first round of the British Indoor Winter Series held at Don Valley. Driving his Hot Bodies Cyclone in the modified class he finished ahead of team mate Jonathon Bowden with Ben Cosgrove in third. Ben who was making his debut with the Xray T2007 also took victory in the 19T class.

Final Results:
19 turn
1. Ben Cosgrove
2. Jonathon Dronfield
3. Dominic Carter

Modified
1. Andy Moore
2. Jonathon Bowden
3. Ben Cosgrove

Check out the full report including reports from the Mirage team drivers, here.

More pics after the jump… content

October 19, 2006

Nico Rodriguez joins Crono

Nico Rodriguez

Neo Buggy are reporting that 1/8 off road European front runner Nico Rodriguez has left GS for SVM Crono. Nico who previously placed on the podium at the 2005 Europeans in France will drive the RS03 buggy with JP motors for the 2007 season.

Source: Neo-Buggy [neobuggy.net]