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October 4, 2011

Matsukura makes it 5 JMRCA 1/12th titles in a row

The JMRCA Japanese 1/12th scale Nationals were held last weekend at the Yatabe Arena on their indoor on road asphalt track which has been covered with carpet. In qualifying it was reigning Japanese and 2-time World Champion Naoto Matsukura, driving for Yokomo that took the top qualifier spot ahead of Corally driver Hideo Kitizawa in 2nd and Daisuke Sakamoto driving the new Kyosho car in 3rd. In the finals it was Naoto that took the win the first two mains to secure the victory ahead of his team mate Murai Masayuki who won the final leg, with Kitizawa taking 3rd overall. In the stock class Naoki Watanabe won for Speedmerchant in front of Corally driver Murai Kazuma and Gou Matsumoto in 3rd with his Associated.

View the final standings here

October 4, 2011

Portuguese Off-Road Series Rd1 report

Last weekend saw the first ever Portuguese EP National Off-Road event at the GodinTTrace track. It was an amazing success with an awesome attendance of 58 drivers with many doing more than one class which saw 73 cars competing over the 4 classes available (4wd and 2wd buggy and Short Course). Among them was Rodrigo Luís, multiple European 1/8th A finalist and recently crowned Portuguese Touring Car National Modified Champion Hugo Miguel.

Continue reading the report here

October 3, 2011

Mibo Sport Cup – Announcement

Mibo Sport with support from Yokomo, have announced their new winter race series. The series will take place in the Czech Republic, in the popular city of Hrotovice, where previously the ETS and European Indoor Championships have been held. This season Hrotovice is proud to host the EOS as well. The event will take place indoors, in a hall that has enough space for 2 separate tracks, on-road and off-road. The on-road track will be 30x20m in size, and the off-road track will be 30x16m. Race categories will be: Touring Car Open (only LRP CPX tires allowed), 4wd buggy and 2wd buggy (open tires). The series consists of 7 races, from which the best results from 5 races will count towards the overall standing. All races will be held on a single day, always on a Saturday. Free practice will be allowed from 18:00 on the Friday prior to the day of the event. Round 5 will see European Champion and Yokomo team driver Ronald Volker make a special appearance. At the end of the race series, overall winners will be awarded a Yokomo chassis kit. Kits will also be raffled to all participants. Team driver Michal Bok will be on hand at the events to provide any help. Complete details can be found here.

September 29, 2011

Bruno Heremans wins Benelux Offroad Championships

The combined Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg Championship Series concluded last weekend with a surprise win by Bruno Heremans and his X-6 Squared. Coming into the last race at Vlijmen, Netherlands, X Factory’s Stefan Mesker held a one point lead over Elvo after six races in the seven race series, with best five to count. Heremans and X-Teamer Stefan Mesker were the only two drivers in with a chance for the title. The grass track deteriorated slowly through the day, becoming rougher, and many drivers found themselves on their lids unexpectedly. Heremans drove his X-6 Squared carefully but quickly from fourth on the grid to win the first two A mains and with it the overall Championship. Stefan Mesker, 2009 Netherlands Champ and 2010 BeNeLux Champ, came second in the BeNeLux this year, therefore won the Netherlands Championship again.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com] / Image: RC-Offroad.be

September 28, 2011

European Offroad Series announced

After much planning we are pleased to announce the dates for the much anticipated 2011/12 Euro Offroad Series. Scotty Ernst and Uwe Rheinard, the organizers behind the very successful Euro Touring Series ‘ETS’, have taken their format and formula and will be bringing it to the exciting world of Offroad. The four round EOS will kick off in the UK at Ardent Raceway on November 4-6 2011, the premier indoor facility in the UK and the perfect place for the EOS to get underway.

Continue reading the announcement here

September 27, 2011

Amezcua wins BL class at 2011 Gas Champs

Travis Amezcua from Mugen Seiki, Reedy, AKA, LRP, HandleIT Hobbies and Airtronics took home the victory this past weekend in the 1/8 electric class at the 2011 Thunder Alley Gas Champs with his MBX6 ECO. With the new LRP iX8 and the Dynamic 8 LRP motor, Travis put the new combo to work and the system ran flawlessly all weekend long offering the right amount of power for the very technical track layout that Thunder Alley had to offer. With the 11 minute plus mains the Reedy 5500 4S provided plenty of runtime for the event with room to spare and all this power was put to the ground with AKA rubber. Travis would start from the number one spot for both main events and would take victory in both mains to clam the 2011 electric 1/8 title over Ryan Lutz in 2nd and Ryan Cavalieri in 3rd.

September 27, 2011

Fuciños & Villalba win final round in Spain

The fourth and final round of the electric buggy Spanish Championship last weekend at the magnificent facilities of the club CAPA, near Madrid. Under great weather conditions, almost 80 drivers battled it out in both 2WD and 4WD for two days. On Saturday the 4WD event was held and it was veteran Enrique Fuciños who took his Viper powered Yokomo BMax to a close win over local hero David Bustos with Tamiya TRF502. Charismatic Raul Solano drove his Kyosho Lazer FS II to the third position.

Continue reading the report here

September 26, 2011

German 4WD off-road nationals report

The German 4WD off-road nationals took place on the weekend of the 10th and 11th of September at the demanding high-grip astroturf track of the Neuffen club near Stuttgart. 74 drivers attended and it was Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann who TQ’ed the Modified class with his DEX410 buggy after five rounds of qualifying followed by Markus Metsch (Team Durango DEX410) and Christopher Krapp (Kyosho Lazer ZX5 FS2). The finals saw Jörn pulling away in each of the three A mains securing him another national title with Markus in 2nd and Christopher in third position overall.

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