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October 17, 2011

South Swedish Indoor Cup Rd1 report

The opening round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held on an indoor track, close to Gothenburg. 26 drivers attended it in the Modified class on the fast high traction track. After three rounds of qualifying Michael Nilsson took TQ followed by Daniel Carlsson and Mattias Johansson. In the opening final there was a goof race between Michael and Daniel with the latter making a big mistake going on the straight which allowed Michael to take home this leg pretty easy. Leg two again saw some nice moves in the opening minutes from the top runners. The leg was decide with around a minute to go as Daniel begun to catch Michael with the latter making a mistake allowing Daniel to slip through and going for the win in the second leg. Leg three would decide the race victory and Daniel followed Michael closely for about two minutes into the race waiting for an opportunity to pass. The the heat of the race Michael hit a corner marker allowing Daniel to pass only to become passed by Michael the lap after. With 30 seconds to go Michael was held up by traffic badly, allowing Daniel to win not only the third final but also the meeting.

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October 16, 2011

Amit Bublil wins Israeli League Rd1

This weekend the first round of the Israeli League for 1/10 scale electric 2WD buggies and trucks was held on a dirt track near Tel Aviv. Amit Bublin was able to win both the buggy and truck class with his Team Associated cars. Runner up in buggy was Lior Maimon followed by Asaf Gurevich in third and Arie Itskovich in fourth position. The second place in the truck category went to Asaf Gurevich with Lior Maimon in third and Menashe Micheli in fourth position.

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October 15, 2011

First title of Arena 2011 goes to Bloomfield

Making his first appearance at the Arena Offroad Meeting TLR’s Darren Bloomfield has notched up the first title of the weekend at the Italian event with a dominant performance in the Brushless Buggy class. Topping three of the five 7-minute qualifiers ealier in the day the British ace secured TQ honours ahead of fellow countryman Simon Willets and his Mugen and Italian Xray driver Valerio Bellano.

Continue reading the event report here.

October 14, 2011

Jonny Aird joins Schumacher

Schumacher are pleased to announce the top touring car driver Jonny Aird has joined the team. Jonny is a young but experienced racer who finished in 6th in the BRCA Modified Championship last year with the highlight of TQ’ing Halifax National ahead of some established world level stars. He had this to say:

I am really excited to join the Schumacher team, the car is a proven winner and the company shows great ambition to improve and develop their products. Everyone at Schumacher is extremely friendly and supportive and I am grateful for this opportunity.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

October 12, 2011

Entry to open for DHI Cup 2012

The organizers of the 2012 DHI Cup have been in touch to tell us that entry for next January’s event starts this Thursday at 20:00 o’clock CET on MyRCM. Many of today’s top drivers have won this race as one of their first big victories on the international scene. Starting with Andreas Myrberg in 2001, to Jilles Groskamp and Juho Levanen. Current world champion Marc Rheinard, European champion Ronald Völker and former World Champion Atsushi Hara, to mention just a few, are some of the great drivers that have participated and won in the past. This year DHI-CUP has renewed itself with an offroad track alongside the traditional onroad track, so now offroad drivers can join be part of this great event.

October 12, 2011

Jared Tebo wins big at Reedy Truck ROC

The 2011 Reedy Truck Race of Champions was held October 7th-9th at Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, California. The last Reedy Truck Race was held in 2009 where Team Orion’s Jared Tebo Won both the Modified Truck and Pro Truggy Classes. This years Reedy Truck Race would be back in a big way topping over 170 entries! The weather was picture perfect all weekend long staying consistently in the lower 80’s. In the Modified Truck Class it was Team Orion’s Jared Tebo who would dominate qualifying to take the Overall TQ. Also in the A-Main for Team Orion was: Dakotah Phend starting 3rd, Ryan Cavalieri starting 4th, and Dustin Evans starting 5th, Mike Truhe starting 6th, Shaun Dunlap starting 7th, Zack Rogers starting 8th, and Matt Castellano starting 10th.

Continue reading the report here

October 11, 2011

Atsushi Hara dominates Super Stock at IIC

The 2011 International Indoor Championships was once again held at the Riviera Hotel and Casino on the world-famous Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. With over 60 entries, one of the largest classes at this year’s event was the Super Stock TC class. Utilizing 17.5 motors and boosted ESCs, the class featured some of the world’s top drivers turning laps nearly as fast as those in the Modified TC class. Reedy factory driver Atsushi Hara was clearly the man to beat. The defending champion was extremely fast in practice and continued to show no mercy in the qualifying heats. After four rounds of qualifying, Hara’s fastest time was nearly 4 seconds faster than the next best driver which meant he would start the A Main from the coveted pole position. At the sound of the start tone, Hara shot into the lead thanks to the power of a Reedy Sonic 17.5 motor and 5000mAh LiPo battery. An early challenge from Reedy teammate Keven Hébert was the only threat to his dominance. But eventually Hara managed to build a comfortable gap to the chasers and cruise to victory.

Source: Reedy [rc10.com]

October 11, 2011

Robert Raphael clinches Belgian 1/8th BL title

Last weekend was the final round of the Belgian Buggy 1/8 Brushless Championship held at the BRTC club of Bauff. Due to heavy rain the race was stopped and the final results were taken from qualification. This gave the win to JP Voumard (Tekno RC MP9/Tecmotor) ahead of 2nd place David Nopenaire (Losi/Tekin) with HongNor team driver Raphael Robert (Nexx 8/Castle Creation) in 3rd. This result was enough to give the National title to Robert Raphael, with Loïc Voumard taking 2nd spot while David Nopenaire rounded out the series top 3. Robert Raphael also took the 1/8th scale gas offroad title driving a Hong Nor X3 Sabre.

Thanks to JP Voumard for the report.