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August 30, 2011

Jilles Groskamp joins Sweep Racing

Sweep Racing have announce that double Euro Touring Series Champion Jilles Groskamp has joined their team. The Tamiya TRF and Team Orion factory driver had this to say about the deal:

After some tests with the Sweep tyres I’m very excited to join the Sweep racing team. As a professional driver I spend many days testing new parts on the car and new electronics and good tyres are needed for this. It allow me to test my Orion powered Tamiya 417 in a perfect way due the fast and consistent tyres of Sweep racing.

Source: Sweep Racing [sweepracing.com]

August 30, 2011

Evans continues top form at Surf City Classic

The 4th Annual Pro-Line Surf City Classic was held this past weekend at OC R/C Raceway in Huntington Beach, CA. This event has grown every year and sold out in only a few days after being open to the public. Big name drivers in attendance included current 2wd/4wd World Champion Ryan Cavalieri, Current 2wd ROAR National Champion Dustin Evans, Mike Truhe, Brian Kinwald, Ty Tessman, Steven Hartson and Josh Numan.

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August 28, 2011

Jörn Neumann takes European 4wd offroad title

Jörn Neumann put in a great performance at this week’s electric off road European Championships in Pau France. Qualifying 2nd overall behind 2wd Champion Lee Martin in the shortened schedule, after heavy rain washed out the previous day, Jörn lead the Team Durango charge, with team mates Hupo Hönigl qualifying right behind in 3rd. The field was strong, with two former/current World Champions and 6 former/current European Champions in the A-main. Jörn took the opening two legs of the A-Final to take the overall win in a close fought battle with Lee Martin and Neil Cragg and become the 2011 4WD European Champion. Having already won the title, Jörn sat out the third leg of the A and Hupo took up the fight, taking second which he held to the line for 4th overall. Lee Martin took 2nd overall with Neil Cragg in 3rd.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

August 27, 2011

Taiwan On Road National Championship Rd3

Last weekend saw the 3rd round of Taiwan On Road National Championship take place in central Taiwan, hosted by Titan RC Track. The beautiful beach side and newly refurbished course attracted a total of 73 pilots from all around the island. Classes included 1:8th scale, 1:10th 200m and 1/10th EP 190mm and with the growing popularity of the electric power RC cars the biggest group was EP 1/10th scale which attracted 48 drivers.

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August 25, 2011

Olivier Bultynck wins Rd5 in Belgium

Round 5 of the Belgian 1/10th on-road Touring Car Championship was hosted by the MRG club situated in Genk last weekend. It was Olivier Bultynck who dominated the qualification in front of Thomas Stockman and Nick Joosens. Following a rain shower the first final would be interesting but Olivier Bultynck took the lead followed by Thomas Stockman and Nick Joosens. It was sure that this race would go between these three guys and Ollie was going well with Thomas trying to follow. On lap 12 Thomas made a mistake and Ollie was gone and Nick took second place and Thomas came in as third. The second final and Olivier could control the race but on lap 9 his car broke and Thomas took the lead. Thomas took the win in front of Nick and Nicolas. The third final would decide the overall and Olivier Bultynck got into the lead with Thomas Stockman close behind him. Nick Joosens was not so happy and could not follow the leaders. But Thomas made a mistake and Nick was up into second place. Ollie could cruise now to victory and his third win this season in the championship with Thomas Stockman second and Nick Joosens third.

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August 23, 2011

2012 DHI Cup set for Onroad & Offroad

The organisers of the DHI Cup, who announced that last January was their last event, were in touch to tell us that they are back and will run both onroad and offroad together in the Stadium Arena Fyn in Odense, Denmark on the 6th to 8th of January. The international race scene has changes a lot since the first DHI-CUP back in 2001, so now they think it is also time to do something different. For the first time a big international indoor race will do both offroad and onroad on 2 different tracks, that will be 32 x 22 meters. So you will be able to compete in both classes or all classes if you like and have enough cars. They hope to have drawings of the Stadium Arena and the tracks in a couple of weeks.

Source: DHI Cup [facebook.com]

August 22, 2011

Moore & Anderson take BRCA titles with Rd4 wins

The fourth round of this seasons BRCA touring car series saw the 2011 title decided with one round to go, both classes going to Hot Bodies drivers in the form of Andy Moore in Super Touring and Ayrton Anderson in the 10.5 stock class. Elliott Harper took TQ with his Tamiya in Super Touring but it was a hard charging Andy Moore that came through from fourth on the grid to take the win ahead of Schumacher’s Chris Grainger and Elliott Harper, Olly Jefferies and Chris Kerswell completed the top five for Associated and Serpent.

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August 19, 2011

Dmitry Malyshko wins 4WD buggy @ Russian Cup Series RD4

Dmitry Malyshko has won the 4th round of the Russian EP Off-Road Cup series. The Race was held in Tula on the Hobby-Cents track with around 30 percent Astroturf and 70 percent dirt surface. After taking TQ after the qualification, Dmitry swept the A finals and won in front of Gennady Ereveev and Stepan Leshenko.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]