July 28, 2011

Marc Fisher joins Serpent

Marc Fisher joins Serpent

Serpent have announced that top German driver Marc Fischer has joined their team. The former Corally driver made the change after testing the Serpent 411 TC car a few times and having known the S120 well from the many races with Markus Mobers in the past few years. Fischer will be racing the German Nats, EC 1/10 and 1/12, ETS races, LRP and DHI Cup, as well as the 2012 WC with Serpent cars. The former European Champion will also assist Serpent with development and testing.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

July 26, 2011

Video – BRCA TC National Rd3

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RC Racing TV have their latest video online featuring race action, news, views and interviews from a damp and drizzly round 3 of the British National Electric TC championships from the Halifax Circuit.

July 24, 2011

Cavalieri is double World Champion

Cavalieri is double World Champion

Ryan Cavalieri is the new 4WD World Champion, becoming only the third driver in the 26-year-history of the IFMAR Championships to win both the 2WD & 4WD title at the week long event.  The factory Team Associated driver secured his fourth World title by backing up his victory in the opening leg of the A-Main with a more convincing win in Leg 2.

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July 24, 2011

Maifield is 4WD Top Qualifier

Maifield is 4WD Top Qualifier

Ryan Maifield is Top Qualifier for the 2011 IFMAR 4WD Electric Buggy World Championships in Vaasa, Finland.  The American claimed pole position for the main event with a third TQ run in the fifth & final round of qualifying this morning.  Team Associated’s second TQ honour of the week, Ryan Cavalieri having taken the top spot in 2WD, Maifield will start ahead of Joern Neumann who came close to snatching the No.1 spot for this evening’s triple A-Main.

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July 23, 2011

Rain cancels Q4, Tebo denied TQ run

Rain cancels Q4, Tebo denied TQ run

The fourth round of qualifying for the 4WD Electric Buggy World Championships has been cancelled due to the arrival of torrential rain over Vaasa.  Looking to protect the clay track from the impending rain the decision was called to stop racing half way through the round so it could be covered. It was to be a wise call as minutes later the rain arrived in force.

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July 23, 2011

Opening Qualifier goes to Maifield

Opening Qualifier goes to Maifield

Ryan Maifield has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying for the 4WD EP Buggy World Championship, the Associated driver running 13 laps in 5:18.743 to take the Q1 by one second from Jared Tebo with Ryan Cavalieri third.

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July 22, 2011

Boots tops first day of 4WD

Boots tops first day of 4WD

Putting together what race announcer Scotty Ernst described as the perfect lap, Team Durango’s Elliot Boots ends the first day of the 4WD Electric Buggy World Championships at the top of the time sheets.  Making his electric Worlds debut, the 18-year-old produced the fastest lap of the day in the eighth and final round of practice to top 2007 Champion Jared Tebo and Durango team-mate Joern Neumann.

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July 22, 2011

Tebo goes top in Finland

Tebo goes top in Finland

2007 World Champion Jared Tebo have gone to the top of timing sheets having just produced a new fastest lap on the final lap of his sixth 4-minute practice run.  The Kyosho driver hasn’t made any changes to his Orion powered Lazer ZX-5 FS2 today saying it feels really good.  Describing traction levels as being now decent Tebo said the track is very fast and this can make it difficult when running around other cars.

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