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July 5, 2011

Fernandez & Reguera win EP Offroad Rd3 in Spain

The last weekend of June, in northern Spain, saw the 3rd round of the Spanish Electric offroad Championships held on the very technical Rueda Loca Arena. The track was featured many bumps and 180° curves with extreme grip which stayed the same for the entire weekend. The 4WD class was run on Saturday with 2wd on Sunday. The provisional 4wd champion, Miguel Fernandez had a tough battle with Enrique Fuciños, with Fuciños winning the first final before Fernandez came back in A2 and A3 to take the win. In 2WD, the locals were very strong, placing 5 drivers in the Final A. The race was won by Jonathan Reguera, with Enrique Fuciños in 2nd and Miguel Fernandez in 3rd.

View the results and 2wd A-main videos here

July 5, 2011

HPI China sign JJ Wang

HPI China have also announced the signing of JJ Wang to their Racing Team. The 13 year old Chinese-American, who now lives in Shanghai, China has become the best 1:8 GP on-road driver in the country. His versatile talent is not limited to 1:8 GP only, as he has also shown pace in the 1:10 GP and EP class. He will race with HB TCX in future races and is “excited to join the HPI/HB Racing Team this season. And now with the support of HPI/HB, I hope to join more international races. With the new TCX, I also hope to have a successful season”.

Source: HPI China [hpiracing.net.cn]

July 1, 2011

Haifeng Wang joins HPI China racing team

HPI China has announced the signing of Haifeng Wang to their racing team. Wang is the indisputable top EP on-road driver in China. Starting his RC life in 2005, Wang achieved astonishing progress, not only by racing talent but also through hard work. He undertook all National 1:10 EP Onroad Championship event (TQ and win) from 2007 to 2010 and became a star of the industry. In 2009 Wang challenged himself by joining the 4WD GT Class at the Tamiya Asia Cup and took the TQ & win without problem. In 2011, he again embraced his reputation by top qualifying and winning the 11.5T Stock Class at the TITC. Wang will now continue his story at HPI & Hot Bodies.

Source: HPI China [hpiracing.net.cn]

July 1, 2011

Nicolai Lindegaard takes SuperStock Rd2 in Denmark

The 2nd round of the Danish 1/10th touring car championships was last weekend at the well known ‘Rainbow’ Track in Glostrup in Denmark, which hosted the Euros back in 2005. There was 17 SuperStock Drivers and 9 Modified drivers and Xray driver Nicolai Lindegaard sent us this report. On Saturday we did some very small setup changes having tested a lot in the weeks leading up to this race and so the car was fast, very smooth and easy to drive. The grip wasn’t so high but we didn’t change a lot of set-up because we expected more grip on the race day. The track is very nice with a very good flow so we were very excited to the Sunday’s race.

Continue reading the report here

July 1, 2011

TLR Super Cup @ Eden Park Raceway

Last weekend saw the famous Eden Park Raceway club host the inaugural TLR Super Cup race meeting. Set to run over the weekend with 2WD, SCT and 4WD Buggy classes, the Super Cup format added a subtle twist to the normal race format with all classes running simultaneously over the two days with controlled practice and three rounds of qualifying on the Saturday and two round of qualifying a 3-leg finals for everyone on the Sunday. After a rather wet and slippery start on the Saturday the second race day saw rising temperatures and the usual suspects continued on good form with Ellis Stafford and Danny McGee battling for the overall TQ position in 2WD and 4WD whilst Chris Brooke looked to have sewn up the SCT qualifying after his performance on the Saturday ahead of Nathan Ralls and team mate Andy Carter.

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June 30, 2011

Dustin Evans joins Team Orion

Team Orion are proud to welcome the next super star to their international racing team, with Dustin Evans joining their list of driver. The US driver, who won the 2011 International Off-Road Race of Champions earlier this year with a Team Orion Vortex VST Pro Modified motor, is going to use Team Orion motors and speed controllers at the upcoming World Championships in Finland. He will use the all new R10 Pro Brushless System to power his Team Losi cars.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

June 29, 2011

Ty Tessmann dominates Alberta RC Pro Series Rd2

This past weekend Round 2 of the Alberta RC Pro series was held at Medicine Hat, Alberta. The track layout was new for this year, with many saying that it was a driver’s layout with some very technical and challenging jumps. Ty Tessmann’s OS powered D8 & D8T equipped Proline tires adapted to the changing track, from wet due to the rain Thursday night to blue groove as the weekend progressed. Ty was able to TQ all 3 rounds of Expert buggy, Expert truggy and 4WD pro Short Course, and went on to win all 3 mains. In Expert buggy he won from Wayne Mah and Cory Drachenberg, while in Expert truggy it was Peter Toszer and Patrick Rogatschnigg who completed the podium.

View the buggy & truggy podiums here

June 29, 2011

Brushless King of Europe

World Champion Cody King traveled to France and Germany over the last two weeks, and picked up a couple electric 1/8 scale titles in the process. In France, Cody attended the Kyosho Masters event in Sucy-en-Brie just outside of Paris. After a rough qualifying and trouble in A1, Cody won A2 to force a final battle in A3. Linus Thern was leading, but with just a few minutes to go, Cody would take the lead and cruise to victory with his Team Orion powered MP9e. In Germany, the turn out was impressive, with near 40 entries for the electric 1/8 buggy class. Qualifying was better for Cody, taking the TQ honors. The electric format here was a semi and a main, so everything came down to the last run of the day. With Sweden’s David Ronnefalk in hot pursuit, Cody would grab the lead and set a blistering pace to take the win. This would give Cody two electric titles in two weeks on European soil.