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June 3, 2011

Christopher Krapp wins EP TC warmup race

Last weekend the Warm Up race for the forthcoming European Championship 1/10 Electric Touring Cars was held in Traiskirchen in Austria, organizers of last years Buggy EC. The venue was a partly open hall used during winter as an ice hockey rink and the race attracted about 50 drivers from all over Europe. After 6 qualification rounds it was Christopher Krapp (Germany) driving a Kyosho TF-6 who took the pole position ahead of Yannic Prümper (Germany) driving a Yokomo BD-5 and Dominik Fleischmann (Germany) driving a HB TCX. The fastest lap of the whole event went to Steen Graversen (DK) driving the incredible Awesomatix 900.

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June 1, 2011

Kinwald does triple at Battle in the Desert Rd2

The 2nd leg of the Battle in the Desert Series took place at Competition Hobbies in Tucson, AZ. Brian Kinwald was on fire at his home track and was the driver to beat all weekend. Starting with a TQ in 2wd modified and Short Course 4×4, Kinwald put the rest of the racers on notice, to get the win you had to go through BK. The main events got underway and BK picked up right where he left off in the 2wd modified class. His perfectly prepared B4.1 with JConcepts Blue Bar Codes proved to be too much for the rest of the field as BK ran away with the main. Topping off the winning ride was Punisher body and 6.5” rear wing.

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June 1, 2011

Fernandez & Terceño win Spanish EP offroad Rd2

Miguel Fernandez and Iñigo Terceño win the second round of the Spanish 1/10 offroad nationals on the Club Carbi Track, home of the 2009 offroad Euros. In 4wd Miguel Hernandez, who at 13 years old was the youngest driver competing in the race, showed incredible performance with his Kyosho Lazer FS2. Winning the race on the last of the mains after passing all drivers following a crash that relegated him to the last position. David Bustos took second place with his Tamiya, with Durango driver Enrique Fuciños in 3rd. The 2wd class went to local Schumacher driver Iñigo Terceño followed by another local driver, Ival Martinez with his X-Factory X6, who hard a hard fight with Iñigo in all the finals. Associated driver Clemente Rodriguez took 3rd.

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June 1, 2011

Eric Clark & Shane Racer win TQ East Coast Challenge

This past weekend was the TQ East Coast Challenge hosted by Classic RC Raceways in Akron, Ohio. Saturday was the electric program indoors and Sunday was 1/8th Nitro program outdoors. Saturday for the 1/10th electric race saw a few TLR drivers in attendance that included Bill Shay, Ben Beard, and Eric Clark competing in 2 wheel mod buggy. TLR would put two TLR 22’s in the A-main final. Eric Clark would take the overall TQ and led the main from wire to wire for the A-main win. Sunday would be the start of the 1/8th nitro classes. TLR would have Shane Racer and Eric Clark in attendance for the nitro part of the event. Shane Racer would put himself in the A-main with consistent runs in qualifying and a chance at the win in the A-main. With a bad start from Shane in the A-main he would have his work cut out for him. Shane would put in a great race to take the lead at the halfway point and take the overall win. Eric Clark would end up 4th overall.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

May 31, 2011

Honigl & Adachi wins Greek ElectroChamps

The first ever electric off road ElectroChamps race took place on last weekend in Athens, Greece with quest drivers Hupo Honigl and Shin Adachi giving great battles all weekend. The typical sunny Greek weather was the perfect background for this International show race with top Greek drivers attending. In the 2wd class, former European champion Hupo Honigl took his prototype Team Durango DEX210 to pole position and after winning two out of three seven minute finals he won the overall ahead of Team Kyosho’s factory driver Shin Adashi in second. Third place and best Greek driver was John Papanikolaou with a Kysoho RB5 SP2. In 4wd it was Shin’s time to shine. Starting from second behind Hupo, he won 2 out of the three final rounds and took his Kyosho Lazer ZX5 FS2 to first place in the event. Second place went to Hupo Honigl with his Team Durango DEX410 and third was Dimitris Tsigkos driving a HPI Cyber10.

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May 30, 2011

Andy Moore takes BTCC Rd3

A dominant performance from Andy Moore saw the Hot bodies driver take the Cotswold round of this seasons Schumacher BTCC, starting from pole after taking TQ Andy eased a lead ahead of the chasing pack of the Associated TC6 of Olly Jefferies and the Schumacher Chris Grainger, with the Cotswold BRCA national only two week away this meeting was a good form guide to who would be the pace setters for the national and Andy Moore currently looks the man to beat and leaves the others looking to find a little more pace.

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May 29, 2011

Race for a Cure – Announcement

The organisers of the second annual ‘Race for a Cure’ got in touch to tell us about this year’s event that runs from the 17th-19th of June at the Goshen Fairgrounds in Goshen CT. It is a wonderful event combining a good old fashioned New England Country Fair along with an exhilarating RC offroad race. Several popular classes are being run including nitro buggy & truggy as well as 1/8th scale electric and various short course classes. This is a real must-do event and best of all it helps raise money for the American Cancer Society and have fun at the same time. More information can be found here (PDF).

May 26, 2011

TLR Super Cup 2011 – Announcement

Eden Park Raceway will be hosting a two-day meeting on 25-26 June at their famous multi-surface racetrack in Beckenham, Kent. Although the organisers aim to attract top drivers from around Europe, it is hoped that the TLR Super Cup in association with Spektrum and Electrix will appeal to local drivers as well. The format sees a change to the norm with racing on both days for each class. On Saturday there will be two practices and three qualifiers, with a short practice, two qualifiers and multi-leg finals on Sunday. Qualifying will use the FTD format and there will be three legs for the A finals in 2WD, 4WD and Short Course with two legs for the other finals. Awards will be presented to the podium finishers in 2WD, 4WD and SC as well as the top three in U14 and U19 classes. There will also be a concourse competition prize kindly donated by RudeBits. Full information can be found here.