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October 8, 2011

Asian Touring Series Pilot Race announced

Following on from the success of the Euro Touring Series, organizers Scotty Ernst and Uwe Rheinard will be bringing their successful formula to the Far East for the Asian Touring Series. Based on the same formula that has been so successful in Europe, the ATS will also focus on the fun and joy of touring car racing. The team will remain the same with Red RC and chief time keeper Hartmut Wenzel joining Scotty and Uwe in Asia and together we plan to show everyone how much fun & excitement one can have at one of our events.

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October 6, 2011

Ellis Stafford signs 2 year extension with X-Factory

X-Factory have announced that multiple British Champion Ellis Stafford has signed to race their cars for two more years. Ellis said “I continue to be excited driving for X-Factory. Back in 2006 when I first started with the X-Team, we had the X-5 Squared and the original X-6 and they were the fastest, most innovative cars around. I won the U.K. Championship in ’08 with the 6, but we didn’t stand on our laurels, we designed and raced the 6 Squared to the title in 09, making two years in a row. I tied for the Championship with the Squared in 2010, and I think it’s still the fastest 2WD buggy out there.” “It’s the X-7 that excites me now. Again X-Factory is leaping ahead with an innovative new design, and I’m so happy to be a part of the design team. I took my prototype X-7 to a club race win the other weekend and it was very good indeed. 2012 and 2013 will be my most exciting years of R/C racing!”

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

October 5, 2011

Thomas Jones wins eBuggy at SDRC Race For The Cure

This past weekend SDRC Raceway in sunny San Diego played host to the Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure. Good weather in San Diego and a great day for a benefit race to help fund breast cancer research. In the midst of the 124 entries and perfect indoor track conditions, Tekno RC driver Thomas Jones TQ’d all 3 rounds of qualifying in 1/8th eBuggy. He went on to win the A main and bring home the victory. Thomas was using a Tekno RC V4 equipped HB D8 along with all of the other Tekno RC upgrades for the D8.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]

October 5, 2011

Horizon Hobby UK sign Oliver Fischer

Young Danish driver Oliver Fischer has signed with Horizon Hobby UK for the 2012 season. Oliver will run the TLR 8ight buggy & truggy as well as the TLR 22 1:10th buggy. Oliver had this to say about the deal:

I really wanna thank David from Horizon Hobby UK to letting me get this good opportunity and I am really looking forward to represent Horizon Hobby, and get a good year in 2012, with a good package.

Source: Horizon Hobby [horizonhobby.co.uk]

October 5, 2011

Martin Sørlie wins Norwegian Cup Series

Last weekend the final round of the Norwegian Cup Series was held at Radøy RC’s track, about an hour away from the coastal city of Bergen. It was a bumpy astro track with high grip, and although this place is far away from most drivers and often has bad weather, participation was surprisingly high. In 2wd Martin Sørlie running his Team Orion Powered TLR 22 was nearly guaranteed the win in the Norwegian cup with the most points, and with a TQ & 2nd place finish he did so with a 75 point lead ahead of Frode Pedersen and Niklas Bjørkå Roos, both running 22’s as well. In 4wd it was a lot more competition, as there were five drivers theoretically in contention of the cup win. The points from four out of five races count, and having run and won only two races, Martin would need to win this last race with his Team Orion Powered Yokomo Bmax to be able to win the cup. Qualifying second on the grid and winning two of the mains, meant he did his job. 2nd and 3rd place went to Niklas Bjørkå Roos (Schumacher) and Arne-Peder Flesvik (Yokomo).

Thanks to Martin Sørlie for the report.

October 5, 2011

JConcepts Winter Indoor Shootout & Hillbilly Invitationala

JConcepts and Steve “Hillbilly” Hale have teamed up to bring a special event to Real R/C Raceway in Blue Springs, Missouri on November 19-20, 2011. Properly named the JConcepts Winter Indoor Shootout and Hillbilly Invitational takes place directly in the Heartland of America. The famous track owner and “Hillbilly,” known for running some of the best events in the United States has created a special event at his home track where several of the Midwest’s finest racers do battle on a weekly basis. Simply put, this is music to the racers ears.

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October 4, 2011

Matsukura makes it 5 JMRCA 1/12th titles in a row

The JMRCA Japanese 1/12th scale Nationals were held last weekend at the Yatabe Arena on their indoor on road asphalt track which has been covered with carpet. In qualifying it was reigning Japanese and 2-time World Champion Naoto Matsukura, driving for Yokomo that took the top qualifier spot ahead of Corally driver Hideo Kitizawa in 2nd and Daisuke Sakamoto driving the new Kyosho car in 3rd. In the finals it was Naoto that took the win the first two mains to secure the victory ahead of his team mate Murai Masayuki who won the final leg, with Kitizawa taking 3rd overall. In the stock class Naoki Watanabe won for Speedmerchant in front of Corally driver Murai Kazuma and Gou Matsumoto in 3rd with his Associated.

View the final standings here

October 4, 2011

Portuguese Off-Road Series Rd1 report

Last weekend saw the first ever Portuguese EP National Off-Road event at the GodinTTrace track. It was an amazing success with an awesome attendance of 58 drivers with many doing more than one class which saw 73 cars competing over the 4 classes available (4wd and 2wd buggy and Short Course). Among them was Rodrigo Luís, multiple European 1/8th A finalist and recently crowned Portuguese Touring Car National Modified Champion Hugo Miguel.

Continue reading the report here