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March 25, 2011

Krakonos 24 hours endurance race

During the weekend of the 19th to 20th March was held 24hr race with 1/10 electric 2wd GT cars on carpet in sports hall in Rtyne v Podkrkonosi, Czech Republic. Cars were powered by 21,5T motors and had to use controlled LRP CPX tires. Only 4 sets of tires were allowed to use during the whole race. Eight teams with six drivers and one mechanic attended this premier year. With 5098 laps won Dodo Team & Ovci farma. Second team RC Blansko was 85 laps back and the third team RC Team Rychvald was only 17 laps behind. The winning team achieved distance more than 630 kilometers.

View the final results here

March 24, 2011

Viper R/C signs Andrew Smolnik

Viper R/C Solutions have announced long time pro racer Andrew Smolnik as the latest addition to their growing team of top level racers. Andrew holds numerous offroad titles and will be a serious contender at both 1/10 and 1/8 electric events. At the first race working with Viper, the 25th Annual Cactus Classic, Andrew took 4th in 2wd 13.5 and 2nd in 4wd 13.5 after a hard fought battle down to the last corner. The Cactus is an excellent proving ground due to the high level of competition and extreme conditions. “I would like to thank Viper R/C Solutions for the opportunity to represent their great product at the race track. I look forward to a long and prosperous relationship. The Viper VTX speed control series and brushless motors have the smoothest most predictable powerband I’ve ever felt, this puts total control at your fingertips.”

Source: Viper R/C [viper-rc.com]

March 24, 2011

Kyosho enter Adachi for EOS pilot event

Kyosho are the latest manufacturer to put their support behind the new ‘Euro Offroad Series’ concept by entering Japanese ace Shin Adachi for the April 1-3 pilot event in Tomelilla, Sweden. The seven time Japanese National off road champion joins a host of top international drivers for the three day indoor clay surface event that will see official factory representation from Team Associated, Losi, Tamiya, Durango and Kyosho. Responsible for the development of Kyosho’s electric competition cars, Adachi will join a strong local Kyosho squad. Teenagers Mikael Johansson and David Ronnefalk both hold European Junior Off Road titles and are the reigning Swedish national EP champions – Johansson the title holder in 2WD and 15-year-old Ronnefalk the champion in 4WD. Both up & coming talents will be hoping to put their knowledge of the Tomelilla track to good use and make their mark in one weeks time.

Read the full release here

March 23, 2011

Mikael Johansson wins both classes at VBC Cup

The Swedish Kyosho drivers continue to dominate the Swedish offroad racing. Last weekend Team Kyosho Sweden driver Mikael Johansson TQ and won the final race of VBC Cup. With this win Mikael also took overall victory in both the 2WD and 4WD class. In 4wd it was Associated driver Niclas Månsson that took 2nd ahead of Kyosho driver Fredrik Peters in 3rd place, while in 2wd it was Associated racer Robert Gustafsson who took 2nd ahead of Niclas Månsson in 3rd.

Source: Team Kyosho Sweden

March 22, 2011

Video – 2011 Cactus Classic finals day action

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Having reported on last week’s Cactus Classic in Arizona at Scottsdale RC Speedway, we have finally got some more action videos online, this time from finals day. Above is leg 2 of the 2wd modified A-main, while below we have the 4wd modified A-main leg 2, the 2wd Short Course modified A-main leg 2 and another bonus video showing some racers trying to pass the time.

View the other videos here

March 22, 2011

Mark Stiles & Andy Griffiths win BRCA 12th Nats Rd6

The 6th and final round of the 2010/11 BRCA 1/12th Scale Nationals took place at Chesterfield last weekend. Most of the regular front runners were in attendance, with the only exception being Elliott Harper who was away in Poland contesting the Euro Touring Series. On Saturday in the stock class Andy Griffiths took pole position driving his Nosram powered V-Dezign. Andy just needed to finish inside the top 3 to secure the British championship, and with his only competitor Chris Kerswell qualifying down in 4th, Andy’s job in the final looked to be relatively straightforward. Matt Varah and Mark Stiles qualified 2nd and 3rd respectively to make it a V-Dezign 1-2-3.

View the complete report here

March 22, 2011

Maifield takes 3 at 2011 Cactus Classic

With qualifying for this year’s Cactus Classic completed on Saturday, Sunday saw the all important mains day with race favorite Ryan Maifield looking to convert his 4 TQ spots into victory. At the end of Saturday’s qualifying, all of the racers in the Pro-4 class were called to the announcer’s booth for a meeting. I was slightly confused why, then I asked Ryan Maifield what was going on? He said a lot of the guys were worried about “nuking” their motors in the scheduled 10-minute main. Their compromise was to run double 5-minute mains. In A1, top qualifier, Ryan Maifield held his lead for the first three laps then let Mike Truhe and Hupo Honigl slip by. The Durango duo of Jorn and Hupo did some swapping of positions with Maifield while Truhe ran away with the win.

Continue reading the report here

March 21, 2011

Bowie Ginting claims Indonesian Rd2 victory

The 2nd round of 1/10 EP Indonesian national championship was held in Sunter International Speedway, which received new asphalt last week. 50 drivers attended this race which was divided into 2 classes, Stock 11.5 class and FD class. The weather was hot and we were sure it could be like that until the end of the race. In Stock qualifying, it was Bowie Ginting who took his Xray T3’11 to the TQ spot followed by Teddy Syach who switched to Tamiya after one year using Hot Bodies, 5 seconds behind Bowie. Dimas Ardian (Hot Bodies), Ronald kasengkang (Tamiya), and Suwardi Suliandy (Xray) completed the top 5 positions. Ade took the TQ spot in the FD class with his TOP Sabre followed by Faiza (TOP) and senior driver, Eka P, who drove his Teddy Syach’ built FD chassis.

Continue reading the report here