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June 9, 2010

Grant Williams joins the Spektrum revolution

Having just recently joined Spektrum, top 1:10 off-road electric buggy racer Grant Williams got off to an absolute flyer with his new equipment, taking TQ honours at the BRCA 2WD and 4WD national held at Eden Park Raceway last weekend. Grant was using the Spektrum DX3R transmitter with the DSM2 micro SR3520 receivers and the new Spektrum surface S6040 high-speed digital servos in both of his Schumacher cars.

Source: Horizon Hobby UK [horizonhobby.co.uk]

June 9, 2010

Race for a Cure – Announcement

Race for a Cure is an event taking place at Goshen Fair Grounds in Goshen CT from the 17th to 20th of June, which will help raise money and awareness for the American Cancer Society. A 4 day event it sees practice on Thursday with both 2wd & 4wd Short Course only running on Friday, 1/8th nitro & electric buggy on Saturday and 1/5th scale buggy & truck on Sunday. All classes get 3 rounds of qualifying and mains and the event is limited to 100 entries per day. Making it a fun day for all the family the fairgrounds are also hosting a bigger event called the Goshen Stampede where there are all kinds of cool things going on with full scale trucks, farm animals, fireworks and live music. The race entry form can be found here (PDF).

June 8, 2010

Asian EP Buggy Party 2010 Rd1

The first selection race of the ‘Asian EP Buggy Party’ was held in the AJ RC Arena in ZhongShan, China on the at the weekend. Due to a change of date, it was clashing with other races and so the turn out was lower than expected, however everyone that went enjoyed a great day of racing with great gifts coming from Speed Passion and JConcepts, together with new decal makers Infinity. The race was held with three 5 minutes qualifies and three 8 minutes finals. TQ in 2wd went to John Ho, who was running the new Schumacher Cougar SV, but in the final it was Antony Kwok driving a self made prototype Losi mid motor conversion XXX-M that won the A-main. Team C driver Cup Yuk Shuen, with the newly release TC-04, grabbed the hotly contested TQ spot for 4WD, while the final again provided a thrilling race with Team Durango Driver John Ho taking the final victory. All the A-main winners were using Speed Passion V3 motors, while everyone ran the JConcepts control tire.

View the final results here

June 7, 2010

Eric Albano wins 17.5 class at RROC

TOP Racing is reporting that team driver Eric Albano has won the Reedy Race of Champions in the 17.5 class. The Reedy Race was held over Memorial Day weekend at Norcal Hobbies,(25 minutes south of San Francisco, California. Eric TQ’d and won the division using a TOP Racing Photon. The TOP Photon had a podium finish in each of the open classes. James Arluck secured the 2nd spot in the 13.5 class and Jesse Stark finished 3rd in the Open Modified class. This is the third year in a row that TOP has won a class at the Reedy Race. Starting in 2008 Kevin Jelich TQ’d and won open modified, in 2009 EJ Evans TQ’d and won both the 13.5 and 17.5 classes using the Photon.

Source: TOP [topracingusa.com]

June 7, 2010

Lee Martin wins 4wd at Eden Park National

oOple are again reporting that Lee Martin has taken his third 4WD national win from three rounds of the 2010 BRCA 10th off road national series, at Eden Park Raceway. Grant Williams once again took TQ and pole on the grid for the three leg finals, but problems plagued the Schumacher driver after winning leg 1. A retirement in leg 2 was followed by a car that just wasn’t quite right in leg three. Lee Martin won, Grant Williams finished second and Tom Cockerill third.

View the full report on oOple here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

June 6, 2010

Ellis Stafford wins 2wd at Eden Park National

oOple are reporting on round three of the 2010 BRCA 10th off road national series that was held at Eden Park Raceway in South West London yesterday. The 2WD event saw the mid motor cars of Ellis Stafford (X6) and Grant Williams (Schumacher Cougar SV) battling it out for domination during qualifying. Some amazing racing in the 3-legged finals saw Ellis Stafford take the overall win with Grant 2nd and Tom Cockerill 3rd.

View the full report on oOple here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

June 4, 2010

Inaugural ROAR 1:8 Electric Off-Road National Championship

ROAR

ROAR and Nor-Cal Hobbies located in Union City, California, have announced the dates for the Inaugural ROAR 1:8 Electric Off-Road National Championship. Following the successful US Championship hosted by Revelation Hobbies in 2009, the electric 1:8 Off-road divisions of 1:8 buggies and 1:8 trucks will now be recognized with level 5 national championship designation. The Event is scheduled to take place at Nor-Cal Hobbies facilities on September 15-19, 2010. As a level 5 ROAR Event, the ROAR race management team will oversee the operation and technical duties associated with such national championships. This event will crown national champions in 2 classes, 1:8 electric buggies and 1:8 electric trucks. Each class will be powered by any ROAR approved battery (up to 14.8v) and ROAR approved motor and vehicles will be subject to dimensional specifications as outlined in the ROAR rulebook vehicle guideline. On-Line registration will begin 12:01 AM Friday June 18, 2010 at the ROAR website.

Source: ROAR [roarracing.com]

June 3, 2010

Cantoni & Alleoti wins Italian TC Nationals

The AMSCI Italian outdoor electric touring car championships took place last week in Florence and is a one off event to determine who is champion in the different classes. In the 6.5 category it was TOP Photon racer Claudio Cantoni that took the winning from pole position ahead of Carlo Parravicini in 2nd and Ivan Buganè in 3rd. In the 17.5 class it was Losi driver Simone Alleoti that took the TQ and followed it up with the win in front of the TOP pairing of Andrea Cappelli in 2nd and Tiziano Borgogni in 3rd.

View the 17.5 podium here