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January 2, 2010

Kevin Lee joins X-Factory team

Have recently completed a move to Vampire Racing, UK off-roader Kevin Lee has joined X-Factory in 2WD for the 2010 season. Driving a privately entered X-6 Squared in ’09, he won the National race at Eden Park and put his car in the A-final four times during the season.

2009 was my best year ever in buggy, and the X-6 Squared was almost magic all year, including the A final at Bilbao. When the chance arrived to drive alongside Ellis Stafford and the rest of the X-Team, I didn’t think twice. They were all so helpful last year, I can’t wait to be in the middle of things now. I may even have a go with an X-60.

Lee will continue to drive the Predator for Team Extreme in 4WD, and brings all his other sponsors to the buggy drive, including Tekin, Vampire Racing, The Race Place, Panic Racing, Custom Blitz, and Trishbits.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

December 29, 2009

Kamibayashi crowned 2009 F1RCGP Champion

Have followed the 2009 F1RCGP series in Japan throughout the year, we were sent the fine overall results from the season. In the end it was team Alex Racing’s Hiroshi Kamibayashi driving the Tamiya F103 Zen that took the overall title ahead of Tech F125 drivers Takatoshi Morita and Hideki Tamura in 2nd and 2rd. In the constructors title it was Futable F1 Racing, whose drivers Takatoshi Morita, Kimura Shinya and David Tse held them seal the title. Next seasons F1RCGP series will have 11 rounds, with the finale set to take place in Hong Kong.

Click here to see the standings

December 28, 2009

Czech Xmas Endurance 2009

As a relaxing way to work off the Christmas excesses, a fun three hour endurance race took place in Trutnov in the Czech Republic on the 26th of December. Teams consisted of two drivers using limited 17,5T brushless motors in their cars. A huge carpet track was built on a 20×30 meter area making a lap of 130 meters and so with the winning team achieving 672 laps, it meant a race distance of 87 kilometers. Eight teams took their place on the starting grid and by the end all but one team would finish. Batteries were changed approximately after 20 minutes and due to slower motors there were really small gaps between teams. In the end the team of Tom Knopp & Petr Grof, driving the Xray T3 emerged winners, 10 laps ahead of Zdenda Beneš & Michal Blahovský and Jiří Vyšín & Dan Nečesaný, the second and the third position teams only separated by 10 seconds after 3 hours.

Click here for the final results and more photos

December 28, 2009

HPI Challenge All Asia Finals 2009

The HPI Challenge All Asia Finals 2009 was held at the world famous Radio Controlled Speedway (RCS) Circuit in Bangkok, Thailand at the beginning of December. Drivers gathered from Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand to battle it out over 6 different classes. After 2 rounds of qualifiers on Saturday, the racers prepared themselves for their finals on Sunday which would see plenty of close racing throughout all the classes. In the Electric Powered Sport class it was Tanes M that took the win ahead of Vittaya L in 2nd, while Allister Lim from Singapore, who was running the new 4900mAh 34C 2S1P 7.4V Carbon Edition prototype from Acorn Racing, took 3rd after a win in the first leg.

Click here for the results in the different classes

December 27, 2009

2010 EFRA 1/12th scale Euros – Event site

The organisers of the 2010 EFRA European Championships for 1/12th scale in the UK have been in touch to let everyone who is interested in competing know that the event site is now online. Still in its early stage, the site contains all the basic information for this event which will be held in Hinckley, in the very centre of England, next March.

View the official event site here.

December 26, 2009

Tom Cockerill joins Speed Passion

Speed Passion have announced that front running British off road racer Tom Cockerill has completed a deal that sees him run Speed Passion’s full line of products next season. Tom, who only recently moved to British buggy maker Schumacher had the following to say about the deal:

After testing Speed Passion equipment I knew it was what I wanted to use for the forthcoming season. It is ultra smooth and runs very efficiently, leaving it cooler after a run than anything else I’ve used before. The Speedo’s are very easy to set-up and have enough parameter’s for any driver.

Source: Speed Passion [speedpassion.net]

December 21, 2009

Winners69 Year End race party

The Winners69 year end race party took place in the Miko Mall, Bandung, Indonesia last weekend and was sponsored by Winners69 Hobby Shop. The indoor carpet track layout saw a mix of technical and high speed sections and the race entry was open to 2 classes, 1/10 TC 11.5 R and Mini Class with the race format consisting of 3 x 5 minute runs for qualifying and 3 x 7 minute runs for the finals. In the Stock class it was young Xray Driver, Bowie Ginting who put in the fastest run to claim the TQ followed by Sewaka Ramadhani and Asdi. In the mini class, Imam Resi got TQ followed by long time racer, Yuri Taruna and Eric. In the Stock finals pole man Bowie made a very fast run in all three finals and won all legs to secure 1st place. Second place went to Sewaka Ramadhani followed by Asdi in 3rd place. It was a similar story in the Mini final as class TQ Imam Resi took first place followed by Yuri Taruna and Eric.

Click here for the results and more photos

December 20, 2009

Kevin Lee teams up with Vampire Racing

Vampire Racing have welcomed Kevin Lee to their racing team. As a European A finalist and winner of the BRCA 2wd National at Eden Park Raceway in 2009, he will use the entire Vampire Racing product range for 2010, and have direct input in the development of new Vampire Racing products for the upcoming season.

Source: Vampire Racing [vampire-racing.com]