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January 22, 2010

Kevin Jelich takes 2wd Mod at Golden State

Team Tekin’s Kevin Jelich from Norcal Hobbies took the hard earned victory in the highly contested 2wd mod buggy class at the 2nd annual Golden State Electric Challenge held at Lakeport Hobbies raceway. Kevin was surrounded by factory Kyosho driver Tyler Vik, AE Drivers Cody Turner, Chris J., Aaron Biners and more. Kevin utilized the Tekin RS Pro, Tekin Redline 10.5 motor and the new Vegas 2.0 software (203) to take the title and the cash.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]

January 19, 2010

Hupo Honigl joins Team Durango

Having made their intentions clear early on, Team Durango have announced that Austrian racer Hupo Honigl has joined their team. The multiple European Champion will race the company’s DEX410 this season and with the company releasing the DNX408 soon and showing off their prototype DEX210 2wd chassis recently, it would seem that Hupo has all his off road needs covered at Durango.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

January 17, 2010

Jörn Neumann takes 4WD at Petit Race

Our friends at oOple are reporting that Jörn Neumann took the 4WD trophy to go with his 2WD title the day previous at the 2010 Petit Race held at the Maritime Raceway in Kent, England. Jörn dominated qualifying and took the first leg of the A final from pole position with his Yokomo Bmax4. In one of the closest and most hard-fought races Jörn and Lee Martin, driving the Tamiya TRF511, battled the entire 5 minutes nose-to-tail with Lee coming out on top. The final leg was over almost as soon as it started however for Lee when a collision with Richard Lowe dropped both drivers several positions as Jörn began to pull away. Jörn took the third leg and with it his second title of the weekend and 6th Petit win.

Check out the full report over at oOple here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

January 17, 2010

Joern Neumann takes 2wd class at Petit Race

oOple are reporting that Ellis Stafford TQ’d the Petit Race 2WD class but had no luck in the three-leg finals. Instead, it was Joern Neumann that took impressive wins in legs one and two to take the crown and make it three 2WD titles in three appearances. Lee Martin claimed the final leg to take 2nd overall, while Shin Adachi was impressive all day and finished 3rd. In the truck class Richard Lowe, reigning Petit Truck champion, took the win from pole, taking the first two legs despite incredible pressure from Shin Adachi with Cyril Baldini taking third.

Check out the full report over at oOple here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

January 15, 2010

US On Road Champs presented by Novak

As the ringing in of the New Year brings hopes of great things for the coming year, it also means that it is time for the annual event held at Trackside Hobbies in Milwaukee Wisconsin called the United States On Road Championships more commonly know as the Novak Race. For 15 years Novak Electronics has been the title sponsor of this annual event and it continues to draw some of the best drivers in the country.

Continue reading the full report here

January 15, 2010

Nicholas Lee wins ECG Super Series Rd3

Bright and sunny weather welcomed almost 50 drivers to the first race of the year 2010 being held at RaceCraft Infinity Singapore, which saw 2 classes run, Mod and Super Stock. Series point leader, Khamil Hyder from Hobbylink driving his Xray T3 powered by Acorn Racing’s 4900mAh 34C 2S1P 7.4V Carbon Edition Prototype, managed to clinch the TQ spot and win the finals after just 2 rounds of A Main finals from fellow racers Desmond Tan (Xray) and Joe Hwee (Hot Bodies) who finished 2nd and 3rd respectively. Despite some bad luck and transponder problems during the qualifiers, Acorn Racing’s Allister Lim stormed his Hot Bodies through the grid from 8th position to win both rounds of the B Main Super Stock Class, his pace was obviously a class of it’s own.

Click here to see the final results

January 15, 2010

BRCA Micro Nationals Rd4 report

We received a report from the 4th round of the BRCA Micro Nationals that took place in Tamworth last weekend. The pits were buzzing with excitement all day with new chassis and electrical layouts a plenty! Previous Micro Champion SMD’s Craig Harris made his return to competitive micro racing with his prototype LRP Shark. Craig’s Shark ran a modified slipper clutch and a motor mounting layout similar to the Associated B44 to optimize the weight distribution and handling of the car but with only a few minutes of run time on the new chassis even Craig was unsure as to whether his fiddling would reap him any rewards.

Continue reading the report here

January 15, 2010

Ernest Provetti Open letter to RC Industry

Team Epic CEO Ernest Provetti sent us this open Letter to “our Team Drivers and the R/C Industry” and so for the sake of discussion we are going to publish it online. “It is come to my attention that R.O.A.R. is trying to do something which will be very good for the growth and health of our industry and something that has been needed for a long time. When I first started in the R/C industry in 1980 we (R/C industry) had separate classes for beginner drivers. They called it “Production” back in the day. No sponsorship at all. In most of the kit cars you could not even use ball bearings. The thought was “it gave entry level people a place to race who did not have unlimited funds” and allowed a bridge for new customers to transfer over and become long term enthusiasts. This has been sorely missed.”

Continue reading the rest of the open letter