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January 13, 2010

Phil Sleigh joins Team Associated

CML have welcomed Phil Sleigh to the Associated team for 2010. The former X-Factory driver brings with him a wealth of experience having been racing at national level for many years. The last couple of years have seen Phil move up a level and take his first national victory. Phil will be driving the Associated B4 & B44 cars with Novak Electronics and had this to say about the deal:

Joining the CML team to run for Team Associated is an awesome opportunity. Both the B4 & B44 are proven race winning chassis’ and I hope to use this to produce consistently high National results in both 2WD & 4WD. The team have already been great with set-up help and I’m sure I’ll be taking advantage of the vast AE experience within the team through-out the year. I’ll be running both the Novak Ballistic motors and the soon to be available new Kinetic speedos and from early running the Novak equipment provides excellent power and smooth delivery. I have also taken the chance to switch to running Savox servos, which have become a very popular, affordable and high performance option used by many top racers.

Phil’s racing plans for 2010 include all off-road Nationals, the Euros in Vienna and competing in the Mid-West Regionals.

Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]

January 12, 2010

Short Course RC Truck Champs – Announcement

The Dirt’s Joey Christensen has been in touch to announce the Short Course RC Truck Championship that will take place at the Milestone RC Track on the 30th of January. The event is open to Sportsman spec, Intermediate and Expert short course classes as well as Unlimited 4wd Short course and SC8. Practice is from 10am to 1pm with the racing starting at 2pm sharp, with Championship trophies awarded to all class winners. For more information you can phone Joey at 951.347.4707 or e-mail him at thedirtracing@aol.com

January 11, 2010

Electric Championship Tour Rd3 report

Round 3 of the Electric Championship Tour (ECT) was hosted by Mike’s R/C World this past weekend in Bellingham, WA, located about as far north as you can go while still being in the United States, some 20 miles south of the Canadian border. The track was open on Friday for practice, followed by Saturday for racing, which consisted of 2 qualifiers and triple A-Mains. There were a total of 167 entries for this event, making it the 2nd biggest turnout of the year so far and the drivers were presented with a hi-traction track that had a very technical layout. The Kyosho team had a good day at the office taking 7 class wins. Andy DiBrino took the win in stock truck class, Brian Munn was the winner of the Super Stock Buggy class, Joe Pillars took the win in the 2wd Modified Buggy class, Shaun Dunlap came out the Modified Truck class winner, Jesse Munn took the victory in Super Stock 4wd and Daniel Lee did the double, winning the Stock Buggy class and Super Stock Truck class.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

January 11, 2010

Petit RC GP3F race – Announcement

After the success of the Off road version, French website Petit RC have announced the Petit RC GP3F race for 1:10th electric on road. Held from the 6 to 7th of February in Longwy, France centrally located to Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. The race is expected to attract over 100 drivers and if you wish you enter you can do so now at the official website here.

January 10, 2010

Volker wins 10th Anniversary DHI Cup

Ronald Volker is the 2010 DHI Cup Champion giving Team Yokomo their first ever win at the prestigious Danish race and also their first big win in Europe since Masami Hirosaka won the LRP Masters 10 years ago. The German, who was champion of the event in 2007, took the win after he claimed his second win of the day in the third Leg. In Pro Stock the third A Main saw the two contenders clash on the second lap dropping them out of contention for the Leg win. This meant the title would be decided on times and so Stocker took the title from Bergfeldt in 2nd and Leg 3 winner Yukijiro Umino in 3rd.

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January 10, 2010

Volker takes first A-Main in Denmark

Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker has taken victory in A-Main Leg 1 here at the 10th Anniversary DHI Cup after a thrilling climax to the opening race. Initially it looked as though Top Qualifier Christer Andersson was checking out and that the big battle of the race would be for second but in the final minute the Associated driver caught a dot flipping his TC5.

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January 9, 2010

Andersson on pole for 10th Anniversary DHI Cup

Having just signed a new contract with Team Associated last week Finnish star Christer Andersson has opened his new term with the American company in the best way possible by claiming the Top Qualifier spot at the opening international touring car race of 2010, the 10th Anniversary DHI Cup. The 18-year-old claimed his third consecutive international pole position start when he backed up his Q2 and Q4 TQ runs with second in the final qualifier behind Ronald Volker. His third time to qualify for the A-Main of the prestigious Danish event, Andersson said he is really pleased with the result which he sees as just reward for the hours of development work he has put into the TC5 over the past 12 months.

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January 9, 2010

Rheinard ups the pace in Denmark

Defending DHI Cup Champion Marc Rheinard has upped the pace here in qualifying to claim the third round and move to the top of the Qualification Ranking with two heats remaining. The German was pleased with the 19 laps in 5:04.658 result but feels his Tamiya, which is fitted with 4 turn Speedpassion motor, is too easy to drive. Although very consistent he feels that his 416X can be quicker and so he plans to lower the camber link, something he hopes is the right direction to take.

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