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February 16, 2010

Yatabe International Offroad GP 2010

The organisers of the Yatabe International Offroad GP 2010 have asked us to let everyone know about this great event that is taking place at the Internationally famous Yatabe Arena in Japan from the 6th to the 7th of March. So far Ryan Cavalieri (AE), Joern Neumann (Yokomo) and Hupo Honigl (Durango) have confirmed their entry and as usual all of the Japanese factory team drivers from Kyosho, Tamiya, Yokomo, etc will also be in attendance as well. The event is split over the 2 days with 2wd classes, short course, stadium truck, buggy and world class buggy being run on Saturday, while on Sunday there are the 4wd classes, stock class buggy, buggy and world class buggy. Entry forms for both days are available here (Sat 2wd) and here (Sun 4wd) and if you want more information you can e-mail the Yatabe Arena directly at info@yatabearena.com.

Source: Yatabe Arena [yatabearena.com]

February 13, 2010

Euro Indoor Race Belgium report

This past weekend the Euro Indoor Race was held at the indoor off road track of the BRCC club in Charleroi, Belgium. The event is driven on an all astroturf track, equipped with whoops, jumps, table tops and had a very challenging layout and is open to 1/8th BL buggy, 1/10th trucks, 1/10th 4WD buggy and 2WD buggy and it attracted drivers from Belgium, France, Netherlands, the UK and Denmark. Free training on Friday saw 7 rounds of 5 minute qualifying on Saturday and 1 last qualifying round on Sunday followed by 5 finals. In 1/8th, it was Nicolas Hammerton that TQ’d but the battle in the finals was fierce and it was Roger Capelmann that took the overall win. Nicolas Hammerton finished 2nd with third place going to French pilot Philippe Schlafmunter.

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February 10, 2010

22nd Annual April Fools Classic – Announcement

Intermountain RC Raceway has announced the dates of April 9th, 10th & 11th for the 22nd Annual April Fools Classic. With all the common electric classes running from novice, short course and on up through stock, pro stock and modified electric, last years race had over 200 entries with tons of fun had by all over the weekend. This is one of the longest running annual electric indoor races in the country with plenty of legends of RC making a showing in previous years like Pop’s Losi, Brian Kinwald, Matt Francis, Mike Truhe and many others. With an incredible clay surface that has consistent high traction all weekend makes for great racing. Along with the mains in all the classes the triple A-mains in the mod classes always end in quite a show, last year saw a battle between Losi and Associated drivers in all the mod classes with top showings from Brent Theilke, Scott Brown, Dustin Evans, Matt Chambers and Joel Eaton. The sign up sheet and more information can be found on the IRCR website here.

February 10, 2010

Jason Schreffler dominates 13.5 Rubber at Birds

Tekin are reporting on the recent Snowbirds event that saw their team driver Jason Schreffler TQ and dominate the 13.5 Rubber TC class, the hottest class at this year’s event which was filled by some of the toughest, fastest and most competitive TC racers in the World. Jason’s Tekin / TOP / Thunder Power car was on a mission all weekend and even managed to qualify 7th in the Mod Rubber TC class running a 10.5. Fellow Tekin racer Brad Johnson also won the 17.5 Rubber TC class closely followed by TQ Jeff Cuffs who was less than 1.5 seconds behind him, with Jeff also TQ’ing the heavily contested 17.5 GTP class.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]

February 9, 2010

2010 Much-More UK GP Series – Announcement

Much-More Racing UK are pleased to announce their 2010 GP race will take in 3 venues this year, covering Scotland, Northern Ireland and England. The first round of the series will be held on 28-30 May at the superb Stonehaven track near Aberdeen. Following last year’s success in Northern Ireland, round 2 is again at the Ballymoney circuit on 9-11 July. The final round, on 13-15 August will be at Carlisle making the choice of English venue easily accessible to racers attending the first two rounds. The GP meetings have brought together racers from all around the world and delivered some of the closest racing ever seen in the UK. The 2010 series will be the best yet. Andy Moore, Chris Grainger, Elliott Harper and Olly Jefferies have all taken the GP title in previous years. With the best 3 out of 3 rounds to determine the Series Champion in 2010, competition will be fierce to determine the winner of the Much-More UK Cup. For further information and to download an entry form, go here.

February 8, 2010

Union Square Grand Prix – Announcement

We have been contact by the organisers of the Union Square Grand Prix, an exciting high profile event that takes place in the atrium of the new Union Square shopping complex in Aberdeen over the weekend of 17th/18th April. The event offers a unique promotional opportunity to race in front of a large public audience and entry will be open to 1:12 and 1:10 touring car. Concessions for drivers are being finalised along with an ever growing list of sponsors, expect details to be updated on the touring web site touring car web site as they confirmed. At this time the organising team are requesting an e-mail from drivers interested in being part of this exciting event, contact details can be found here.

February 5, 2010

Hupo Honigl doubles up at Snowbirds

At the 2010 Snowbird Nationals in Orlando, Florida, Hupo Hönigl continued his hot streak that started in Vegas in September 09. Hupo was Top Qualifier in both the 1:12th 10.5 class and the 1:10th WGT class with his CRC rides. In the hotly contested World GT class, Hupo took his CRC Gen-X 10 right off the track from his win in Cleveland and continued his victorious ways in Orlando. Hupo won every round of qualifying and the main for a dominant victory. Joining Hupo on the podium was 2nd place qualifier Brian Wynn. Brian took his Advanced powered Gen-X 10 to the front setting quick times all weekend. In 1:12th 10.5, Hupo used his CRC Gen-XL 1/12th car complete with CRC Pro Cut tires to cut up the competition again. Joining Hupo on the podium was Dutch driver Jilles Groskamp.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

February 2, 2010

Simon Moss wins on Schumacher Cougar SV debut

Schumacher are reporting that the Cougar SV made its much anticipated race debut this weekend at the BRCA British Open, which has replaced the Indoor Nationals formally run during the winter season. Against a strong entry of most of the UK’s top electric off road drivers the race could not have gone better for the Schumacher team. The result was a convincing victory in the 2WD class, Simon Moss won all 5 of his races in the Reedy style event to score a maximum perfect score. Simon also recorded the fastest 5 minute run by a huge margin of 5 seconds and fastest single lap with his Speed Passion powered car.

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