We received a brief report from the 2nd round of 1/10th scale electric touring Danish Nationals that was held last weekend at the GRCC’s large track in Greve. This national round saw 40 drivers in attendance, with 21 competitors competing in 19 turns and 19 competitors in the modified division.
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Team Associated have been in contact to share some great videos from last weekend’s Reedy Race in California. The first 3 videos are from each of the triple A-mains in Modified (A-main 1 above), while the last 4 show the action from round 8 of the Invitational class with the last showing Heat 4 which sees Hirosaka, Hara, Rheinard and Hohwart battling it out for the win.
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Following some running earlier in the year with LRP, R/C Car legend and 14-time IFMAR World-Champion Masami Hirosaka has recently been signed to sister company Team Nosram. For a driver like Masami, only the best possible equipment will do and he has chosen to use Team Nosram brushless motors and speed controls. This combination will give him that important advantage over the competition in this important World Championship year. Masami has been active on the highest level of competition for over 20 years and has proven many times that he is one of the best drivers on the planet. He has won WC titles in both off- and on-road classes but the ISTC title still eludes him, something he hopes to finally win this year.
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Team Magic Europe was in contact to let us know that UK electric on road racer Jason Moggridge has become a member of their official team. Jason finished 4th last year in the UK SLCC, and is currently sitting in 2nd place in this years STCC & SLCC’. Jason will now run with the new Team Magic E4RS for the rest of the season.
Source: TM Europe [teammagic-europe.com]
We received a report from the 2nd round of the 2008 Danish Off-Road DRCMU championship that was run last weekend on the outdoor carpet track in Tinglev. In the Stock class it was again Jesper Rasmussen that was in the fast lane with his Kyosho, followed up by Martin Kristensen driving a JConcept BJ4 in 2nd, and the young Tamiya driver Sebastian Sorensen in 3rd spot after 3 rounds of qualifying.
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We were contacted by the Motorsport Club of Vaasa, who are organizing an Electric off road EFRA Grand Prix in Vaasa between 13th and 15th of June. Last year the club organized the electric buggy Europeans and this year they will be continuing with an EFRA Grand Prix. The race is also be part of the Nordic Championship and for the first time the Nordic Championship title will be open for everyone across Europe.
Once again we have built an event with plenty of extra things for the competitors. We have a partnership with Radisson SAS Royal Hotel to assure comfortable stay in Vaasa. We also have jump contest as we did last year. This time we have very good prizes. The first prize is 4GB iPod Nano and top three prizes will be great as well. We are also having a draw for all the drivers who attend the race. One of the prizes will be 4GB iPod Nano.
Find out more information on the event site here.
The 2008 Reedy Race of Champions was held at the weekend at the Speedworld Raceway in Roseville, California, the first time the race has been held at this venue following the closing of the previous facility. As usual there were 3 classes at this years event, the blue ribboned Invitational class that uses the now famous Reedy Race system consisting of races for points, and the 13.5 Turn class and Open class, both of which consisted of the usual qualifying rounds and triple A-mains. Qualifying for the 13.5T class saw TOP racer Kyle Bergstrom take the pole position from Losi driver Larry Fairtrace in 2nd and Jason Ertracter in 3rd, while in the Open class it was again a TOP on top, with Kevin Jelich taking top spot in front of Associated driver Christer Andersson in 2nd and Randy Caster 3rd. The 13.5 Turn finals saw Losi driver Larry Fairtrace take the overall win from pole man Bergstrom who ended up in 2nd, with EJ Evans putting another TOP on the podium in 3rd. In the Open finals Kevin Jelich managed to maintain his top spot from qualifying and take the overall ahead of Christer Andersson in 2nd and Jimmy Jacobson rounding off the podium for Tamiya in 3rd. In the Invitational class it was a close battle between a number of drivers but in the end Hot Bodies racer Atsushi Hara had the most victories to just beat out Masami Hirosaka by 1 point to take the overall crown. Hirosaka, who was racing the new prototype Yokomo was himself only just ahead of last years winner Marc Rheinard who took the final step of the podium for Tamiya in 3rd spot.
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We received a brief report from last weekend’s Pesta Keamatan Race held in Keningau, Sabah, Malaysia. The race was for electric touring cars and it saw TQ in the modified class go to Serpent racer KS Chu. In the final however, he was outpaced by his S400 team mate David Voo, who went on to win from Chu, who finished 2nd ahead of HPI racer Zamri in 3rd. Also pictured above is Frankie Chee, who finished 3rd in the Stock 23T class.
