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October 20, 2007

DHI Cup 2008 – Entry details

DHI Cup 2008

We received confirmation that entry for the 2008 DHI Cup will open on Wednesday the 24th of October, at 19:00 CET. It is with great pleasure, that the team behind the DHI-Cup has announced a three year deal with Odense Congress Centre to host the DHI-Cup. It means that they will have perfect surroundings for this race, with 3000 m2 floor, large tribunal for viewers and visitors, along with a great cafeteria. The track itself will have a size of 22 by 35 meters, and will be on a brand new carpet perfect for racing. New for this year is will be open practise on friday with qualifying beginning on friday evening. Red RC will be present to report live from the event but we will be bringing you more details of our coverage in the near future.

To enter the event, go to the official site here.

October 19, 2007

Juho Levanen wins the ISW

Juho Levanen wins the IWS

Juho Levanen has won last weekends International Speed Weeks run by the rc car club MCC Kastellaun and located in the indoor racetrack RC Car Minidrom. Qualifying saw the pole position go to Kyosho racer Steen Graversen with Xray racer, and Euros TQ, Steven Weiss with his team mate Alexander Hagberg in 3rd. In the race however it was Team Associated racer Juho Levanen that came out on top after the triple A-mains with 2 wins ahead of Graversen in 2nd and newly crowned French National Champion Cyril N’Diaye in 3rd.

Source: Much More [much-more.co.kr]

October 19, 2007

Russian EP off road Cup Final

The last round of Russian EP Off-road Cup 2007 was held in Moscow, Russia on new MRC-models carpet track. It was very difficult race for all the competitors with snow and rain which transformed the track to ice. JConcepts drivers won both categories, buggy 2WD and buggy 4WD with Dmitry Malyshko dominating the last round and winning the Championship in buggy 2WD. Victor Spiridonov won the buggy 4wd title, while in Stadium truck the title was taken by Konstantin Volkov.

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October 12, 2007

Schumacher Cup Denmark – Report

Steen Graversen wins Schumacher Cup

We received a report from the Schumacher Cup 2007 hosted by the Aarhus RC Randers and Randers Hobby Import (importer of Schumacher products) and held in the sports arena Vejlby Risskov Hallen in Aarhus. In the Stock/beginner class it was local youngster Frederik Larsen who was very fast with his Schumacher car from the beginning the of the day and was followed by Brian Lage and female driver Emma Lundgreen in the qualifying rounds. Electronic problems put Mads Madsen in to fourth spot after qualifying, but he had a better performance the A-finals and was able to put pressure on Frederik Larsen, but Frederik was able to keep his pace and won two out of the three finals to take the win ahead of Mads Madsen in 2nd and Brian Lage in 3rd.

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October 3, 2007

N’Diaye is 2007 French National Champion

The last round of the French 1/10th EP Touring car National Championship was recently held at Manspach, in the East of France. Qualifying in the Open A class saw Cyril N’Diaye, racing the new Xray T2’008, dominate the qualification sessions, putting himself into pole position ahead of Tamiya racer Loic Jasmin in 2nd and Lucas Urbain in 3rd. In the Open A final, N’Diaye benefitted from his pole position and was able win the first two finals, taking the overall win with Jasmin just behind in 2nd, with another Xray racer Aurélien Threhout in 3rd place. With this result Cyril N’Diaye was able to clinch the 2007 French National Championships.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 3, 2007

Jimmy Maddison wins IIC Stock class

Schumacher are very pleased with their performance at last weekend IIC event with Jimmy Maddison (UK) and Alan Hewitt (USA) taking 1st and 2nd in the Stock Rubber Sedan class, with Maddison having TQ’d the class. Their Mi3 was also at the top of its game in the 19T Rubber Class with class TQ Randy Caster coming home in 2nd, Jimmy Madison in 4th and 4th qualifier Alan Hewitt in 6th and Foam guru Chris Goetz also took 4th in the Stock Foam A main.

But the REAL story of the race was an astounding display of teamwork and cooperation in the Schumacher pits. As UK team member Jimmy Maddison was struggling with his primary car just an hour before his qualifier, the US team as a whole decided to “team build” his backup kit for him. The team members went to work, and in a flurry of activity they completed the car for him just minutes before his qualifier. Madison then went on to take TQ of the class with that qualifying round! This kind of team effort, friendly attitude and helpfulness were displayed throughout the event, and no single action could do more to personify exactly what it means to be a part of TEAM Schumacher.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

October 1, 2007

International Indoor Championships – Results

International Indoor Championships - Results

Last weekend saw the International Indoor Championships, or IIC as its better known, take place in Las Vegas with the event attracting the best EP drivers in the World. The race was open for 1/10th scale touring car and 1/12th scale with different classes for rubber and foam in the touring class as well as Modified, 19T and Stock in each scale, in total there were 8 classes. The blue ribboned events are the modified classes which attract the most factory drivers and in 1/12th Mod it was current European Champion Andy Moore, racing the new Cyclone 12, that dominated proceedings taking the pole position and in the final the win, coming home ahead of German driver Marc Rheinard in 2nd and top US driver Josh Cyrul in 3rd. In the TC Mod Rubber class it was Xray racer Paul LeMieux that claimed the TQ but in the final he was outpaced by former World Champion Marc Rheinard racing for Tamiya, Paul came home 2nd with another former World Champion Atsushi Hara, racing for Hot Bodies, in 3rd. The TC Mod Foam class saw the pole position go to Corally driver Chris Tosolini, but once more the pole man lucked out and it was Xray driver Teemu Leino that came through to take the win ahead of Tosolini in 2nd with another Xray, that of Paul LeMieux, in 3rd. There was plenty of great close racing in the other classes and you can see all the A-main results below.

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September 30, 2007

Naoto Matsukura wins Japanese 12th Nats

This weekend saw the 1/12th scale JMRCA Japanese Nationals take place at the Yatabe Arene indoor race track. Qualifying for this hotly contested race saw pole position go to young Yokomo driver, and 4wd off road WC finalist, Naoto Matsukura with 2006 National Champion Hideo Kitazawa in 2nd and Masami Hirosaka in 3rd. In the finals it was a complete dominance by Matsukura, winning all three 8 minute A-finals by a massive margin to claim his first National title ahead of 2nd place Hirosaka, while Kitazawa came home 3rd.

View reports from the race here, here and here.

Source: JMRCA [jmrca.com]