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May 26, 2008

2008 Reedy Race of Champions

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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May 24, 2008

David Voo wins Pesta Keamatan Race

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.

May 15, 2008

Oswestry Nationals report by oOple

Jimmy at oOple has a report on the second round of the BRCA National 1/10th off road series held at Oswestry, that saw Ellis Stafford and XFactory take the TQ in 2WD and the win in both 2WD and 4WD classes. Ellis used the XFactory X6 and X5 squared buggies to take victory – the first for the X6 at UK National level. The battle in both classes was mostly dominated by the same three drivers – Ellis Stafford, Chris Doughty (AE / Atomic Carbon) & Lee Martin (AE).

Read the full report here, including lots of great photos and an on board video.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

May 13, 2008

Lnenicka Ronny takes Rd1 Swiss Nats

The opening round of the Swiss electric touring car Nationals were held recently on the technical Schaffhausen track in Northern Switzerland. Qualifying in the Expert class saw Lnenicka Ronny, driving an Xray T2’008, take the pole postion from his team mate Mario Rigert in 2nd and Robitronic racer Sven Zünd 3rd. In the finals it was Ronny that took the win in the first leg ahead of Philipp Huber and Marc Bösiger, while in the 2nd leg it was won by Zünd just ahead of Ronny, with Bösiger 3rd once more. The final leg saw Lnenicka come good as he took the win, and this secured him the overall win with Sven Zünd taking 2nd overall and Philipp Huber rounding out the top 3. The Amateur class victory went to Philipp Tschupp in front of Adrien Duborgel, both with the Xray T2’008, while Christoph Schweizer took 3rd.

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May 13, 2008

IIC 2008 – Entries now open

IIC 2008 - Entries now open

Scotty Ernst was in touch to tell us that the entry for this years International Indoor Championships (IIC) is now open. This years event will be back on the Las Vegas strip, held at the Riviera Hotel and Casino, which is located very close to where the old Stardust hotel was and allows access to all that Las Vegas has to offer. The new venue will take us back to the style that the inaugural IIC had with an intimate ballroom and great feeling. The classes for the 2008 IIC will be slightly different from the previous events and the organisers are very proud to announce that the IIC will be a 100% brushless event. Entrants may compete in a maximum of three classes, of those three classes a maximum of two touring classes will be permitted. To run three classes one must be 1/12 scale (World GT is being counted as a touring class).

For more information, and to get your entry in, go to the official event site here.

May 12, 2008

ROAR Region 4 Championships

We received a report from Paul Wynn on this year’s ROAR Region 4 Championship that was hosted by the Coral Springs R/C Car Club. This is one of the premier tracks/clubs in the state of Florida and they put on a fantastic show. There were 94 entries between the 5 classes.

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May 11, 2008

Tamiya Asia Cup Rd3 Results

Held last weekend, the Tamiya Asia Cup offered a unique opportunity for Singaporean radio control racing fans to “strut their stuff” at this event which offered different variations of racing activities. This was also an opportunity for diehard race enthusiasts from all over Asia to congregate and compete against each other for a place in the finals. “Apart from encouraging Tamiya R/C owners to meet-up and exchange ideas and racing strategies, the overall winners of the respective Asia Cup categories will get to compete at the Tamiya Asia Cup Finals which will be held in Kulala Lumpur later this year, to qualify for the Tamiya World Cup in Shizuoka, Japan,” explained Andrew Law, Director of Stargek Pte Ltd, Tamiya’s Official Exclusive Distributor for Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

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May 10, 2008

Danish Off-Road Nationals Rd1

The 1st round of the 2008 Danish Off-Road DRCMU championship was run last weekend by the Odense RC Minirace Club, who have put new carpet on the track providing lots of grip, while a new double jump was build for this event.

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