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January 10, 2007

Off-Road Winter Champs 2007

Offroad Winterchamps 2007

Last weekend saw the running of the 2007 off-road Winter Champs race held in Vorarlberg in Austria. The race took place on a wicked carpet off road track with lots of corners, jumps and even a wall ride. The race also attracted some major racers with European Champion Peter Pinisch doing the double by winning the 2wd and 4wd classes, with the Stadium truck class won by Kim Sitensky.

View pictures from the event here and check out the final results here (PDF).

Source: EFAC-Hohenems [efac-hohenems.at] via RC World [rcworld.ch]

January 8, 2007

Novak US Touring Car Champs – Final A Main results

Novak US Touring Car Champs

Now we know that Paul LeMieux dominated the proceedings at the Novak Touring Car Championships but only after the full triple main results were posted do we know who followed Paul home. In the modified class it was a close call for 2nd and 3rd with both Mike Dumas and Billy Easton sharing equal points but Mike getting the decision for the 2nd spot thanks to what appears to be the faster time, while in the 19T class it was Barry Baker who finished 2nd with Josh Cyrul ending in 3rd place.

View the final A-Main results here… content

January 8, 2007

Worksop club Grand Opening race

Neil Cragg Worksop

Last weekend saw the reopening of the famous Worsksop circuit in the UK. This indoor track caters for off road and on road using the same track but with obvious alterations for the different classes. In attendance, and in top form in the 2wd buggy class, was current World Champion Neil Cragg who dominated both qualifying and the race, whilst in the 4wd buggy class it was Adam Skelding who, despite a terrible start, went on the win the event. In the touring car class another World Champion, Andy Moore, was also in attendance along with top racers Olly Jefferies and Ben Cosgrove, the latter running in the new EFRA 5 cell configuration, and who managed to be very competitive until a broke pinion took him out at the start of the finals.

You can read the full report on the event here.

Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]

January 8, 2007

JÃ©rÃ©my Limoges wins Rd3 of French 1/12th Nationals

French 1/12th Nats Rd3

JÃ©rÃ©my Limoges has won the third round of the French 1/12th scale Nationals held at Porte Les Valences. Driving a Trinity Reflex JÃ©rÃ©my won ahead of second place Simon Rubet driving a CRC Carpet Kinfe with Mathias Rascol driving an Associated RC12L rounding out the top 3. Pierre-FranÃ§ois Brunet who won the first 2 rounds of the Championship finished in 8th after some problems.

Source: RC Infos [rcinfos.com]

January 8, 2007

Paul LeMieux dominates Novak US TC Champs

Paul LeMieux

Paul LeMieux has done it again taking the win in both the 19T and Mod classes driving his Xray T2007. Having started from pole in both races he easily won the event by taking the first place in both his first 2 19T and mod finals to win the event without having to take part in the 3rd round of finals. In stock class it was Andrew Ellis that took the win also driving an Xray. More results to follow.

Image: RC Forum [rcforum.co.kr]

January 7, 2007

Paul LeMieux leads qualifying at Novak US TC Champs

Paul LeMieux

After qualifying at this weekends Novak US Touring Car Championships in Wisconsin it is Xray racer Paul LeMieux that is in dominant form, taking TQ spot in both the blue ribboned Modified class as well as the 19T class. Paul is in good company with Josh Cyrul and Barry Baker sharing a 2nd and a 3rd each in both classes in what looks to be a very close run race. First finals are taking place already, with Paul taking a win in his first round final, but because of time differences we wont be able to publish the final race results until Monday morning CET. We will keep you posted.

View all the A-Main starting line-ups here… content

December 30, 2006

Ralph Burch signs for Team Br00d

More driver movements, this time its the turn of US RC racing legend Ralph Burch (old pic) to change motor supplier to Team Br00d. Ralph of course continues with Xray, the car his company RC America imports, and will also continue with SMC batteries. The statement from Eddie O of Team Br00d reads:

Team br00d Racing is proud to announce that Multi-Time National Champion Ralph Burch has signed to race Team br00d Racing Motors……Ralph will continue to run SMC batteries. Ralph will be debuting his br00d powered Xray at the Novak race next week….the one and only Garrett Smith will be tuning Ralph’s Checkpoint based modified motors….

Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]

December 30, 2006

Mike Blackstock signs for Corally

Corally have announced that they have signed this years IIC Modified Foam class winner and former Xray racer Mike Blackstock to race for them from 2007 onwards. With Xray dropping international drivers left right and center with their team shake up a while ago there was suddenly a lot of talent seeking rides and Mike seems to have fallen on his feet with this Corally deal.

Team Corally International is pleased to announce the signing of Mike Blackstock for 2007 and beyond. Winner of the 2006 IIC Modified Foam class, Mike will be an excellent addition to the International Corally Team. Mike’s dedication to on track testing and development will be a great asset to develop current and future Corally products.

Source: Corally USA [corallyusa.com]