April 25, 2007

Ronald Voelker wins German Indoor Nats

Ronald Völker wins German Indoor Nats

The race happened 2 weeks ago already but the results and pictures from the 2007 German Indoor Nationals have only come out now. The race took place at the permanent indoor track, Hallenstrecke des Megadroms Geilenkirchen, and was open to both standard and modified classes. In the Modified class it was Ronald Voelker that took the dominant win, driving his Hot Bodies Cyclone, while 2nd position went to Xray racer Steven Weiss with 3rd position falling to the young Kyosho driver Christopher Krapp. In the standard class it was Heinz-Jurgen Kalinowski that took the win, taking 2 final wins to finish ahead of 2nd placed Patrick Pasch with 3rd spot going to to Dominik Reschke.

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April 23, 2007

Chris Kerswell wins Rd1 of BRCA 19T Nats

Chris Kerswell

While the Mod and 27 Turn boys were in Stafford the 19 Turn racers were having their first round of the 2007 National series at the fast flowing Snetterton track. In qualifying it was Chris Kerswell, driving the new Corally RDX Phi, that took the top qualifying spot breaking the class lap record on this way to record a very fast 22 lapper, with Yokomo racer Keith Robertson in 2nd and Schumacher driver Jonathan Dromfield in 3rd. In the finals it was an easy win for pole man Chris Kerswell in both finals and he could take the round win ahead of Keith Robertson in 2nd and Jonathan Dromfield in 3rd.

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April 23, 2007

Chris Grainger wins Rd1 of BRCA Mod Nats

Rd1 of BRCA Mod Nats

Last weekend saw the first round of the BRCA modified championships take place at the Stafford track. Qualifying saw World Champion Andy Moore, driving for Hot Bodies, take the pole position ahead of 2nd place Chris Grainger, driving for Yokomo, and Craig Drescher, with the pre production Associated TC5 in 3rd.

In the first final it was a clean win for Moore who finished just ahead of Xray racer Ben Cosgrove with Grainger in 3rd while in the 2nd final Moore had a coming together with Grainger, which saw Grainger knocked back to 3rd behind Moore and Drescher. Just as Drescher was gearing up for a pass on Moore, the HB driver lost drive gifting Drescher the top spot and win in front of Grainger and Jefferies in 2nd and 3rd respectively. These results compiled gave Yokomo racer Chris Grainger the round 1 win ahead of Xray driver Ben Cosgrove in 2nd and HB racer Olly Jefferies in 3rd.

Also present running at the event was the 27 Turn class which was won by Jimmy Maddison driving the TOP Scythe with Luke Hobson in 2nd and Andrew Twigger in 3rd.

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April 19, 2007

Zack Barry wins Back to Back US 1/18 National Championships

Zack Barry wins Back to Back

Xray have announced that their team driver Zack Barry has just claimed back to back US National titles in 1/18th scale, when he competed last weekend at RC Madness in Enfield Ct. The event attracted over 230 entrants and Zack competed in 4 classes all of which he was highly competitve in.

In 4wd brushless class, Zack qualified in 4th, in what turned out to be the fastest and most competitive class of the whole weekend. The race began with Zack quickly moving up to second position, where he followed for several laps. The leader had a bobble allowing Zack to pass where he ran in 1st for almost the rest of the race…

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


April 18, 2007

French Buggy Nationals – Round 2

French Buggy Nationals - Round 2

The second round of the French Electric buggy Nationals took place last weekend at the Antibes track. Although this was the second round of the Nationals, it was the first outdoor race of the year and in qualifying it was local racer Nicolas Vouilloz that took the TQ spot in the 4wd mod class while in 2wd mod it was Carl Maignien who claimed top spot. In the 4wd mod finals it was Vouilloz, driving his JConcepts BJ4WE, that carried his form forward from qualifying to take the win ahead of Cyril Baldini with X-Factory driver Antoine Rossetti claiming the 3rd spot. In the 2wd mod finals it was Team Losi XX4 racer Carl Maignien that took the win in front of Alex Valente while Olivier Demonfumat took the final spot on the podium in 3rd.

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April 17, 2007

Tiverton Nationals report by oOple

Tiverton Nationals

Last weekend saw the first round of the 2007 Electric off road nationals held at the Heazel Arena, Tivertons indoor racing venue. Jimmy and Vicky were there, racing, snapping photos and taking notes and they now have their race report online. Lots of great pictures will be online soon but in the meantime you can read about the event in which Darren Bloomfield took the win in 2wd and Lee Martin took the 4wd victory.

Read the full report here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]


April 16, 2007

Steen Graversen joins Kyosho

Steen Graversen joins Kyosho

According to a report on RC Zone, Danish driver Steen Graverson has left Tamiya to race for Kyosho Japan. The European Championship finalist and multiple Danish National Champion has left Tamiya after many successful years with the company and will have his first race for Kyosho at the upcoming LRP Masters, the last big indoor race of the season that takes place on April 27th -29th in Eppelheim, near Heidelberg in Germany.

Source: RC Zone [rczone.net]


April 16, 2007

2007 Australian EP10 Off road Nationals

2007 Australian EP10 Off road Nationals

Last week we briefly wrote about the dominance of JConcepts/Team Orion driver Ari Bakla at the recent 2007 Australian EP Nationals held at Maitland NSW. Well now thanks to our reporters down under, RubeDude, we have a full report from that event along with lots of pictures.

Click here to read the full report.

Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]


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