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October 26, 2006

Ian Whittingham takes overall TORC title

Ian Whittingham

Yesterday we reported on the TORC series from Bedworth, in which we noted that the F2 class had been taken by Elliot Harper. Well the overall TORC series championship went to Ian Whittingham who, driving a Grainger special edition Yokomo, took the title for a second year running.

He was already uncatchable after the Stafford round in August, with three rounds still to go. Ian finished the season with another strong performance taking TQ and overall second place at the Bedworth meeting.

Source: CML Distribution [cmldistribution.co.uk]

October 25, 2006

British 1/12th National – Crewe

Mick Farrell

Once again its Mirage Racing with race reports from their team drivers regarding the recently run 2nd round of the 1/12th Nationals. 12th scale seems to be growing in popularity again and this indoor event saw a full entry.

Andy and Mick were out front, both setting lap times that predicted quicker runs than the previous FTD until disaster struck for Andy – he suffered a chunked tyre following an accident late on in the race. Mick also had to pull out with electrical problems, making it a double blow!

You can read their reports and those of all the Mirage racers here.

Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]

October 25, 2006

TORC series report – Bedworth

TORC Bedworth

The Mirage Racing website has race reports posted from the Bedworth round of the TORC series from team racers Dom Carter and Elliot Harper. In finishing 4th on the day, Elliot managed to wrap up the TORC F2 title with his Orion powered HB Cyclone.

Slowly the pace paid off as I picked off the back markers one by one, eventually finishing in a respectable 4th place and feeling my Cyclone had really performed when I needed it and achieved my personal best lap of 15.49secs. Overall I finished 4th on the day

You can read their reports and those of all the Mirage racers here.

Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]

October 24, 2006

Magnus Vassmar takes 2006 Swedish 1/12th Champs

Magnus Vassmar

Team Orion is reporting on their site that team driver Magnus Vassmar (old picture) has won the Swedish Indoor 1/12th scale Championships. This very talented youngster has now won back to back indoor titles in 1/12th scale as well as 1/10th.

Magnus Vassmar conquered the competition in the 1/12 Modified class at the 2006 Swedish Championships. Utilizing the latest voltage enhanced V-Max Plus RDS IB4200 WC cells, Magnus became double consecutive Swedish Indoor Champion in 1/12 and 1/10 classes.

You can read the full report here.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]Â

October 24, 2006

2006 French off road Champions crowned

French Champions 2006

The FVRC (French Federation) have presented the 2006 Electric off road champions with their winners trophy’s. In the 2wd modified class it was Arnaud Collet who took home the title, in 4wd modified class Vincent Heligoin won and finally in the truck class it was Alain Canova who emerged victorious at the end of the season.

Round by round results and final overall championship standings can be found on the site of the FVRC, here.

Source: Petit RC [petitrc.com]

October 19, 2006

Andy Moore takes Rd1 at BIWS

BIWS Rd1

Current World Champion Andy Moore took victory in the first round of the British Indoor Winter Series held at Don Valley. Driving his Hot Bodies Cyclone in the modified class he finished ahead of team mate Jonathon Bowden with Ben Cosgrove in third. Ben who was making his debut with the Xray T2007 also took victory in the 19T class.

Final Results:
19 turn
1. Ben Cosgrove
2. Jonathon Dronfield
3. Dominic Carter

Modified
1. Andy Moore
2. Jonathon Bowden
3. Ben Cosgrove

Check out the full report including reports from the Mirage team drivers, here.

More pics after the jump… content

October 17, 2006

Xray T2007 performs well on Indoor debut

Jilles Groskamp Xray

Xray are reporting on their win in the 19T Stock class at the Team Orion Speed Weekend last weekend in Germany. The stock class was TQ’d and won by Bastian Henning driving his Xray T2 and they managed to get 5 cars in the final whilst in Modified they got 2 Xray T2007 cars in the final with Jilles Groskamp just missing out on the win and Martin Hudy finishing in 8th.

Although Jilles had bad luck in the first final, he showed his driving skills and car performance in the second final charging hard to take 2nd in the second final behind Marc Rheinard (securing the overall event win for Marc) and winning the third final by 2 seconds after fighting to pass Simo Ahoniemi.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 14, 2006

Xray win the 2006 Curitibano Championship

Fabiano Franco

Xray have a report on the Curitibano Championship in Brazil in which Fabiano Franco driving his Xray T2 won the Championship.

Xray Team Brasil was very satisfied with this season. This round was full of Xray T2 cars. In the TOP eight, 4 drivers were using the Xray T2 chassis and 1 driver was using FK05. FS Modelsport was very proud to see that and to announce that Xray T2 was the champion of Modified Class.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]