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August 25, 2015

2015 Kyosho Masters USA – Announcement

The 2015 Kyosho Masters USA will be back at R/C Tracks of Las Vegas in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada on November 6th to 8th. The event will see 1/8th Nitro and Electric Buggy racing with world-class drivers such as 2015 European Champion Elliott Boots, 2010 World Champion Cody King, 2010 World and National Champion Jared Tebo as well as Kyosho legend Yuichi Kanai in attendance to name just a few. For more information about the Kyosho-only event as well as pre-registration please contact Joe Pillars at joepillars@hotmail.com.

August 25, 2015

Cavalieri wins at 6th Annual North-West Invitational

The 6th Annual North-West Invitational was held this past weekend at Dave’s R/C Tracks in Hubbard, Oregon, the home track of Team Orion USA team manager Joe Pillars. JP first started this annual event in 2010 and every year has gained more momentum by attracting top level drivers. Fresh off his ROAR Modified National Sweep a few weeks ago, Ryan Cavalieri would once again make the trip up to the beautiful Pacific North-West to compete at this great event. The highly contested Invitational 2WD Modified Buggy class would have its largest entry count in the history of the event with 28 drivers competing. Seven rounds of completely random heads-up racing would be ran in four heats of seven drivers. Then the final round would resort the drivers based on there five best finishes to group the heats with the fastest drivers all racing each other in the last race of the day.

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August 24, 2015

Caribbean Invitational 2015 – Report

JamRock Radio Control Car Club of Kingston, Jamaica, recently hosted its inaugural Caribbean Invitational event. The Jamaicans competed with racers from Curacao as well as Trinidad and Tobago at this historic event whose 3-day schedule included a day of open practice, four rounds of qualifying and single nitro as well as triple electric A-mains. Michael Clarke (Jamaica) took the TQ in 1/10th scale Nitro Sedan, Andy Debique (Trinidad & Tobago) came out fastest in 1/8th Nitro GT, Nikoli Yap (Jamaica) TQ’d 1/8th scale 4WD Open and Marwen Martina (Curacao) put his car on top of the Electric Touring 13.5 Blinky timing sheets.

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August 24, 2015

Nicholas Lee wins Modified Touring class at AOC Rd3

The 3rd round of the Asian On-Road Championships was held at the Urban Playspace track in Singapore. Despite a low turnout of drivers for the event, competition was high with most of Singapore’s top drivers present along with a few racers from Malaysia. The race format saw six qualifying rounds of which four counted toward the qualifying result. Nicholas Lee was the man to beat in the Touring Car Modified class and he would take the TQ in front of Daryl Thong who battled it out with PY Tang for the 2nd place on the grid.

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August 24, 2015

Muchmore UK GP Series Rd2 – Report

Muchmore UK GP Series Rd2 - Report

The second round of the 2015 GP series, was hosted by the Carlisle Radio Model Car Club in the North West of England. The event runs four qualifying rounds on the Saturday with a further two on Sunday morning, followed by triple finals and featuring the five classes of Touring Car Modified, Pro-Stock, Spec, Mini and Formula. In Modified, Xray driver Peter Eagles repeated his success at last month’s round in Stonehaven and took the win in Modified from John Simpson (Schumacher) in second and Adam Howe (Team Durango) in third.

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August 24, 2015

Marcin Maliński wins at Polish 1/8th buggy race

A recent 1/8th Buggy race held in Nowa Gadaka near Lodz saw Serpent racer Marcin Maliński taking the win in the main final with his O.S. powered ride. Fellow racers Igor Goderski (Serpent/O.S.) and Borys Nitschke (Serpent/Novarossi) came in second and third respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 24, 2015

Itävuori & Salmela win 40+ Electric Buggy Worlds

This past weekend the first ever unofficial 40+ 1/10th Electric Off-road World Championships were held in Vaasa, Finland. Run at the same track that hosted the 2011 IFMAR World Championships the event attracted a good amount of drivers. Finnish racer Jari Itävuori made a clean sweep in the 4WD qualifiers to take the overall TQ by winning all four qualifying rounds. Sami Salmela started from second on the grid and Peter Ylikorpi came in third. The opening 4WD A-main then had Itävuori scoring the win with Salmela second and Ylikorpi third.

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August 24, 2015

Michal Milanowicz wins at final Mibosport Onroad Cup

The final round of the Mibosport Onroad Cup was held at the Blansko track in the Czech Republic this past weekend. Good weather made for perfect racing conditions on the small and technical track that saw Michal Milanowicz scoring round TQs in the first and second qualifier of the Formula class, to take the overall TQ. Antonín Hudec put his car on the 2 spot while Miroslav Meloun st. came in third. The triple A-mains then had Michal coming out successful in A1 and A2, handing him the overall win early. In the third main Michal had some bad luck and he only finished 3rd while Miroslav Meloun st. grabbed the overall runner-up spot from Antonín Hudec who rounded out the podium in third.

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