The 7th edition of the Petit Race was held last weekend at Mustit Raceway in Norway. In 2wd buggy, the race was dominated by the Swedes with David Ronnefalk (Kyosho) taking the TQ position and he also ended up taking the win. Second place went to Christoffer Svensson (Kyosho) with 3rd to Oskar Levin (TLR).
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Last weekend was the DHI Cup in Odense, Denmark. The event is held over three days and includes on-road and off-road racing on two separate tracks. On Friday there was practice and one round of qualifying and after a few minor set-up changes Jörn was ready for qualifying. Jörn went on to TQ three out of four qualifying rounds, which put him 1st on the grid in both classes. Triple A-Mains were held on Sunday. The 4WD finals were perfect, with Jörn winning the first 2 mains. In 2nd, it was Martin Bayer and 3rd Tom Cockerill. 2WD was a little more work for Jörn after crashing into a lapped driver on the main straight in A2, which broke his front A-arm. Jörn was able to win A1 and A3, to get the overall victory in 2WD, followed by Tom Cockerill in 2nd and Martin Bayer in 3rd.
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The fifth of eight races of the 2012/13 Mibosport Cup presented by Yokomo attracted again 100 Czech and foreign drivers. The Mibosport Cup is organised by Michal Bok and his crew and the event takes place in the same venue as this weekend’s ETS Rd2. As usually the race was held for a variety of electric classes such as 2WD and 4WD buggy, Formula, Yokomo GT, Stock 17.5T and Modified TC. In the TC Modified class 18 drivers fought for the victory and the battle for TQ was on between Radek Flek, David Nemcek, Mario Sowka and Kuba Simurda. The TQ went to Radek Flek ahead of David Nemcek and Mario Sowka. In the A-Main it was big battle between Radek, David and Mario. The win went to David Nemcek, with Radek Flek in 2nd and Mario Sowka third. A very good race in this category also for Kuba Simurda who was fourth place overall.
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The prestigious Autosport International Show at the NEC in Birmingham provided the venue for the BRCA to demonstrate a wide range of radio controlled cars, the show also hosted the Autosport GT Cup Race for 1:10 GT cars. In front of large crowds of motorsport fans some of the UK’s top racers gathered for the GT cup race including 1:12 scale national front runners Mark Stiles and Chris Kerswell, joining them were current BRCA touring car champion Olly Jefferies and his Associated team mate Zak Smith, these four were expected to be the front running drivers but as the event got underway it became clear early on the race would be a straight fight between Jefferies and Smith, using a Reedy format the Associated pair notched up win after win on day one and carried that form on in to Sunday.
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The annual DHI Cup has opened the 2013 racing season last weekend at a very nice indoor track in Denmark and Martin Hudy sent us this report. “This year the organisers built two tracks, one for on-road racing and one for off-road and the racing as was going on in both categories at the same time, so a lot of action. As usually all the European’s best drivers and factory teams were in the place to fight for the DHI title.
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The organisers the 2012 Dirt Nitro Challenge in Arizona were in touch to tell us about their annual event which will be run from the 20th to the 24th of the February. Back again at the Fear Farm RC Raceway in Phoenix, AZ, the event attracts the best offroad drivers in the World and this year will be no exception. This event is open to both gas & electric 1.8th buggy as well as truggy, short course and 1/5th buggy/truck, with the latter running on a separate track. The event starts on Wednesday the 20th of February for practice and runs through to Sunday the 24th for the buggy mains and you can follow all the action here on Red RC. For more information on the event and details on how to enter you can view the event flyer here.
The third annual KO Propo Off-Road Championship was held at beautiful West Coast R/C Raceway in La Mirada, California. Over 200 entries from across the country descended upon the Southern California facility to vie for the titles. This event also served as a great warm-up to the Reedy International Off-Road Race of Champions to be held at the same facility later in January.
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Space Coast R/C of Cocoa, FL, played host to round 1 of the 2013 JConcepts Super Cup Series. Race 1 of the New Year is something special as everyone is back from the Holidays and itching to get back to racing (many with new cars or equipment). The first race is also when the series banquet kicks off the New Year by celebrating the previous year’s points championships as everyone receives their well deserved awards while letting loose away from the track. The banquet was amazing with plenty of prizes handed out from the series sponsors, video comedy sketches, and gift cards throughout the event. Thank you to the following people who help put this banquet together; Matt Mosieur, Rich Muller, Fred Reep, Jason Ruona, and Allison Ruona. Special thanks to Cheryl Shiver for her amazing photos.
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