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June 28, 2011

Bill Bridges Benefit race

The Bill Bridges Benefit race was at “The Track” in Carleton, Michigan this past weekend. This is Bill’s home outdoor track in the summer and the classes raced consisted of both electric and nitro with the event attracting more than 300 entries. It was amazing to see so many racers and manufacturers come together for this great cause. Racing started at 9am and the mains finished just before 2am. The event raised a substantial amount of money which will help Bill and his family in the months to come. The event itself saw a double win for Losi/Novarossi driver Adam Drake in both buggy and truck with Jason Jakubczyk doing the double in the electric class taking his Kyosho/Orion combo to wins in the mod buggy and SCT mod classes. The event also saw the winners of both Adam’s 8ight and Dustin’s TLR22 picked and it was Pat Schreffler and Dean Ferrari respectively that took them home. Bill’s wife Chrissey had this to say “I want to thank everyone that came out to the benefit race this weekend. We are beyond blessed to have you in our lives and to be able to call you friends. A heavy burden has been lifted off of our family. It meant so much to Bill to see so many people rooting for him. This race did wonders for his spirits!! RC Racers pulled together for an amazing event!! We will be forever grateful!!”

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

June 28, 2011

Ryan Lutz wins SC class at Manufacturers Shootout

The Alabama Manufacturers Shootout took place last weekend in Cullman, Alabama. Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz took an impressive victory in the intense heat with his DESC410R Short Course truck. After taking the opening round of qualifying with his DESC410R Ryan was unlucky with wiring problems in rounds 2 & 3 to see him miss out on directly qualifying into the A-Main – however with bump ups, it was still possible and Ryan didn’t disappoint as he dominated the B-main to go 13th on the grid for the A. After winning the opening leg of the A-main in dominant style, Ryan didn’t hold back in leg 2, launching his Tekin powered DESC410R from the line to pass 8 cars over the first jump on his way to take another leg win and with it the overall victory.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

June 28, 2011

Ryan Maifield does double at AMS

Ryan Maifield has won both the nitro buggy and truggy class the recent Alabama Manufacturer Shootout, a race that packed over 400 entries into a quick three-day format with three rounds of qualifying and 45-minute main events. The newly crowned ROAR truggy national champion and ROAR buggy vice national champion swept both classes with his Associated RC8 FT and RC8T FT CE controlled by an Airtronics M11x transmitter and powered by LRP engines.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

June 28, 2011

Richard Infanti wins Canadian Off-Road Championship Series Rd1

This past weekend round one of the Canadian Off-Road Championship series was held. TLR team driver Richard Infanti secured himself both the TQ and win in the Pro Truggy class and also took the overall win in Pro Buggy after missing the TQ and starting from second place.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

June 28, 2011

SDRC grand opening race

Losi’s Frank Root took the win in the Pro 2 Modified SC class at the SDRC grand opening race in San Diego. SDRC is the newest track to grace the San Diego RC scene, but the only indoor track in years. Using a Losi XXX-SCT with TLR Tuned Kit Frank was the driver to beat by securing TQ six seconds ahead of the competition and taking the overall win.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

June 28, 2011

Dino Giacalone wins 200mm Italian Championship Rd2

Last weekend saw the second round of the Italian 1/10 nitro 200mm championship fought out at the Miniautodromo Black Tarmac in Mesero. Young Dino Giacalone (Capricorn/Capricorn) took the win in the Expert class some three laps in front of Guido Barbera (Xray/Max) and Cristian Costanzo (KM/Novarossi). Both Guido and Cristian made 140 laps and where only separated by eight seconds.

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June 28, 2011

2nd Annual PRCR Invitational

The 2nd Annual PRCR Invitational was held at Portland R/C Raceway in Clackamas, Oregon this past weekend. This is the home track for Kyosho America/Team Orion USA team manager Joe Pillars and most of the pacific north-west top drivers were all in attendance for this event. The classes Raced where Stock Buggy and Short Course, Super Stock Truck, Modified 4WD Buggy, Short Course and 4×4 Short Course together with and Invitational 2WD Modified Buggy class. The biggest class of the event was Invitational 2WD Modified Buggy. All eight rounds of racing were set-up completely random. Four rounds of heads up racing on Saturday and four rounds of heads up racing on Sunday. Each driver would be allowed two throw outs and then use their six best points. At the end of the event, if two drivers were tied on points, then the tie-breaker would first go by the number of 1st place finishes, then to 2nd place finishes, and so on. Then if they are still tied, the second tie-breaker would then go to the fastest 2 times added together by each driver.

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June 26, 2011

Luis Cortez wins Portuguese regionals Rd3

The third round of the Portuguese 1/10 scale 200mm nitro regionals was held at the Circuito Automodelismo do Funchal. In the main final the hot ambient temperatures meant that the engines would make five minutes on a tank of fuel and therefore extra pit stops were needed for refuelling. Also the track temperatures of 65 degrees Celsius let tire wear became an issue. Serpent driver Paulo Rodrigues started from pole position followed by Mugen drivers Hugo Exposto and Rui Cortez. Luis Cortez, the current champion and championship leader had fuel problems in the half final and started from fouth position. In the opening stage of the race Luis Cortez took the lead followed by Hugo Exposto and Paulo Rodrigues. The top 3 were setting the race pace but half way into the race Hugo Exposto came in trouble due a broken front belt forcing him to quit. At the end Luis Cortez won the race for the third time this season, with Paulo Rodrigues in second and Rui Cortez in third position.

Click here to view the final results