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September 4, 2009

Dempsey does double at Irish GP

The inaugural Irish Grand Prix was held over the weekend at the St.Annes track in Dublin where Keith Demspey took double victory winning both the 1:10 Electric and Nitro categories. Heading the entry for the event hosted by the country’s main onroad club, ORCA, was reigning British Champion Kyle Branson who duly went onto TQ the 1:10 nitro class with his factory Sirio powered Serpent. Unfortunately rain arrived after the first round of qualifying and the remainder of the racing would be run on a wet track.

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September 3, 2009

Numendahl wins Colorado State Champs

Held at Denver-Colorado’s Rat Raceway, the Colorado 1/8th Scale State Championships brought out the top Colorado pro drivers including Losi’s Dustin Evans, Matt Chambers and Associated/Reedy’s Adrian Redding. However, the show was stolen by Redding’s teammate and up and coming racer Kody Numendahl. Unable to qualify on Saturday due to commitments at school, Numedahl started last in the bottom final and bumped all the way in to the ‘A’ main event. Starting from 9th on the grid Numendahl quickly found his way to the front by the 5th lap. Utilizing his Reedy 121 VR powered Team Associated RC8B, Numendahl gapped the field and drove off in to the distance to claim the State Championship.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

September 3, 2009

Xray Asia Nitro Challenge 2009

The first Xray Challenge in the nitro class where only NT1 cars were allowed to start was held in the Hong Kong. The race was held on August 15-16, 2009 at the big track situated approximately 60km from Honk Kong City. Drivers from Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Macau, China, Indonesia, Philippines, United Kingdom, and Slovakia participated in this race whose main purpose was to have fun and enjoy racing. Juraj and Martin Hudy attended the race to provide support to all Xray NT1 owners at the race. In total, the race was attended by almost 120 NT1 drivers. This number was fantastic mainly because all drivers used only one brand of car. The race was organized by Honk Kong distributor World Model.

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September 3, 2009

2009 TCS North American Finals

The 2009 TCS North American Finals are over and Tamiya have 3 new champions going to Japan. They are Timmy Valles of the GT-1 class, Lee Passehl of the GT-2 class and Michael Monaghan of the Mini class. Timmy Valles was able to clinch his title in the first 2 in the best of 3 A-Main races as was Lee Passehl, though it wasn’t easy. Timmy had to contend with Joe Glover and James Arluck as both of them were in the hunt to challenge Timmy. In the case of Lee Passehl it was Oliver Clipper and Orlando Sherman that brought their best A-Game to date. Both had cars and great setups to stay close enough to Passehl to give him good scare. In the end it was Lee that kept a cool head and can now be nicknamed the ICEMAN. In Michael Monighans’ case, it came to the third Final A-Main to decide his fate. His nerves in the first main caused him to drive a little erratic and he finished second in the first main.

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August 31, 2009

F1 RCGP Round 7 report

Round 7 of the F1 RCGP was held at the famous Tamiya Circuit last month. The Tamiya circuit is located just in front of the Tamiya Headquarters at Shizuoka and was opened in 1978. No drivers were able to make a run on the practice day due to heavy rain but the weather recovered on the race day.

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August 29, 2009

MRC Models Race 09 – Announcement

The MRC Models Race 09 is the first international electric buggy race to be held in Russia and takes place at the Pilot track in Moscow. Supported by hobby shop MicroRC.ru, hobby company MRCmodels.com and printing company Cherry Pie, the event will run from the 10th to the 13th of September. The use of LiPo packs is allowed and there is a control tire which will be the JConcepts Double Dee. Entry is open to all and further details can be found by e-mailing the organisers here (e-mail).

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August 26, 2009

European Indoor Championships Warm up race

Held in Mäntsälä in Finland, this year’s Rebellion Race will be the warm up event for the 2010 European Indoor Championships (25-28/02/2010) and will be held from the 23rd to the 25th of October. The track is located 45km from Helsinki’s main airport and the 19 x 30 metre track area will use Calandra Racing Concepts HD carpet, the same being used at next months IIC race in Vegas. Running with LiPo batteries, the event is open to a maximum of 120 drivers and entry is based on a first come first served basis.

For more information please contact Olli Andersson (e-mail)

August 26, 2009

Barry Pettit takes East Coast Nitro Series Rd5

This past weekend the 5th round of the East Coast Nitro Series was run at the Outlaw RC Raceway in Aiken, S.C. This track is home to the classic ‘Watermelon’ and always provides true off road excitement with loam and sand, hard packed areas, and an ever changing racing surface of ruts and grooves. Young John McGinty took the Sportsman Buggy class and Randy Cooper, The Easley Ninja” took the Truggy class. The Pro Buggy class was won by Barry Pettit, who also TQ’ed the class. His Mugen MBX-6 was on JConcepts blue compound Crossbows with the new Profiled blue inserts throughout the entire day.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]