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September 25, 2011

Claus Ryeskov wins Danish 200mm title

Even after one of the worst summers in Danish history, all 5 race weekends of the 2011 Danish National 200mm Championships in Vejle, Næstved, Greve, Hillerød and Odense were run in dry weather. The last race of the championship, on a great track for 1:10 cars, was held in Odense with Claus Ryeskov top qualifier, even though Martin NO set the fastest lap time of the qualifying rounds. So the stage was set for an exciting feature race but unfortunately it did not materialise as Martin NO had motor problems within the first 8 minutes of the race. As a result of this, Claus Ryeskov ran a comfortable race with his Novarossi powered Xray and led from start to finish, while 2nd place went to Heinrich Weizer with some nice driving with a borrowed Xray from Claus. Claus Ryeskov won 4 out of the 5 championship rounds and took the title from Martin N.O Hansen driving a Serpent with and Xray driver Daniel Michaelsen in 3rd.

Thanks to Claus Ryeskov for the report.

September 23, 2011

Kody Numedahl wins Colorado State Gas Series

The Colorado State Gas Series is made up of five stops among the top Colorado tracks, which includes Colorado Fast Track, Dirt Works, Rat Raceway, Longmont and Thunder Valley. With National level drivers competing in the series, victory is earned, not given. Team Associated/Reedy driver Kody Numedahl drove his Reedy 121 VR-powered RC8B to the the overall series victory with consistent top finishes and smart racing. Also taking home titles with their Team Associated vehicles were Steve Folle with his RC8Be and Phil Turner with his RC8T.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

September 23, 2011

Hungarian Nationals Rd5 report

The last round of the Hungarian Offroad Championships took place on a newly built track inside a speedway facility in Debrecen recently. It is a US style loamy track with many jumps and tight corners. In Buggy class it was Toth Bence who TQ’d, winning 3 rounds of out 6 in front of Cseko Gergely and Gabnai Gergo. For the finals the track broke up quite a bit so it was real challenge to stay on your wheels without losing a lot of pace. Right after the start Bence and Gergely provided the show for those many speedway fans who visited with very fair and super close racing, continuously changing their position for the lead followed by Bruzsa Richard in a close third. After about 10 minutes Gergely dropped back because of driving errors while Bence and Richard continued swapping their position in front. Gergely was able to pit one less than his rivals and slipped back into the lead while they were out for their last pitstop at the 23 minute mark. This passing maneuver confused both Bence and Richard a bit, they were trying to catch up while racing with each other which resulted in many mistakes that let Gergely to open the gap on them. The race for 2nd remained open till the very last lap.

Continue reading the report here

September 22, 2011

Anthony Mazzara dominates NY City Offroad Champs

Outdoor Off-road R/C racing came to the Big Apple this past Sunday at the newly built Fort Knox RC Park in Bronx, NY. The race was organized by a dedicated group of enthusiastic racers to host the 1st Annual New York City Off-road Championships. TLR team driver Anthony Mazzara was the fastest driver in qualifying taking top qualifying positions in both pro buggy and pro truggy with his TLR 8ight 2.0 and TLR 8ight-T 2.0. Anthony convincingly took the top podium positions with his Nitrotec powered TLR vehicles. In pro buggy Anthony’s TLR teammate, James Schlick, took the runner up position.

View the truggy podium here

September 22, 2011

Keisuke Fukuda wins Japanese 200mm Nationals

The JMRCA Japanese 1/10th 200mm Nationals were held last weekend at Keitune Speedway in Ichihara. Qualifying for the event saw Mugen racer Takehiro Terauchi take the pole position just ahead of Yuya Sahashi in 2nd and multiple National champion Takaaki Shimo for Kyosho in 3rd. The KM team attended the event all the way from Thailand and Meen Vejrak driving the H-K1 would start in 4th. In the final however it was former World Champion Keisuke Fukuda with the Mugen who would take victory by a lap in front of Meen V in 2nd, with Shinnosuke Yokoyama rounding out the podium in 3rd for Xray.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

September 22, 2011

Andy Báez wins Pit Lane Cup

Last weekend the 1st Pit Lane Cup took place in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. KM racing driver Andy Báez took the pole position for the race, while in second position was Fernando Méndez also with a HK-1. In the final the order of the front pairing remained unchanged as Andy took the win by less than a lap from Fernando, with Kyosho driver Anger Santiago in 3rd.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

September 21, 2011

Robert Raphael double at Belgian Nats Rd4

Last weekend was the fourth round of the Belgian championship for 1/8 Gas & 1/8 Brushless. The weather was unstable and at the end of the expert final they had a few showers. The track of the MBRC is fast with great grip and is very tricky after a 8 hours endurance held a few weeks ago. HongNor team driver Robert Raphael managed to win both expert and brushless classes with his X2-CR and NEXX8-E.

View the class results here

September 21, 2011

Michael Klausner wins final round of Austrian Nats

Austrians Number one 1:8 Onroad racer Michael Klausner jun. won the 6th and final round last weekend at LAMAC track in Carinthia. The “Audi Factory” driver starting for PSV Salzburg club and using Mugen/Novarossi/Protoform combination has 4 wins and a second place in his final score. This was not the championship win for the 27 years old having won the Austrian national title for the the last 3 years.

Thanks to Michael Selner for the report.