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June 12, 2011

Midwest Series Rd2 report

The 42nd annual running of the Midwest Series Round 2 was hosted by Nitro Club of Portage, Indiana. The race was held last weekend and classes included 1/8th scale open, 1/8th scale GT and 1/10th 200m. This was an interesting track, a permanent setup but still a parking lot surface making grip challenging and low 18 second lap times with the 10th scale and just getting into the 16’s with 1/8th open. Qualifying was very tight in 1/8th scale after the second round the top 3 cars had been separated by less than .250 of a second. On day two the track was sprayed again and the grip was very high in the morning shuffling the top 8 cars each round. The track really showed who was able to deal with the changes in traction from round to round. The grip level had changed again by the 1/8th final the track had lost some of its early morning grip and slowed by about .4 to .5 per lap. Jeff Zuccarell took the win in 1/8th open with his Murnan Novarossi powered MRX-5 ahead of Lon Burling in 2nd and Ted Hammer in 3rd. In the 1/10th scale class it was Andy Power taking a clear win from Chris Dosech in 2nd and Loran Whiting in 3rd. Finally in the 1/8th GT Open class Mark Lyday won by 3 laps ahead of Mark Rodney in 2nd, with Karl Ennulat 12 laps further back.

View the other podiums here

June 9, 2011

JJ Wang signs to Novarossi

Novarossi have announced the signing of 13-Year Old Chinese-American JJ Wang to their factory team. The up and coming young driver, who resides in Shanghai, China, is the top 1/8 nitro driver in the country and rising star among the ranks of top Asian drivers. JJ had this to say about the deal:

Ever since I started racing since I was 7.5 years old, I have always thought of Novarossi as the brand that makes the best engines in the world. I am really happy to have this opportunity to race for Novarossi and to be on a team with so many world champions. Now with the power for Novarossi engines, I hope to perform even better at races in China and around the world.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]

June 8, 2011

Central Germany Regionals Rd3 report

Last weekend the 3rd round of the Central German Championship took place at the nice track of Wiesbaden, this years host for the European Championship 40+ at beginning of July. Shepherd factory members Armin Weihert, Alex Kempe and team leader Patrick Schäfer attended the race to give support to all Shepherd customers among the 44 entrants. The track was in good shape and practice started already on Friday followed by additional practice on Saturday morning. In the afternoon the first two rounds of qualifying were scheduled but rain effected the timetable. After the track had dried up finally the race started with damp conditions in the first round but in the second round the track was completely dry. Everybody made a save run as the weather forecast for Sunday predicted additional showers. Luckily the track stay dry all day and some fine racing took place.

Continue reading the report here

June 8, 2011

Adrian Bernsten dominates Rd2 of Swedish Nats

The 2nd round of the Swedish Nationals was host by MHF Skarpnäck on ”Flatenbanen” in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden and Norwegian racer Adrian Bernsten sent us this report. The race was held during the weekend of 4th – 5th June. Classes included were 1:8th scale and 1:10th 200m. I competed in both classes using Xray cars and Capricorn engines. This track is the biggest in Scandinavia and we had approximately 18seconds laps with the 8th scale cars, and 20seconds laps with the 10th scale. This track really showed the difference between good and bad engines. Even though top speed was important, the track was also pretty technical so you also needed good bottom power as well. With my Capricorn LAB-E01 SQ engine in my NT1 and the Capricorn LAB21-BC engine in my RX8 I didn’t have any problems with the power at all, as my engines was of the best during the whole race in both classes.

Continue reading the report here

June 8, 2011

Tim Wood wins BRCA 1/8th Rd3

Mendip hosted round 3 of the 2011 BRCA 1/8th scale championship over last weekend, with the prospect of a very competitive race and good weather which should provide high grip levels. Saturday as expected was very warm with an ambient temperature of around 26 degree C with a very high cross wind but this did not seem to affect the cars on track. The usual top drivers were present apart from Neil Diver who had work commitments but was to arrive on Sunday. The grip levels initially were low which allowed all drivers to setup their engines prior to fine tuning the chassis setup.

Continue reading the report here

June 8, 2011

Hungarian Offroad Championships Rd3 report

Last weekend the 3rd round of the Hungarian Offroad Championship was held in Apaj, a small village about 50km’s from the capital city of Budapest. The event was organised by RCOR, the biggiest Hungarian RC club. They prepared well for this event, once again they arranged permanent marshals so drivers did not need to help after their heats which was quite good news in the very hot weather, around 35°C, and huge dust. Trackside buffet was taking care all of our dining needs. Their track is very versatile, it has all kind of jumps (table, double, triple, step-down) and corners (sweeper, harpin, chicane) especially the long high-speed banked corner after the main straight where you can make your laptime with a big brave heart or sky rocket the car on the ruts into the fence.

Continue reading the report here

June 8, 2011

Yuichi Kanai wins Team C Buggy Cup

The Team C Buggy Cup was hosted by TZ Racing Track Beijing this past weekend and attracted more than 70 drivers from Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China including Japanese former World Champion Yuichi Kanai. It was Kanai who TQ’d and won the one hour A-main, leading from the first lap. The 2nd spot went to Lam with his TP powered Durango, with Li in 3rd with his GO powered MBX6. In the electric buggy class, Team C driver Tommy took an easy win with his T8E in the 8 minutes final.

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June 7, 2011

Video – ROAR Offroad Nats A-main highlights

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIAn7Nq1F1w[/youtube]

Videos of both A-mains from last weekend’s ROAR fuel offroad 8th scale Nationals, held at Thunder Alley, are now online. Showing the highlights from each race, the truggy main is embedded above, with the buggy main below. You can view the rest of our in-depth coverage, along with large photo gallery, photo booth and more videos on our event page here.

View the Buggy main video here