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February 15, 2011

Taylor James confirmed at Durango

Team Durango have added Taylor James to their team, where he joins a growing list of some of the fastest, hard-working and well respected racers around. Taylor is based in Missouri USA and known as a 1/8th off road specialist where he’ll be dedicating most of his race time and pushing forward the Team Durango name.

I’m very excited to run for Team Durango this year and look forward putting in good results at all of the races. Team Durango has the philosophy of being very serious about racing and I intend to hold true to that ideal this year and beyond.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

February 15, 2011

JR Mitch wins Florida State Series Rd4

As the Florida State Off-Road Series rolled into Lake Park for round 4, JR Mitch was looking to extend his winning ways. Making quick work of the qualifiers, JR quickly rose to the top of the field by top qualifying in both of the first 2 rounds with his JConcepts equipped Associated RC8B buggy. 3Ds in green compound proved to be the way around the unusually slick track at Lake Park in rounds 1 and 2 as JR blistered the track. As the sun peeked out on Sunday the track started to dry-out and the Lake Park blue groove heated up. JR went to his trusty Crossbow tire combination for the emerging blue groove surface and 30 minute A-main. Once the flag dropped on the A-main, JR was gone, racing out quickly to a 9,10-12 second lead ~10 minutes into the race, it looked like the race was all but over. A mid-race flame-out caused things to tighten-up but JR and pitman Walter Cruz remained calm and within minutes were back into contention. Pushing the RC8B as only a few drivers are capable of, JR made up valuable time and took the lead once again with ~4 minutes remaining. Pulling out to a significant lead with 3 minutes to go JR was back in cruise control and a commanding lead where he would cross the line taking yet another win for JConcepts / Team Associated in 2011.

View a video from the event here

February 14, 2011

Swauger wins Winternats on RX8 debut

Xray are reporting on the debut race of their new RX8 1/8th scale on road chassis, which took the TQ and win at this months Florida Winternats. The team only had 4 of the prototype RX8s in attendance and in qualifying they managed to take 1st and 2nd with Mike Swauger taking the top spot on his race debut for Xray ahead of Paul Lemieux. The 3rd RX8 would qualify in 10th driven by World Champion Ralph Burch who TQ’d sedan. In the final Mike would lead from the off and only gave up the lead twice when he, had a coming together with a back marker and when he pitted for tires. Quicker on the fresh rubber he would unlap himself twice from Lemieux, who wasn’t changing, and take the win.

Read the full report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 10, 2011

Ralph Burch wins Sedan at 2011 Winternats

Powermaster has swept the podium in 200mm Gas Touring Car at last weekend’s Florida Winter Nationals. Current World Champion and Xray factory driver Ralph Burch Jr. not only TQ’d the event but won followed closely by Team Powermaster team mates Paul Lemieux in 2nd and newly signed Powermaster drivers Scotty Gray and Scott Rister finishing third and fourth.

Source: VP Racing Fuels [vpracingfuels.com]

February 9, 2011

Mike Swauger takes victory at Florida Winternats

Byron Fuels Factory Team Driver, Mike Swauger took TQ and 1st place in the 1:8 on road class this past weekend at the 2011 Florida Winternats hosted by the Ft. Myers RC Car Club. Not only was Mike the fastest during qualifying, he dominated the A Main and cruised to victory using the new Xray RX8 with a comfortable 5 lap lead over 2nd place Paul Lemieux. Following closely behind in 3rd place was another Byron Fuels factory driver Paul Ciccarello.

Source: Byron [byronfuels.com]

February 8, 2011

Bernd Rausch re-signs for Kyosho Germany

German front running nitro onroad racer and a finalist at last year’s European ‘B’ Championship, Bernd Rausch will continue to run the Kyosho V-One range of nitro touring cars. During the Nuremberg toy fair he re-signed his contract with Kyosho Germany to drive the all new V-One R4 touring car for 2011 and 2012. Bernd will attend all major local races and EFRA grand prix events as well as the European Championships. He will continue with his other sponsors Team Orion and URS-Racing for the upcoming season. Bernd had this to say:

It is a pleasure for me to continue my relationship with Kyosho Germany for the upcoming years. The V-One R4 is developed using state of the art racing technology and with the experience of well know champions. I can’t wait to put this new car on the track for the first time.

Source: Kyosho [kyosho.de]

February 8, 2011

TLR Winter series Rd1 victory for Drake

Adam Drake has taken victory at the first round of the TLR Winter series in both 1/8th buggy and truck. Last weekend kicked off the series, which consists of four rounds with points being awarded for qualifying and main event finishes, with this opening round attracting 124 entries. Qualifying was controlled by TLR / Novarossi driver Adam Drake, who was able to set the fastest time in both rounds of qualifying for buggy and truck. In the finals Adam continued to put in consistent laps and won the truck final by more than one lap from Jessie Robinson and won the buggy final by more than two laps again from Robinson. Round 2 of the series is February 19th.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

February 8, 2011

Bowie Ginting wins Jakarta GP series Rd1

The first round of 2011 Jakarta Grand Prix series for 1/10 200mm was held at the JITC Race Track, with this championship series also used for “Indonesian Selection Championship” for the 2012 IFMAR World championship. The start of the race was delayed for about 1 hour to wait for the track to dry after it rained on Saturday night. In qualifying it was Bowie Ginting that took the TQ spot with the only 16 laps in the round followed by Fayakhun Andriadi, Chandra Yosef, Andhyka Pranusatya and Heri Susanto.

Continue reading the report here