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December 16, 2010

Nitro-X fuel sign JJ Wang

Australian Fuel Company, Nitro-X has announced that they have signed 13 year old JJ Wang. Racing both sedan and 1/8th scale, the young Chinese-American Mugen driver is one of the up and coming young drivers from Asia. At the age of 12, JJ placed 34th in the World Sedan Championships in 2010 and in 2011 will be competing at the 1/8th Scale Worlds in Miami. “I want to thank Nitro-X for their support” said JJ Wang, “I like their new formula fuel which gives me the power and run time I need for competition”.

Source: Nitro-X [nitro-x.com]

December 16, 2010

Alessandro Bracci wins GP di Natale

Last weekend the last 1/8th scale event of the year, the GP di Natale, took place at the Riccione tack in Italy. The beginning of the event was delayed by over an hour due to the cold with temperatures well below zero. Due to this the fastest heats of qualifying came at during the 3rd round and it was Alessandro Bracci set the fastest time with 27 laps followed by Sammarini Sandro and Manuel Tordi, both with 26 laps. After the lunch break for some Christmas food the finals got underway with a close battle for first place between Sammarini and Bracci, but an off by Sammarini gave Bracci the break he needed and he would go on to win with Sammarini in 2nd, 3 laps ahead of third place Manuel Tordi who made the best lap time of the day with a 15,269.

Source: Road Race Riccione [roadracericcione.com]

December 15, 2010

Silver Pennes 2011 – Announcement

The organisers of the Silver Pennes 2011 have gotten in contact to tell us about their annual event which will this year take place from the 11th to 13th of March next year. This big international off road event, which is held at ‘Les Pennes Mirabeau’ in the south of France, close to Marseille, is expect to attract many big names including last year’s winners Jérôme Aigoin and Yannick Aigoin to name but a few. The race is open to gas buggy and truggy classes and registration will open on the 20th of December.

Visit the official event site here.

December 15, 2010

Rick Vrielijnck wins IFMAR 1/8th Pre Worlds

This past weekend saw the Pre Worlds take place at Homestead RC Raceway in Miami, Florida in preparation for next April’s IFMAR 1/8th scale on road World Championships. The race saw the top qualifier from the past 2 gas on road World Championships Robert Pietsch once again take top spot with his self designed Mugen MRX-5 ahead of team mates Mike Swauger and Keisuke Fukuda, with Serpent driver Paolo Morganti rounding out the top 4. In the race it was Dutch driver Rick Vrielijnck who set the fastest lap on the way to the win taking the flag by less than a second from team mate Fukuda in 2nd, both using the new Protoform P909 shell, with Paolo Morganti rounding off the podium in 3rd spot.

View the final standings here

December 14, 2010

4th Annual Toys For Tots race in Porter TX

Mikes Hobby Shop in Porter, Tx, home of the 2010 IFMAR 200mm Worlds, hosted their 4th Annual Toys For Tots Race ending up with 116 entries. Again, a fantastic day (and night!) of racing, with everyone in good spirits as they got started at 3PM. Phil W. and Jeremy Cupps ran a super-smooth program with nearly no hitches and even though they took no breaks between rounds, and only about a 30 minute break before the mains, they were still there until nearly 3am. Estimates put the total of toys donated at about 123 and if you average them at $10/each (many were worth more), then that was close to $1230 worth of toys donated, for a grand total of over $2000 in Toys and Cash. The firemen that picked up the toys said this was far-and-away the largest haul they’d had this season, so congrats to everyone involved.

View the list of winners here

December 14, 2010

Drake wins Union Rescue Mission Toys for Tots event

Last weekend’s Union Rescue Mission Toys for Tots event had over one hundred entries with some of the fastest racers in California coming out to race and help raise money for a great charity. The weather and track conditions at Revelation Raceway were great. In the 1/8th pro buggy class it was TLR / Novarossi’s Adam Drake who set the TQ in both rounds of qualifying. In the final, Drake checked out and won the final followed by teammate Matt Schreffler in second and Barry Baker in third. In the 1/8th pro truck class Adam Drake TQ’d round one, but in round two Phillip Atondo won the heat and set TQ for the event with his Novarossi powered 8ight T 2.0. In the final, Phillip and Adam pulled away from the rest of the field and had an amazing battle until the nine minute mark when Phillip had a problem with his switch. Adam then cruise to victory followed by teammate Matt Schreffler in 2nd.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

December 13, 2010

Alberto García joins team Serpent

Top Spanish driver and European finalist Alberto García joins team Serpent for 2011, looking to continue his great results driving the Cobra 811. Alberto will not only drive but help with support for Serpent racers at races. The 8 time National will equip the Serpent Cobra 811 with Reds Racing engines, Proline tyres, Meccafuel and PowerMax accessories.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

December 12, 2010

Video – 2010 Kyosho Masters Japan

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Kyosho hosted their annual Kyosho Masters event in Japan two weeks ago. In the Invitational class it was former World Champion Yuichi Kanai that took the victory ahead of current Japanese National Champion Kazuya Tanaka in 2nd with newly crowned World Champion Cody King taking 3rd spot. Embedded above and below are videos from that main final.

View the 2nd part here