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April 24, 2010

Short Course Nationals – Announcement

The organisers of the 2010 Short Course Nationals to be held at R/C Madness in Enfield, CT were in touch to promote their event which takes place from the 9th to 11th of July. As the name suggests, the race is only open to short course vehicles by encompasses 7 classes including Slash spec, 2wd stock, 2wd open, 4wd electric small block, 4wd electric big block, mini short course open and finally 4wd nitro open. Registration is now open and you can find the entry form here.

April 23, 2010

Shasa Lackner joins Hot Race Tyres

Italian company Hot Race Tyres have signed front running Swiss driver Shasa Lackner to run their tires in both 1/8th and 1/10th scale for the 2010 season. The Motonica driver, who just signed for Team Magic in 1/10th scale, used the tires to great success, winning the opening round of the Swiss 1/8th scale Nationals in Lostallo last weekend.

April 22, 2010

Matt Gosch joins AKA team

AKA have announced that Matt Gosch has joined their team for the coming season. “Matt and his dad are some of the nicest people you will meet and we are very proud to be apart of what they bring on and off the track”. In Matt’s first race out on AKA tires he TQ’d and won the event and was very impressed with how little the tires wore yet still produced great traction.

Source: AKA [raceaka.com]

April 22, 2010

RC Pro South Rd1 wins for Skidmore & Branham

This past weekend saw Rd1 of the RC Pro South Division take place in Austin, TX. The field was full of quality drivers from all over the state and even some from other divisions, such as Ryan Lopez, who made the trip over for the 250+ entry event. Team Pro-Line driver Kyle Skidmore put on a show in Pro Buggy by TQ’ing 3 of 4 rounds and he would also take the win ahead of Ryan Lopez in 2nd and Mike Battaile in 3rd. In Pro Arena Truck Jason Branham matched Kyle’s performance by also TQ’ing 3 of 4 rounds and going on to take the win ahead of Mike Battaile and Ryan Lopez in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

April 22, 2010

LMI Racing teams with Dirk Wischnewski

LMI Racing have announced a deal with current European 200mm Champion Dirk Wischnewski. The deal will see the German company supply the Xray team driver with LMI, Team Titan & 3 Racing parts as well as the new Blitz body shells.

Source: LMI [lmiracing.com]

April 21, 2010

Harron wins opening round of Irish Buggy Nats

The opening round of the Irish 1:8 Off Road National championship took place last weekend with a 40 strong entry descending on the all astro turf Navan Nitro Nuts track, which plays host to two of the rounds that make up this year’s expanded six round championship. In qualifying it was defending Champion Michael Todd who took top honours with his Losi 8ight over 2008 Champion Mark Harron’s Hot Bodies D8 while Xray’s Barkley Abernethy, winner of the championship finale at NNN last year, secured third on the grid. In the 45-minute final it was a super close racing throughout between Todd and Harron with the latter eventually coming out on top with the pair seperated by just 2.8 seconds at the finish. After terrible luck in qualifying which saw him qualify for the B final, Hobao driver Andrew White bumped up to the A where he put in a great drive to completed the podium. In the Truggy class it was an all Losi podium with Top Qualifier Arron Vance taking the win from Rodger Skelly, while Oisin O’Briain took third.

View the final results here

April 21, 2010

O’Donnell East Coast Championship – Announcement

The O’Donnell Championship race has been a mainstay on the West Coast for years and now with the ever-growing O’Donnell Racing product line it’s time to expand the O’Donnell Championship as well. This summer will mark the first annual O’Donnell East Coast Championship. The event will take place June 4-6 at one of the hottest facilities on the East Coast, RC Excitement. Located in Fitchburg, MA. RC Excitement is a state-of-the-art racing facility with indoor off-road, indoor carpet and outdoor off-road tracks. This race is sure to go down as one of the best on the East Coast. Several O’Donnell factory team drivers, and Steve O’Donnell himself, will be on hand to offer tips for setting up your model and plotting your race strategy around the demanding outdoor track. If that’s not enough, winners of the sportsman classes have a chance to win their very own O’Donnell Z01-B or Z01-T.

See the O’Donnell website at the link below for all the details.

April 21, 2010

Rombouts gets title defence of to perfect start

The opening round of the Dutch 1/10th scale 200mm National Championship got underway at the Groningen track in the north of the country. Nice sunny weather greeted the racers and using a new qualifying system that saw the drivers 3 best laps count towards your start position it was last year’s champion Pedro Rombouts that took the pole position ahead of Daan Jacobs, Jurgen Geerligs, Ricardo van Dam and Remy Moller, with a new system seeing the top 5 now qualifying directly into the main final. In the 30 minute main final Daan Jacobs was the first to retire, an accident on the 2nd lap ending his race. A lot of errors throughout the field on the bumpy track kept things interesting but up front Rombouts steamed ahead to win the race by 3 laps ahead of Ricardo van Dam in 2nd and Ruud Schuitmaker in 3rd, the only driver to do a tire stop in the final. In the Nomac class Arne Schober took the win ahead of pole man Marcel Haenen, with Rob Kreijssen in 3rd. Finally in the 1/8th promo class it was Peter van Dijk on pole position but problems in the final meant he dropped out of contention allowing Marc Meijer to take the win from Mario Gerssen in 2nd and Robert Krens in 3rd.

View the other podiums here