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May 27, 2013

Mike Swauger continues with Xray through 2013

Xray have announced that former EP World Champion and multiple US National Champion Mike Swauger has confirmed he will continue to race with the Xray team through 2013. Mike will continue to run the RX8 and NT1 at all major onroad races including this year’s World Championships in Japan. He had this to say about the deal:

I would like to thank Ralph Burch and everyone at R/C America and Xray for the past two years of racing. I’m excited to have signed with team again for the 2013 season and looking forward to having a great year of racing with the Xray Team. See you at the next race.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 27, 2013

Team Wild 13 win 24h race in Luxembourg

Since 1999, ETS, EOS & ENS front man Uwe Rheinard has organized his legendary 24h race for 1:10 electric rc cars. Since the beginning Uwe trusted in the Tamiya-plastic-chassis, starting with FWD Chassis FF01 and up to today with the TT01 chassis. Only for one year the teams had to use a foreign car, but at the end it showed, that Tamiya chassis was the best choice. from the start teams from Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria and Luxembourg traveled to five different tracks in Germany to enjoy that awesome endurance-race. A maximum of 7 drivers in each team is allowed which means that every year from 112 up to 168 drivers travel hundreds of kilometers to be part of the longest night in the RC Car scene.

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May 27, 2013

Rheinard wins 2013 Reedy TC Race of Champions

The 2013 Reedy Touring car Race of Champions took place over the weekend at Norcal Hobbies near San Francisco. A very low entry meant only 14 driver competed in the invitational part this year, however there was a lot of talent in the field including last year’s winner Viktor Wilck, recent ETS Rd4 winner Marc Rheinard as well as Christopher Krapp making his first visit to the USA and Akio Sobue coming from Japan, as well as the main top guns from North America. The invite class is heads up racing over 8 rounds with your 2 worst scores dropped. 3-time World Champion Marc Rheinard was the class of the field, the former Reedy Race winner taking 5 wins to seal the 2013 title, while Tamiya team mates Viktor Wilck and Akio Sobue took 3 wins a piece to take 2nd and 3rd respectively and give Tamiya the complete podium. Christopher Krapp and Paul Lemieux completed the top 5.

View the final results here

May 26, 2013

Takaaki Shimo wins 1/8th Pre Worlds

The official 1/8th Pre Worlds race took place this weekend at the Keitune Racing Speedway close Tokyo with a number of foreign racers taking part, including current World Champions Robert Pietsch, Meen Vejrak & Jilles Groskamp. Mostly treated as a test session to learn this difficult track and get some valuable setup information ahead of the event which will be held in October, there was also some bragging rights up for grabs. Qualifying would be a Japanese domination with the locals taking 16 of the top 20 spots including the top 5 with Groskamp the fastest of the rest in 6th. Doing well in qualifying would be down to who could make 5 minutes and it was new Mugen signing Takaaki Shimo and his OS engine that took pole position with fellow Mugen/OS driver Shinnosuke Yokoyama in 2nd. Tadahiko Sahashi would take third for Serpent with Picco team mate Keisuke Fukuda 4th with the all new KM car.

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May 25, 2013

Daniel Sieber takes European 1/8th ‘B’ title

Daniel Sieber takes European 1/8th 'B' title

The 1/8th scale EFRA European ‘B’ Championships were held this week at MAV Raceway in Aigen, Austria, the first EFRA Nitro Championship to use single brand hand out tires. With 91 drivers in attendance they had to deal with not only unseasonal single figure temperatures but also on and off rain throughout the event. Qualifying would go the way of Shepherd/Sonic driver Daniel Sieber claiming the only 20 lap run to claim the TQ spot with Maxi Vogl (Shepherd/Sonic) and Rene Püpke (Serpent/Xceed) completing an all German top 3 with Switzerland’s Claudio Pasquin taking 4th. Semi A would see Sieber cruise through to take the pole position for the main while Semi B would see the end of the meeting for Vogl and Pasquin, Nejc Mihelic taking the win. In the final it was to be a close finish with Sieber again being the man to beat, taking the win and European ‘B’ title ahead of Spain’s Nacho Lopez (Serpent/Xceed) in 2nd, 3 seconds behind the winner, with Michael Klausner (Mugen/Novarossi) claiming the final podium spot 3 tenths of a second back for an amazingly close finish.

View the final standings here

May 20, 2013

Full Throttle Raceway to host 2014 ISTC Worlds

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Having originally passed on their chance to host the IFMAR Worlds next year due to being unable to find a suitable venue willing to host the championships, ROAR got a second chance and has today announced that Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida will host the 2014 ISTC Worlds.

ROAR would like to first thank IFMAR for allowing us to make a second go at hosting the 2014 Electric On Road World Championships. In doing so they have made it possible for ROAR to keep this event in the ROAR Bloc for 2014. We would also like to Thank all of the racers and track operators for their support in bringing this event back. We had but a short window in which to get potential bids in and it was a very tough choice for the Ex comm as all the Facilities where equally capable in holding this prestigious event however we could only pick one. With that being said we would like to congratulate Full Throttle Raceway in beautiful Kissimmee Florida as the host track for the 2014 Electric On Road Worlds. Stay tuned for more updates on this event.

Source: ROAR [roarracing.com]

May 19, 2013

Robert Battle wins rain affected EFRA GP

The French EFRA GP, warm-up for the 1/8th off-road European Championship A, took place in Reims this weekend. The racing was held under terrible weather conditions and had to be cancelled 10 minutes into the first semi final, which was being led by Renaud Savoya, due to pouring rain and a flooded track. The decision was made to base the final results on qualifying awarding 2012 World Champion Robert Battle with the win. Second place went to Jerome Aigoin who was tied on points with Jerome Sartel. Lee Martin and Renaud Savoya ended up fourth and fifth respectively.

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May 19, 2013

Rheinard wins Dutch ETS

Marc Rheinard has claimed his first ETS victory for 12-months, the German taking his third consecutive Apeldoorn win which is where the 3-time former World Champion last stood on the top step of the podium. Dominating the second leg of the A-Main ahead of team-mate Viktor Wilck, who didn’t mount the much anticipated challenge, the win maintains Tamiya’s 100% winning record at the Dutch track, which has now hosted the race 4-times. Behind the Tamiya 1-2, Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker completed the Top 3 with the defending champion and Wilck now set to battle it out for what could be a crucial second place in terms of the championship standings with two rounds still remaining.

View our complete event coverage here.