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December 15, 2012

Mike Swauger signs for Picco

Picco have announced the signing of Multiple ROAR National Champion Mike Swauger to their factory team. The Hawaii based Xray driver will run the Torque line of engines in his 1/8th and 1/10th scale vehicles. He had this to say:

Let me say thanks to Alberto and Edoardo Picco and Kevin Hutchinson of Kevco Racing, for this opportunity to represent and help promote their products for the next two years (2013-2014). I am very positive about this adventurous partnership and debuting the new 2013 EM X-TYPE long stroke engines at the Winter Nats. I am excited about working alone side of Edo doing R&D and gaining more experience with their products. And to Novarossi “All the Best and Thanks for so many years of support!”

Source: Picco [teampicco.com]

December 14, 2012

Martini & Wilck win at Charity Race Italy

The Charity Race was held for the second time at the RC Landia facilities in Scandiano, northern Italy. The race organizers had decided to repeat the success from last year, where around 100 entries, and a big Charity lottery collected a lot of money to a local children’s hospital. Drivers from all over Europe joined the race, as the competition remained very strong, similar to that of an ETS event. Xray and Hudy were the major sponsors of the event as in the cooperation with the Italian distributor Sprint RC both donated the most of the prizes.

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December 14, 2012

Video – 1/8th Buggy WC A-main

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From our friends at LiveRC, who helped support our coverage in Argentina, comes the IFMAR 1/8th Gas Buggy World Championship A-main in its entirety. With multiple cameras, commentary from Scotty Ernst and Charlie Suangka and interviews following the race, sit back and enjoy the one hour final which saw Spain’s Robert Batlle crowned World Champion.

December 8, 2012

Robert Batlle is World Champion

Robert Batlle is the 1:8 Offroad World Champion after the factory Mugen driver dominated what was a processional and uneventful one-hour final in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Starting the race from second on the grid Batlle took control of the race when pole sitter and early leader Ty Tessmann made a mistake allowing the Spaniard through from where he opened up a lead he would never relinquish to give Mugen their first win since 2004 and the first World title for Novarossi since 1990. Behind Batlle, Tessmann took the runners-up spot with HB team-mate Atsushi Hara third.

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December 8, 2012

Worlds Final grid complete, Boots out

The 12 drivers that will battle it out for the 14th 1:8 Offroad World Championship title this evening in Buenos Aires has been decided but despite being the most spectacular driver all week and the man to top qualifying Elliot Boots won’t be taking part. Boots retired his Novarossi powered Kyosho 6-minutes into the first Semi final with a steering servo failure in his MP9. Winner of the first Semi, pole position for the 1-hour race goes to Tessmann with Robert Battle who won the second Semi starting directly behind the Canadian.

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December 8, 2012

1/8 Finals Update

The final day of the 14th 1:8 Offroad World Championships has arrived and getting the day underway was the 1/8 Finals with the biggest news from the two 30-minute encounters being that defending World Champion Cody King, who ended up in the 1/8 B final after a disappointing qualifying in which he was only 38th, will progress to the 1/4 Finals. The Kyosho/Orion driver had a slow start to the race but worked his way to the front to eventually take the win ahead of the Serpent of pole position starter Billy Easton, Team Associated’s Neil Cragg and Durango’s Joern Neumann. Nuemann who bumped up from yesterday’s 1/16 final started the race 9th and took the lead on the second lap and led for the majority of the race but having one more stop than his rivals, refueling on 6-minutes, he dropped back into the final bump position. The same race saw the end of the event for 2006 World Champion Mark Pavidis who finished 5th.

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December 7, 2012

Steven Weiss wins Hong Kong SAREDC Race

The 15th Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day Celebration Race was held at Hong Kong’s Jordan Valley Park recently. The weather forecast was set to be rainy during the race weekend and there were around 80 local drivers, as well as former World Champion Surikarn C. from Thailand, Derek Hung, Antonio Caroli from South Africa, Steven Weiss from Germany, Lobo Lo and E.J. Evans from the USA who took part in this race. There were three different TC classes and the spec tire was from Solaris. Saturday was the first day with 3 practice rounds and 2 qualification rounds and the track was dry and the traction was pretty good. Steven Weiss with his T.O.P. Racing Photon EX was the quickest in the last controlled practice round 6 seconds in front of Derek Hung. Steven led the first round of qualification, behind him was Derek Hung and EJ Evans however Steven lost 4 seconds in the last minute and Derek Hung won this round by a second in front of Steven with EJ in third. Steven won the second and last round of qualifying with the fastest run, 4 seconds behind him was EJ Evans with Derek in third. Rain on Sunday stopped the race and so T.O.P. driver Steven Weiss won the race with his TQ time from the day before. Derek Hung finished in second and T.O.P. Driver EJ Evans in third.

Source: T.O.P. [top-racing.jp]

December 6, 2012

Final qualifier cancelled, Boots is Top Qualifer

Kyosho’s Elliott Boots has claimed the honour of Top Qualifier for the 14th 1:8 Offroad World Championship after the much anticipated and talked about heavy rain arrived over night in Argentina forcing the cancellation of the sixth & final round of qualifying. Waking to a wet morning in Buenos Aires drivers made their way to the track in the hope that they may get to run today but shortly after 09:00 local time even more torrential rain along with thunder & lightning arrived leaving organisers little option but to cancel today’s racing.

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