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March 14, 2011

Yuichi Kanai wins Team C Buggy Cup

The Team C Buggy Cup took place last weekend at the FT Buggy Track in Guangzhou, China and it attracted 120 drivers from Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Taiwan, Hong Kong and of course China. After 5 rounds of qualifying it was former World Champion Yuichi Kanai from Japan that would take the TQ spot. In Sunday’s 45 minute A-main, Kanai was challenged early on from Team C driver Eason Chi, who took the lead after Kanai made a mistake at 5 minutes. Kyosho factory driver Kanai settled down, found his rhythm and was able to get back into the lead a few minutes later and extend his lead to 2 laps by the end of the race. Hot Bodies driver Ping from China took the 2nd spot with Wen Yi from Singapore taking 3rd with his Mugen.

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March 13, 2011

Jerome Aigoin & Martin Bayer win rain affected Silver Pennes

The annual Silver Pennes race in Les Pennes Mirabeau, France took place this weekend and attracted some top drivers from around Europe for the event. Qualifying in the buggy class saw the on form Jerome Aigoin take the TQ spot for Kyosho Novarossi ahead of his brother Yannick Aigoin in 2nd and Martin Bayer in 3rd, both running nVision powered Losi cars. David Ronnefalk would line up in 4th just ahead of Robert Batlle, Elliot Boots and Miguel Mathias. In the truggy class it was Yannick Aigoin that took the top spot once again in front of team mate Martin Bayer in 2nd with Edouard Hugon in 3rd and Ales Bayer in 4th. Unfortunately for finals day the rain came down hard and with only the bravest racers going on track the buggy semi finalists voted to take the qualifying results and so Jerome Aigoin took the win from Yannick Aigoin with Martin Bayer in 3rd. The truggy final was run and that was won by Martin Bayer in front of brother Ales Bayer with Julien Lattanzio taking 3rd spot.

View the truggy podium here

March 11, 2011

Yatabe International off road Grand Prix

The good people at the World famous Yatabe Arena were in touch to tell us about their International off road Grand Prix that they are hosting from the 23rd to the 24th of April this year. An annual event it will be once again held indoors on their clay track and is open to short course, 2wd buggy, 4wd buggy and truck in entry, modified and world classes, the latter being for invited drivers who have placed highly at World Championships, top 10 in Japanese Nationals and their respective country’s National Championship. A pretty standard race format, with 3 rounds of qualifying and 1 final for all lower mains with the A-mains getting 2 races. Entry is now open here.

March 9, 2011

TLR confirm Reedy Race winner for ‘Euro Offroad Series’ pilot event

Team Losi Racing have confirmed 2011 Reedy International Race of Champions Invitational winner Dustin Evans will travel over from the US to represent them at the ‘Euro Offroad Series’ pilot race in Sweden which runs from April 1-3. The 25-year-old from Denver, Colorado, is the latest big name driver to join the growing entry list that already includes current European Champion Lee Martin, former champions Marc Rheinard, Hupo Honigl & Jorn Neumann, Petit RC race winner Paul Bradby and young Swedish star David Ronnefalk.

Continue reading the announcement here

March 6, 2011

Ahoniemi & Honigl claim European 1/12th titles

CRC has done the double at this weekend’s European 1/12th scale championships in Montbrison, France with team drivers Simo Ahoniemi taking the Mod title and Hupo Honigl the Stock title. In Modified qualifying it was Yokomo driver Ronald Volker that took pole position by 2.5 seconds ahead of Simo Ahoniemi in 2nd and Hupo Honigl in 3rd spot, while in the Stock class it was Hupo Honigl that took the top spot by over 7 seconds ahead of Markus Mobers in 2nd and Vesa Yli in 3rd. In the Modified A-mains, it was not a good race for TQ Volker, with a non finish in leg 1 and 2, and despite winning the final leg, this would net the German driver only 6th overall. Leg 1 and 2 were taken by Finnish driver Simo Ahoniemi to wrap up the title with one leg to spare. Austrian Hupo Honigl took 2nd despite a non finish in leg 1, coming back strongly with two 2nd places to take the runner up spot, while rounding out the podium was Associated team driver Olly Jefferies. In the Stock class Hupo took his CRC car to the title with a win in each of the first two legs with Serpent factory driver Markus Mobers taking a consistent runner up spot with three 2nd place finishes. In the final podium spot was Belgian Corally driver Olivier Bultynck who took the win in leg 3 to leap frog Vesa Yli for the 3rd place.

View the final standings here

March 2, 2011

Dirk Wischnewski re-signs with team Xray

Xray is proud to announce that former European Champion Dirk Wischnewski re-joins team Xray for 2011. The German driver had this to say about the new deal:

After 3 successful years with Team Xray I’m happy that we continue our partnership in the future. In the upcoming season I will race not only the 1/10 nitro touring with the Xray NT1 but also I will compete in the German 1/8 On-road Championship with the brand new Xray RX8. My main goal for the upcoming 1/10 nitro touring racing session is to win the European Championship title again, this time in my home country. I like to thank my mechanic Bertram Kessler (German Xray distributor) Juraj, Martin, Mario and everyone at Xray for the great support over the last years. I’m looking forward to great and successful future.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 1, 2011

Ronald Volker defends European Indoor title

Ronald Volker has successfully defended his EFRA European Indoor title with victory over the weekend in Hrotovice in the Czech Republic. The Yokomo driver dominated proceedings, as he has done in almost all races in the past 12 months, and took the TQ spot in qualifying ahead of Xray driver Alexander Hagberg in 2nd and Yokomo team mate Yannic Pruemper in 3rd. In the finals Ronald checked out in the first two to wrap up the title early and so didn’t race the 3rd leg allowing Pruemper and Hagberg to battle it out for the runner up spot. Hagberg with two 2nd spots in the first legs looked favourite to take it but a diff problem allowed Pruemper to snatch the leg win and claim 2nd overall on a tie breaker, with Hagberg having to settle for 3rd spot.

Source: RC Magazine [rcmagazine.cz]

February 28, 2011

Tebo completes clean sweep at Nitro Challenge

Jared Tebo has completed a clean sweep at ‘The Dirt’ Nitro Challenge in Arizona by backing up his thrilling Truggy win with victory in the buggy final over former winner Mike Truhe and World Champion Cody King. Starting from the TQ spot, the Team Kyosho driver dominated the 45-minute race to become the first driver in the annual event’s 12-year history to TQ and then go on to win both classes.

View our full event coverage here.