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July 11, 2008

Renaud Savoya joins Ultimate Racing

Ultimate Racing is pleased to announce that after talking with the French UR distributor Aigoin Racing and testing some UR products during the week in Greece, the 2008 European Champion Renaud Savoya has officially joined the UR team. With this new addition to the pretty established UR team, it now consists of most of Europe’s top drivers like Robert Batlle, Yannick Aigoin, Fabio Boero, Davide Tortorici, Miguel Matias, Graham Alsop, David Crompton, Christoffer Svensson, Julien Lattanzio, Fabrizio Teghesi among others who are already using the high performance UR products.

Source: Ultimate Racing [ultimateracing.es]

July 10, 2008

Barry Baker joins Team Magic

Top US racer and 2007 ROAR National Champion Barry Baker has announced that he is leaving Team RC America and Xray to race for Taiwanese manufacturer Team Magic. A move away from Xray seemed to be on the cards when he started using Team Orion products in his car recently, moving away from the RC America team deal with Trinity. Barry released the following statement:

I just wanted to announce that myself and Team Magic Model LTD. have joined forces! I will be representing Team Magic not only in the racing part of the company but also in the development of the products they have and will be coming out with. I look forward to help with the development of not only the race vehicles but also the RTR vehicles! I will be using all of Team Magic’s Products….E4RS for Rubber tire racing…E4FS for foam tire racing…G4RS for Gas car racing…..and the M1B for 1/8th off road….With the help of K-Factory and H.A.R.D products I will do my best to put them in the winners circle! Not only will I be working directly with the factory, I also will help promote the car not only worldwide but I also know how hard Wolf Hobbies works in the U.S and I will help them as much as I can! I will debut with the cars at the IIC…Anyone going feel free to come check them out and I will be more then happy to answer any question there……As for questions about the Cars right now I need to have a few weeks to learn about them and I will start a question answer thread on here! I would like to thank Team Magic Model LTD.

Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]

July 10, 2008

Neil Cragg retains 2wd Euro title

Our mates at oOple, who are present at this weeks 1/10th EP Buggy European Championships, are reporting that defending champion Neil Cragg got off to a good start in the 2wd class, being quickest in practice and going on to win all five qualifying rounds to take an easy pole for the final. Over the three final legs Neil fought a hard battle with Paul Bradby for the title, a Nail biting fight on the last leg between these two saw Neil take the title, Paul Bradby second and Hupo Honigl third.

Read the full oOple Euros report here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

July 7, 2008

1/8th Buggy Euros – Full gallery online

1/8th Buggy Euros - Complete gallery online

As a wrap up to our coverage from the European 1/8th scale buggy Championships, which was brought to you thanks to Kyosho and LRP, we have now added 70 new images to our events gallery. Newly added are photos from all the finalists, action from the main final and the prize ceremony celebrations as well as close ups of the winning Mugen MBX5R of newly crowned European Champion Renaud Savoya.

Check out our event image gallery here.

July 6, 2008

Kolff and Keur take European titles

This weekend saw another European Championship being run as well as the 1/8th scale buggy Championships in Crete, with the 1/8th scale 40+ and 235mm European titles also up for grabs. Hosted by the MACH track in Heemstede, The Netherlands, this event has a relaxed vibe yet the action on the track was very serious. Qualifying took place on both Friday and Saturday and in the 40+ class it was German Serpent racer Andreas Giesa that took pole position from local Mugen racer Richard Keur in 2nd with Jacky Mouton and Rody Roem completing the top 4, both for Serpent. In the 235mm class it was top Belgian racer Robin D’hondt that took top qualifying honours in front of former European Champion Julius Kolff in 2nd, driving a new hybrid Serpent car, while last years Champion Glyn Beal started 3rd ahead of Serpent designer Rene Cornella taking the last direct qualifying position in 4th.

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July 5, 2008

Savoya is 2008 European Champion

French Mugen racer Renaud Savoya capped off a dominant performance at the European Championships in Crete by taking the European title ahead of former Champion Robert Batlle. The Spanish driver had taken the lead early in the race and pulled out a considerable lead, but a broken rear arm with 15 minutes to go meant that Savoya could come back in the late part of the race, and take the lead from the crippled Hobao driver with just over 10 minutes to go, and never looked back. Batlle ended the race in 2nd, only a few seconds behind, while new HongNor signing Richi Gomez from Spain rounded out the top 3.

View the full coverage on our event site here.

July 5, 2008

Champion Batlle wins Semi Final B

Defending European Champion Robert Batlle has won the second of the Semi Finals here at a very very hot Iraklion Model Centre track. The Spaniard completed the same number of laps as Semi A winner Savoya and managed a faster lap time but was almost 30 second off the pace of the Frenchman who has looked so in control throughout the 5 days of this championships.

View the full coverage on our event site here.

July 5, 2008

Semi Final only a formality for Savoya

The first semi final of the 2008 EFRA European Championship has just taken place and Top Qualifier Renaud Savoya made the 20 minute encounter look like just a formality ahead of the main job in hand, winning the Main Final which gets underway here in Crete at 16:00 local time. Savoya made little or no mistakes during the race and lead from start to finish setting the fastest lap on the way to a 1 lap winning margin over Associated driver Neil Cragg who’s best lap was 7/10th off that of the French Champion. ‘The run was fine and I will stick with the same set-up for the final’, said the very confident Mugen driver. ‘The track is getting tricky over the jumps and there are now holes at the end of the straight which is making my car jump around a lot but its ok.’

View the full coverage on our event site here.