This weekend saw the 2nd running of the RB Meeting race, organised by the local importer RB Italia, at the Pista di Capua in Italy. All racers had to run with RB motors and as expected, French racer, RB employee and European Champion Yannick Aigoin took the victory ahead of Samuele Lenzi with fellow Italian Gerardo De Lucia in 3rd.
Source: ModellismoRC [modellismorc.net]
After qualifying it was Team Associated drivers Ryan Cavalieri and Ryan Maifield that top qualify the Factory Modified and Factory Gas Truck classes. California is 9 hours behind us so their race day has just begun, so most likely we will be able to give you the final results of the race Monday morning.
In the meantime you can check out pics of the latest prototype of the Losi XXXT-CR truck of team racer Amezcua… content
The 2006 Reedy Truck Race of Champions takes place this weekend at the Hot Rod Hobbies facility in California. This prestigous event attracts top level competition from around the US and beyond. After 2 rounds of qualifying it was Ryan Maifield who was TQ with his Associated GT2.
We will bring you more on this event as we get it. In the mean time you can check out more images after the jump… content
This weekend sees the Kyosho Masters event being held in Japan. This off road event, which is being covered by Neo-Buggy, has attracted all the top Kyosho drivers from around the world.
World Champ Mark Pavidis is there along with Miguel Matias, Reckward, Thern, Peris, Kawamoto, Kanai, John Agus and young German Philipp Guschl.
Results after practice sees Miguel Matias on top followed by Daniel Reckward with Atsushi Kawamoto in third. You can view the top 10 results sheet here.
Check out Neo-Buggy here for the full picture set.
One of our readers alerted us to the forum thread on rctech.net that shows that some confusion seems to have surrounded the hosting of the 2007 1/8th scale IFMAR World Championships. Originally allocated to Argentina, a member of the South African event hosting committee posted on the forum back in September telling people that the TRAP facility in South Africa had been granted the event after original hosts Argentina had fallen through.
As both countries fall under FAMAR (South America, Africa) they claimed that they had been given verbal confirmation of the hosting change and even with no written confirmation from IFMAR they went ahead promoting the event and placed notification on their website. This notification was retracted last week and an statement issued after the situation was cleared up by IFMAR and it was reconfirmed that Argentina, as normal, would host the 2007 blue ribboned event.
You can read the forum thread here, and check out the very nice TRAP facility here.
Thanks to _cyclops_ for the heads up.
EFRA (European governing body) have released their list of A list drivers for 1/10th IC Track for 2007. This list basically shows who is not allowed to compete at the first ‘B’ licensed European Championships for 1/10th scale taking place in Roeselare, Belgium next year. This ‘B’ championship was added to the calendar due to the huge popularity of the class and the fact that previous European Championships have been oversubscribed. The ‘A’ Europeans for 1/10th scale are held in Madrid, Spain in 2007.
See the full list of A drivers here (PDF).
Source: EFRA [efra.se]
It appears that the US Open Fuel Sedan Championships, being held at the Kissimmee track in Florida at the start of November, will be quite the competitive race. With a lot of top names in the entry list already and high traction guaranteed thanks to new sealer having been laid down on the track recently, we are assured of some quality action.
Top drivers already entered include:
– Josh Cyrul
– Chris Tosolini
– Joel Johnson
– Scotty Gray
– Michael Salven
– Paolo Morganti
See the current & complete entry list here.
Source: RC Pro Series [rcprosites.com]
Xray are carrying a report on their site from their team driver Jon Hazlewood that outlines in detail his super busy and successful 2006 off road race season. Its a good read that outlines the ups and downs of a top RC racer.
The world’s was a good event for me. I managed to qualify into the semi’s. I won my side and made it into the main final. | was very happy to achieve this. Unfortunately my motor eat half the track and stopped working, ending my final. I was still very pleased with the result. Making the main at a Worlds is so hard.
You can read the full report from Jon here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
