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March 18, 2007

2007 Cactus Classic – Qualifying results

Ryan Cavalieri

This weekend sees the first big international electric off road race of the year, the 21st Annual Cactus Classic race that is taking place at Scottsdale RC Speedway in Arizona. Qualifying is over and its the Ryans that are topping the timing sheets in the modified classes with Associated drivers Ryan Maifield taking the TQ spot in truck mod ahead of Ryan Cavalieri in 2nd and current ROAR National class champion Jared Tebo in 3rd. In buggy mod its Cavalieri that has taken the pole spot ahead of Tebo in 2nd, with Japanese legend Masami Hirosaka driving for Yokomo in 3rd while In 2wd buggy mod its a repeat of the top 3 in truck with Maifield in the pole followed by Cavalieri and Tebo in 2nd and 3rd with British driver, and current World Champion, Neil Cragg in 4th. Racing takes place today, Sunday, and we hope to bring you the results when we get them.

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March 14, 2007

1/8th Off road EFRA GP Norway

EFRA GP Norway

We received notification that the organisers of this summers 1/8th Off road EFRA GP in Norway, have opened the event for entries. The event will take place on the 18th – 19th of August this year and will be run by the Grenland Modellbilklubb on their track in Skien, 2 hours south of Oslo. It should be a good event and has already, even at this early stage, attracted over 35 entrants with some top names among those.

Check out their website here for more information.

March 14, 2007

Cristiani wins Euro B warm up race

Euro B warm up race

Current European 1:8 B Champion Andrea Cristiani has won the ‘Warm Up‘ race for the 2007 EFRA European 1:8 IC Track B Championships. Racing at Tolmin in Slovenia over the weekend (10/11 March), the Italian Serpent driver took the win by a narrow 4 second margin over 2007 EC-B title favourite Jernej Vuga from Slovenia who was Top Qualifier for the race.

The pace of racing at the ‘Warm Up’ event was ultra competitive with Cristiani and Vuga pushing each other throughout proceedings with local ace Vuga using his Mugen to set a new lap record time of 16.491 for Minitrack ‘Na Logu’. Italy’s Nicola Ometto, also driving a Mugen, completed the podium. As the current European 1:8 B Champion, Cristiani is not eligible to race in the 2007 EC-B on May 25-27 putting former EC-B Vice-Champion Vuga in a very strong position going into the Bonisio sponsored event.

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March 13, 2007

Daisuke Endo wins Mugen Seiki Asian cup

Mugen Seiki Asian cup

Not much information to go on here other than the results and the fact that the race took place last weekend in Thailand and was very well attended with some top drivers present including Japanese National Champion Kenji Osaka. The buggy race was won by Mugen/OS racer Daisuke Endo from Japan with fellow Japanese Mugen racer Yoshio Otsuka in 2nd and Mugen/Ninja ace Osaka in 3rd. In the truggy class it was Yuichi Ajishi who won from pole, having also TQ’d the buggy class but ran into difficulties in that race, Yoshio Otsuka finished in 2nd place ahead of Sin Dick San in 3rd.

Source: RC Mania [teamrcmania.com]

March 6, 2007

LRP announce Latest Additions to Factory Team

LRP Factory Team

LRP have announced some new additions to their 2007 Factory team that will run with their products in the coming season. All champions in varying classes, Martin Hudy is the first new addition, this years Snowbirds 19T rubber winner, Martin has been improving year on year and will be a good addition to the team. Other driver include Thomas Gunsel, who has been tearing up the tracks in the lower ranks, current French National Champion Cyril N’Diaye who recently signed to Xray as well as 1/12th scale specialist Alexander Stocker and 5th scale champ Markus Feldmann.

To read all the drivers full profiles go here.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

March 2, 2007

Norway EFRA GP 2007

We were asked by the organisers of this months EFRA GP in Norway to give the event a mention on the site, so here it is. The event will take place in Sarpsborg, Norway on the 17th – 18th of March, so if you have nothing in your racing calendar in 2 weeks time and fancy a trip to Norway, this race is for you. The event will cater for EFRA classes 1/10 touring and 1/12th track as well as hosting a non EFRA support class for super stock touring.

You can find out all the information for the event here.

UPDATE: This Event has been canceled due to lack of entries. Read more here.

March 2, 2007

European Championship attracts Champion entry

European B Championships

We received a mail from the guys over at Bonisio informing us that the entries for this years Euro ‘B’ Championships, in Tolmin Slovenia, are filling up fast and attracting some quality drivers to boot. British Junior Champion Ian Campbell and Slovenian National Champion Jernej Vuga are the latest Champions to confirm their entry for the EFRA European Championship 1:8 IC Track B 2007 that takes place on the 25th – 27th of May. The latter driver has the benefit of local track knowledge, which combined with international experience and having been a Vice Champion at the 2003 Euro B’s in Switzerland, will make Vuga one of the favourites for the event. Vuga has also confirmed his move from Serpent to new sponsor, Mugen, for the 2007 season.

Source: EFRA Euros [efraeuros.com]

February 27, 2007

Marc Kreisig wins Kyosho on-road Masters, Austria

Kyosho on-road Masters

Marc Kreisig has shown he was the class of the field at last weekends Kyosho on road Masters held in Wiener Neustadt near Vienna, Austria. The Kyosho racer managed to win the aggregated finals to take the overall win and was followed home by Xray NT1 racer, and race TQ, Manuel Huber who finished 2nd. In third was the NT1 designer and Xray owner Juraj Hudy who had a very good result despite the tough competition and a few problems in the race itself.

Although the driver had some bad luck they were very satisfied with the car’s performance because Martin and Manuel made very fast lap times in each final and were faster than the rest of the pack. However, with the touring bodies they were not able to beat the winner Marc Kreisig who was using a Lola body. For the next race with open bodies Team XRAY will be ready with Lola body.

You can read the full event report here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]