Last weekend saw the Team Orion Cup run in the town of Zillisheim in France. This annual international race was won by Finnish racer Simo Ahoniemi driving his Corally RDX prototype. Second place, and also driving Corally RDX prototype was Marc Fischer from Germany with the final place on the podium going to another German racer racer Toni Rheinard racing the Kyosho Stallion.
You can view the final results sheet here.
Source: Petit RC [petitrc.com]
As we reported yesterday Xray/RB racer Yannik Aigoin has won the GP International De Pierrefeu held in France. This international event attracted over 110 racers and saw the European Champion win by two laps ahead of a close battle for 2nd place between Julian Lattanzio and Renaud Savoya. After 45 minutes only 2 tenths of a second seperated the two drivers and in the end it was Julian that took the position with Renaud in third.
You can view the results sheets and a lot more pictures from the event here.
Image: V.A.M.P. [97339.aceboard.fr]
Paolo Morganti (old pic once more), driving a Serpent 720, has won the US Open Fuel Sedan Championships held this weekend at the Kissimmee track in Florida. With the results taken from three 20 minute main finals of which the best 2 counted, consistency was the order of the day. Pole position man Paolo had trouble in his first round, after some mechanical problem, fought back in the second and third rounds to take 2 wins. Michael Salven who had won the 1st round managed a 2nd in the second round and another 2nd in the final round to take 2nd overall, whilst Chris Tosolini who also had problems in the 1st round fought back with a 3rd place finish in the second round and an unfortunate 3rd position in the third round, after flaming out whilst close to Paolo in 2nd position, to take third overall at the event.
Check out the final mains results here (PDF).
Results from Live RC [liverc.com] Image: Pdub [pdubracing.com]
Tamiya have a report on their site from their recent Asian cup that was held in Bangkok, Thailand in September. Staged in the centre of southeast Asia’s busiest shopping mall, the event not only attracted 104 racers from six countries but also large crowds of spectators, some 20,000 during the weekdays and over 50,000 on the weekend.
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This years Kyosho Masters race, held in Nagano, is over and at the end it was former World Champion Yuichi Kanai who won the Pro event, ahead of fellow Japanese driver Atsushi Kawamoto with Raul Peris Eugenio of Spain rounding out the top 3. Of course the racing at this type of event in itself isn’t so important, but good for building team moral as well as building a few egos and settling some inter team rivalry.
You can view the full Pro results here.
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The Reedy Truck Race of Champions is finished and it was a close race in the Electric mod truck class with Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri tied for points after the 3 finals so the title had to be decided by shortest overall times, and so Tebo won, in a repeat of the 1-2 at the recent US 4wd buggy Nats.
In the Gas truck class it was Ryan Mayfield who won ahead of the ever present Tebo.
You can view more pics here.
Image: RCCA [radiocontrolzone.com]
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
