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January 25, 2013

Hai Feng wins Super GP Formula 1 League Rd1

The first round of the Chinese Super GP Formula 1 League took place at the RCI Track in Shanghai. The race series is in its second year now and consists of six races with the first three of them are being run on rubber tires indoor while the last three races are carried out outdoor on foam tires. The first race of the year was won by Wang Hai Feng (T.O.P. Rebel R-F01) with Zhang Fang Zhou (Tamiya F104 WGP) taking second and Bob Peterson (Tamiya F104) taking third place. TQ JJ Wang finished fifth.

Source: T.O.P. [top-racing.jp]

January 23, 2013

Paparegas wins Attiko Offroad Championships Rd2

The second round of the Greek Attiko Offroad Championsships took place at the FRT4 astroturf track near Athens. The race saw a 2WD and 4WD buggy as well as a 2WD SC class and especially especially in the 4WD class a high class field was present including 1/8 buggy Greek Champion Tasos Paparegas with the all new XB4. Tasos adapted to the electric buggy pretty fast and managed to secure TQ with John Papanikolaou starting second and Dimitris Amaxas third in the grid. Paparegas went to win all A finals with dominant performance pulling the fastest times of the day. The second place went to John with Dimitris in third place.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 22, 2013

Mats Angseryd wins VBC Cup

The Xray XB4 made its first appearance in the VBC cup through Mats Angseryd and Lukas Jerresand. The race was held in Eskilstuna Sweden on a tight medium grip carpet track. The day started out in the best possible way with Team Xray Sweden Mats Angseryd leading the field after the first qualifier ahead of Schumacher driver Christer Carlsson and Daniel Björkquist, and on fourth place was XB4 local driver Lukas Jerresand. Normal quick driver Niclas Månsson for Team Associated was looking as quick as ever but had some trouble and had to sit Q1 out after 9 laps due to breaking a front suspension arm. Qualifying would eventually end up with Mats Angseryd as the TQ after winning 3 of the 4 qualifiers, and Angseryd also was the only one in the field reaching 24 laps, and Lukas Jerresand on 5th putting two XB4 in the A-main.

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January 21, 2013

Hart & Clinch win Essex Winter Series Rd 4

The fourth round of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend, and with snow forecast all week, some wondered if the meeting would even take place. However, with Saturday proving nicer than forecast, the EWS team built the track and spent time making sure the venue access road was gritted, ready for the meeting as usual. With no overnight snow, the meeting went ahead as normal, however with snow forecast later in the day, the organisers decided to only run four rounds of qualifying rather than the usual five, to allow people a slightly earlier finish. Despite a few drivers not wishing to travel in the uncertain conditions, an impressive 86 drivers still turned up to race, including Keith Dempsey and Ryan Campbell making the trip over from Ireland. In the Stock 21.5 class, the battle for pole was between series newcomer Gavin Clinch and last year’s runner-up Mark Trinder. Mark topped the first round with his Xray, three tenths of a second ahead of Gavin, with series returnee Matthew Rowe taking third in the round and Trevor Bailey an excellent fourth. Mark also took round two, before Gavin fought back and took his Serpent to the top of the time sheets in round 3, with the fastest time so far.

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January 16, 2013

JBRL Nitro & Electric series – Announcement

JBRL Nitro & Electric series - Announcement

Popular southern California race series, the JBRL have announced dates for each of their 8 round nitro offroad and electric offroad championships. The Nitro series will kick off on April 6th at Thunder Alley and will finish on November 9 at Jimmy Babcock’s own track Hot Rod Hobbies, while the Electric series gets underway on March 2nd at OC/RC Raceway and again will end at HRH, on the 19th of October. You can find the full list of dates here (Nitro) and here (Electric) or by browsing Red RC’s race calendar page here. Full series information can be found here.

January 15, 2013

Tebo & Cavalieri dominate CRCRC Winter Champs

Tebo & Cavalieri victorious at CRCRC Winter Champs

The 25th Annual CRCRC Winter Mid-West Electric Off-Road Championships were held this past weekend in Jeffersonville, OH. This is known as the first big electric off-road race of the new year as well as being one of the longest on-going races to date. This years event reached an outstanding 355 entries. Team Orion would once again have 2 of their aces in attendance this year with Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri. The overall qualifying order in each class was determined by the points system which would take each drivers 2 best qualifying round finishes out of 4. The top 10 drivers from each class would automatically go into the A-Main Events. This would be the first year CRCRC incorporated the bump-up system to their electric race. Lower main events up through the B’s were ran earlier on main day. The top 2 finishers from each main event would bump into the next main. This would make a 12 car field for the triple A-Main Events.

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January 14, 2013

Olly Jefferies takes Autosport GT Cup

The prestigious Autosport International Show at the NEC in Birmingham provided the venue for the BRCA to demonstrate a wide range of radio controlled cars, the show also hosted the Autosport GT Cup Race for 1:10 GT cars. In front of large crowds of motorsport fans some of the UK’s top racers gathered for the GT cup race including 1:12 scale national front runners Mark Stiles and Chris Kerswell, joining them were current BRCA touring car champion Olly Jefferies and his Associated team mate Zak Smith, these four were expected to be the front running drivers but as the event got underway it became clear early on the race would be a straight fight between Jefferies and Smith, using a Reedy format the Associated pair notched up win after win on day one and carried that form on in to Sunday.

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January 11, 2013

Maifield & Hartson win KO Propo offroad champs

The third annual KO Propo Off-Road Championship was held at beautiful West Coast R/C Raceway in La Mirada, California. Over 200 entries from across the country descended upon the Southern California facility to vie for the titles. This event also served as a great warm-up to the Reedy International Off-Road Race of Champions to be held at the same facility later in January.

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