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May 19, 2011

ROAR revise touring car weight limit

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Coming in the next update to the ROAR rules is a change in the minimum weight for the 1/10 Touring class. It’s been observed by the racers on the committee that standard vehicles, without the use of any lightweight components, are much too light and have to mount considerable ballast weight in order to make the minimum weight requirement. As a result, ROAR will reduce the minimum weight from 1420g to 1380g in all classes but VTA/GT classes. These categories tend to use chassis that are inherently heavier, making the 1420g limit more reasonable for just these classes.

Source: ROAR [roarracing.com]

May 19, 2011

Arnaud Mathieu wins French 1/8th Rd2

Last weekend saw the 2nd round of the French 1/8th scale on road nationals take place in Besançon, a track formed back in 1982. Almost 80 drivers turned up across the Elite and National classes, but unfortunately as rain was expected on both Saturday and Sunday the organisers decided to reduce practice in order to run 2 qualifiers. It turned out to be a good decision as the rain made an appearance in the afternoon. In the Elite class qualifying it was reigning champion Richard Volta that took pole position in front of local driver Romain Baehrel with Arnaud Mathieu 3rd. In the National class, first round winner Nicolas Rosado took an easy pole position in front of Stephane Bertrand and Faisal Affejee.

Continue reading the report here

May 18, 2011

Lars Hoppe wins North German season opener

The first round of the North German Championship was held at the track of Hamburg last weekend. After the winter break 37 racers in total found their way to one of Germany’s most famous cities, 21 of them racing in the 1/8th scale class. Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning some light rain showers hit the track which resulted in difficult conditions for the qualifying. According to the new rules of the German Federation everybody has to go through the semis to reach the main final. Shepherd/Novarossi driver Lars Hoppe managed to win his semi by 2 laps which secured him the pole position for the 30 minutes main in front of Jens Stark and Andreas Giesa who won the other semi. At the start of the final Hoppe could defend his lead followed by Giesa and Stark. He increased the gap slightly lap by lap but in the middle of the final Hoppe dropped back to second place having to re-adjust his engine. In the remaining minutes Hoppe showed a strong performance and managed to pass Giesa for the lead. With a gap of 4 seconds he crossed the finishing line in first position followed by the Serpent pairing of Andreas Giesa and Jens Stark.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 18, 2011

Video – BRCA TC National Rd1

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The opening round of the BRCA TC Nationals was last weekend in West London and RC Racing TV made this full report, as they will from all rounds of this year’s series, It includes features, analysis interviews and race action from both classes, Super Touring and 10.5, at an event that attracts the cream of Touring Car talent.

May 18, 2011

Rossetti wins 4wd National Rd3 in France

Round 3 of the French electric off road National championships were held last weekend at the Gargenville track, 50km from Paris. In the 4wd class it was Antoine Rossetti who took the win with his Yokomo B-Max4 Factory Team, having finally gotten over his bad luck seen at previous events. Current French champion Cyril Baldini driving a Durango was 2nd and Armand Latnheaume in 3rd.

Source: ART [asia-racing-team.com]

May 18, 2011

Adam Drake does double at JBRL Rd2

Saturday was the second stop on Southern California’s JBRL series sponsored by Team Losi Racing. Many of the top driver’s attended in preparation for next months ROAR 1/8th fuel Nationals. Some of the nearly 200 entries included Adam Drake, Cody King, Mike Truhe, Dustin Evans, Matt Schreffler, Drew Moller, Travis Amezcua, Brent Thielke, Steven Hartson, Clint Wachter, Colby Poh, Dani Choi, Chad Bradley, Andy Smolnik and Jessie Robinson. In qualifying it was Team Losi Racing / Novarossi driver Adam Drake who set the pace in both of the expert 1/8th classes. The temperatures in sunny CA started to drop by the time the mains rolled around and the track started getting rough.

Continue reading the report here

May 18, 2011

Denney, Kinwald & Theyer take Battle in the Desert Rd1

The Battle in the Desert series kicked off round 1 at SRS Raceway in Scottsdale, AZ. In the 2wd modified class Tanner Denney sat on the TQ position with Jake “Jackie” Thayer 2nd and Brian Kinwald 3rd. As the main kicked off it was Denney taking advantage of a great start and placing his JConcepts equipped B4.1 out front. Kinwald moved into second and within striking distance but Tanner put in a complete race and crossed the finish taking a well deserved win. Dirtinator himself, Brian Kinwald finished 2nd and Billy Fischer 3rd making it a top 3 sweep for JConcepts, Punisher, Double Dees and Groovy products. Moving into modified truck, Brian Kinwald looked amazing as his JConcepts equipped, ICON powered T4.1 tackled the technical SRS track with a TQ run in qualifying. In the main “Dirt” was gone and off into the Sunset for a Modified Truck victory. JConcepts Punisher body and Double Dees tires finished off the winning ride. Last but not least, Jake Thayer put on a clinic in the 4wd modified class. Jakes favorite vehicle was on rails all day and performed flawlessly by taking the TQ and win in the competitive class. Jake’s 4wd buggy was outfitted with Punisher body and JConcepts Double Dees throughout.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

May 17, 2011

Phillip Atondo wins Truggy at Nor-Cal Series Rd2

Nor-Cal Series Rd2 was held at Delta R/C in Antioch CA recently. The track had an awesome layout of big air and fast wide lanes which made for some great racing. TLR team driver Phillip Atondo would qualify 2nd in pro buggy and TQ pro truggy and all A-mains would be 25 minutes, so anything could happen. Atondo would use the advantage of his TQ and get out to a clean start in pro truggy and never look back ending with a nice one lap lead at the finish to take the overall win. Phillip would also take second place on the podium in Pro Buggy with his new TLR 8ight 2.0 Kit.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]