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March 22, 2011

Kyle McBride claims Australian National title

Kyle McBride took his Team Durango DNX408 to National Championship glory this weekend, at the National Titles in Australia. In qualifying, Kyle set the pace in round one and was the only car on 18 lap pace during the round. A hiccup in round two saw a slightly disapointing second in round after hitting traffic. After the disappointment, Kyle was determined to win and after rounds three and four had already secured TQ and didn’t have to run the last qualifier – but of course, he did. Kyle set about the final qualifier driving faster than ever and missed out on lapping second place by only 7 seconds. It wasn’t the way any racer wants to win a big title but due to rain the finals had to be called off and so the results were called on qualifying with Kyle taking the National Title for Durango/OS/AKA/Byron at just 15 years old.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

March 22, 2011

Mark Stiles & Andy Griffiths win BRCA 12th Nats Rd6

The 6th and final round of the 2010/11 BRCA 1/12th Scale Nationals took place at Chesterfield last weekend. Most of the regular front runners were in attendance, with the only exception being Elliott Harper who was away in Poland contesting the Euro Touring Series. On Saturday in the stock class Andy Griffiths took pole position driving his Nosram powered V-Dezign. Andy just needed to finish inside the top 3 to secure the British championship, and with his only competitor Chris Kerswell qualifying down in 4th, Andy’s job in the final looked to be relatively straightforward. Matt Varah and Mark Stiles qualified 2nd and 3rd respectively to make it a V-Dezign 1-2-3.

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March 21, 2011

Bowie Ginting claims Indonesian Rd2 victory

The 2nd round of 1/10 EP Indonesian national championship was held in Sunter International Speedway, which received new asphalt last week. 50 drivers attended this race which was divided into 2 classes, Stock 11.5 class and FD class. The weather was hot and we were sure it could be like that until the end of the race. In Stock qualifying, it was Bowie Ginting who took his Xray T3’11 to the TQ spot followed by Teddy Syach who switched to Tamiya after one year using Hot Bodies, 5 seconds behind Bowie. Dimas Ardian (Hot Bodies), Ronald kasengkang (Tamiya), and Suwardi Suliandy (Xray) completed the top 5 positions. Ade took the TQ spot in the FD class with his TOP Sabre followed by Faiza (TOP) and senior driver, Eka P, who drove his Teddy Syach’ built FD chassis.

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March 17, 2011

Losi reports from 2011 JBRL Electric Series Rd1

This past weekend Southern California racers gathered at Hot Rod Hobbies for the first round of the 2011 JBRL Electric Series and Losi sent us this report. As always, round 1 has a large turnout and this year was no different with 280 entries spread throughout the various classes. With TLR being the headline sponsor for this year’s series, many local team drivers were in attendance. In qualifying Losi Project Manager Keith Whisler set the TQ’s in both Sportsman Stock Buggy and Sportsman Stock Truck. In Modified Buggy, TLR Team Driver and Project Manager Frank Root took the TQ over a field of world class drivers. Root was running the new TLR 22 in mid motor configuration in preparation for the upcoming Cactus Classic. In the Sportsman mains Whisler took advantage of both his TQ positions and completed the sweep of both classes. To take the wins, Whisler used Xcelorin ESC’s and batteries, the Spektrum DX3R, and Losi tires in his TLR vehicles. In Pro 2, Losi finished with 3 XXX-SCT’s in the top five. In a very close race with several position changes, TLR Team Driver Casper finished with 3rd place, TLR Team Manager Kevin Gahan in 4th and Losi Project Manager Ryan Dunford rounding out the top five. In Pro 4, TLR Team Driver Mike Truhe finished 2nd driving the new Losi TEN-SCTE. Fellow Team Driver Aaron Lane fought hard through the entire race to finish 4th with his TEN-SCTE. Round 2 of the TLR sponsored JBRL will be at OC/RC on April 2nd, 2011.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

March 17, 2011

Stephane Bouche wins French season opener

The first round of the French 1/8th scale on road championship took place in Toulouse last weekend. During qualifying the track was wet and making the best of those conditions was Motonica/Vox driver Sebastien Zatla who took TQ in front of Shepherd/GiMar driver Richard Volta and Motonica/Max driver Stéphane Bouche. In the final Richard Volta took the lead in the first laps, but after a few minutes it was young talented driver Arnaud Mathieu who took the lead only to run out of fuel. One minute before the end of the the race, it was Volta in the lead by 2 seconds from Stephane Bouche with his Motonica team mate Jerome Papaconstantinos in third. All drivers were pushing hard after 44 minutes of racing when Volta made a mistake at the end of the straight allowing Stephane Bouche to the front and take the win on his debut race with the new Motonica P81 RS. Richard Volta recovered to take 2nd and Jerome Papaconstantinos took 3rd.

Source: Andelle Competition [sasandelle.free.fr]

March 15, 2011

1:8 Offroad Nationals Warm-up race

The guys at Thunder Alley RC Raceway were in touch to remind everyone about the 1:8 Offroad Nationals Warm-up race that will take place from the 1st to the 3rd of April. The event has already attracted much interest with former World Champion Atsushi Hara signing up as well as Teemu Leino, Ari Heinonen from Finland along with Ty Tessman from Canada who will be joining the usual gaggle of top drivers from California, neighboring states and beyond. The race is open to both buggy and truggy in both Open and Pro and you can find out more information and sign up by going here.

March 15, 2011

Ryan Lutz dominates Psycho Nitro Blast

Last weekend the Psycho Nitro Blast event took place in Unadilla, Georgia, USA. The indoor dirt track drew 468 entries spread over the various classes. Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz dominated the Pro Buggy class with his DNX408 against stiff competition, taking the TQ and win. Ryan also won Pro Truggy.

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March 14, 2011

Ardent Racing Winter Series Rd6

The 6th and final round of the hugely popular Schumacher supported Kick Energy Ardent Racing Winter Series took place over the weekend and once again the Schumacher team guys put on an excellent show. It could be said that this series has been the premier in the country attracting some of the best National drivers in both Modified and Stock classes. A big congratulations has to go to John Dawson and his crew for giving the drivers a great venue in which to race and show their talents. The final round saw Schumacher team leader Chris Grainger having his best result of the series so far with an excellent 3rd place in what is not a favourite surface of his! Chris is super happy that we will be soon venturing outdoors and is optimistic that the new Mi4CX can keep him on top of the podiums once the proper racing starts. It was Associated driver Olly Jefferies that took the Modified class victory ahead of this year’s TITC winner Andy Moore in 2nd.

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