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October 31, 2006

Taylor James wins Futaba Nitro Challenge

Futaba Challenge Podium

Team Jammin racer Taylor James has TQ’d and won the Pro Buggy and Pro Truggy classes at the first Futaba Nitro Challenge held in Bossier, Louisiana. In taking pole in both classes, Taylor also got to walk away with both $1000 Top qualifier prizes, not bad for a days work. Second place in the buggy race went to Quincy Hughes with Ray Norte ending the race in third whilst in truggy it was Andrew Smolnick and Gene Hickerson that took second and third.

Hit the jump for the full results… content

October 30, 2006

CML Raceway 2006 Race 1

CML Raceway

Oople.com have some amazing shots taken at last weekends opening race at the equally amazing new CML raceway in the UK. The event saw Ellis Stafford win the 4wd event ahead of Paul Bradby and Alec Springer while in 2wd the event was won by Neil Cragg with Chris Rowcliffe in 2nd and Lee Martin in 3rd.

~~You can view the full results from the event here. [doughtyuk.net]~~

UPDATE: You can read Jimmy Storey’s (Oople) full race report here.

You can check out some more pics from the CML track after the jump… content

October 29, 2006

Kitazawa wins Japanese 1/12th Nationals

Top 3 Japanese 12 nationals

The Japanese 1/12th Nationals are over and it was Kitazawa that took the win followed by Matsumoto in 2nd and Arai who took the final step on the podium in 3rd. The event, held at the Kawaba RC plaza, managed to avoid the bad weather which threatened the event earlier in the week and ended up producing a great race.

You can read the full report of the final day over at Kimihiko-yano.net.

October 28, 2006

Japanese 1/12th Nationals – Qualifying

Jap 1/12th Nats

Kimihiko-yano.net have their report from the 2nd day of the Japanese 1/12th scale nationals online. It seems the wet weather held of and they got 4 rounds of qualifying done. Again i must apologise for my Japanese being as poor as it is but because of that i cant tell you who heads the leaderboard after qualifying.

You can view an image of the results sheet here: position 1-20, 21-43

More car pics after the jump… content

October 28, 2006

Flabouris is Greek Champion 2006

Greek Championship

Flabouris Kostas has won the 2006 12T Greek Electric Touring Championship. The report on the Xray site shows that Flabouris won 2 of the 3 A-final heats at the last round of the championship on his way to claiming the title.

Greek Championship 12T class FINAL positions
1 Flabouris XRAY T2
3 Bougalis XRAY T2
4 Balasis XRAY T2

Greek Championship Open class FINAL positions
2 Katikas XRAY T2
3 Nikolakopoulos XRAY T2
5 Antoniou XRAY T2

You can read the full report on Xray’s site here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 27, 2006

Japanese 1/12th Nationals begin

Japanese 1/12th Nats

The JMRCA run Japanese 1/12th scale Nationals are being held this weekend. The Friday test day seemed to be rained out judging by the images, but it gave Kimihiko-yano.net the opportunity to take lots of pictures of the track and the competing cars. We will report on this results of this event as we get them.

In the meantime you can check out some of the pictures after the jump… content

October 27, 2006

Buggy event at Telstra WRC event attracts stars

Telstra Rally

Neo-Buggy reports that Ian Haley took another convincing TQ and win at the Telstra WRC Rally RC event. But more importantly this event was held during the World Rally event and attracted former RC racer and WRC World Champion Petter Solberg, who joined in, along with top WRC young gun Dani Sordo. The picture above has nothing to do with either driver but its better to look at the Miss WRC girls than a middle aged Norwegian and a young Spaniard.

Solberg drove CEN driver Paul Cornwall’s car for a while; who with Haley ended up on the podium with the Miss WRC girls!! Petter Solberg was himself at the age of 13 a keen RC Racer; back in the day he won his fair share of events in Norway, before moving onto bigger and faster cars….;)

You can see a picture of Petter Solberg with Paul Cornwall after the jump… content

October 27, 2006

Martin Lissau takes 2nd at DRCMU Rd 1

Martin Lissau

Xray have a report on their site from team driver Martin LissauÂ concerning his first race with their new T2007. Driving the car for the first time at the event,Â Martin ended the raceÂ inÂ second position.

The big battle was between Steen Graversen, Jonas Kaerup, and myself. It was very very close, with the top 3 cars separated by only 2 seconds in qualification.

You can read Martin’s full race report here.

Souce: Xray [teamxray.com] Image: RaceRC [racerc.dk]