Jérémy Limoges has won the third round of the French 1/12th scale Nationals held at Porte Les Valences. Driving a Trinity Reflex Jérémy won ahead of second place Simon Rubet driving a CRC Carpet Kinfe with Mathias Rascol driving an Associated RC12L rounding out the top 3. Pierre-François Brunet who won the first 2 rounds of the Championship finished in 8th after some problems.
Source: RC Infos [rcinfos.com]
After qualifying at this weekends Novak US Touring Car Championships in Wisconsin it is Xray racer Paul LeMieux that is in dominant form, taking TQ spot in both the blue ribboned Modified class as well as the 19T class. Paul is in good company with Josh Cyrul and Barry Baker sharing a 2nd and a 3rd each in both classes in what looks to be a very close run race. First finals are taking place already, with Paul taking a win in his first round final, but because of time differences we wont be able to publish the final race results until Monday morning CET. We will keep you posted.
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The guys over at the RC Pro Series have asked us to post an announcement for their 3 round 2007 Florida Nitro Off-road Series. There is a purse of $1000+ for the Expert class and overall entries are limited to 150 people so get your entry in soon.
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Xray have a report on their site from the first round of the R1GP Winter Attack Indoor Carpet Race held in South Korea and organised by our site partners RC Forum. This race was held on a great carpet track in the Olympic Gymnastic Stadium in Seoul and saw 90 people attend which was also the debut race for the new Xray T2007 in Korea. After Xray dominating the proceedings it was a crash between the two leading Xray racers Mun Yong and Ryan Lee that allowed Jang-JiHyun driving a HB to take the win with Lee in 2nd and Xray racer Seo-Dongil in 3rd.
Read the full report here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Xray have a report on their site about the second round of the German Indoor electric touring Nationals which took place in Erlangen on December 9th & 10th. This event marked the first time that the racing took place with 5 cells in accordance to the new EFRA regulations. The modified class was won by Alexander Stocker who finished ahead of Dominik Fleischmann in 2nd with Felix Bishoff in 3rd whilst in Stock the class was completely dominated by Xray taking all 8 final placings with Erik Dankel taking the win ahead Florian Bernklau in 2nd with Staudinger Christian rounding off the podium in 3rd.
You can read the full report here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
We reported previously on round 3 of the Rug Racers championship held at the Wodson Park Leisure Centre. Well Helger Racing have a more detailed report on the event that saw Adam Rogers take the win in the Modified class ahead of Elliot Harper in 2nd and Kit Jones in 3rd.
During this leg Adam charged hard and it was obvious to everyone that he was getting faster all the time with his new car; he led from start to finish and put in a time that was five seconds faster than his FTD time. His average lap time was faster than everyone, but Elliott Harper held onto the fastest single lap time.
You can read the full report from round 3 here.
Source: Helger Racing [helgerracing.com]
Xray are reporting on their site that they have won last weekend HotWheels Israeli Championship for 1/8th off road buggies. The championship results were decided in the final race of the year and it was Oren Levy driving the Xray XB8 that took the title ahead of Yaniv Sivan in 2nd place and another Xray racer Yosi Stern in 3rd.
The XRAY team was driving awesome this season. All team members reported that the car was handling very well and all were very satisfied with the car’s performance and handling. Most racers succeeded in improving their results during this season using the superb XRAY XB8TQ kit.
Read the full report here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Andy Griffiths has won the 2006 British 1/12th National Championships with 2 rounds still left to run having taken a perfect score from the first 4 rounds of the championship. Whats particularly noteworthy about this title is that it was the first major title in the UK won using a brushless motor, this particular one being from Nosram.
Andy has won many national titles in the past and has made numerous European and World Championships A finals. This result is the first major title for Brushless in the UK and fittingly it was Nosram who pulled it off after lots of hard work and development.
You can read the full report with some more pictures here or a different report from the event here.
Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]
