Modelix Racing have the signing of talented twelve years old Italian driver Davide Ongaro to their World Racing Team. Davide will run the company’s range of Ultimate Racing products, Procircuit tires and Nitrolux fuel. “The whole Modelix team wishes you a successful RC racing career and wants to welcome Davide as well as his father and mechanic Mauro Ongaro to the team.”
Source: Modelix [modelixracing.com]
The 10th Annual Southwest Indoor Gran Prix was hosted by Competition Hobbies in Tucson, Arizona with this years layout was designed and built by The Dirt Racing’s Joey Christensen. TLR/Novak/Pro-Line Racing driver Trevor Clement TQ’d all 4 rounds of qualifying in Pro4 and took the A-Main win leading from wire to wire.
Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]
After the 10-hour plus flights involved in my previous two trips to the 1:10 Offroad and 1:8 Onroad World Championships, getting to the destination of my fifth consecutive weekend on the road was a far less bum numbing experience. Taking a short flight from Dublin to Berlin, where I hooked up with my partner in crime for the weekend Ricky Acciari, a three hour drive had us at our destination. Hard to believe a full 12-months had passed, I was back in Poznan, Poland, for the opening round of the third season of the Euro Offroad Series. While the majority of my working weekend’s are spent at venues where racers easily out number spectators, thanks to a small in size but big in his vision Polish man, that is not the case when Niko Triandafilidis puts on a race.
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The final round of the Czech nitro on-road championships took place 60km away from Brno. The race saw a huge attendance of driver as everyone was keen to score the final championship points. 1/10th qualifying saw Jirka Vyšín taking the TQ honours followed by Michal Abrahamek who later won the final after some great battles with Jirka Vyšín and Michal Jansa. The win handed Michal the overall championship title in front of his Xray team mates Jirka Vyšín and Ondřej Kulhánek. Beside the 200mm title also the 1/8th championship went to Michal making it a perfect double.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Josh Pain (Yokomo) has taken out the 2WD and 4WD Open buggy classes at the Brikmakers Western Australian State Championships in Perth after a challenging weekend of racing with wildly variable weather. Ray Munday (Associated) flew over from Melbourne for the weekend and finished a close 2nd in 2WD and 4WD as well as taking TQ and 1st in 2WD Short Course. Jarrod Smith took a promising double win in 2WD and 4WD stock. The West Coast club had prepared a very fast, flowing and challenging track for all competitors and the sugared surface had high traction throughout practice. Unseasonal rain on Saturday (2WD day) completely washed away the groove and the surface became very low traction and then very muddy. The 2WD portion had to be deferred until after 4WD on the Sunday, making for a very long day finishing under lights after 8pm. The sun came out again and 4WD qualifying started out very loose but by the finals a groove was forming and provided great racing. AKA Re-Bars were used as the control tyre in buggy and Pro-Line Suburbs in SCT.
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The first out of seven races of the 2013/14 Mibosport Cup attracted over 130 drivers from six countries including some of the World’s top drivers such as Ronald Völker, Marc Rheinard, Marc Fischer and Zdenko Kunák. The race was held in a variety of electric classes such as 2WD and 4WD buggy, Formula, Yokomo GT, Stock LRP and Modified TC. In the Touring Car Modified class all qualifiers and finals went to Yokomo team driver Ronald Völker. Second overall became Marc Fischer (Serpent) in front of Marc Rheinard (Tamiya). A great battle was on for fourth place between Zdenko Kunak and Rene Klockner with the better end for Zdenko.
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Tekno RC’s Barry Baker and Chad Panek brought home the overall titles in their respective classes at the 2013 JBRL finale. After consistent scoring during the season Barry took the overall championship in the Pro4 Short Course class with his Tekno RC SCT410 while Chad grabbed the 1/8th E-buggy title with his EB48.2 buggy.
Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]
Xray announce the addition of the young and talented French driver Lorenzo Crolla to their off-road team. Lorenzo will attend all French championship races, French Cup, European Championship and he will try to get his ticket for the World’s in Italy. Lorenzo has been as a private driver already and will now receive the full factory support for his 1/8th and 1/10th campaigns. Lorenzo has this to say about the deal:
I am very pleased to be a part of the official Xray team. I have been very satisfied with the XB4 and after my first success at Euros my motivation has been even greater. After some extensive testing of the new prototype of the Xray’s 1/8 off-road car I was amazed with both the performance and handling and had no doubts at all to join the team for 2014. My motivation and excitement are at maximum and I am looking forward the next season.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
