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January 24, 2012

Daniele Ielasi joins Team Sonic

Team Sonic have announced the cooperation with former World and European Champion Daniele Ielasi. Together with Sonic creator Patrick Schäfer he is responsible for the development and improvement of the engine line as well as for the sales and support for the competitive Italian market. Additionally he will attend all major national and international races including the 1/8 Euros in Portugal, the 1/10 Euros in Italy and the 1/10 Worlds in Thailand using the Sonic V.12T and the Sonic V.21T. Daniele had the following to say:

First of all I would like thank Picco for the good support over the past years. As the Sonic engines are produced by them I’m sure we continue to be in close contact. Sonic engines offers me a new challenge and I’m extremly happy to increase the collaboration with Shepherd/Sonic and Patrick Schäfer. With my experience I will help as much as possible to ensure a high quality standard and best performance of the Sonic engines.

Source: Sonic Engines [sonic-engines.com]

January 24, 2012

John Cravotta wins the North East Snow Ball Champs

With over 170+ entries at the North East Snow Ball Championship at R/C Excitement was one of the biggest races in the region. Tekin team driver John Cravotta TQ’d the deep field of 4wd SC with his Tekin Rx8 Pro 4 combination taking the overall win as a result. John also TQ’d Electric Ebuggy and managed a 2nd Place after having some last minute trouble losing the top spot by .10 of a second.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.blogspot.com]

January 24, 2012

Hartson wins WCRC Supercross Series Rd3

With the Reedy International Off Road Race of Champions just one week away, Team Associated/Reedy/LRP’s Steven Hartson laid it down in 2WD Modified by taking the TQ and win in round three of the West Coast RC Raceway Supercross Series. Hartson was unstoppable in the main event against many of his Invitational competition and was the only driver to run 15 laps in the main event.

Source: Associated [teamassociated.com]

January 24, 2012

Kyle McBride wins 4th Meakin Masters in a row

The annual Meakin Masters was held at the Meakin Track (The Brick Yard) in Kingston, Queensland, Australia last weekend. Kyosho/Pro-Line racer Kyle McBride hit the track for the first time on Saturday hard with his Kyosho TKI2, setting the TQ pace for the first round. The second qualifier Kyle sets another TQ going 4 seconds faster than the 1st qualifier. The third qualifier Kyle equaled his TQ time setting another 16 lap 10 min 11 seconds. Heading into the Amain the track was extremely hard packed, but polished smooth like wax, so they decided to run M4 Calibers. At the start of the Amain Kyle pushed hard to break the pack, setting into a comfortable lead with his Kyosho TKI2 and would lead from start to finish lapping the field twice and setting the fastest lap of the final.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 24, 2012

Silver State Nitro Challenge – Announcement

Southern Nevada RC is proud to present the prestigious Silver State Nitro Challenge which will be held from April 19th to 22nd. The race will be held at the World Famous Boulder City RC Speedway in Boulder City Nevada and is open to 1/8th buggy nitro & electric, 1/8th truggy and SCT 4×4 and 2wd. Entry is open now and you can find more information here.

January 23, 2012

Strange wins Thursday Night Nats Series Rd 1

LSR Raceway launched their ”Thursday Night Nats series” sponsored by Tekin and BMiller Racing last Thursday with Panther team driver Brian Strange taking the TQ and 1st place in Mod 2WD Buggy with his TLR 22. He used Panther Raptors in pink compound along with pink Bobcats. 3rd place driver Justin Moon was also riding on Panther tires.

Source: Panther [panther-rc.com]

January 22, 2012

Volker pulls off perfect Italian job

Ronald Volker has pulled off yet another perfect weekend on the Euro Touring Series’ first ever visit to Italy with a win in the second A-Main of the Ride Modified class securing the defending champion his second overall win of the 2011/12 season. Having held off the close attentions of his factory Yokomo team-mate Yannic Prümper in the opening final, the German this time had to hold off the attention of Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard who looked far more like the threat we were expecting from the World Champion this weekend.

View our complete event coverage here.

January 22, 2012

Völker sees off Prümper to win first A-Main

Euro Touring Series Round 2 Top Qualifier Ronald Volker led a 1-2 finish for Team Yokomo in the opening A-Main of the Ride Modified class in Italy but the champion was made work hard for the win as team-mate Yannic Prümper mounted a serious challenge over the race’s closing laps. Seperated by just 8/100th as they crossed the finish line, the pair were the class of the field with Tamiya Racing Factory’s Marc Rheinard finishing a distant third.

View our complete event coverage here.