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February 9, 2012

Alexander Hagberg joins ORCA

ORCA have announced that they have signed factory Xray driver Alexander Hagberg. The Swedish driver, who previously drove for LRP, had the best possible start to his new relationship by taking his first big international win at the Snowbird Nationals last weekend in Florida. Alex had this to say:

After five years as a team driver for LRP Electronic in Germany, I would like to thank them for their support over the years. They helped to start off my international career. In 2012 I am changing to ORCA electronics in all my cars. I was immediately impressed with the on-track performance of these products, which provide a good feeling, power, efficiency and consistency for all conditions. I started out my cooperation with ORCA in the best possible way with a win in the Touring Car Modified class at the recent Snowbird Nationals in Florida. I hope that this is only the start of a long and successful relationship with ORCA.

Source: AME [team-ame.com]

February 8, 2012

Mobers wins Snowbirds 1/12th 13.5 GTP class

A brief report from the 1/12th 13.5 GTP class at last weekend’s Snowbird Nationals in Orlando, Florida. It was On Point Racing’s German team driver Markus Mobers that took the top spot in qualifying, doing so in the final round to start on pole ahead of Larry Fairtrace and World Champion Naoto Matsukura in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the final Markus drove his Team Orion powered OP12C to the win by just 1.3 seconds ahead of Andrew Knapp in 2nd, with Mike Blackstock completing the podium in 3rd.

Source: On Point Racing [onpointracing.com]

February 8, 2012

Alex Hagberg wins Mod TC at 2012 Snowbirds

The 2012 Snowbirds were held at the World Gate resort in Orlando Florida. The format of this race is special due to the racing of both On-road and oval. The racing goes on for almost 24hrs a day with a track change between on road and oval every day. This year the attendance and competition was large do in part to the international attendance, several EU countries were represented along with Japan and obviously North America. In Mod TC it was Alex Hagberg showing good early pace, Alex had just come from the ETS race where he showed good speed so he was rightfully on everyone’s radar. Not to anyones surprise also showing speed at the beginning was Naoto Matsukura and Kevin Hebert.

Continue reading the report here.

Image: Jill Dorp

February 8, 2012

JJ Wang wins China Fortune Nitro Champs

This past weekend in Shenzhen, Southern China, the newly built KRC track hosted the annual China Fortune (Fa Cai) Nitro Championships for 1:10 sedan. The race saw drivers from China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and is considered one of the major nitro races in China as well as the first race of the nitro season in China. 14 years-old Mugen driver JJ Wang driving his Novarossi powered MTX5 won the 45-minute “A” Main final by 2 laps over second place Xray driver Li Jia Wei from Guangzhou, and in third place was Taiwan’s Xray driver Howard Zhuo.

View the final results here

February 8, 2012

Mini Outlaw Class championship finale report

The Mini Outlaw Class championships at the Chippenham Winter Indoor Series concluded last weekend, with over half the entrants using the TOP Mini Sabre FD chassis. The top 5 positiions in the A-main were filled with Sabre drivers, with TOP Racing UK and Lesro Models team driver, Mark Williams taking the overall win from 2nd place John Pryor. In 3rd, was TOP UK and Lesro Models team driver Stuart Parnell with Bob Styles in 4th and Tim Woron in 5th. In the Mini Formula class, a tie on points at the top meant a count back to the ninth round was needed to give Muchmore UK team driver David Allen the championship ahead of Joe Keaveney in 2nd place.

View the Mini formula podium here

February 7, 2012

Nicolas Rodriguez to use Reedy Power

Reedy and CML France are pleased to announce the signing of top French 1/8th off road racer Nicolas Rodriguez for the 2012 season. Nicolas, who has previously used Reedy engines, is a former podium finisher at the European Championships, French Cup winner and solid A Finalist throughout the French National Series, and will be looking for a successful season with new sponsors. He will be using the full Reedy range of engines, pipes, plugs and accessories in his Hong Nor Sabre for 2012, and everyone at CML and Reedy wish him the best of luck at this weekends season opening Montpellier GP.

Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]

February 7, 2012

Justin Driemeier wins JConcepts race at SmacTrack

The JConcepts race at SmacTrak in St. Louis, MO. took place last weekend. Justin Driemeier, driving the new X-Factory SCX-60CF TQ’d the first of four qualifying rounds on the small but technical indoor track, but bad racing luck in the next two rounds left him in a must-win situation in Sunday morning’s round 4. Justin went out and did what had to be done, winning the last round by about 4 seconds to wrap up pole position for the 2WD Short Course A mains. A-1 saw Driemeier’s SCX – 60CF take a wire-to-wire win, but in A-2 there were some “rubbin is racin” incidents that put Justin third, so it was all to play for in A – 3. Again, Driemeier and the SCX – 60CF were up to the task, as Justin jumped out to an early lead and put it on cruise control to take the last main by almost five seconds. Coupled with Mike Aliberti’s win two weeks ago at R/C Excitement, this makes two regional race wins in a row for the new X Factory truck. Paul Sinclair, in his first major race driving his own SCX-60CF, qualified 7th with the Probst Motorsports replica body SCX-60CF. Paul took 6th in all three mains to wind up 7th for the race.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

February 7, 2012

Teemu Leino confirmed to Hot Bodies

Team HB have confirmed the addition of former Xray driver Teemu Leino to its ranks to join other new signing Shin Adachi alongside Atsushi Hara, Andy Moore, Ty Tessmann and Jesse Robbers. Teemu is a multiple world class race winner, with previous wins at the LRP Race, TITC, IIC and the European Championships. Plus multiple podiums at the European Championships and a 3rd place finish at the World Championships. Teemu will be a valuable addition to the World Championship Winning Team HB. Here are a few words from Teemu Leino:

I choose HB as they have the best cars for my racing classes. Also the HB Team always prepare well for big races like the World Championships, which are on this year. The HB Team also has some of my good friends so I should have fun at the tracks.

Source: HB [hotbodiesonline.com]