September 3, 2011

Charlee P. joins Ultimate Racing & ProCircuit

Charlee P. joins Ultimate Racing & ProCircuit

Ultimate Racing and ProCircuit have announced that talented Thai driver Charlee P. has joined their team through a deal with Team RC Pro Thailand, exclusive distributor for UR and PCT. Charlee has had a great season since joining the UR&PCT Team, having a good result at the 2011 FEMCA Championships in Malaysia and winning the 3rd round of the Thai nationals. Charlee has this to say:

I’m very glad to be running the high quality products UR & PCT. I’m sure this will help me make it to the next level. I would like to thank Team RC Pro / Ultimate Racing / ProCircuit for all their support and it will be a great year working together.

Source: Ultimate Racing [ultimateracing.es]

September 2, 2011

Scott Brown & Billy Fischer win Short Course Nationals

RC Madness in Enfield, CT is the designated host for the annual Short Course Nationals. The 3rd annual event brought out many of the best drivers in the East along with drivers coming in from as far as Arizona and Washington. Changing conditions were a major factor because of Hurricane Irene traveling up the east coast of the United States. Friday’s open practice session was in clear weather as drivers tuned their Short Course trucks to the track’s conditions.

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September 2, 2011

Tessmann wins 4wd & 1/8EP at Surf City Classic

Tessmann wins 4wd & 1/8EP at Surf City Classic

Last weekend Ty Tessmann attended the Surf City Classic race in southern California and was entered in invite 2wd, invite 4wd and invite 1/8 electric buggy. The Tessmann team sent us this report. Practice went very well for Ty, we established a good baseline setup for all three cars and felt confident going into qualifying on Saturday. Overnight the track dried out so by Saturday morning the locals determined that slicks would be the best tire to run, though traction came up very quickly throwing a bit of a twist into things. First up for Ty was the 2wd invite class, even though Ty’s car wasn’t quite perfect he qualified a respectable 3rd in the first round, he TQ’d the first round of invite 4wd and TQ’d the first round of invite 1/8 electric. It was obvious though that our setups needed to be changed, the traction was much higher than it had been the day before during practice. Every round we made setup changes to the car to keep him on pace. In 2wd we struggled with setup but Ty managed to qualify 5th overall, in 4wd Ty TQ’d every round putting him on the pole for the main Sunday, 1/8 electric went the same way with Ty tq’ing every round and starting on the pole.

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September 1, 2011

Reedy Offroad Race of Champions – Announcement

Reedy Offroad Race of Champions – Announcement

The 2012 Reedy International offroad Race of Champions will once again be held at West Coast R/C Raceway in La Mirada, California on January 26th – 29th. Entries open September 1st at Noon PST on www.RCSignup.com and with 200 spots for the open classes and 30 Invitational drivers, spaces are limited. The event continues its traditional 2wd Open and 4wd Open class along with the Invitational 2wd/4wd format. To allow everyone an opportunity to be a part of this historic event, a lottery drawing will be conducted on October 21st with the first 200 open class entries selected securing a place in the event. Entry fees are due for the selected entries and Invitational drivers by November 20th.

More information can be found here

September 1, 2011

Munn & Rode win at Great Snake Shootout

Venom Factory Pilot, Jesse Munn, put on a show with his Gambler SC Truck at the Great Snake Shootout in Lewiston, ID by taking TQ and the win in Pro Modified SC after the Triple A Mains against some stiff competition. Munn battled it out with factory pilots from Associated and Kyosho. Local driver Pat Rode piloted his Gambler SC Truck, powered by Venom batteries, to the win in the Sportsman SC class.

Source: Venom [venom-group.com]

September 1, 2011

Billy Fischer team manager at Viper

Billy Fischer team manager at Team Viper

Viper R/C Solutions have announced that Billy Fischer will assume team manager responsibilities for Team Viper West Region. The Team Durango factory driver will be working closely with the product development team and drivers of all different levels and with his professionalism and attention to detail will definitely be a tremendous asset to the company.

Source: Viper R/C [viper-rc.com]

September 1, 2011

Ari Heinonen secures Finnish National title

Ari Heinonen secures Finnish National title

Last weekend the last two races of the 4-race Finnish National Championship series were held in Vantaa. Ari Heinonen (JQ/JQ) was able to secure the Championship win ahead of Teemu Leino (Xray/LRP) and Jarno Siltanen (Mugen/Ninja), by finishing 2nd in the 3rd race, and winning the final race on Sunday ahead of Teemu Leino. This means that JQ Products have won the championship 2 years in a row now, with Joseph Quagraine winning the championship last year with the pre-production car. JQ couldn’t attend this year’s race due to being in hospital with appendicitis.

Source: JQ [jq-products.com]

September 1, 2011

Video – BRCA TC National Rd4

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RC Racing TV have their video online from a sunny, dry and pivotal round 4 of the British National Electric TC championships from the Aldershot Circuit featuring race action, news, views and interviews.

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