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October 7, 2011

Stuart Mahon wins 2nd annual Race of Champions

Last weekend saw the 2nd running of the ‘Race of Champions’ event taking place at the NNRC track near Blackpool in the North of the country. The event is the end-of-year ‘Race-Off’ between the Top 20 qualifying drivers from each of the 8th Scale Off Road Regions run throughout the year in the UK – it is the brain child of Glyn Morgan (8-11 series organiser) and is organised to challenge the best drivers from the 8-11 Series, NRS, SRS Series and the Scottish Region. It is a one-off race and is a great way of pitting each region against each other in a fun, but competitive end of season race.

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October 7, 2011

Renato Tradardi Jr wins Venezuelan Truggy Nats

The Venezuelan National Championship took place last weekend at the Pista Club ITALO track in Cagua. Event though Team Associated Team member Renato Tradardi Jr. had not been racing for a while because he was away in Italy, he and his RC8T were nevertheless able to get up to speed quickly in the controlled practices for his class. He ended a respectable second and his father Renato third for the Grand Final. Not bad for a two-month absence from racing. In the finals it started to rain and the track became slippery. Making a decisive tire choice Renato Jr. led the field from the first round, and as the track dried and traction improved, the Team Associated RC8T excelled and he took the win.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

October 7, 2011

Meccamo fuels sign Silvio Hächler

French fuel company Meccamo have announced the signing of 1/8th scale Swiss National racer Silvio Hächler. The young Mugen driver will continue to run the company’s Meccafuel on road 25% fuel to power his Novarossi engines for the coming seasons.

Source: Meccamo [meccamo.com]

October 7, 2011

2011 JConcepts Clash warmup – Announcement

The Coral Springs R/C Car Club and JConcepts are gearing up for the 2011 JConcepts Clash. In preparation, a warm-up event for 1/8th scale only has been confirmed for November 6, 2011 on a new layout. The race will take place on the 6th of November and will be open to 1/8th gas buggy & truggy (Expert & Sportsman) as well as 1/8th BL and Pro4 SCT.

More information on the event can be found here.

October 6, 2011

Ellis Stafford signs 2 year extension with X-Factory

X-Factory have announced that multiple British Champion Ellis Stafford has signed to race their cars for two more years. Ellis said “I continue to be excited driving for X-Factory. Back in 2006 when I first started with the X-Team, we had the X-5 Squared and the original X-6 and they were the fastest, most innovative cars around. I won the U.K. Championship in ’08 with the 6, but we didn’t stand on our laurels, we designed and raced the 6 Squared to the title in 09, making two years in a row. I tied for the Championship with the Squared in 2010, and I think it’s still the fastest 2WD buggy out there.” “It’s the X-7 that excites me now. Again X-Factory is leaping ahead with an innovative new design, and I’m so happy to be a part of the design team. I took my prototype X-7 to a club race win the other weekend and it was very good indeed. 2012 and 2013 will be my most exciting years of R/C racing!”

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

October 6, 2011

Cesar Salvadori wins Rd6 in Sao Paulo

The 6th round of the Sao Paulo Championship took place recently at the Vesuvio Farm track, which was run on a different clockwise layout. With very little practice time Cesar Salvadori, driving his Novarossi powered KM H-K1 showed some strong performance and took the TQ spot, being the only driver to make 19 laps and also the only one to achieve laptimes below 16 seconds. In the main final Cesar had the race was under control when at 9 minute mark, while about to overtake the 2nd and 3rd placed drivers, an incident with the 3rd placed car cause a flameout for the leader. With a heavily damaged exhaust system Cesar had to work hard to recover the lost time and would eventually win by only 3seconds advantage over Henrique Winik, followed by Sandro Martines. The 4th place went to Chung Min Hsu and 5th place was Paulo Cesar. 4 out of top 5 cars were KM Racing H-K1.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

October 5, 2011

Thomas Jones wins eBuggy at SDRC Race For The Cure

This past weekend SDRC Raceway in sunny San Diego played host to the Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure. Good weather in San Diego and a great day for a benefit race to help fund breast cancer research. In the midst of the 124 entries and perfect indoor track conditions, Tekno RC driver Thomas Jones TQ’d all 3 rounds of qualifying in 1/8th eBuggy. He went on to win the A main and bring home the victory. Thomas was using a Tekno RC V4 equipped HB D8 along with all of the other Tekno RC upgrades for the D8.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]

October 5, 2011

Horizon Hobby UK sign Oliver Fischer

Young Danish driver Oliver Fischer has signed with Horizon Hobby UK for the 2012 season. Oliver will run the TLR 8ight buggy & truggy as well as the TLR 22 1:10th buggy. Oliver had this to say about the deal:

I really wanna thank David from Horizon Hobby UK to letting me get this good opportunity and I am really looking forward to represent Horizon Hobby, and get a good year in 2012, with a good package.

Source: Horizon Hobby [horizonhobby.co.uk]