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February 23, 2011

Associated dominate Motorama event

Team Associated are reporting on the Motorama event which is hosted at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and is a total of 60 acres. Motorama is an all-inclusive indoor motorsports show that includes a wide variety of events including Arenacross, Go Karting, Sprint Cars, Car Shows, Battle Bots, and Remote Control car racing. Team Associated drivers Ryan Maifield, Ryan Cavalieri, and Brent Thielke dominated the event, taking home all six major championships in the Nitro Offroad and Electric Offroad events.

Continue reading the report here

February 22, 2011

Contact Trophy – Announcement

Schumacher have announced the Contact Trophy race happening at the Miniautodromo Jody Scheckter in Fiorano, Italy from the 12th to 13th of March. Open to 1/8th and 1/10th scale gas on road, this exciting race which will be attended by a host of top drivers including European Champion Robert Pietsch, Simon Kurzbuch and Jerome Renaux. For more information and registration, check out the host club’s website here or for further info contact piero[at]racing-cars.com.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

February 22, 2011

Neumann & Honigl victorious at Vienna Winterchamps

The 2nd annual Vienna Winterchamps, indoor off-road race was held over the weekend of 18-20th February at the RC-Carpetfun track in Vienna, Austria, with 2WD, 4WD and Short Course 2WD classes. Team Durango driver Jörn Neumann took the overall TQ in both 2WD and 4WD buggy classes with his DEX210 Prototype and DEX410 2010 spec buggies. Hupo Hönigl and Martin Kriel made it a 1-2-3 for Team Durango in 4WD qualifying with Hupo also placing 4th overall in 2WD qualifying after the 5-rounds. In the 3-leg finals, Jörn Neumann took all three legs of the 2WD class to show his blisteringly quick form at the moment, taking the win with Hupo Hönigl third piloting another DEX210 Prototype. In the 4WD class Jörn had taken TQ but it was his Team Durango team mate Hupo Hönigl that secured the victory with his DEX410. Jörn finished second and Rene Trauner in third gave Team Durango a clean sweep for the 4WD podium.

View the 4wd podium here

February 21, 2011

Nathan Waters wins SC at Worksop

The new Short Course truck class at Rd5 of the Schumacher Indoor Masters held at the immensely popular Worksop venue saw Team Durango’s Adam Skelding dominate qualifying with the new DESC410R, taking 3 of the 4 rounds to take overall TQ in the 16-car final. The 8-minute final quickly changed into 11 minutes during the race as the organisers played with the timing. By the end of the 11 minutes it was Nathan Waters again taking the win, with Adam Skelding 2nd, giving the DESC410R a healthy 1-2 in its first outing at Worksop.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

February 21, 2011

Hupo Honigl joins RCAllStickers team

RcAllstickers.com have announced that it will support Austrian driver Hupo Honigl throughout the 2011 season with their full range of products. Providing the multiple European Championship finalist with their premium quality R/C skins and stickers, they will adorn the Factory Durango driver’s transmitter, starter box, as well as the body shells from his DNX408, DNX410, DESC410 and DEX210.

Source: RcAllstickers [rcallstickers.com]

February 20, 2011

Jason Branham continues with Xray

Some more driver news from Xray who have announced the re-signing of Jason Branham. Last year’s RC Pro Buggy National Champion had this to say about the contract renewal:

For the past 5 years RCAmerica and Xray have given me unbelievable support along with the best equipment possible in order to help me achieve great success. I have decided to re-sign with Xray/RCAmerica for 2011 and I will be working very hard to to help improve Xray’s success on the track. I would like to thank Xray and RCAmerica for all they have done for me, for allowing me to represent such a great company and I can’t wait to get started in 2011.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 20, 2011

Billy Easton TQ’s both classes at Motorama

We were sent an update from the Scotty Ernst run Motorama, which is taking place this weekend in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This event has almost 500 entries in nitro off-road and 300 plus in electric off-road. Serpent chief offroad designer Billy Easton, who is making his big race debut with Novarossi engines this weekend, took the top qualifier spot in both Expert Buggy and Truggy. In the buggy class the Novarossi Plus 4 BTTS powered Cobra S811 driver TQ’d ahead of Mugen driver Travis Amezcua and Associated super star Ryan Maifield, while in Truggy Billy placed the pre production Cobra Truggy, powered by Novarossi Bonito XLBS, in front of Ryan Maifield and Losi factory racer Adam Drake. The finals are taking place today so lets see if he can carry forward that momentum and give the Serpent cars their first major US victory.

View the line up for the A-mains here

February 19, 2011

HPI Baja 5SC SS short course truck

The 1/5th scale Baja 5SC short course truck from HPI Racing have gotten the SS treatment. The Baja 5SC SS comes as an unassembled kit that you get to build from the ground up, but this is more than just a kit version, it’s packed with extra speed and a long list of option parts. The powerplant has been upgraded to the high performance Fuelie 26s engine, coupled to a high flow aluminium tuned pipe with steel tubular header. Combined with the 8,000 RPM clutch, the Baja 5SC SS has some serious grunt to help propel it to speeds in excess of 40MPH. Need to quiet things down a bit, then they’ve also included a stock can muffler just in case.

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