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October 5, 2010

Davis & Underwood win NZ Offroad Nationals

Jerry Davis and Craig Underwood took the top podium spots at the GO Racing 2010 New Zealand IC Offroad National Championships, which was held in Hamilton on a completely redesigned track, featuring a unique cross-over section. The Buggy final was full of action and a few lead changes but Jerry (Xray/MMods) who suffered from a tyre issue for a small period of the race held onto a 1 lap lead over 2nd place Chris Banham (Mugen/Ninja) with Dave Edhouse (Losi/Ninja) in 3rd. In Truggy, Craig Underwood kept his Mugen/GO MBX6T going through a race with a high attrition rate to take the win by 3 laps over Chris Banham (Mugen/Ninja) with Pearce Stephens (HB/Ninja) in 3rd position.

View the truggy podium here

October 4, 2010

King & Fischer win Byron Off Road Challenge

To beat the heat at The Nitro Pit in Phoenix this past weekend, racing for the Byron Off Road Challenge started at sundown and ran past midnight. The first under-the-lights racing format was a huge success for drivers and their fans. Despite a late announced practice schedule in Thailand for Worlds drivers, that kept the majority of Byron Team Drivers out of the race, Byron Fuel still took 3 of the top 6 podium spots in the race, with the absolute highlight of the event being a 0.4 second win in Expert Truck for Kyosho / Byron driver Cody King over Losi man Billy Fischer with Levi Jackson taking 3rd. In the buggy class it was Billy Fischer that won over Associated team driver Ryan Maifield in 2nd with Cody King rounding out the podium in 3rd.

View the buggy podium here

October 4, 2010

Wayne Joelson wins African Cup for 4th year

The 7th Annual African Cup for On Road Gas cars was held the last weekend of September at the TRAP facility outside Pretoria. Temperatures were in the mid 30 degrees Celcius and with a 1 hour final, this race would be the toughest in Africa. Current South African Champion Wayne Joelson with his Novarossi powered Mugen Seiki MRX4X finished 1st for the 4th consecutive year, with second place going to his team mate Steve Munslow, with EDAM driver Arnold Vermaak in 3rd.

Thanks to Wayne Joelson for the update.

October 4, 2010

Patrick Jongenelis wins Dutch stock title

Patrick Jongenelis has won the 2010 Dutch Electric touring car stock nationals. Driving a GM powered Xray T3 the title went down to the 6th and final round of the series with different pole sitters and race winners at each race. Patrick held the lead going into Rd6 with a slim advantage of only 1 point ahead of Ronald Aarts in 2nd, Rob Janssen in 3rd and Wesley v Dijken in 4th and these racers were all in with a chance of victory. The final race was won Janssen and this moved him to 2nd in the series, Patrick Jongenelis took 2nd which clinched him the title, with Wesley V Dijken taking 3rd on the day. Ronald Aarts had motor failure in one of the legs and could only manage 8th, dropping him to 3rd in the overall standings.

View the final championship ranking here

October 1, 2010

Tamiya and Ryan Lutz part ways

In response to all the talk around the internet today about Ryan Lutz leaving Tamiya and whether they will continue their off road program, Tamiya America have sent us the following statement. “Tamiya America Inc. would like to announce that it has ended its partnership with R/C factory driver Ryan Lutz. Throughout the recent 2009 and 2010 seasons, Ryan has been piloting Tamiya’s TRF 801Xt and TRF801X across the country and around the globe. We wish Ryan the best of luck with his future endeavors with his R/C driving.”

TRF members, Rest assured Tamiya is committed to continue the development of its TRF801 nitro program along with its other programs. With your support, feedback and help we will get you the best product possible for your enjoyment. As the lead TRF driver, Ryan has been one of the most active members on the TRF website. His race blogs, his good nature, his set up advice and overall funny wit will be missed. We are left with two good years of fond memories. Our best wishes will always be with him.

Source: Tamiya [tamiyausa.com]

September 30, 2010

Simon Kurzbuch wins again in Switzerland

The 6th round of the Swiss 1/8th scale Nationals took place in Langenthal last weekend. Even if the two Swiss Champions in the Amateur (Stefan Köhl/Shepherd Velox) and Expert (Mattia Pesenti/Motonica) classes were decided, a lot of racers still arrived Friday but the weather and the track was too wet for getting a good setup and just one driver tested his car in Friday afternoon. On Saturday the weather was again bad, but the race must go on and so all racers took part in qualifying and at the end of the day there were some unfamiliar drivers at the front.

Continue reading the report here

September 30, 2010

Gilles Choque wins Rd6 and Luxembourg title

The 6th round of the Luxembourg 1/10th scale EP national championship was held last weekend on the fast LMCC track, host of the 2009 European Championships. After 4 rounds of qualifying it was Gilles Choque who claimed the pole position in front of Joe Streff and Steve Traufler. Difficult weather in the 3 final legs, it was Gilles Choque who crossed the finish line in first, in front of Xray team mates Steve Traufler in 2nd and Joe Streff 3rd. This result saw Gilles Choque crowned the Luxembourg 1/10th scale national champion for 2010.

September 30, 2010

Pattaya Worlds track preperations in full swing

With the most anticipated event of the year, the 1/8th off road Worlds in Thailand, less than two months away and with a major test getting underway next week, the organisers have been flat out preparing the track for the event. As we can see from these photos, and as we know from models of the new layout, it is completely different from the Pre Worlds. Sporting carpet in areas, we talked with organiser Charlie Siribodhi when we were in Houston and he told us that they are preparing the most challenging track imaginable with off camber turns, large jump sections and other obstacles on this long lap. Red RC will be present throughout the entire event to bring you live coverage so be sure to stay tuned from the 7th of November.

View more photos from the track prep here