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August 17, 2010

Honigl crowned Champion with Rd4 win in Austria

The fourth round of the Austrian electric buggy Nationals was held in Litschau, another beautiful track in the north of the country. This time there was 75 entries, a little bit less then normal, but this could have been due to the very bad weather forecast, which in the end was wrong and the racers were treated to blue sky and about 28°C on Sunday. The track went from very slick to a blue groove high traction track which was very good fun to drive. Qualifying saw Roland Macho, driving a Durango, and Hupo Honigl battling most of the time for the win, but the last round was won by Rene Trauner, another fast Durango driver. Hupo took the TQ in front of 3 other DEX410s with 7 in the top 10.

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August 17, 2010

Paul Lemieux wins ROAR Mod TC title

Xray are reporting on the recent ROAR On Road Nationals, which was held at Nor-Cal hobbies, the same track also played host to the Reedy Race of Champions a couple months ago. There were to be 4 total rounds of qualifying, 2 rounds of qualifying on Friday. In Mod 12th scale it was Kevin Hebert pretty much dominating the first day by setting TQ in both, in Mod TC it was Paul Lemieux who TQed both rounds with Hebert and Rick Hohwart close behind. In 17.5 expert TC it was Martin Crisp who was looking fast and setting TQ’s with a very close field behind him. In World GT and 17.5 12th it was Dave Ehrlich who was looking strong in both classes.

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August 17, 2010

Cockerill wins 2wd Nats in Cougar SV debut season

Schumacher were in touch to tell us that in its debut season the Cougar SV has won the BRCA British 2WD Off Road Championship. Congratulations to Tom Cockerill who secured the title at the last round of the series at the Stotfold track this weekend. In spite of having an off day and only making the B final Tom’s main championship contenders failed to improve on their points scores so Tom watched on and won the championship from his marshalling post. However the Cougar SV was working extremely well on the wet slippery track with 5 Cougar SV’s making the final. With Simon Moss finishing an excellent 3rd and congratulations to Dave Poulter and Lloyd Storey who both made their first national A finals with the Cougar SV. Grant Williams and Jonathan Palmer rounded out the 5 cars in the A, in what was an excellent team performance.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com] / Image: oOple [oople.com]

August 17, 2010

2010 Rocky Mountain Short Course Championship

The 2010 Rocky Mountain Short Course Championship was held at the Sweetwater RC Raceway Park in Rock Springs, Wyoming August 13th – 15th. Friday’s open practice had drivers from Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho putting in laps on both the 1/10 short course track and the 1/8 track just to get any advantage they could. The short course track had massive amounts of traction due to the sugared surface, while the 1/8 track was technical with big air jumps, both tracks were tricky. Saturday started off with four rounds of qualifying on both tracks with TQ being swapped back and fourth among many drivers in all classes. At the end of the day the top positions were locked in, with 2wd SCT Stock, 4wd SCT Open, and 1/8 Electric Buggy TQ going to DJ Clark of Wyoming, 2wd SCT Open TQ went to Jared Hair of Utah, and finally 1/8 Buggy and 1/8 Truck TQ was held by Chris Peralta of Colorado.

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August 17, 2010

Hébert dominates 1/12 Open class at ROAR Nats

Keven Hébert dominated the 1/12 Open class at the 2010 ROAR On-Road Nationals hosted by Norcal Hobbies in Union City, CA. By scoring maximum points in three out of four qualifying rounds, Keven secured the pole position for the triple A-Main event. Teammates Rick Hohwart and Bob Stellflue rounded out the top three positions on the grid. The main event was dominated by Hébert. Although Hohwart put up a fight, Hébert easily won the first two legs to secure his first ROAR Nationals title. With the championship decided, the third leg was won by Hohwart, who secured the second position overall. Stellflue claimed the last step on the podium to make it a 1-2-3 Associated/Reedy/LRP sweep.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

August 15, 2010

Graversen & Madsen take Danish TC titles

Tamiya Denmark are reporting on their success at the Danish 1/10th touring car National Championships. In the Super stock class it was Carsten Madsen who managed to take the overall championship, 6 points clear of second placed driver Morten Iversen. In the modified class, it was Steen Graversen who took the title. In the 5 races this season, Steen took 5 TQs and 5 overall wins. In 2nd and 3rd in the standings it was Danni Eyde-Nielsen and Nicolai Sorensen who in the summer break both have changed to the Tamiya brand.

View the points standings here

August 15, 2010

Dan Rowlands wins Mod Title at Much More GP series

Carlisle Radio Model Car Club hosted the final round of the popular Much-More Racing (UK) GP series this weekend with over 60 racers contending for the pro-stock and modified titles over two days of racing. Schumacher driver, Dewi Jones took the pro-stock win for the round. Dewi made his trip north from Wales worthwhile by scoring on his first trip to Carlilse, with Tom Jefferies and Alan Lindsay taking the remaining two podium places. Associated and Much-More Racing driver Tom Jefferies took the overall pro-stock win for the whole GP series after valuable points gained were combined with those from his previous Stonehaven win. Local Schumacher driver John Lindsay’s knowledge of the Carlisle track paid off and he claimed the Carlisle round modified title on Sunday. Going into the Carlisle round, the overall modified title remained up for grabs with several drivers including Tom Jefferies, Dan Rowlands and Keiran Smart all looking for valuable points from the Carlisle round but it was Dan Rowlands who powered his TOP Photon to overall GP series victory in Modified using the Muchmore Fleta 3.0 ESC. A major series modified win for the Photon and 5 drivers using the popular car in the A-main. The series has taken in 3 meetings at Ballymoney in Ireland, Stonehaven in Scotland and Carlisle in England using the Muchmore VQ30 control tyre.

View the Mod and Pro Stock top 3 here

August 15, 2010

Xray Column – Electric Touring Worlds 2010

The 45th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column he talks about the team’s performance at last month IFMAR ISTC World Championships in Burgdorf, Germany.

Arriving home from the official warm-up, we quickly produced some final modifications of the chassis and top deck and a few other minor parts. At the last possible weekend before the Worlds we traveled with Martin, Teemu Leino and Alex Hagberg back to the track. Arriving at the track, we joined the other competing factory teams who also took advantage of last-minute testing time; such is the racing level at the real Worlds, only the traction was different.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]