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April 18, 2010

Lee Martin wins opening BRCA 2wd National

Our friends at oOple are reporting that Lee Martin took an impressive victory with the new Tamiya 2WD electric buggy, the TRF 201X, at the first BRCA off road national of 2010 at Talywain, Wales. 17th April 2010. Defending Champion Ellis Stafford took three rounds of qualifying to take overall TQ with the XFactory X6 as he looked to start another domination of the UK 2WD series. The first leg of the A saw Ellis take an easy victory without much trouble. Lee Martin took leg two and it was all down to leg three as Ellis and Lee battled it out in a very exciting final race. A last minute pass from Lee saw him take the win and with it his first National 2WD win. Ellis Stafford finished 2nd overall and Grant Williams taking third with the new Schumacher Cougar SV. Expect a full report from oOple soon.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

April 17, 2010

Andy Moore leads Union Square GP qualifying

Day one of the Union Square Grand Prix is done and its Hot Bodies driver Andy Moore that leads the field in the touring car class. Chasing him hard for TQ honours is the Xray pairing of Phil Chambers and Stefan Chodzyski. Also running are the 10.5 pro stock 1:12 cars and its Andy Sawyer leading overall. Expecting to challenge Sawyer, once he gets up to speed, is Mark Stikes who arrived late due to the Icelandic volcano, which has been causing problems for some of the competitors. Two more rounds of qualifying are still to be run tomorrow followed by three leg finals late on Sunday afternoon. The event has been a major success so far taking RC racing to public as the event is being run in a new multi million pound shopping centre in Aberdeen, Scotland. To help develop interest beyond simply spectating the organisers have arranged a session for the public to try out some ready to run cars at the end of every round of qualifying.

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April 17, 2010

ROAR adopts IFMAR ladder main system

ROAR

As posted in the Nationals Guidelines regarding fuel classes ladder main system, ROAR has adopted the IFMAR style of ladder mains for the respective fuel on-road and fuel off-road classes. The qualifying procedures and seeding for the finals will follow the current IFMAR formats for each class.

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April 16, 2010

Xray Column – World Championship practice

The 41st installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column he talks about this year’s Nürnberg Toy Fair and event that was immediately followed by the Worlds Warmup in Pattaya.

I left Nürnberg on Saturday, drove home late at night and on Sunday morning I picked up the already packaged bags and went to the airport to fly to Bangkok for the 1/8 Off-road World Championship Warm-up. I have arrived at the track Monday afternoon so I still managed to run one practice round and then went to the hotel. The number of entries was not as large as the previous Buggy Party in December, but still most of the top drivers were present so we could expect a high competition level.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 15, 2010

Belgian Mini-Z Series Rd1

Last Sunday, the 11th of April, saw the first race of the Belgian Mini-Z Series (BMS) 2010 take place in Leuven with 2 classes in attendance, Expert and LM Stock class. Top Qualifier in expert was Robby De Veirman with 47 laps, while in LM stock class it was Steve Deblaere who was fastest, with 46 laps, only one lap less than expert, with a stock motor.

Continue reading the report here

April 14, 2010

Maxime Favrelle wins French 1/10th Nats Rd2

Shepherd are reporting on last weekend’s second round of the French 1/10 On-Road National Championship that was held in Nantes in the West of the Country. With 27 entries in the Elite class and 60 entries in National class, it was a really good participation. The qualification was very tight and saw Adrien Bertin taking the TQ in front of Thomas Eytard, Maxime Favrelle and Basile Concialdi who took the last spot for the direct final. In the final Favrelle had the best start and managed to increase is lead to 1 lap over the rest of the field in the early stage of the race, but his engine stalled after the first half of the race and he lost some time. With a strong and aggressive run Favrelle could manage to recover and take over the lead again just a few minutes before the end. At this time Desmaries was on 2nd position, but also his engine stalled and he dropped down to 7th position gifting Basile Concialdi with the runner up spot, just in front of Thomas Eytard.

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April 14, 2010

Arnaud Mathieu confirmed at Motonica

Motonica have announced that Arnaud Mathieu has joined their French team to run the P81 Pro throughout the 2010 season. The partnership has already proved successful with Arnaud winning the Elite class at last weekend’s 2nd round of the French National Championships.

Source: Motonica [motonica.com]

April 14, 2010

Billy Easton wins Florida State Series Rd6

Pro-line are reporting on last weekend’s 6th round of the Florida State Off-Road Nitro Series were they took the win in both pro classes. In 1:8th buggy, team drivers Billy Easton and Leon McIntosh had great showings in the highly contested Pro A-main. It was all Billy Easton dominating the race and taking the win with the Serpent S811 with a lap on the field using M2 Calibers with closed cell foam. Leon had a great battle for 2nd with Jason Rouna for the entire 30 minute main. In the end though, Jason took the runner up spot, while Leon crossed the line in 3rd opting to use the softer M3 Caliber tires with blue closed cell foam.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]