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May 7, 2010

Wouter Wynen joins Vampire Racing

Multiple Belgium Champion Wouter Wynen has joined Vampire Racing. The 2009 Euro B finalist and winner of the Belgium GP at Kampenhout, is going to use the complete Vampire Racing product range including their racing LiPo batteries. Wouter has already won the second round of this year’s Belgium 2wd championship and Vampire Racing are confident that using their products he can continue that success for the rest of the season.

Source: Vampire Racing [vampire-racing.com]

May 7, 2010

New approval listing for ROAR Sportsman class ESCs

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The ROAR Executive Committee, including the Electric Section Chairperson and advisory along with its Affiliate Manufacturers, have compiled a listing of electronic speed controllers (ESC) for use in ROAR Sportsman racing programs. Speed controllers eligible for Sportsman class racing must be capable of providing zero timing advance along with disabling advanced motor control functions. When the sportsman profile is enabled, it shall be indicated by a blinking LED while the ESC is armed and in neutral position. ESC manufacturer affiliates have been working with ROAR Section Committees to develop the sportsman ESC definitions and update firmware to meet the class standard. Firmware in the latest advanced speed control products must provide a profile, which allows its use to comply with Sportsman ESC profile requirements. Several affiliates are working on firmware updates which will allow additional ESC’s to be added. Members should contact the manufacturer directly for firmware updates or questions regarding any ESC they wish to have added to the ROAR Sportsman approved ESC listing.

More information can be found here.

May 6, 2010

Martin Lissau wins Danish National opener

Last weekend the first round of the Danish Nationals took place at the Odense RC MiniRace track. Martin Lissau was present to compete the first time with the Shepherd Velox V10 and with limited possibilities for practice because of the rain he went into the first round of qualifying and set a new track record on his way to clocking the fastest time. Right after, the rain arrived again and the rest of the qualifying was canceled. The finals were scheduled for Sunday and finally the track was dry. Right from the start of the final Martin pulled away and never looked back, running flawlessly for 30 minutes to cross the line in first position ahead of Claus Rygeskov in 2nd and Martin Hansen in 3rd. In the 1/8th scale class Henrik Christensen had the lead from the start to the end to take victory in front of fellow Shepherd racer Hans Andersen in 2nd, with John Jessen 3rd.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 5, 2010

Philippe Tschupp wins Stock class at Swiss Rd2

The 2nd round of the Swiss touring car nationals took place at the Islikon indoor track in the north of the country this past weekend. In the stock class it was Top Racing driver Philippe Tschupp that claimed the TQ spot ahead of team mate Florian Hauser in 2nd with Philipp Hagnauer in 3rd. The finals when the way of the pole man Tschupp, who was able to win 2 finals to secure the win with Hagnauer taking the runner up spot and Stuzt Beni taking 3rd.

Source: HS Online Distribution [hsonlinedistribution.com]

May 5, 2010

RMC Wien Euros track pics

RMC Wien, the organisers of this year’s 1/10th electric off road Euros in Traiskirchen, Austria, were in touch to show of photos of their brand new track. Replacing their old, mainly dirt track, the new layout incorporates a lot more jumps and is covered in large areas with astro turf. Ready in time for next weeks warm up race, the main event will run from the 23rd to the 28th of August.

View more track images here

May 4, 2010

Frank Root wins at JBRL Electric Rd3

Frank Root reports that the Jimmy Babcock Racing League was back in session last Sunday, and with only 2 weeks since the last round, everyone were all still in electric mode and ready to go. Hot Rod Hobbies, home of the Off-Road Shootout, hosted round 3 and with the traditional high bite blue-groove and a fresh smooth layout, the cars would be flying. The layout was one of my all-time favorites, fast and flowing, yet still technically challenging. The signature to the track was the flat out banked turn at the end of the front straight, where just about all drivers would ride the top of the bank at full throttle with smiles on their faces.

Continue reading the report here

May 4, 2010

Tresrey Off-road series Rd2

Round 2 of the Tresrey Off-road series was held last Sunday at the TRS circuit in Matsusaka-city, Japan. 54 racers joined the event, making it the best attended race that the TRS circuit ever had for an off-road event with 49 entrants in the 2WD class and 44 in the 4WD class. In qualifying it was Takashi Nobuhara to managed to take TQ for both the 2WD and 4WD classes. In 2WD, Nobuhara won the race from the pole, with Hideki Nakajima taking 2nd and Noriyuki Kawashima 3rd. Team Durango/Speed Passion Japan team driver Minoru Utsugi was 8th in qualifying and finished 4th in the final. There were 13 Durango DEX410s in the 4WD class and 5 of them made the A final. Team Durango/Speed Passion Japan team driver Kazuki Sasatsu started from 3rd position and eventually won the race ahead of Kyoji Minagawa, with Team Durango Japan local support driver Akihiro Yasuda in 3rd. Minoru Utsugi finished 5th, Akira Ema finished 7th and Satoshi Kawano finished 10th driving DEX410s. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big draw prize draw which included two DEX410R kit exchange tickets, Axial kits and Speed Passion ESCs and motors.

Click here for images from the event

May 4, 2010

Adam Drake wraps up Losi Winter Series title

Losi Novarossi team driver Adam Drake has TQ’d both 1/8th pro buggy and truck this weekend at the final round of the Losi Winter Series hosted by Revelation Raceway. In the final Mike Truhe and Adam Drake made a mistake on lap one which allowed team mate Matt Castellano to take over the lead and never look back. Matt won followed by Mike Truhe and Adam Drake making it a Losi podium sweep. In the truck class Drake and Cody King had a good battle early in the race, but Adam was able to pull a large gap on Cody late in the race and take home the victory followed by Cody King and Matt Schreffler in third. Losi Driver Matt Schreffler took the overall championship in the 1/8th truck class with his Novarossi powered 8ight T 2.0, while it was Adam Drake that took the overall title in the 1/8th Pro buggy class for the second consecutive year.

Source: Losi [losi.com]