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May 2, 2010

ROAR drawing up provisional 1/8 Super GT rules

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ROAR is authoring rules for the “GT” category, which it will refer to as “1/8 Super GT” to avoid confusion with other categories that are also called “GT.” The rules pertain to the 1/8 off-road based vehicles that feature on-road passenger and road racing body shells. This is a category that’s been gaining in popularity due to reasonable cost, high durability, lower maintenance and the scale appearance of these big machines. ROAR desires to preserve the most appealing elements of what has made this a popular and growing category. ROAR invites all industry affiliates and current members to inquire with questions or additional suggestions for the rules.

More information can be found here.

May 1, 2010

Kyosho America open Route 241 Raceway

Kyosho America have announced the opening of Route 241 Raceway inside their headquarters in Lake Forest, California. R241 was conceived and built as a means to provide the best facility for their extensive Mini-Z and dNaNo RC racing vehicles. Starting from May 1st they will be opening the doors to the public every Saturday and Sunday sans Holidays.

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April 30, 2010

Wesley van Dijken wins opening Dutch TC National

After a long winter the Dutch Nationals got underway last weekend at the famous AMCA track in Apeldoorn. The biggest group of competitors was found in the 13.5T stock class. There was also a group of ProTen-drivers who revamped their championship in 2010. It was soon clear the first round of qualifiers would be the quickest. Due to the warming track the later runs would be almost a second a lap slower. Victim of the early pace was Benny van Oers, winner of last years final, who had to start from pole in the B-final.

Continue reading the report here

April 29, 2010

Hupo Honigl reports from Pre Season testing

New Team Durango signing Hupo Honigl attended last weekend’s pre-Season race held at the Rhein-Mein Circuit in Bischofsheim, Germany and filed this report. A lot good drivers attended the race at Bischofscheim including Neumann, Drescher, Ronnefalk, Svenson, Reckward, as well as many top German drivers. Gerd made some subtle changes to a couple of parts and all I can say is that they work awesome. In the first practice run the car felt already pretty good, but the shocks were too soft and also the diff oils were too soft. I changed from 5k-5k-2k to 10k-10k-2k and changed the shockoil to 10 harder in the front and 5 harder in the rear. This helped a lot.

Continue reading the report here

April 29, 2010

Thomas Pumpler wins Austrian Nats Rd1

Las weekend saw the Austrian outdoor season get underway with the first race of the Austrian championship in 1/10th Modified. The race was held in- Wr. Neustadt and the weather was very nice with lots of sun all weekend. The track was very short, with a lap time of about 12 seconds, very bumpy and the grip was very high and saw many good drivers have a lot problems. After 4 qualifying rounds it was local driver Martin Schuster that took the TQ in front of Tamiya/Speedpassion Team driver Thomas Pumpler, with Patrick Gollner in third position. In the finals it was Thomas Pumpler who could take an easy win, taking victory in the first two finals with his, with Martin Schuster finishing second and local guy Martin Szunyogh in third completing a podium lock out for Tamiya.

April 29, 2010

Hungarian National Off road Championship Rd1

Last weekend the Hungarian national offroad championship kicked off with more than 60 drivers. The race was held in Apaj, a small city about 50km’s from the capital city of Budapest and organised by RCOR club. The layout of the track is really nice, very enjoyable, it has all kind of jumps (table, double, triple, step-down) and corners (sweeper, hairpin, chicane). The racing line was visible but covered with some dust and the track held up really well all weekend, thanks to the proper preparation of the organiser club.

Continue reading the report here

April 28, 2010

Jeremy Cupps wins the Texas Biggie

We were sent the following report from Jeremy Cupps on this year’s Texas Biggie, running in its 33rd year. With great weather great people and most important some good racing, the Biggie format is a fun one we run a total of six qualifiers, 2 on Friday, 4 on Saturday and the mains on Sunday. Well Friday’s qualifiers started I was on a good pace and ended 2nd after the first run, I was happy with the run but knew I could go faster. The 2nd run went like the first, I improved my time but was still 2nd on the grid. After the first day of qualifying I was happy with the performance of my car, the 966 was very easy to drive, after securing a spot in the final I was preparing to go after the TQ for Saturday.

Continue reading Jeremy’s report here

April 28, 2010

TecnoPower sign Portuguese driver João Gomes

New Italian engine company TecnoPower is on its way to enter the serious buggy competition scene with its freshly released ‘B01’ engine and a new upcoming Portuguese driver called João Gomes, who finished 7th at the 2010 Euro’s Warm up in Portugal.

We are very happy to have João joining us and helping us to promote and race our engines. He will not only participate in the upcoming Euro B but also the Euro A and Worlds in Thailand. We at TecnoPower would like to wish him the best of luck and give our best to support to him during these events and will be present too support technically any other driver who will be using our engines during these events.

Source: TecnoPower [tecnopower-motor.com]