The organisers of the 2009/2010 BRCA 12th Nationals have been in touch, to notify everyone that the entry form is now available to download. With only a month to go until the first round, the class has seen a lot of popularity already this year. You can enter for one event or the complete season but please enter as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. More details can be found by visiting the BRCA website here.
Team Hot Bodies UK are pleased to announce that they will be working with Titanium Racing in development of TR’s excellent range of products. Following on from the success of Team Schumacher, HB are positive that working with TR will allow them to improve not only the feel of the cars but decrease their lap times. With ex-World Champion Andy Moore spear heading the development great things are sure to come from this partnership. Mendip will be the first time the team will be testing the products in anger so we look forwards to the performance increase we are sure they will have.
Source: Titanium Racing [titaniumracing.com]
Hosted by Orange County R/C Raceway in beautiful Huntington Beach, California the 2nd Annual Proline Surf City Classic boasts a $4000 cash payout for the four major classes. A victory in the 1/8th Pro Buggy, 4wd Pro Buggy, 2wd Pro Buggy or 2wd Pro Truck sends winner home with $500 in cash, second takes $300 and third nets $200. Not too bad, so much so that it brought out a few top racers from across the country including Ryan Cavalieri, Jared Tebo, Jeremy Kortz, Steven Hartson and Frank Root just to name a few.
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The inaugural Irish Grand Prix was held over the weekend at the St.Annes track in Dublin where Keith Demspey took double victory winning both the 1:10 Electric and Nitro categories. Heading the entry for the event hosted by the country’s main onroad club, ORCA, was reigning British Champion Kyle Branson who duly went onto TQ the 1:10 nitro class with his factory Sirio powered Serpent. Unfortunately rain arrived after the first round of qualifying and the remainder of the racing would be run on a wet track.
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Held at Denver-Colorado’s Rat Raceway, the Colorado 1/8th Scale State Championships brought out the top Colorado pro drivers including Losi’s Dustin Evans, Matt Chambers and Associated/Reedy’s Adrian Redding. However, the show was stolen by Redding’s teammate and up and coming racer Kody Numendahl. Unable to qualify on Saturday due to commitments at school, Numedahl started last in the bottom final and bumped all the way in to the ‘A’ main event. Starting from 9th on the grid Numendahl quickly found his way to the front by the 5th lap. Utilizing his Reedy 121 VR powered Team Associated RC8B, Numendahl gapped the field and drove off in to the distance to claim the State Championship.
Source: Associated [rc10.com]
The first Xray Challenge in the nitro class where only NT1 cars were allowed to start was held in the Hong Kong. The race was held on August 15-16, 2009 at the big track situated approximately 60km from Honk Kong City. Drivers from Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Macau, China, Indonesia, Philippines, United Kingdom, and Slovakia participated in this race whose main purpose was to have fun and enjoy racing. Juraj and Martin Hudy attended the race to provide support to all Xray NT1 owners at the race. In total, the race was attended by almost 120 NT1 drivers. This number was fantastic mainly because all drivers used only one brand of car. The race was organized by Honk Kong distributor World Model.
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The 2009 TCS North American Finals are over and Tamiya have 3 new champions going to Japan. They are Timmy Valles of the GT-1 class, Lee Passehl of the GT-2 class and Michael Monaghan of the Mini class. Timmy Valles was able to clinch his title in the first 2 in the best of 3 A-Main races as was Lee Passehl, though it wasn’t easy. Timmy had to contend with Joe Glover and James Arluck as both of them were in the hunt to challenge Timmy. In the case of Lee Passehl it was Oliver Clipper and Orlando Sherman that brought their best A-Game to date. Both had cars and great setups to stay close enough to Passehl to give him good scare. In the end it was Lee that kept a cool head and can now be nicknamed the ICEMAN. In Michael Monighans’ case, it came to the third Final A-Main to decide his fate. His nerves in the first main caused him to drive a little erratic and he finished second in the first main.
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The annual African Cup was held recently in SA with the host track being completed only a week before the event, ensuring that the local competitors didnt have any home track advantage. As usual practice was Thursday and Friday afternoon only with qualifiers on the Saturday and finals on the Sunday. This year Zac Ryan and Craig Laughton from Australia joined a total of 75 local drivers to test their racing talents against others in gas Buggy, Truggy and Monster truck classes.
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