Red RC » Racing

November 24, 2009

Jérôme Aigoin confirmed at Novarossi

Confirmed to us over the weekend at the Offroad Meeting, Novarossi have today officially announced that they have signed French Ace and Kyosho team driver Jérôme Aigoin. Jérôme, who previously ran for Sirio, is one of Europe’s fastest racers and for sure one of the most spectacular and joins the Racing Experience team in France alongside Guillaume Vray and twin brother Yannick. Jérôme has already tested both the Plus 4 and Toro Nero power plants and is said to be looking forward to the upcoming racing season.

Source: Racing Experience [racing-experience.fr]

November 24, 2009

Swauger and Fukuda win in Shanghai

The 2nd annual TRS Asia Nitro Open Cup was held in Shanghai, China. Drivers from 10 countries/region including China, USA, Japan, Holland, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei and Korea competed at this winter event. After 5 rounds of qualifying, Mike Swauger from the USA was TQ in the 1/8 on road class, and Keisuke Fukuda from Japan was TQ in the touring class. Sunday’s “A” Main Final in the 1/8 on road class saw Swauger lead from start to finish winning the Championship, second place went to Jimmy Qian from Shanghai and 11 year old JJ Wang from Shanghai took third. In the 1/10 touring “A” Mains, a close fought battle between Fukuda, Meen Vejrack (Thailand) and Jilles Groskamp provided the crowd with some exciting racing. At the checkered flag, it was Fukuda who took the Championship with Meen Vejrack in second and Jilles Groskamp in third. Race organizers will be aiming to make next year’s race larger and more competitive.

Click here for more images from the event

November 24, 2009

Cody King scores Pro Buggy win at KFC

Following on from the report we received on the truggy and brushless classes at the Kyosho Fall Classic, held at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA last weekend, today we received a report on the hotly contested buggy class. Kyosho team driver Cody King, driving his Team Orion powered Inferno MP9, TQ’d and won the highly contested 1/8 Nitro Pro Buggy class, taking the victory in front of Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri and Hot Bodies driver Travis Amezcua. Cody also finished 2nd in Pro Truggy and 3rd in Pro Electric Buggy, landing on the podium in all 3 classes he competed in making it a great weekend as Kyosho’s top driver at the event.

Click here for final results and more photos

November 23, 2009

Cristian Costanzo wins Motonica Race

Last weekend saw the Motonica Race held in Fiorano, Italy and on Saturday’s 1/10th scale 200mm race it saw the new Capricorn Lab-C01 claim the win. Having TQ’d the race Cristian Costanzo, would go on to win the A-main using his Novarossi powered Lab-C01 from Xray NT1 driver Walter Ossola in 2nd, with another Capricorn driver Victor Coggiola taking the final podium spot. Capricorn has 4 of their new cars at the event and all made the final with 6 of the 10 drivers in the main final using the company’s new hard light tires.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

November 23, 2009

Xray Column – National Heroes

The 36th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about the company’s successes on Regional and National levell.

Being away at races, test sessions, or warm-up preparations, nearly every weekend is spent away at some event. The racing though is not only about the Worlds, Euros, or International races — those are really just the tip of the iceberg — but there are also hundreds of other races going on every week… club, local, and regional races and of course the numerous national race series in every category in all countries around the world. The XRAY national and regional teams around the world have been well known for their very active work and racing during the whole season, and we do our best to publish all the latest news on our Web site. I closely monitor all race reports coming from around the world and I am always very happy and proud for every single XRAY victory no matter where it comes from.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 23, 2009

Cavalieri wins Kyosho Fall Classic

The final race of the Revelation Racing Series took place over the weekend of November 21 & 22 at Revelation Raceway in Montclair, CA. This month’s event is the Kyosho Fall Classic and Ryan Cavalieri quickly ascended to the top spot in the Expert Truggy “A” main from his 2nd qualifying position. Clearly the class of the field, Cavalieri and his RC8T CE checked out from the competition and easily cruised to the victory.

Continue reading and watch a video from the truggy final here

November 23, 2009

Byron selected as Fuel supplier for 2010 Worlds

Byron Gen2 Race Fuel

IFMAR have announced that following a vote by their member blocs, that Byron 16% will be the official fuel of the 2010 IFMAR 1/10th scale 200mm World Championships in Houston, Texas. Along with Byron Fuel, Maxy’s was also up for consideration with the four member blocs giving 2 votes a piece for each brand. As per the rules, the decision fell to the IFMAR officials to make the casting vote and Byron was chosen.

Click here to read the full wording of the letter

November 22, 2009

Aigoin leaves the Arena as double Champion

Yannick Aigoin has completed a clean sweep at the 2009 Arena Offroad Meeting here in Italy by claiming victory in the main event heading home Riccardo Rabitti for a Losi 1-2 finish. Having had a bad start, which saw him drop to the back of the running order, the French racer worked his way up through the field to take the win adding to his earlier Truggy victory.

View our full event coverage here.