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August 10, 2009

Styger & De Sousa win African Cup EP Off Road

The IFMAR Pre Worlds combined with the 1st African Cup EP Off Road event took place last weekend with few but very enthusiastic drivers taking part. Held over two days, the event saw 4 rounds of qualifying take place on the Saturday and 3 rounds for the finals on Sunday. The track was completed just in time for this event and so this race was the inaugural event. The 2 wheel drive class was first to start the event with average lap times of 18.10 to start with, dropping further with the TQ taken this class with 16.797, while the quickest lap going to Gary Styger was just over 15.3sec. The 4 wheel drive class followed in the order of the race event and began with 19.917 second laps with TQ being 15.919, with the quickest lap going to Guilherme De Sousa at 15.427. The finals were run over 3 legs and in the 2wd class it was Gary Styger that took the win from Stefan Fourie and Kenny Morey, each driver with a leg win a piece, while in 4wd it was Guilherme De Sousa that would emerge victorious, taking a clean sweep of all legs, to take the overall win ahead of Stefan Fourie and Kenny Morey.

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August 10, 2009

Xray Column – Heading for the Euros

The 32nd installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj gives his thoughts about the 1/8th scale European Buggy Championships that took place in Austria, as well as some post race testing of their XB808 buggy.

While testing we exchanged cars with Martin and as usual I felt his car to be much more sensitive with a lot more steering. To get an independent opinion, we gave both my and Martin’s cars to Bayer for testing. Ironically, he reported the opposite: my car had more steering and my shock set-up was more to his personal likeness! That made it very clear that everyone prefers a different handling style and what seems to understeer to one person may seem to oversteer for someone else.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

August 9, 2009

Jason Dorn does Queensland double

Queensland local driver Jason Dorn impressed all by winning both 200mm and 1:8 IC Queensland state titles at the England Park Raceway. With many competitors using these titles as another warmup for the Nationals later this year in Sydney the field was small but filled with quality drivers. 200mm top qualifier Dorn had a horror start and was bumped to last place from pole position at the start of the 30min final. Andrew Bardetta and Phil Woodbury lead the field while Dorn recovered ground and worked his way through the field. Andew Bardetta fell out of contention and Phil Woodbury took an excursion off field allowing Dorn through to take command of the lead and cross the finish line in first position.

Continue reading the report here

August 8, 2009

Marcus Luebke wins German EP Truck Nats

Last weekend the Stock and Modified German Electric Off-Road Truck Nationals were hosted in Trier by the Team Turtles Trier club, the same club that hosted the 2008 German Electric Off-Road 4WD Nationals. Team Losi Racing’s factory driver and worlds A-finalist Marcus Luebke set the pace in the modified class and secured the pole position in the finals with five consecutive qualifying wins with his XXX-T CR Truck. The modified A-final saw a 1-2-3 line-up of Losi drivers Marcus Luebke, Kim Sitensky (2004, 2005 & 2008 German Truck Champion) and Juergen Kropp (2006 German Truck Champion & Swiss Truck Champion). The finals were run on Sunday in rainy conditions and Marcus won all three A-finals to secure his 6th German Electric Off-Road National title.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

August 6, 2009

Freddy Sudhoff joins LRP team

Front running European electric and gas racer Freddy Sudhoff has joined the LRP team. The current 1/10th scale 200mm European B Champion made his debut for the German company at last weeks European EP Touring car Championships in Luxembourg. Freddy will use the complete LRP product line in his Xray chassis including speed controls, motors, batteries, chargers, dischargers, power supply and accessories. His next race will be the German Championships where he will be joined by the current team of Ronald Völker, Steven Weiß and Dirk Wischnewski.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

August 5, 2009

Rick V & D’Hondt win at Dutch Nats Rd5

Last weekend saw the 5th round of the Dutch 1/8th scale championship take place at the Raco2000, a new track in the Netherlands. Actually this track was one of the first RC tracks in Holland but was closed in the early 90’s due to several reasons. After a lot of work by a few people in the past years it is fully up and running again and boy, what a track to drive. Sadly the weather decided to let it rain during the whole qualification and so only 41 drivers were trying to set a time to get into the finals.

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August 5, 2009

Sebastian Kunz wins final Central German Regional

Last weekend the final round for of the Central German Championship 2009 1/10th scale touring car took place in Wiesbaden. Team Shepherd was attending the event with two V10 pre-production cars. Also newly crowned European Champion Dirk Wischnewski joined the race so it was a good possibility to compare the performance of the V10 with another good driver. In the qualifying it were Novarossi backed drivers Dirk Wischnewski and Patrick Schäfer with the fastest runs. Dirk secured himself the pole-position followed by Patrick Schäfer who raced the first time with the V10. Second V10 racer Sebastian Kunz had some bad luck as his transponder didn’t count correctly so he had to go through the Semi-Final. If it had counted correctly Sebastian would have ended up on 3rd place after qualifying. The fastest lap of Patrick was only 0,1 sec slower than Dirk’s fastest lap, so the performance of the V10 was already quite good.

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August 5, 2009

Kyle Branson wins BRCA 200mm Nats Rd6

Fresh from his showing at the Euros in Italy, Kyle Branson was back in the UK for the 6th round of the Nationals and sent us this report. “On saturday the weather was overcast in the morning, the track was in Brighton on the South coast in a place called Adur. We got to the track and ran the 720, as we had no spares for the 733, but we found the track had hardly any traction, it was very slippy. We just drove round to learn the track as there was not much else we could do with track like this. All we tried was tyres, we tried some Kronos tyres off a friend which seemed to be the best around this track. The traction didnt improve much, but by around 12:30pm it started to rain and that was it for the day. Sunday was a much better day with a lot of blue sky, we had a round of practice in the morning and the track was not very good still. In the first round of qualyfying I TQ’d by 3 seconds in front of team mate Johnathan Dobney with a few mistakes, I kept TQ after 4 rounds gradually improving my time. In the end I TQ’d by just over 4 seconds in front of Johnathan Dobney but I could have made a 20 lap run if I hadn’t made any mistakes in the last round. It was quite hard in qualifying because of the lack of grip and if we went off line it was basically like hitting water. In the final I got of to a pretty bad start, as we started from the side of the straight where there was no grip, I spun and went on to the grass, going straight down to tenth position. I worked my way up the field and went into first again, I stayed there for the remainder of the race with Johnathan finishing second and Robin Hammett finishing third. I was running the new Sirio XXX V Engine which ran really well all weekend.”

Thanks to Kyle Branson for the report.