A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> Associated report on the HRH Off road Shootout – Link [rc10.com]
> Argentine Championship 1 / 8 Off-Road Rd 2 – Link [rcnews.com.ar]
> Mirage report on BRCA 200mm Nats Rd5 – Link [mirageracing.com]
> Dominant DRT for Xray – Link [mirageracing.com]
> XB808 2nd at GS Racing Cup Malaysia – Link [teamxray.com]
Top US racer and 2007 ROAR National Champion Barry Baker has announced that he is leaving Team RC America and Xray to race for Taiwanese manufacturer Team Magic. A move away from Xray seemed to be on the cards when he started using Team Orion products in his car recently, moving away from the RC America team deal with Trinity. Barry released the following statement:
I just wanted to announce that myself and Team Magic Model LTD. have joined forces! I will be representing Team Magic not only in the racing part of the company but also in the development of the products they have and will be coming out with. I look forward to help with the development of not only the race vehicles but also the RTR vehicles! I will be using all of Team Magic’s Products….E4RS for Rubber tire racing…E4FS for foam tire racing…G4RS for Gas car racing…..and the M1B for 1/8th off road….With the help of K-Factory and H.A.R.D products I will do my best to put them in the winners circle! Not only will I be working directly with the factory, I also will help promote the car not only worldwide but I also know how hard Wolf Hobbies works in the U.S and I will help them as much as I can! I will debut with the cars at the IIC…Anyone going feel free to come check them out and I will be more then happy to answer any question there……As for questions about the Cars right now I need to have a few weeks to learn about them and I will start a question answer thread on here! I would like to thank Team Magic Model LTD.
Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]
Our mates at oOple, who are present at this weeks 1/10th EP Buggy European Championships, are reporting that defending champion Neil Cragg got off to a good start in the 2wd class, being quickest in practice and going on to win all five qualifying rounds to take an easy pole for the final. Over the three final legs Neil fought a hard battle with Paul Bradby for the title, a Nail biting fight on the last leg between these two saw Neil take the title, Paul Bradby second and Hupo Honigl third.
Read the full oOple Euros report here.
Source: oOple [oople.com]
Serpent have a report on the 4th round of the Irish Nationals that saw Serpent racer Clive Connolly in dominant form as he claimed his second consecutive double victory, winning both the 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm A Finals. A strong drive by Connolly in the 1/10th scale final saw him pass former National Champion Chris Steele and standings leader Eoin Doran to cruise home to a one lap winning margin over Steele’s Kyosho, with Keith Dempsey claiming his first ever National Championship podium finish in 3rd. Starting from pole in the 1/8th scale final, Connolly, who has a perfect winning record this season, stormed to yet another victory setting the fastest lap of the race to head home a Serpent 1-2 as young Sean Doyle claimed yet another strong podium finish ahead of Kyosho driver Nico Azzariti in 3rd.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
We received a report from Simon Reeves on the Belgium GP for 1/10th electric off road, which is always held the first weekend of July each year. Willy and Lilian who run the meeting always manage to run a relaxed fun meeting which for most is one of the best meetings of the year. This year saw more new additions to the track with a new wall of death and a new triple/double combination in the centre of the track. The 2wd event held on the Saturday was a mixture of sunshine and rain which on the MBV track proves a major challenge as the slightest of rain can make a massive difference to grip levels but we were lucky with 4wd & Truck to have sunshine all day with the odd cloud but most importantly dry all day.
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The 5th round of the BRCA 1/10th scale 200mm Nationals were run at Wrexham last weekend and rainy weather greeted the lower than normal number of competitors who attended. On Saturday it rained in the morning and didn’t dry until around midday, leaving the racers with half a day of practice to fine tune their cars for Sunday’s racing. On race day, the first two rounds of qualifying were wet and so it was only the last two dry rounds which would count. Team Xray driver Mark Gilliland was TQ in every round and so claimed the overall top spot from Mark Green, Stephen Brown and Kyle Branson. For the finalists, all chances of a dry final were dashed when it started raining 10 minutes before the start, leaving all racers scrambling to put wet tyres on their cars. The start of the 30 minute race saw Kyle Branson jump to the front after 4 laps followed by Steve Brown, the order remaining static until the 23rd minute when Branson’s wheel came off and took him out of the lead. With the tyre back on he struggled on a drying track and this left Gilliland to pick up the pieces and take the win by 3 laps from Mark Green, with his Serpent team mate Kyle Branson holding onto 3rd.
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Mirage Racing have been in contact to announce the 2008-09 British Indoor Winter Series, run in conjunction with Sheffield & District MCC, Newbold Models and Don Valley Stadium. This winter series is very popular amongst drivers with over 100 entries at every round, with some of the very best UK racers in attendance to offer help and advice, plus some blistering on track performance. This series is designed for all abilities and for all people to have some great fun.
For more information about the BIWS, go here.
The latest qualification round for the German Nationals were held last weekend in Oberhausen and it was Team Corally driver Marc Fischer that TQ’d and won the modified class with his Corally RDX Phi. Setting the fastest lap of the weekend along the way, Fisher won ahead of Federico Veronesi in 2nd and Yannic Prümper in 3rd. In the stock class another Team Corally driver Domenik Reschke took the win followed by team mate Patrick Pasch in 2nd while Thomas Musial took 3rd.
Source: Corally [corally.com]
