A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> Team CRC takes the 2008 Snowbirds – Link [teamcrc.com]
> Schumacher Mi3 dominates WBMCC Schumacher ITCC – Link [racing-cars.com]
> Ronnie Gardner wins 13th Annual Rumble in the Rockies – Link [teamorion.com]
> Mark Burgess takes BRCA Seniors Championship win – Link [racing-cars.com]
> Announcing the 2008 GRP Irish Challenge – Link [mirageracing.com]
Tuesday’s first day of qualifying at this years Florida Winternats is over and for the days second run, the rain gods decided to pay a visit to the track and this caused the round to be scrapped. Before the rain arrived, the racing was hot on the track with Mike Swauger setting the pace in 1/8th scale with his JP powered Mugen just in front of newly signed Motonica racer Josh Cyrul in 2nd, while 3rd spot overnight belonged to Aaron Buran. In the 1/10th 200mm class it was Xray NT1 driver Paul LeMieux that was setting the pace, finishing only 1 second up on last years winner Paolo Morganti in 2nd, who had Serpent team mate DJ Apolaro just behind him in 3rd, while rounding out the top 4 was Kyosho driver Chris Tosolini. Wednesday will see a lot of changes up the front as the conditions improve and all the top drivers manage to get a chance to put in a good run, we will keep you updated. Thanks to The Border for sending us the information.
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In a warm up race for the upcoming Nationals that takes place at the same venue in a fortnight, Mugen racer Nacho Lopez has dominated at the Cádiz track last weekend. The Tecrotec backed racer was using a prototype of the new Picco Evo3, which was shown last week for the first time at the Picco stand in Germany, and with it managed to TQ the event and break the lap record by 1 second on his way to the overall win of the event.
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A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> Graham Alsop wins Rd5 of CML Winter Series – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]
> Riccardo Cavicchi wins Pistoia 1/8 buggy GP – Link [teammagic.com.tw]
> Skelding wins BRCA N.E. Indoor Regional Champs – Link [mirageracing.com]
> Report from the DMS Winter/Summer series – Link [horizonhobby.co.uk]
> Stiles shows what the M18 Pro can do – Link [mirageracing.com]
> Bloomfield & Niall take Rd4 of Panther Cup – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk]
We are currently running about half a day late with our reports from the Winternats due to the time difference, with Tuesday’s qualifying now underway here is the practice report from Monday. Again the weather was very nice, at least for us Europeans, and in the 1/8th scale it seems that Kyosho racer Chris Tosolini is setting the pace with young Vincent Jackson also very quick as is Italian veteran Marco Vanni. In the 1/10th class there is more people battling at the front with the top qualifying spot looking to be between Jilles Groskamp, Ralph Burch, Mark Green and last years winner Paolo Morganti. This was the final day for the drivers to perfect their setup and will now head into qualifying with 2 rounds of heats for everyone on Tuesday. We hope to continue to bring you more pictures from the track, and a brief report, tomorrow. Thanks to The Border for sending us the information.
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A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> Jerome Sartel dominates Euro Indoor race – Link [neobuggy.net]
> HoBao preview the Hyper Mini Truggy ST – Link [hobao-racing.com]
> The Losi 8ight of Yannick Aigoin – Link [rcmag.com]
> The Mugen MBX5-R of Renaud Savoya – Link [rcmag.com]
> The Xray XB8 of Jérome Sartel – Link [rcmag.com]
This years annual Winternats held at the Ft Myers track in Florida, is currently underway with a lot of the racers arriving on Sunday before the week of the event to get some practice in on this extremely tight and unforgiving track. Our site sponsors The Border are present with Michel Nijman racing and supporting Jilles Groskamp, and with the time left over will be sending us some photos and updates from the track. Here are the pictures from Sunday’s practice day which saw nice weather with temperatures around 26 degrees Celcius, perfect conditions for racing. As you can see from the photos, a lot of the Europeans are already at the track including multiple winner Michael Salven, who is contesting 2 classes, the Baldes brothers Jorg and Uwe and top Austrians Gerhard Kandelhart and Daniel Tomaschko. Also present racing for the first time with Motonica is new signing Josh Cyrul and new team mate Ron Atomic, who has also just been announced as a KO Propo racer. We hope to bring some more pictures and reports during the week as we get them.
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Last weekend saw the Yatabe Arena International off road GP take place at the famous indoor off road track in Japan. The event was attended by all the top Japanese racers and also present was former World Champion Ryan Cavalieri who was taking part in both the truck and the 2wd and 4wd classes. Racing saw the Reedy style format being used and even though Cavalieri dominated the 2wd class with 3 wins from 4, he had one sightly off result in the 4wd class which meant he finished in 2nd behind eventual winner, 2wd World Champion, Hayatu Matsuzaki, with Masami Hirosaka claiming 3rd. Cavalieri took the win the truck class.
Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]
