Current French 2wd National electric buggy Champion, Arnaud Collet, has rejoined Kyosho leaving behind a deal with Team Associated which saw him win last years Nationals when he drove a B4 to the title. Arnaud is present at this weekends 3rd round of the French National Championship driving his new ride, the Kyosho Ultima RB5, and we will bring you the results from this event as soon as we get them.
Source: Petit RC [petitrc.com]
French Kyosho racer Jerome Aigoin has taken the top qualifying spot for tomorrows main race at this weekends French EFRA GP in Auxerre. Aigoin led home a French domination of the top qualifying spots with the exception of Mugen racer Borja Hernandez of Spain who came home in 2nd position. Jeromes brother, current European Champion, Yannick Aigoin brought his Xray home in 3rd with the first of the French made Piktor buggys in 4th, driven by Sebasian Leonard.
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This weekend sees the French EFRA GP for 1/8th scale buggies take place at this years European Championship track in Auxerre and so the event is seen as a warmup for this event and so has attracted the top drivers from around Europe. Controlled practice was done today and leading the timesheets from the start is current European Champion, Yannick Aigoin driving for Xray with Crono driver, and current Italian Champion, Davide Tortorici in 2nd position while team mate Jerome Sartel of France is in 3rd. Qualifying will be run tomorrow and we hope to bring you an end of day report, but in the meantime check out some videos from todays action below.
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Brain Speed Graphix are now selling a pre painted replica of the same body shell and paint scheme of the current World and European Touring Car Champion, Andy Moore. This particular version is an exact copy of the scheme Andy used on his way to winning the TITC back in February which featured blue tinted windows. Available now in limited numbers.
Source: Brain Speed Graphix [upp.so-net.ne.jp/bsg]
Yesterday our partners, RC Infos, showed us some close up pictures that they had taken at the EC B’s in Roeselare, of the winning Serpent 720 of Alessio Mazzeo. Today as a follow up they have added 2 more picture sets from the same event, first off showing the Mugen MTX4 of event runner up Erik Dankel, which you can see is also pretty much standard, with only some small optional parts added such as the alu receiver box and alu servo horn. Walti Beat, the 4th placed qualifer and eventual 5th placed finisher, drove the new Xray NT1 (above) and his car was also pretty much standard, albeit nice and neat.
View the Xray NT1 here and the Mugen MTX4 here.
Source: RC Infos [rcinfos.com]
Our partners RC Infos have a nice set of closeup shots from the Serpent 720 of European B Championship winner, Alessio Mazzeo. In the photos you can see closeups of he has configured his Serpent 720 and see that its not much different to anyone elses, with no special optional parts on board, except of course for the super quick Max motor that propelled this car around the Roeselare track.
Check out the photos here.
Source: RC Infos [rcinfos.com]
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We have already brought you a video from the main final of the ACT State Titles race, and now thanks to our partners Rube Dude, we have another video from that race, this time of the hard fought odd Semi final.
Here is an action packed video of the hard fought Odd Semis at the 2007 ACT State Titles!! You can see how much you have to fight to get into the mains right here!! PHEWWWW!!!!
Rube Dude have been hard at work lately and also have a build review of the new 1/10 HongNor .5 Truggy, which you can see here.
Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]
Mirage have a report from their team driver Luke Burley from the 2nd round of the Schumacher BTCC championship. Round 1 of the series was won by Yokomo racer Chris Grainger but this second round, held in Aldershot, was won by HB racer Elliot Harper, who won 2 legs of the A-main to take the top spot, followed by Xray driver Luke Burley while 3rd position fell to Sam Smith.
Read the report here.
Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]
