Our partners Neo Buggy are reporting that multiple National Champion and Worlds TQ Ryan Maifield has signed a deal with Liquid Eyewear of Yuma, AZ. Liquid Eyewear is a premier eyewear manufacturer with a full line of sunglasses, clothing, and other accessories and the deal will see Ryan use and promote the companies products.
Source: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net]
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> Team Orion driver Andrew Gray 2007 Sedan Challenge – Link [teamorion.com]
> Kyosho release fully ball raced Mini-Z AWD MA-010 – Link [kyosho.com]
> Announcing the 2007 GRP Irish Challenge at the BADMCC track – Link [mirageracing.com]
> Beautiful Jordan F1 paint job on the Serpent F180 – Link [serpent.com]
> Interview with Adam Drake 2007 ROAR National Champion – Link [rc-area.co.uk]
> Team Magic G4+ build review – Link [rubeduderc.com]
Xray are reporting on the 3rd round of the Czech National Championship for 1/8th scale buggies that was held 2 weekends ago at the very end of June. Qualfiying saw Xray driver Martin Bayer take the pole position for the main final and was joined by the winners from both semi finals for the start of the 30 minute main. As the final go underway it was Martin that took the lead and gradually started to create a gap from the chasing pack that included his brother Ales as well as L. Zeman. Martin lead until 3 minutes from the end, when a stone jumped into his car some obstruction which cost him 20 seconds in the pits and allowed his brother Ales driving the Losi 8ight to take over the lead which he held to the end, to take the win ahead of his brother Martin in 2nd and P. Klatovsky in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> JConcepts report on the ROAR 1/8th Off-Road Fuel Buggy Nationals – Link [jconcepts.net]
> All the new Upgrade RC goodies on 1 page – Link [neobuggy.net]
> Aluminum Ball Differential System For Tamiya M03M – Link [3racing.com.hk]
> RC Car Action have a spy shot of the new Novak Data Logger – Link [radiocontrolzone.com]
> Michael Lepelaar wins Dutch Championship Round 3 – Link [teamxray.com]
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up:
> Xray’s new carbon receiver bracket set for the NT1 – Link [teamxray.com]
> New brushless motors & accessories from Speed Passion – Link [powers-international.com]
> Report from the 5th round of 2007 Cyprus Nitro Challenge – Link [teammagic.com.tw]
> Closeups of the new Tam Tech-Gear 4wd conversion set – Link [kawadamodel.co.jp]
> East release stiff front one way axle for Serpent 960 – Link [centralrc.co.jp]
> Team Xray uses Team Orion CRF REV Power to win 6 hour Enduro – Link [teamorion.com]
> Toon Deyaerts wins rd 4 of Belgian 235mm National Championship – Link [serpent.com]
> Nice round up of the current 4wd EP buggies on the market – Link [rcworld.ch]
> Lightweight & Strong Titanium turnbuckles for HPI Firestorm – Link [hpi-europe.com]
Xray have a report on their site, from team driver Paul Lemiuex, on the 3rd round of the Midwest series that was run recently in Canton Mi, a suburb of Detroit. Qualifying saw a complete lock out of the top 5 places by Xray, with Paul Lemiuex taking the pole position followed closely by Bobby Flack in 2nd while the 3rd spot went to Tom Espisito.
The mains were set and from the tone it was myself and Bobby Flack battling it out for the first few laps, with Chris in third and Tom in toe. Very soon into the 30min final I had a glow plug go bad and after missing 4 laps got back on the track. The race was now being lead by Bobby Flack who also had an issue which caused him to miss some amount to time in the pits, as I begun to work my way back threw the field from last it was Chris Doseck in the lead with Bobby Flack beginning to close and Goop all the way from 8th on the grid running third as Tom Espisito also had problems. I was able to run very fast for the rest of the final and make up a couple of laps to get past Goop in the last 5 minutes or so as Chris had a 1 lap lead over me and Bobby had a nice lead over Chris at the end.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The fourth round of the Belgian 1/8th scale National Championships was run at the Bierset track over the weekend and it was newly crowned Benelux Champion Robin D’Hondt that proved he was the class of the field by taking the win ahead of Serpent team mate Steven Cuypers in 2nd with Eric Vandereyt in 3rd. Serpent have the full race report from D’Hondt on their website, which you can check out here.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Last weekend the Auto Model Club Ampuis played host to the 2007 French EFRA GP for 200mm and apart from a few foreign drivers the event was very much an all French affair. Qualifying, which was held in dry conditions, saw Kyosho driver Adrien Bertin set both a new individual lap record and overall 5 minute qualifying record, to take the pole position ahead of B.A. Arnaldi in 2nd and Belgian driver Jérôme Renaux in 3rd. Unfortunately for race day the rain came down and this put a bit of a dampener on proceedings but the race went ahead anyway and it Kyosho driver Sébastien Wartelle that took the win, by a lap, from 2nd placed Adrien Bertin with 3rd spot going to the Renaud Monin.
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