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December 5, 2006

Atsushi Hara wins the 2006 Buggy Party Final

Podium Buggy Party

RC superstar, Atsushi Hara of Japan, has been proving that he is pretty gifted when it comes to controlling all RC cars, not just Electric circuit cars, having followed up his open final placing at the recent Japanese 1/8th off road Nationals, by TQ’ing and winning the 2006 Buggy Party Final held in Thailand. In the end it was easy for the Hot Bodies racer who took the win in the hour long final by over 5 laps ahead of 2nd placed local racer Yuthana D. driving a HoBao. Fellow Thai racer Charlee was 3rd for Mugen, 2 laps further back.

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December 5, 2006

Race Announcements – Czech and USA

Czech International Indoor Event

We received details of 2 events coming up soon and not so soon. The first race is the Czech International Indoor Event (6th – 7th Jan) that takes place on an ice rink in Lansroun City (see above) but doesnt take place on ice unfortunately, the track is covered in carpet. The second event to be announced is the 1/18th Indoor Off Road Nationals (13th – 15th Apr) that takes place at the RC Madness indoor dirt track in Conneticut.

View the full details about each event here… content

December 4, 2006

Ali Graham wins Stock class at CML Carpet Masters

Ali Graham

You British racer Ali Graham has dominated the stock class at round 2 of the CML Carpet Masters held last weekend. Driving the TOP Scythe Ali dominated all his qualifiers, setting the fastest times in all 3 to eventually TQ by 3 seconds and then went on to win both his finals to take the overall class win.

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December 4, 2006

Tyler Vik signs for Kyosho

Tyler Vik

Notch up another big name for the Big K with the news that young US hotshot Tyler Vik has defected from Mugen to Kyosho. I know little about Tyler other than hes been pretty quick for a few years and hes an O’Donnell protegÃ©. I do like his expression in the image above though, you think hes comfortable being the filling in this chick sandwich?

Hot shot US Racer Tyler Vik has in a surprise move, joined Kyosho and left Mugen. Tyler has raced for Mugen and O’Donnell for a number of years. He is one of the hottest prospects to come from So Cal in the last few years, at only 15 years old he has a good while to realize his potential.

Source: Neo-Buggy [neo-buggy.net]

December 3, 2006

Teemu Leino wins the GP TC Carpet World Cup

Teemu Leino

Teemu Leino, in his first race for Xray has won the 2006 GP Batteries sponsored Touring Car Carpet World Cup held at the CRF Power Raceway in Switzerland. Having taken 4 wins, a second position and a non finish the Finnish racer was unstoppable and could take the win, albeit on dropped scores, from current World and European Champion Andy Moore driving for Hot Bodies. Next up in the 3rd and 4th were the Team Associated Prototypes of Juho Levanen and Craig Drescher, showing the potential of this new car before its release.

After the race the top 10 finishers fought the title of the Lord of Touring and this race was won by Andy Moore who drove superbly but wasnt challenged by the event winner Leino whose car was still tweaked after his non finish in the last round of racing.

You can see the top 10 results here… content

December 2, 2006

TC Carpet World Cup – Saturday

TC Carpet World Cup

Ok, Saturday is were the TC Carpet World Cup becomes confusing with the drivers split off into 2 different classes after 3 rounds of qualifying, the Open class is for those racers ranked 33-120 and the World Cup class for the top 32 qualifiers. And fastest of all racers was Teemu Leino making his race debut for Xray ahead of World Champion Andy Moore driving his Hot Bodies cyclone in 2nd with another Xray racer Jilles Groskamp in 3rd.

The Open class continued with for 2 more rounds qualifying whilst the World Cup class had 2 of their main finals today, with their starting position for the race determined randomly. Teemu Leino, Sacha Lnenicka, Jilles Groskamp and Jean-Marc Betticher all won their first round finals whilst in the second round it was Juho Levanen, Andy Moore, Jean-Marc Betticher and Teemu Leino who took wins in their finals with Betticher and Leino the only racers to achieve a perfect score so far.

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December 2, 2006

ROAR continue with 6 cells for 2007

ROAR

US governing body ROAR have made a final decision to use 6 cells in their sanctioned electric events for 2007 after playing around with the idea of running 4 cell for the new season. This move away from 6 cells caused much heated debate on internet forums and in the end it was decided by ROAR that not enough was known about the implication of such changes and as such they will stay with the current configuration for next year.

At this time ROAR has determined that there is not enough information to make an informed decision as to the best direction to take in 2007. Regarding the number of cells in all classes there will be no change to the existing rules. ROAR will monitor the international developments of four and five cell racing and after careful evaluation, make its determination for the 2008 rules when appropriate.

Source: ROAR [roarracing.com]

December 1, 2006

2006 CWC controlled practice – Andy Moore fastest

Andy Moore

After fridays controlled practice at the 2006 GP Touring car Carpet World Cup, Andy Moore was fastest, the current World and European Champion driving for Hot Bodies was less than a second ahead of Dutch Xray driver Jilles Groskamp who ended the day 2nd. Juho Levanen driving the prototype belt driven Team Associated car was third fastest whilst Teemu Leino making his debut for Xray was 4th fastest. Todays running is of course only an indication of the who will may come out on top as the main competition starts tomorrow.

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