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November 8, 2006

Olly Jefferies wins Rd1 CML Carpet Masters

Olly Jefferies

Hot Bodies racer Olly Jefferies has taken FTD and the win at round 1 of the CML Carpet Masters held last weekend. Olly recently switched to Hot Bodies and had considerable success so far, taking FTD at every event raced along with winning round 1 of the Carpet Thrashnals and now this win. It is all seen as preparation for the GP Carpet World Cup, held in Geneva at the end of November, which Olly is planning on attending.

Since getting my Cyclone I have been concentrating on carpet racing in preparation for the forthcoming GP Carpet World Cup in Geneva at the end of the month, the car feels really good on carpet and easy to tune, I am also feeling more comfortable with every meeting with the new car and really looking forward to the Geneva meeting.

You can read the full report here.

Source: Hot Bodies [hbeurope.com]

November 7, 2006

PN Racing Mini-Z World Cup

Mini-Z World Cup

Pro-Z.com have a photo report from the PN Mini-Z World Cup that was held at the RC Madness track in Connecticut in the last weekend of October. There are some pretty wicked looking Mini-Z’s there and some that don’t even resemble one at all, like this all carbon version with Group C body above.

Check out the full image set here.

Source: Pro-Z [pro-z.com] Image by PN Racing

November 7, 2006

Simo Ahoniemi wins the Team Orion Cup

2006 Team Orion Cup podium

Last weekend saw the Team Orion Cup run in the town of Zillisheim in France. This annual international race was won by Finnish racer Simo Ahoniemi driving his Corally RDX prototype. Second place, and also driving Corally RDX prototype was Marc Fischer from Germany with the final place on the podium going to another German racer racer Toni Rheinard racing the Kyosho Stallion.

You can view the final results sheet here.

Source: Petit RC [petitrc.com]

November 6, 2006

Video from Swiss Off road Nationals

SN Viper

Now, if you haven’t yet had your fill of off road buggies, here is a video from Robin Frischkopf from the 5th round of the Swiss Championships held back in September. Apart from the not very appealing country/rock music its a pretty good video, made at what seems to be a very rough track.

You can view the streaming video here.

Source: SN Viper [snviper.ch.vu] via Buggy-Sport.info [buggy-sport.info]

November 6, 2006

Rodrigo Luis TQ’s & Wins the Torres Vedras Cup

Rodrigo Luis

Rodrigo Luis has TQ’d and won last weekends Torres Vedras Cup held in Portugal driving a Picco powered Hong Nor. Buggy-Sport.info have the full story with a statement from Rodrigo himself:

“In the qualification i made TQ after 3 rounds, i only made 2 of them and i TQ booth. In the main final, i managed to get 1st place after a bad start and an engine cut in the middle of the final. I had to fight hard with the very good driver Fernando Almeida to get the 1st place.”

Source: Buggy-Sport.info [buggy-sport.info]

November 6, 2006

Yannick Aigoin wins the GP International De Pierrefeu

Yannick Aigoin

As we reported yesterday Xray/RB racer Yannik Aigoin has won the GP International De Pierrefeu held in France. This international event attracted over 110 racers and saw the European Champion win by two laps ahead of a close battle for 2nd place between Julian Lattanzio and Renaud Savoya. After 45 minutes only 2 tenths of a second seperated the two drivers and in the end it was Julian that took the position with Renaud in third.

You can view the results sheets and a lot more pictures from the event here.

Image: V.A.M.P. [97339.aceboard.fr]

November 6, 2006

Riccardo Acciari signs for Falcon

Riccardo Acciari

Neo-Buggy has got our backs once more with the news that European B Champion Riccardo Acciari from Italy will switch from OS motors to the GRP made Falcon engines effective immediately.

2006 Euro-B champion; Riccardo Acciari will be moving from using OS engines to the GRP produced Falcon engines. Riccardo was present at the Pierrefeu GP this past weekend, he finished 16th overall. Riccardo as he has shown this year is one of the many exciting talents emerging from Italy.

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

November 5, 2006

Quick racing results update

GP International De Pierrefeu

Just a quick update before we get the full results and images for 2 events that took place this weekend. The first up is the ‘AMT Cup Modellbau Bodensee’ indoor event held in Friedrichshafen, Germany. This event for 1/10th 200mm attracted racers from Germany, Holland and Austria and was won by Austrian Serpent racer Daniel Tomaschko with his 720. Daniel had qualified 4th for the event which saw fellow Austrian driver Gerhard Kandelhart take the pole position for the main event.

The ‘GP International De Pierrefeu’ was also held this weekened in France and this off road event saw top racers from around Europe competing for the win but in the end it was European Champion Yannick Aigoin who took the win driving his Xray XB8.