December 14, 2006

ROAR release their 2007 rule book

ROAR

Something of interest to our US readers, or at least those that still take part in ROAR sanction events. The US governing body, ROAR, have made their updated 2007 rulebook available to download from their site.

Among the welcome changes are the updated vehicle diagrams supplied by John Kelishes at ProLine, a long-standing ROAR affiliate. These really look sharp. Thanks John and ProLine! Also thanks go to EFRA for supplying the great looking dimensioning diagrams which are now being used worldwide on 200mm touring cars.

Download the rulebook from this page.

Source: ROAR [roarracing.com]

December 13, 2006

Ryan Cavalieri dominates the Southwest Indoor Grand Prix

Ryan Cavalieri

In absolutely commanding style, top Team Orion racer Ryan Cavalieri showed everyone that he was the class of the field at last weekends Southwest Indoor GP in Arizona by TQ’ing all 3 classes he competed in and then going on to win all 3 as well. On top of that the top drivers from the event were put together for a showdown race called the Pro Challenge and Ryan won this too to take 4 wins in the one weekend.

Team Orion factory driver and off-road superstar Ryan Cavalieri was on hand to compete against some of the Nation’s best. Ryan competed in all three modified classes (2wd,Truck, 4wd), and by the end of practice, it was clear RC was the man to beat.

Read the full report here.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

December 12, 2006

Elliott Harper takes 3rd at Rd3 of BIWS

Elliott Harper

Young racing ace Elliot Harper continued his great form at the British Indoor Winter Series held at the Don Valley indoor track. Starting from 2nd on the grid after a mistake in qualifying, the round 2 winner, had a bad start in the final and ended up in 9th after the first corner, but recovered with a fine drive back to 3rd.

My “A” final start didn’t go to plan and a “glitch” on the first bend set me back. With all the other cars racing in from behind I took a swipe that spun my car around and out of contention and into 9th place. It took 3 laps for the car to settle back down but by this time I had been lapped by a number of cars. However, once the car settled down it was really pulling back and I started to power forward and move back up the pack.

You can read Elliott’s full report here.

Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]

December 11, 2006

Adam Drake wins the 2006 Fall Brawl

Adam Drake wins the Fall Brawl

Top US off roader, Adam Drake, has dominated the 2006 Fall Brawl held at the Badlands III track in South Carolina. Adam, driving for Team Losi, TQ’d all 3 rounds of qualifying in both the Truck and Buggy class and then went on to easily win both classes.

You can view the full results from the race here and some pictures here.

Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]

December 11, 2006

EFRA clarify rule on Sintered magnets

2006 EFRA AGM

EFRA (european governing body) have released a notice regarding the introduction date for their rule change that allows sintered magnets, something we briefly mentioned back in the start of November. The guts of the statement are as follows:

The sintered magnets and delta wind will be allowed on EFRA races as from 02.04.07. This means, that the following proposal accepted by the section meeting at the AGM 2006 takes effect on 2nd of April 2007:
2.2b: b) Brushless Motor
d) Winding: Delta and Y wounded stators are permitted. Only circular
(round)pure copper is permitted. There is no turn limit.
Rotor: Output shaft diameter must be 0,125″ (3.175mm). Only one piece, two poles Neodymium or Ferrite magnetic rotors are permitted.

You can download and view the letter here (PDF).

Source: RC World [rcworld.ch]

December 10, 2006

Meen Vejrak dominates 2006 Reedy Race of Asia

Reedy Race Asia

A quick update from the 2006 Reedy Race of Asia that was held this weekend at the Thang RC Raceway in Thailand. It was Kyosho driver Meen Verjak all the way as he won the Modified and Stock classes in perfect style. In Modified class Meen won the first 2 finals and sat out the last main to win the event ahead of Australian Tamiya driver Bradd Vercoe in 2nd with Hot Bodies racer Porapong Raganarat finishing in 3rd. In the stock class it was a perfect score again for Thai racer Meen Vejrak, the Kyosho racer winning all 3 A-mains to easily take the title ahead of local Tamiya racer Paphon Chanyasak in 2nd with Associated racer Tanit Kachchapananda rounding out the podium in 3rd.

We hope to get images soon. Hit the jump for the final standings… content

December 10, 2006

2006 Neo-Invitational getting close

2006 Neo-Invitational

Our friend Philip over at Neo-Buggy has been busy of late with the promoting and organising of his flagship event, the Neo Invitational that takes place next weekend, the 15th – 17th of December. We wrote a little bit about it earlier this week and gave you the lowdown on how cool this event is likely to be. Well now we have some images of the preperations of this event and most importantly the track itself, and i have to say its looking pretty big and challenging and is definitely going to be an epic event.

Head on over to Neo-Buggy for some more pictures, even more if your a member for some reason.

December 10, 2006

National Champion Martin Wolhuter switches to Pro Line

Martin Wolhuter

Our partner site Buggy-Sport are reporting that New Zealand National Champion Martin Wolhuter has confirmed the switch to Pro Line rubber having ran with Panther tyres for the previous 7 years. Martin recently TQ’d and won the National championships driving his Hong Nor X1CRT on Pro Line rubber and officially also announced the change over.

I would like to thank Panther for all the past support and look forward to a long and prosperous future with Pro Line Racing …Martin Wolhuter

Source: Buggy Sport [buggy-sport.info]

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