October 24, 2006

Gary Guest wins Mapston Memorial

Gary Guest

The well connected team over at Neo-Buggy.net have this event totally covered so best leave it to them to explain how it panned out:

The 1/8 Buggy class was the most competitive and largest class with almost 90 entries. Gary Guest took home TQ honours by posting the fastest overall time of the event and then when on to take the win, piloting his Jammin X1-CR FTE across the line first.

1. TQ Gary Guest – Jammin / Picco
2. Marcus Anzivino – Kyosho / Nova Rossi
3. Rick McCrery – Jammin / Picco

Read the full report right here.

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

October 24, 2006

2006 French off road Champions crowned

French Champions 2006

The FVRC (French Federation) have presented the 2006 Electric off road champions with their winners trophy’s. In the 2wd modified class it was Arnaud Collet who took home the title, in 4wd modified class Vincent Heligoin won and finally in the truck class it was Alain Canova who emerged victorious at the end of the season.

Round by round results and final overall championship standings can be found on the site of the FVRC, here.

Source: Petit RC [petitrc.com]

October 24, 2006

Jon Hazlewood UK Vice-Champion 2006

Jon Hazlewood

Xray are carrying a report on their site from their team driver Jon Hazlewood that outlines in detail his super busy and successful 2006 off road race season. Its a good read that outlines the ups and downs of a top RC racer.

The world’s was a good event for me. I managed to qualify into the semi’s. I won my side and made it into the main final. | was very happy to achieve this. Unfortunately my motor eat half the track and stopped working, ending my final. I was still very pleased with the result. Making the main at a Worlds is so hard.

You can read the full report from Jon here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 24, 2006

Nicolas Decamps wins Belgian off road Nationals

Nicolas Decamps

Nicolas Decamps has won the Belgian off road gas Nationals at the last round of the championship in Bouffioux with 4th position in the race enough to give him the title. 2nd in the championship went to Guy de Werd who could only manage fifth in the race with third in the championship going to Raphael Robert who took a fine 2nd position in the final race.

View the full event gallery here.
Full results from the final round can be found here.
Final Belgian Championship standings can be found here.

Source: Automodelisme.com [automodelisme.com]

October 23, 2006

Robert Batlle wins Spanish Champs Cup

Robert Batlle

From Neo-Buggy.net: Robert Batlle won a fast race in Albacete, Spain. Competition came in the form of Borja Hernandez and Adrian Perez; Batlle dominated from the start till the finish.

1. Robert Batlle – HoBao/Falcon/GRP/Ultimate
2. Adrian Perez – Kyosho/OS/GRP
3. Borja Hernandez – Mugen/Ninja/GRP

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

October 23, 2006

Scott Kimbrow wins 2006 Paris Memorial

Scott Kimbrow

Scott Kimbrow has won the 1/8th scale class at this years Paris Memorial race in Las Vegas. Driving his RB powered Kyosho he finished the race ahead of Kevin Jehlich who was second driving a Mugen with Sal Defazio in third, again with a Kyosho. content

October 22, 2006

2006 Paris Memorial race – Qualifying

Ron Paris

This weekend sees the annual running of the Paris Memorial race in Las Vegas. Set up after the death of engine master Ron Paris in 2001, this event has turned into a huge event stateside, even attracting racers from as far away as Europe.

This years race is no exception with over 80 racers spread over 3 classes competing to win this prestiquous event. Weather for this years event is hot an sunny as you would expect from Las Vegas and after 5 rounds of qualifying the outcome looks like this: content

October 21, 2006

Ben Cosgrove joins Team Xray

Ben Cosgrove

Top British electric racer Ben Cosgrove has been confirmed to drive for Team Xray for the 2007 season. Ben has already raced the new T2007 with some success but has now decided to make the make the move to the Slovakian manufacturer official.

As Ben himself says: “It’s hard to believe the amount of effort and design that has gone into the design of all the XRAY cars, not just the new T2’007. I’m proud to be driving an XRAY again!”

Ben will start his official team duties at Rd.2 of the British Indoor winter series.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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