March 11, 2008
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up: > Jacky Mouton TQ’s 720 08 at French Nationals – Link [serpent.com] > Jonnhy Pastor wins Trophy Touring Gas Magdalena – Link [teamxray.com] > Truhe Wins Silver State with Tuned Flex Chassis – Link [losi.com] > Report from Rd3 of BRCA Micro Nats Series – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk] > Dempsey TQ’s Irish season opener – Link [serpent.com] > Lee Woodhams ends Carpet Wars 5-cell Mod 3rd – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk] > CML Nitro Winter Series report – Link [cmldistribution.co.uk] > Mr. Franco Sabattini had passed away…
March 3, 2008
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up: > T2’008 2nd at Carpet Wars 2 Day World Cup – Link [teamxray.com] > Power Save Racing release new bearing sets – Link [power-save-racing.de] > OFNA foam insert profiles for ProLine tires – Link [ofna.com] > Hornum & Madsen win DRCMU Rd3 – Link [teamxray.com] Entry is open for ETS Rd2 in Denmark, March 14th-16th…
February 26, 2008
Last weekend saw the running of the Carpet Wars World Cup, a 2 day event that saw International interest with Marc Fisher making the trip from Germany for the race. After Saturdays qualifying it was Kevin Brunsden on pole but a quick run in the final qualifying heat on Sunday saw Olly Jefferies take the top spot by 0.6 of a second. Leg 1 of the finals saw some problems for the front runners and this allowed Glen Doman through for the win ahead of Elliot Harper, with Olly recovering to 3rd. The 2nd leg was better for Olly, taking…
February 19, 2008
The 5th round of the Carpet Wars series was held last weekend with title leader Olly Jefferies only needing a 3rd in this round to confirm his second title in recent weeks, having clinched the Rug Racers modified title 2 weeks ago. In qualifying it was Andy Childs that put in a good run in the final round of qualifying to pip Jefferies to the pole position, while lining up 3rd was Kevin Brunsden. In the final Olly had a bad start and was knocked back to last after a collision with pole man Andy Childs, he was able to…
January 23, 2008
Xray have a report on their site from team driver Elliot Harper on the 4th round of the Carpet Wars series that took place at the Black Lion Centre in Gillingham, Kent. The format was 4 qualifiers and one final and after the initial qualifier it was Elliot who was quickest, slipping back to 4th in the second and up to 3rd again after the third qualifier. Following a few adjustments to his set up, he performed extremely well in the 4th qualifier to secure pole position in the A final. From the start Elliott took a commanding position and…
March 28, 2007
Former Snowbirds winner and top US electric racer Jeff Cuffs has signed to Serpent Motorsport to race their new electric touring car. According to the mention on RC Tech, Jeff has already had his first race with the as yet unreleased, and unnamed, Serpent electric touring car at last weekends Carpet Wars in the US and apart from that, little else is known about the deal pending an official release from the Dutch manufacturer. The Trinity backed driver has previously raced for Corally and Xray, before hooking up with Serpent. Image: Trinity [teamtrinity.com]…
February 7, 2007
[youtube]vjzT4rk7dRs[/youtube] We’ve been covering the Carpet Wars through the reports posted on the sites of Helger Racing and CML distribution and it looks like a great, and very popular, indoor Winter Series. Well now thanks to RC Tech member Skiddins, who was at the event with his video camera, we can now watch some of the action from the 4th round of the Championship. The video above is off the first final in the modified class and features World Champion Andy Moore. You can view all the videos on YouTube here. Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]…
February 6, 2007
World Champion Andy Moore has won this years Carpet Wars 2 Day World Cup, formerly known as the Vega Cup, held at the Black Lion Leisure complex in Gillingham. Andy managed to put his HB Cyclone on the pole position after qualifying, followed closely by Yokomo racer Chris Grainger who had struggled on this track previously, but managed to pull it together for the big event. In the main event Andy Moore won the first two finals with Chris taking two 3rd places heading into the last final. Final three saw a train of cars behind Andy Moore as everyone…
