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September 20, 2011

Kajiwara & Kametani win Tresrey Offroad race Rd6

Round 6 of the Tresrey Off-Road race series was held last Sunday at the RC Park Kers in Gyoda-city, Saitama-ken, Japan. It was the first time Tresrey held an Off-road race event around Tokyo area and a total of 52 racers took part, 48 entrants in the 2WD class and 42 in the 4WD class. In qualifying, Kenji Tsuruta (Tresrey) took TQ for the 2WD class and Jyuliya Kajiwara (Kyosho) for the 4WD class. In the 2WD class, Jyuliya Kajiwara won the race from 2nd on the grid, with Tsuruta (Tresrey/TD) taking 2nd and Takeshi Kinoshita 3rd. There were 10 Durango DEX410/Rs in the 4WD class and 2 of them made the A final. Takaaki Kametani (Kyosho) won the race from 2nd on the grid, with Kajiwara(Kyosho) taking 2nd and Tsuruta (Tresrey/TD) 3rd. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big prize draw which included the DEX410 2010spec kit, Speed Passion ESCs/motors and Tresrey ESCs/motors.

View the 4wd podium here

September 20, 2011

Zacarias Villalba wins Andalusian regional Rd4

The fourth and final round of the Andalusian (Spanish south region) electric 2WD buggy regional series was hosted this past weekend by the Club Deportivo Radio Control Jerez, some 10 minutes from the center of Jerez. This was the inaugural race for the club’s great newly built facilities which hosts three different top notch tracks (offroad, onroad and mini-z). The race saw a record attendance with no less than 57 drivers signing up for the highly anticipate race. Ansmann Racing factory driver, Zacarias Villalba dominated the race with his Viper powered X2TE taking all four rounds of qualifying and all three A-finals. He also set the fastest lap of the race with 25.3 seconds, more than one second faster than anybody else.

View the final results here

September 20, 2011

Neil Cragg takes victory at Noux Les Mines GP

The Noux Les Mines GP, located in the city of Noux Les Mines some 50 miles south of Calais, France is one of the up and coming events in Europe featuring the fast drivers from France and many drivers from neighboring U.K. Making the drive and ferry ride for Team Associated was Neil Cragg and his freshly built RC8.2 having just completed it the Thursday before the event. Cragg set the fastest time in all three rounds of qualifying and a new lap record however the weather changed for the worse and the finals were rained out causing the organizers to use qualifying order as the final positions. With his dominant qualifying performance, Cragg was awarded the victory in front of new Xray signing Renaud Savoya in 2nd and Elliot Boots, running a Kyosho, in 3rd.

Source: Associated [rc10.com] / Image: Automodelisme

September 20, 2011

Drake & Moller win at Nitrohouse Open

This past weekend saw the Nitrohouse Open take place at Revelation Raceway attracting 100 entries and consisting of two qualifiers and mains. TLR / Novarossi factory pilot Adam Drake set the pace in both rounds of buggy and truck by being the only driver to turn 10 laps. In the buggy final Drake was followed closely by Jeremy Kortz and Drew Moller in the opening laps, but Drake ran solid the entire 30 minutes and won the final by more than one lap. In the truck final Drake and Moller had a great race until Drake ran out of fuel. This gave Moller a huge lead and he cruised to victory. Drake came back to finish second and Chris Nunez was third.

View the truggy podium here

September 18, 2011

Evans cruises to victory at Short Course Showdown finale

Factory Losi driver Dustin Evans finished out the perfect weekend when he cruised to victories in the two main classes at the Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour finale held at the impressive Mikes Hobby Shop facility in Dallas, Texas. Top Qualifier in both 2WD Modified and 4WD, the Colorado driver lead the 7-minute finals from start to finish in what he himself described as ‘two flawless runs’.

View our full event coverage here.

September 18, 2011

Evans double TQ at Dallas Short Course Showdown

Dustin Evans will start the two main classes on the 2011 short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour race program from pole position after the factory Losi driver wrapped up TQ honours for both 2WD Modified and 4WD in the final round of qualifying at Mikes Hobby Shop in Dallas, Texas this morning.

View our full event coverage here.

September 17, 2011

Evans stays in control in Dallas

The second round of 4WD qualifying at the Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour in Dallas saw Dustin Evans’ domination continue as the factory Losi driver once again topped the time sheets but like in 2WD it is his Q1 run that remains the provisional outright TQ time.

View our full event coverage here.

September 17, 2011

Justin Gilkison wins C.O.R.C. championship

The Canadian Off Road Championship concluded with the last race of the three-race series over the weekend of September 3rd and 4th at Kelowna, B.C. X Factory driver Justin Gilkison made the trip up from Sultan, Washington for the event. The Championship series is three races and Justin was unable to attend the first one, so the pressure was on at Kelowna. He TQed Mod Truck with his mid-motor X-60 and also won the class meaning he could take the championship in just two races.

Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]