April 18, 2007

French Buggy Nationals – Round 2

French Buggy Nationals - Round 2

The second round of the French Electric buggy Nationals took place last weekend at the Antibes track. Although this was the second round of the Nationals, it was the first outdoor race of the year and in qualifying it was local racer Nicolas Vouilloz that took the TQ spot in the 4wd mod class while in 2wd mod it was Carl Maignien who claimed top spot. In the 4wd mod finals it was Vouilloz, driving his JConcepts BJ4WE, that carried his form forward from qualifying to take the win ahead of Cyril Baldini with X-Factory driver Antoine Rossetti claiming the 3rd spot. In the 2wd mod finals it was Team Losi XX4 racer Carl Maignien that took the win in front of Alex Valente while Olivier Demonfumat took the final spot on the podium in 3rd.

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April 18, 2007

Jamie Booth joins Byron & Pro-Line

Jamie Booth

CML Distribution in the UK have announced that they will back former World finalist, European Champion and multiple British Champion Jamie Booth. One of R/C’s evergreen drivers and a true ambassador of the hobby, he has already been hooked on the performance and reliability of Byron RACE fuel and has now signed up to join the UK Pro-Line 1/8th off road team and use Pro-Line rubber throughout the coming season on his Hong Nor buggy and truggy.

Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk] / Image: oOple [oople.com]

April 17, 2007

International manifesto of Ricardo Gomez

International manifesto of Ricardo Gomez

Last week we wrote about a piece we saw on Neo Buggy stating that Richi Gomez could be brought to court by Axe Rossi for breach of contract. Today our other site partners Buggy Sport received the exclusive manifesto from Ricardo Gomez, father of Richi, in which he states (in my understanding as its difficult to read) that they have upheld their side of the agreement and that Axe have not lived up to theirs. What it essentially comes down to is that Axe Rossi have not supplied them with sufficient product support and that what they have recieved has been of substandard quality and definitely not worthy of a top international racer who needs to compete at the highest level. Problems like leaking in both the combutsion chamber and carburettor, to poorly made exhaust systems, these motors have been unusable and replacements have not been forthcoming and thus to fullfill his obligations to his other sponsors he has had to source other engines, which seems fair enough.

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April 17, 2007

Travis Scrambling & Tony Patishall join CEN Racing

Florida Off-Road State Series

We received a mail from the guys at CEN letting us know that at the last Florida Off-Road State Series racer CEN Racing managed to get 8 drivers, combined, into the A Main Events using their Matrix and Matrix Arena TR. CEN Racing have also announced that they have added two of Florida’s top drivers to the team, Travis Scrambling and Tony Patishall.

Travis has been racing for a while and has proven his skills at many of the nations top racing events.  After a break from racing Travis chooses CEN Racing and the Matrix line of product to make the return to the spotlight and competitive racing. Tony Patishall is a seasoned racer and specializes in the Truggy class. His confident driving style matches perfect with the Matrix Arena TR and at Tony’s first race he showed a very promising future with the Matrix Arena TR.

Source: CEN [cenracing.com]

April 17, 2007

HPI Racing DSX-1 Truck body

HPI Racing DSX-1 Truck body

Some time back we showed you the HPI Firestorm gas powered 1/10th scale truck that, amongst other things, comes as standard with a rather nice pre painted bodyshell. For those racers who want their own personalised look, HPI Racing have just released a clear unpainted version of that DSX bodyshell, which not only fits the Firestorm, but is suitable for other trucks such as the HPI Nitro Rush.

Source: HPI [hpi-europe.com]

April 17, 2007

Pro-Line Performance Wing Pack

Pro-Line performance wing pack

Pro-Line have announced the release of this wing pack, which has been designed to give you performance and versatility all in one. The 1:10 Performance Wing Pack includes 2 high downforce wings, 1 medium downforce wing, 2 standard downforce wings, and 3 front spoilers and all are made from .030 thickness lexan.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

April 17, 2007

Tiverton Nationals report by oOple

Tiverton Nationals

Last weekend saw the first round of the 2007 Electric off road nationals held at the Heazel Arena, Tivertons indoor racing venue. Jimmy and Vicky were there, racing, snapping photos and taking notes and they now have their race report online. Lots of great pictures will be online soon but in the meantime you can read about the event in which Darren Bloomfield took the win in 2wd and Lee Martin took the 4wd victory.

Read the full report here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

April 16, 2007

Christoffer Svensson signs to Medial Pro

Christoffer Svensson

Our site partners Neo Buggy are reporting that young Swedish star Christoffer Svensson has been snapped up by French tyre company Medial Pro and for the 2007 season Christoffer will run Medial Pro’s updated range of tyres, rims and products. This marks a resurrgence in the Medial Pro brand with two of Sweden’s top drivers now using their rubber, Robert Gustafssen having joined last week. Just this weekend both drivers were at the XRAY Challenge in Denmark, with Robert winning the event, and Christoffer putting in a strong round 5 qualifying TQ followed by a good run in the final before he retired with technical problems.

Source: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net]