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March 31, 2015

Paul Sinclair doubles at Tennessee Winter Champs

The Tennessee Winter Championship race was help this past weekend at Thunder R/C in Nashville. Robert Dirla has held the Winter Championship race for several years now, and a tight challenging layout awaited over 120 entries at this first weekend of spring event. Instead of trophies, Dirla awarded half the entry fees for each class split among the top three finishers and the dash for cash was on. In the 2WD Modified class Paul Sinclair TQ’d all four qualifiers and he then went on to win the 6 minute A-main in convincing fashion.

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March 31, 2015

Insane Carpet Fighter 1/10th SC tyres & foam inserts

Insane-RC Carpet Fighter 1/10th SC tyres & foam inserts

Russian company Insane-RC introduce the new Carpet Fighter 1/10th scale short course truck tyres and a line of foam inserts. Starting with the tyre, it is developed for high-grip indoor carpet racing and it sports specially designed inner ribs for improved carcass stiffness which makes for much better stability especially in high-speed corners as the ribs minimise the gab between the tyre and the wheel. The tyres are made in Russia from 100 percent natural rubber which is meant to stay consistent even in freezing weather conditions which can be important when racing on outdoor carpet or astroturf tracks. Also new are foam inserts for all Carpet Fighter tyres. Available in three different hardness of standard, hard and super hard the cut inserts are ideal for carpet racing.

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March 31, 2015

Simon Reeves wins BRCA E-buggy Nats opener

Deerdale played host to round 1 of the BRCA E-buggy national championship with a great turnout of drivers. However the weather did its best to ruin the event with strong winds and constant rain. The club did a great job of running through qualifying under the adverse weather conditions which would see Tony Truman’s Agama take pole followed by the Herts RC Models Mugen of Simon Reeves with Lewis Beach’s SWorkz rounding out the top 3. The A-final would be run in much drier but windy conditions and saw Simon Reeves leap to the front as Tony had an unfortunate issue, Simon would lead the race for the majority with Matt Lewis taking the lead at the half way stage but an unfortunate error with his TLR would see him drop back to 2nd. Simon went on to take the win being the only driver to make it through to 20 laps with Matt Lewis 2nd and Tony Truman recovering from a very bad start to 3rd.

Thanks to Simon Reeves for the report.

March 30, 2015

2nd Annual Jamie Rogers Memorial Race – Report

Flowood R/C Indoor Park hosted the second Annual Jamie Rogers Memorial Race this past weekend. The layout designed by Marc Beck provided some very interesting and intense racing. The “whoop” section was a challenge for everyone at some point and became a great equalizer. 10 classes with 150 entries raced for 1st thru 5th and TQ and in the Expert Nitro Buggy class Cole Ogden TQ’d but finished 2nd behind Blake Boggs. Drew Surgeon took 3rd, Kevin McCoy 4th and Blake Jefferson 5th.

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March 30, 2015

Steven Weiss teams up with ARC

German front-runner Steven Weiss has joined ARC for the 2015 season. Having only re-joined Xray last year the multi-time EFRA Euros finalist now made a move to ARC to race the company’s R10 touring car. Steven had the following to say about the deal:

I’m very happy to join the ARC Team with their R10 touring car. I would like to thanks Jones Chu and Henrik Heitsch for giving me this opportunity. ARC is a young company who start with their first touring car in 2012 and they improve all their products all the time. I’m already excited to work together with the entire team to improve their car and all products even more. Now I am looking forward on some great times with the team.

Source: ARC [arc-rc.com.tw]

March 30, 2015

Magnus Vassmar joins Schumacher

Schumacher welcome top Swedish driver Magnus Vassmar back full time with the team. Magnus is a respected competitor on the Swedish and European scene, being Swedish Off Road Champion and ETS Modified top 10 finisher. Magnus will make an excellent addition to the Schumacher team and he had this to say:

I started my racing career with Schumacher so I’m very glad and excited to be back again! I think that Schumacher is one of the most professional companies in the R/C industry with great support, feedback and up to date ideas. The current cars have, as always, a very fresh feel and innovative design. I want to thank the Schumacher family for giving me this opportunity to represent them. I look very positive on the future.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

March 30, 2015

Ricardo Monteiro wins at Portuguese Buggy Nats Rd1

The first round of the Portuguese 1/8th Nitro Buggy Nationals saw Ricardo Monteiro (TLR) taking the win from Serpent’s Carlos Duraes. Goncalo Melo (TLR) came in 3rd while multi-time National Champion Miguel Matias (Xray) rounded out the top 4.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 30, 2015

Francesco Tironi wins at Italian 1/10 Nitro Nats Rd1

The first round of the Italian 1/10th Nitro Touring Nationals took place in Gubbio, host of the 2016 IFMAR 200mm Worlds. Francesco Tironi won the first two qualifying rounds to directly proceed to the A-final and to start the 45 minute main from pole position. At the start Francesco was able to defend the lead from Dario Balestri in 2nd and after the first round of pitstops he opened a gap of several seconds over the rest of the field. Step by step he increased his lead until he was nearly 2 laps in front around halftime. Controlling the race from the front for the final 20 minutes Francesco conserved the gap and crossed the finish line 2 laps in front of Luca Redaelli with Alessio Mazzeo completing the podium.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]