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March 14, 2011

Jörn Neumann takes clean sweep at JBRL Rd1

The 1st Round of the 2011 JBRL Electric Series was held at Hotrod Hobbies, California with 280 drivers turning out for the event. Team Durango drivers Hupo Hönigl and Jörn Neumann were in attendance to participate in 2WD, 4WD and Pro 4WD Short Course. Gerd Strenge was also their to support both drivers. It was a very long day of racing with 2 Rounds of Qualifying and 1 Final. In 4WD it was a close battle between Hupo and Jörn for the TQ spot, with Jörn taking the TQ spot. In Pro 4WD Short Course the brand new DESC410R was the car to beat. Again Jörn took the TQ, 2nd place Hupo and 3rd Chad Bradley. In 2WD Frank Root took the TQ spot by 1 second over Jörn with the Prototype DEX210 and 3rd Mike Truhe. 4th place was teammate Hupo also with the Prototype DEX210.

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March 14, 2011

Marco Müller continues with Team Shepherd

Shepherd are happy to announce that former Swiss Champion Marco Müller will continue to race for Team Shepherd in the coming year. The first big event of the season will be the World Championship 1/8th Scale in Miami and Müller will travel together with his Swiss team-mate Simon Kurzbuch to represent Team Shepherd. Additionally Müller will attend the Euros A in Luxemburg as well as all rounds of the Swiss Championship. He had the following to say about the deal:

It’s a pleasure for me to continue with Team Shepherd in the upcoming season. Teamwork and collegiality is very important for them and I would like to thank them for the great support they are offering. I’m really looking forward to starting the season with the World Championship in Miami.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

March 14, 2011

Acorn Racing have signed Benz Paphon

Acorn Racing have announced the signing of one of Thailand’s top drivers Benz Paphon to their factory team. With a total of 10 years racing experience and multiple wins in his RC career, Paphon will use his vast knowledge and experience to take race wins and help in the development of Acorn Racing Products. Paphon recently tested the all new Acorn M.A.D Series LiPo 6000Mah/65C at the TITC and was impressed by the power generated by this series of new cells. “These new cells from Acorn Racing certainly make me a lot more confident” say Paphon. “On top of Acorn Racing I will like to take this opportunity to thank my dad and current sponsors Futaba, Yokomo Japan, Speed Passion, Hobby Haven Malaysia, Maxima Fuel and O.S Engines.”

Source: Acorn Racing [acorninnovations.asia]

March 14, 2011

Yuichi Kanai wins Team C Buggy Cup

The Team C Buggy Cup took place last weekend at the FT Buggy Track in Guangzhou, China and it attracted 120 drivers from Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Taiwan, Hong Kong and of course China. After 5 rounds of qualifying it was former World Champion Yuichi Kanai from Japan that would take the TQ spot. In Sunday’s 45 minute A-main, Kanai was challenged early on from Team C driver Eason Chi, who took the lead after Kanai made a mistake at 5 minutes. Kyosho factory driver Kanai settled down, found his rhythm and was able to get back into the lead a few minutes later and extend his lead to 2 laps by the end of the race. Hot Bodies driver Ping from China took the 2nd spot with Wen Yi from Singapore taking 3rd with his Mugen.

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March 13, 2011

Jerome Aigoin & Martin Bayer win rain affected Silver Pennes

The annual Silver Pennes race in Les Pennes Mirabeau, France took place this weekend and attracted some top drivers from around Europe for the event. Qualifying in the buggy class saw the on form Jerome Aigoin take the TQ spot for Kyosho Novarossi ahead of his brother Yannick Aigoin in 2nd and Martin Bayer in 3rd, both running nVision powered Losi cars. David Ronnefalk would line up in 4th just ahead of Robert Batlle, Elliot Boots and Miguel Mathias. In the truggy class it was Yannick Aigoin that took the top spot once again in front of team mate Martin Bayer in 2nd with Edouard Hugon in 3rd and Ales Bayer in 4th. Unfortunately for finals day the rain came down hard and with only the bravest racers going on track the buggy semi finalists voted to take the qualifying results and so Jerome Aigoin took the win from Yannick Aigoin with Martin Bayer in 3rd. The truggy final was run and that was won by Martin Bayer in front of brother Ales Bayer with Julien Lattanzio taking 3rd spot.

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March 13, 2011

Video – Adam Drake PNB 2011 rocket jump

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This weekend sees the Psycho Nitro Blast take place in Georgia and as a little side event Losi Factory driver Adam Drake busted out his rocket propelled Losi 8ight for another high jump record attempt. Check out the video above for the action and destruction.

Video: Alex Pilson

March 13, 2011

Xray News Round-up

Here we have this weeks round up of product releases and race reports from our site sponsors Xray. Our summary includes everything published by the Slovakian manufacturer on their own website in the past week, so if you didn’t find the time to visit, be sure to read on. This weeks round up includes the following stories.

– XB808 Dominates Winter Europe Paradise, Canary Island
– XB808’11 Wins 2011 Portuguese Open
– T3’11 Triple Win at Finnish Nationals R2
– XB808 2011 Wins MRCC Buggy Challenge 2011, Indonesia
– T3’11 Double Win at Swiss Nationals R1
– T3 2011 & XII Win the 2011 Mid West Grand Slam

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March 12, 2011

Yokomo B-Max4 II & Factory 2011 buggy

Yokomo have released details of their new B-Max4 II 1:10 4wd off road buggy kit. Available in 2 versions the standard kit only comes with the new cab forward body shell for more steering while the Factory 2011 version additionally comes supplied with a whole host of option parts as standard. It comes with a LiPo compatible main chassis, motor mount with bigger range of adjustment, c-clip universal drive shafts, carbide diff balls, lightweight diff joints and hex head screws throughout. Both are available at the end of this month.

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