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December 7, 2010

Adam Drake victorious at Toys for Tots

This year’s Toys for Tots event was moved back to its original location in Palm Desert, CA. The track has gone through an amazing transformation since its last race a few years ago. Over one hundred and twenty of the fastest racers in California came out to race and help raise money for a great charity including TLR / Novarossi driver Adam Drake. The weather and track conditions were great. In the past the track was loose top soil, but this year it was hard packed and high grip. The track crew built a great track that was fun for all classes from SCT’s to 1/8th buggies and trucks.

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December 7, 2010

Volker & Dankel dominate Italian GP

Last weekend saw the second running of the Italian GP in Brescia, Italy. This year the entries were around 80 drivers, divided in two different classes, Sport (10.5 motor limit) and Open. Top drivers like Ronald Volker, Alexander Hagberg, Eric Dankel and Daniele Ielasi decided to join the race along with Andreas Myrberg, Carsten Anghel and Umberto Pernice. The race format covered three days with Friday for practice and timed practice, Saturday for 4 round of qualification and Sunday for 1 qualification round and three finals.

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December 6, 2010

Rodney Wills joins Axial

Axial has announced the addition of Rodney Wills as the new Global Marketing Director. In his new position, Wills will be responsible for all Marketing efforts. Serving nearly 5 years as Marketing Manager at HPI Racing, Rodney brings his experience in publishing, marketing and event management to Axial. His extensive background and knowledge in various industries including automotive, snowboarding, skate and surf make him the perfect person to direct all of Axial’s Global Marketing endeavors. “We are excited to be adding someone with Rodney’s experience to our evolving Axial team.” Says C.E.O. Jeff Johns. “The knowledge he brings of both business practices and our industry will be a true asset as he guides our Global Marketing”. Rodney Wills released the following statement:

Axial is the market leader in the rock crawling segment. Not only do their amazing products provide great detail and workmanship, but they also understand that the RC lifestyle is much more than just producing product; the SCX10 line has really peaked my interest also because of how its full scale realism is continuing to drive the market. Now that I am a part of the Axial team, I am looking forward to growing with the company and making their brand as great and fun as their products.

Source: Axial [axialracing.com]

December 6, 2010

Dustin Evans wins Spektrum Challenge on 22 debut

Team Losi Racing has already established that their new 22 is the buggy to beat in 2WD Buggy. Team driver Dustin Evan’s TQ’d the 2WD Modified Buggy class at the 2010 Spektrum Off-road Championship and went on to take the win. Dustin also TQ’d the Modified SCT class with his XXX-SCT.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

December 6, 2010

Ardent Winter series Rd3 report

Round three of the Kick Energy Drink sponsored Ardent Winter series took place at the weekend at the popular indoor Ardent venue in Derbyshire. Leading the series going in to round three was a very on form Olly Jefferies, driving his Associated TC6. Olly continued his good form and took TQ ahead of the Tamiya of Elliott Harper and the Hot Bodies of Andy Moore. In the finals it was Olly that went on to take maximum points for round three with a third place and a win, Andy had a poor second final and this allowed Johnny Aird to come through from fifth on the grid to finish third behind Elliott Harper.

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December 6, 2010

Capricorn bumper, camber shims & decals

Capricorn RC have released a number of new items including this candy coloured front bumper for the LAB-C01. The foam used in the front bumper is a new heavier type for better protection and the colour helps you easily identify the different types. Also for the LAB-C01 is a set of calibrated camber shims in different thicknesses for multiple setting possibilities. Finally Capricorn have released new body shell decals with all the various logos, including the upcoming LAB-C801, to adorn your body shell.

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December 6, 2010

Marc Fisher wins Belgian EPS

The European Pan Series took place in Belgium on the last weekend of November. Free practice started on Saturday morning followed by controlled practice and Team Corally driver Marc Fischer had a very good feeling with his 12SL from the very beginning, however a lot of drivers had problems with the track layout since it was made out of steel and the cars easily broke. Following practice there was 4 qualification rounds and Marc improved from one qualification round to another. For comparison in the first qualification round Marc’s fastest round was 44 laps and 10,5 seconds fast lap and in the last qualification round for that day Marc ran 45 laps and 10,1 seconds fast lap and so he stood on overnight TQ until Sunday morning when there were two more qualification rounds and the finals. The last two qualifiers were very good and Marc changed a bit on the car to be better which helped, again Marc ran 10,09 seconds and the fastest 46 round which gave him a solid TQ position.

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December 6, 2010

Per-Ola Hard joins OS Engines

After his recent success qualifying 2nd and finishing 3rd at the Xceed Asia race in Shanghai China Serpent 1:10 GP team driver Per-Ola “Peo” Hard from Sweden has decided to join the OS Engines Japan Team for 2011 season. The European Championship finalist and current Swedish National Cup Champion is excited about the new cooperation with OS Engines and is set to race and promote the OS Engines product both on the track and in the pits.

Source: OS Engines [os-engines.co.jp]