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October 4, 2011

Maxi Vogl wins final round of Alpen-Cup

One week ago the final of the Alpen-Cup, a racing series based in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland, was held at the fast track of the MRT Rosenheim club. Among the 65 participants was Shepherd driver Maxi Vogl, showing good performance all weekend. In qualifying he managed to secure a direct-qualifier spot placing 3rd behind Christian Wimberger and Felix Heyse. At the start of the final Wimberger made a mistake and crashed at the end of the straight. Heyse and Vogl took over the lead and increased the gap on the rest of the field. The lead changed many times due to a different pit strategy but at the middle of the race Heyse made a mistake and slipped into the grass. His mechanic Robert Pietsch had to put him back on the track allowing Vogl to increase his lead to 2 laps which he kept until the checkered flag. Heyse finished 2nd in front of Shasa Lackner who completed the podium.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

October 4, 2011

Matsukura makes it 5 JMRCA 1/12th titles in a row

The JMRCA Japanese 1/12th scale Nationals were held last weekend at the Yatabe Arena on their indoor on road asphalt track which has been covered with carpet. In qualifying it was reigning Japanese and 2-time World Champion Naoto Matsukura, driving for Yokomo that took the top qualifier spot ahead of Corally driver Hideo Kitizawa in 2nd and Daisuke Sakamoto driving the new Kyosho car in 3rd. In the finals it was Naoto that took the win the first two mains to secure the victory ahead of his team mate Murai Masayuki who won the final leg, with Kitizawa taking 3rd overall. In the stock class Naoki Watanabe won for Speedmerchant in front of Corally driver Murai Kazuma and Gou Matsumoto in 3rd with his Associated.

View the final standings here

October 4, 2011

Sanwa SRG-CT & SRG-CS servos

Sanwa’s new SSR technology stands for outstanding transmission speed and super fast response. The SRG-CT and SRG-CS servos feature robust and precise metal gear, coreless motors and double ball bearings. Their SSR capability makes them the perfect addition to the Sanwa M11X, MT-4 and ExzesX transmitters. Of course, these digital servos are also compatible with non SSR capable transmitters. Offering 14.8kg/cm, the SRG-CT is ideally suited for 1/8 Offroad, gas Onroad and 1/10 Offroad, while the SRG-CS’ 9.0kg/cm makes it great for gas Onroad and also 1/10 Offroad.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

October 4, 2011

Awesomatix A700 now available

Russian company Awesomatix have announced that they have begun shipping the revolutionary A700 1/10th EP touring car chassis. The car, which we have covered previously, has proven itself on the track with multiple pole positions and a win at the final round of the Euro Touring Series as well as making the final at this year’s European Championships. The cars will be first delivered based on pre orders before becoming generally available.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

October 4, 2011

Portuguese Off-Road Series Rd1 report

Last weekend saw the first ever Portuguese EP National Off-Road event at the GodinTTrace track. It was an amazing success with an awesome attendance of 58 drivers with many doing more than one class which saw 73 cars competing over the 4 classes available (4wd and 2wd buggy and Short Course). Among them was Rodrigo Luís, multiple European 1/8th A finalist and recently crowned Portuguese Touring Car National Modified Champion Hugo Miguel.

Continue reading the report here

October 3, 2011

Drake clean sweep at JBRL Rd7

The seventh round of the JBRL series took place last weekend at Revelation Raceway. In the 1/8th expert truck class Team Losi Racing / Novarossi’s Adam Drake took TQ honors with his Novarossi powered TLR 8ight T 2.0. The beginning of the 25 minute final was a great battle between Adam Drake and Cody King. King had mechanical problems 10 minutes into the race and was forced to retire. This opened the door for Castellano to move up to second. Drake took the victory followed by teammates Castellano in second and Schreffler in third.

Continue reading the report here

October 3, 2011

Stelios Theologitis takes 14th Greek title

The 3rd and last round of the Greek Nationals took place this past weekend at the Arena Racing Club in Aspropyrgos, Athens. Four different drivers were fighting for this year’s championship, but once again the title went to Stelios Theologitis. The Xray/O.S. driver had the lead from the start of the 45 minute final but a number of errors allowed Dimitri Tsigkos (Kyosho/Bullit) to get in front and open a reasonable, but not secure, gap over Theologitis. In the last 10 minutes, Theologitis managed to recover and took advantage of Tsigkos’ mistakes securing the first place and his 15th Greek Championship.

Source: RC Devil [rcdevil.gr]

October 3, 2011

Matt Chambers takes Expert Buggy at RC Pro Rd17

TLR’s Matt Chambers was on hand for round #17 of the RC Pro National Series. Dirtworks R/C in Burlington, CO played host to the event that brought in racers from many surrounding states. In the Expert 1/8 Buggy class Matt was in top form taking the TQ in all 4 rounds of qualifying and cruising to a 2 lap victory in the 45 minute A-main ahead of TLR privateer Chris Peralta and Vincent Ringler. In the 1/8 Expert Truggy class, Chris Peralta took home the TQ and win making it a TLR sweep of the Expert Classes.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]