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May 25, 2010

2010 FEMCA ISTC report

This year’s FEMCA ISTC was held from the 13th to 16th of May in Brunei Darussalam, a small country in the North East of Borneo Island. Held in an air conditioned indoor stadium, the carpet track’s design was very technical. There were 2 categories, stock class 11.5T with a Team Orion handout motor and the mod open class and the event attracted about 60 drivers from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia as well as the home racers who joined both classes.

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May 25, 2010

Smallwood & DiBrino win Short Course at PRCR invitational

The 1st Annual PRCR Invitational was held this past weekend in Portland, Oregon at Portland R/C Raceway. This is the home track for Team Orion USA Team Manager Joe Pillars. JP helped organize this event and would also race. The race format consisted of 3 6-Minute Qualifiers using the Rocket Round format (single fastest run counts) on Saturday. Then Sunday the lower main bump-ups would be ran first, followed by Triple A-Mains for all classes. The top 7 drivers after qualifying would go straight to the A-Main with a 1 car bump-up from the lower mains. In the Stock Short Course Class it was privateer Jaromy Smallwood who TQ’ed overall with his Team Orion powered Kyosho Ultima SC. Jaromy went on to win A-Main #1 and A-Main #2 to take home the Championship.

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May 25, 2010

Lars Hoppe to race the Sakura Zero

Lars Hoppe, the 2006 DHI Cup winner has signed a contract with LMI Racing that will see him drive the Sakura Zero from 3-Racing this season. Also using LMI Racing parts and the electronic components from GM Racing, Lars will mainly drive 1/10 EP in the winter time, but will also do some LRP Challenge races during the summer.

Source: LMI [lmiracing.com]

May 25, 2010

Haynes & Strasnick win Sweep Challenge

The Sweep Challenge was held at Controlfreakz Raceway in Chaplin Connecticut last weekend and was sponsored by Sweep Racing USA. With 7 heats of racing action split between 17.5, open mod and the 13.5 4wd mini classes, Ryan Lee and Steve Kong made the trip from Korea to participate in the event and showcase Sweep Racing products. In qualifying Mike Haynes was able to take the TQ position in both 17.5 and Open Mod classes. In the 17.5 class final Mike Haynes was able to hang onto the victory in the A final with Casey Retke finishing in second and Kenny Lambert taking final the podium position in third. The Open mod class had incredibly close racing action with Mark Strasnick taking the victory in the final with an amazing pace in the closing laps. TQ Mike Haynes finished second with Randy Bernard taking third position.

View videos of the mains here

May 25, 2010

German Nationals 4WD Warm-up report

Last weekend the warm-up race for the German 4WD electric off-road nationals took place on a 1/8 nitro buggy track near Berlin. A total of 25 drivers made it to the challenging track of the RoadRunner-Berlin club . This was quite a low outcome for this otherwise highly competitive class but it seems like it was a result of the bank holiday weekend. With 17 drivers in total the 4WD Modified class contained the most action and was won by Team Durango driver Andre Welker who switched to the DEX410 only days before the race. Second place went to very young Tim Walther (Team Durango DEX410) with Chris Kamman (Team Associated B44) in 3rd. The B-final was won by Hamburg-based Markus Bauer (Team Durango DEX410). The 4WD Stock class went to Eberhard ‘Ebi’ Beck with Alexander Matschuck and Dietmar Spieß (all Team Durango DEX410) in second and third place respectively.

View the stock podium here

May 25, 2010

Cavalieri does the triple at PRCR Invitational

The 1st Annual PRCR Invitational was held this past weekend in Portland, Oregon at Portland R/C Raceway. This is the home track for Team Orion USA Team Manager Joe Pillars. JP helped organize this event and would also race. The goal was to have the top driver from each of the 3 major manufacturers in attendance (Kyosho, Associated, Losi). This would become reality with Jared Tebo attending for Kyosho/Team Orion, Ryan Cavalieri attending for Team Associated/Team Orion, and Dustin Evans attending for Team Losi/Xcelorin. The race would consist of over 100 entries after everything was calculated.

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May 24, 2010

Mark Christopher wins Halifax BRCA Sports GT round

Mark Christopher took a convincing FTD at the recent UK nationals shattering the existing track record at Halifax for the Sports GT class. His Team Dremel UK, Xray NT1 powered by Novarossi was the only car in the class to make the previously elusive 19 laps, which was achieved in each of the three qualifying runs. Mark also went on to win the final by two laps over fellow Team mate Richard Boult, both running Knack racing 220mm conversions on their NT1’s. The 220mm cars are increasing in popularity in the UK Nationals.

May 24, 2010

2010 Wave at OCRC Raceway report

The JConcepts Wave race takes place in the heart of the R/C corridor, SoCal. One of the world’s premier indoor off-road facilities, ORCR Raceway has been chosen for 2 years in a row to host the event. With more than 100 indoor pit spots, as well as a fully stocked hobby shop and sizable indoor clay off-road track, the Wave’s venue and location are second to none. California locals were well represented with Steven Hartson, Brent Thielke, Cody Turner, Frank Root and Chris Jarosz taking part in the event. Drivers traveling in from out of town such as Nor Cal’s Lloyd Dassonville, Arizona’s Tanner Denney and Florida’s Jason Ruona provided tight competition all weekend.

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