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March 19, 2010

Amezcua wins Pro Electric at Silver State

Tekno RC are reporting that their chassis conversions scored another win in the Pro Electric 1/8th class. This time it was at the Silver State Challenge, where Travis Amezcua put in another great run with his Tekno equipped Mugen MBX6 buggy. Starting 3rd on the grid, he followed TQ Josh Wheeler closely all race. One mistake by Josh in the treacherous whoops section gave Travis a pass opportunity, once passed he held on and brought home the win in the 10 minute main event to become the Silver State Challenge Pro Electric 1/8th Champ. Also, in the Open Buggy class, Pres Ilog brought home the win in his Hot Bodies D8 buggy. Pres was rocking the Tekno RC LCG chassis and front and rear Tekno RC CNC shock towers. He almost completed the buggy/truggy sweep, but got caught for 2nd in Open Truggy.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]

March 18, 2010

Cavalieri & Maifield Win Big In Vegas

Team Associated are reporting on the 2010 Silver State Nitro Challenge which moved from Boulder City Raceway in Boulder City, NV to down into the valley of Henderson just a short drive from the famous Las Vegas Strip. Also new for 2010 was the race promoter. World-famous track designer and event promoter Joey Christiansen brought his “Dirt” crew to transform the Silver Bowl track into a Supercross-style layout while taking into account the treacherous surface and weather conditions.

Continue reading the report here

March 16, 2010

Joe Pillars with Pro 2 SC at Silver State

The 2010 Silver State Nitro Challenge was held at the Silver Bowl Park in Las Vegas, NV. The weather was in the upper 60’s all week long with very windy conditions with entries for this year’s event reaching over 300. Kyosho America Team Manager Joe Pillars was on hand to help the Team and would also compete in the Pro 2 Class. This would be the debut race for the new Kyosho Ultima SC. The race format consisted of 3 7-minute qualifiers and took the drivers 2 best finishes for points. Pillars TQ’ed the last round of qualifying, laying down the fastest run of the weekend. Qualifying was very close and he would start 3rd on the grid, missing the overall TQ by 1 point.

Continue reading the report here

March 15, 2010

TQ Racing report from Chi Town Shootout

TQ Racing are reporting that their team driver Johnny LoGiudice was the Top Qualifier in both the 2wd Modified and Truck Modified classes at the recent Chi Town Shootout with his TQ Racing SX10 2w and SX10T. Johnny won the 2wd Modified class with fellow TQ Racing team driver JP Richards finishing in third. While Johnny was also the TQ in the Modified Truck class, some trouble in the mains knocked him down the order, but team mate JP Richards stepped up from a lower qualifying position to finish in 2nd place. Also in the 13.5 buggy class – TQ Racing team driver Ray Kindstom finished third in his first major event with the TQ SX10 2w. TQ Racing continues to develop the SX10 4w four wheel drive chassis which will soon be released and development work is continuing on the SX10 SC Short Course chassis for an early summer release.

Source: TQ Racing [tqracing.net]

March 13, 2010

Venom signs Taylor Petersen

Venom have announced that they have signed top US driver Taylor Petersen for the 2010 season. The current Mugen racer, who has driven for O’Donnell and Kyosho in the past, will have his debut outing with Venom products this weekend at the Silver State Nitro Challenge.

Source: Venom [venom-group.com]

March 12, 2010

Hupo Honigl joins Durango’s 1/8th scale team

Having signed multiple European Champion Hupo Honigl to their electric buggy team back in January, Durango have today announced that the Austrian driver will also now race for their 1/8th scale team through to the end of 2011, following the end of his contract at LRP to run their 1/8th scale buggy. We contacted Hupo for comment and he gave us this statement:

First of all I want to thank my former car sponsors LRP – specially Moritz Gaul – and Tamiya – Kiyo and Satoshi – for their awesome support over the last few years, it was a great time. But every contract has an end and it was time for me to make a change and now I´m looking forward to race my new cars and help develop and test for Team Durango – there are some nice projects in the pipeline. I will continue running all the LRP nitro as well as the electric power components, I will of course also stay with Proline Rubber for all cars and the radio gear is from Sanwa. I´m really looking forward to a successful racing year in 2010!

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

March 10, 2010

Miguel Matias dominates National Rd1 in Portugal

The opening round of the Portuguese buggy nationals took place at the weekend in Trofa and it was Miguel Matias who won the 1st and 2nd round of qualification to take the TQ spot. With qualifying locked up he decided not to run the last round and this allowed Ricardo Monteiro to won round 3 in front of Carlos Duraes and Rodrigo Luis. The first semi saw Miguel Matias continue his dominance by winning the race with Ricardo Monteiro 2nd crossing the line 8 seconds behind. Semi number 2 saw Carlos Duraes win the race easily with Bruno Boelho, Fernando Almeida and Tiago Aguiar 1 lap behind. In the main final it was again all about Miguel Matias from start to finish, winning by 2 laps along with the fastest lap of the final, with Carlos Duraes in 2nd and Ricardo Monteiro placing 3rd completing the all RB podium.

Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]

March 10, 2010

Drake does double at Psycho Nitro Blast

The 2010 Psycho Nitro Blast took place last weekend in Atlanta, GA. and attracted some 400 entries for this annual indoor event. Qualifying consisted of 3 rounds, with the best 2 to count, and Adam Drake TQ’d all three rounds in 1/8th nitro buggy, 1/8th nitro truck, and 1/8th electric. The Drake was able to convert those TQs into wins in both the 60 minute 1/8th Pro buggy class final, finishing ahead of Tamiya driver Ryan Lutz and Losi team mate Mike truhe, and the 20 minute 1/8th electric buggy class final, winning that in front of fellow Losi driver Gene Hickerson.

Click here to see the electric class podium