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April 29, 2010

Hungarian National Off road Championship Rd1

Last weekend the Hungarian national offroad championship kicked off with more than 60 drivers. The race was held in Apaj, a small city about 50km’s from the capital city of Budapest and organised by RCOR club. The layout of the track is really nice, very enjoyable, it has all kind of jumps (table, double, triple, step-down) and corners (sweeper, hairpin, chicane). The racing line was visible but covered with some dust and the track held up really well all weekend, thanks to the proper preparation of the organiser club.

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April 28, 2010

TecnoPower sign Portuguese driver João Gomes

New Italian engine company TecnoPower is on its way to enter the serious buggy competition scene with its freshly released ‘B01’ engine and a new upcoming Portuguese driver called João Gomes, who finished 7th at the 2010 Euro’s Warm up in Portugal.

We are very happy to have João joining us and helping us to promote and race our engines. He will not only participate in the upcoming Euro B but also the Euro A and Worlds in Thailand. We at TecnoPower would like to wish him the best of luck and give our best to support to him during these events and will be present too support technically any other driver who will be using our engines during these events.

Source: TecnoPower [tecnopower-motor.com]

April 28, 2010

Drake & Schreffler win Rd3 of Losi Winter Series

Losi are reporting that their team driver Adam Drake TQ’d and took a deserved win in the 1/8 Buggy class last weekend at round 3 of the Losi Winter Series, hosted by Revelation Raceway. In the truck class it was another Losi driver Matt Schreffler who took the victory from pole position with his 8ight-T. The fourth and final round of the series takes place on May 1st.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

April 27, 2010

Johnny Loguidace is double Michigan State Champion

TQ Racing are reporting that their factory driver Johnny Loguidace is the Michigan State Champion in both 2wd mod and Truck Mod. The race was hosted at Dirt Burners RC and was attend by drivers representing AE, Losi, X-Factory and Kyosho. Johnny was TQ in truck and second on the grid in buggy behind AE Factory Driver Dan Griffin. In buggy, Johnny was able to get by Dan early and drive of to the victory, while in truck Johnny led from start to finish to secure another title.

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April 27, 2010

Jared Tebo dominates Trackside Short Course Showdown

The 1st Annual Short Course Showdown was held at Trackside Hobbies in Milwaukee, WI April 23-25. This event was directed and announced by World Famous Scotty Ernst. Representatives from all the major short course manufacturers were in attendance including Kyosho, Team Associated, Losi, HPI, and Traxxas. The total entries for the event reached an amazing 248, making this the largest short course race in the World.

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April 26, 2010

Blazej Orlowski wins Polish Buggy opener

The first round of the Polish 1/8th scale buggy Championships got underway last weekend in Nowy Targ in the very south of the country. The 30 minute final was very hard on equipment and a lot of cars couldn’t make it to the finish line. It was Blazej Orlowski, driving an O.S. powered Tamiya 801X that emerged the winner, in front of Mugen driver Maciej Dzwigaj in 2nd and Tomasz Gadnicki driving a Kyosho in 3rd. The next round will take place in Dywity on the 15th-16th of May.

April 26, 2010

Flying start for Dylan Rodriguez at RC Pro West

We received a quick update that team Mugen driver Dylan Rodriguez goes 1, 2, 3 at the R/C Pro West opener last weekend at Hemet Raceway. Dylan TQ’d and won Electric buggy and TQ’d all three rounds of Truggy, but had mechanical problems in the main and settled for 3rd and wrapped up a great weekend by finishing 2nd in Pro buggy.

April 26, 2010

Hartson dominance at Associated 1/8th Electric Champs

Hosted by Orange County R/C Raceway in Huntington Beach, CA on April 24th, the Team Associated 1/8th Electric Championship again proved that 1/8th electric racing is alive and here to stay. Being only a one day event allowed the track to make adjustments to the program based upon entries and class breakdown. With over 65 entries and 9 heats, the program was tweaked to allow for maximum track time that included 6 minute qualifiers, B main bump-ups and 7 minute triple A mains. The highlight class of the event was Expert 1/8th Buggy and the star was Associated/Reedy/LRP’s Steven Hartson. Picking up where he left off the week before at the JBRL event, Hartson laid down the fastest qualifying time over fellow Associated/LRP teammate Ryan Cavalieri. Hartson, having found his groove with 1/8th electric over the past few months, was untouchable in the main events. Cavalieri pressured at times, but the consistency of Hartson, combined with the experience in the class, saw him easily win both A1 and A2 by 6 seconds over Cavalieri. Joining Hartson and Cavalieri in the A main for Team Associated were Brent Thielke and Chris Jarosz who both also used Reedy/LRP power.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]