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August 4, 2009

Cragg & McGee win Stotfold Nationals

oOple are reporting on last weekend’s 5th round of the BRCA 1/10th off road Nationals that took place at the Stotfold track and Saturday’s 2wd event saw Danny McGee take a convincing TQ after qualifying. Mistakes in the first leg allowed Lee Martin loose for a clear victory but Danny secured the win by taking a scrappy second leg and dominating the third leg, marching off from the pack for an easy victory. Following his win in Saturdays 2WD event, Danny McGee got off to a good start in the 4wd class on Sunday by taking the first round with his Losi XX4. It wasn’t to be however and like the previous meeting, despite taking a round of qualifying Danny didn’t manage to make the A final. Kevin Lee lined up on pole for the A final but after three scrappy legs which saw three different winners, it was Neil Cragg that took the win.

Expect a full report on oOple soon.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

August 3, 2009

Mike Truhe dominates Pikes Peak Nitro Challenge

Last weekend saw the 2nd Annual Pikes Peak Nitro Challenge Pay race sponsored by Mugen Racing. The race was held at Colorado Fast Track in Colorado Springs Colorado. With a Pay out to the Top 5 in each class, the race had several well known drivers from around the country in attendance. Most notable was Mike Truhe off his TQ of the 2009 Roar Buggy Nationals 2 weeks ago. The race would prove to be very challenging for most drivers with the track layout designed to be technical, with a huge Quad into a difficult triple. With the elevation over 6500 ft from sea level, motor tuning would be very key to having success for the weekend over the 45 minute A-Mains. The big talk around the track was getting optimum power out of the motor with out lean bogging or running too hot.

Continue reading the report here

July 31, 2009

Groskamp holds overnight pole in Luxembourg

Jilles Groskamp (17/5:16.582) holds the overnight pole here in Luxembourg after the Dutch ace, who is in search of his first EFRA European title, set a new fastest time in the second round of qualifying. The factory Tamiya/Speedpassion driver described the run as perfect as he made best use of the cooler track conditions to head home Team Yokomo’s Ronald Volker (17/5:17.977) who TQ’d the slower opening qualifier. Very happy with his overall performance today the ‘Warm Up’ race winner said everything had worked perfectly and it is was good to end the opening day holding the provisional pole.

View our full event coverage here.

July 30, 2009

Scott Brown Wins Short Course Nats

Hosted by R/C Madness in Enfield, CT, the Inaugural Short Course Nationals brought together racers from across the country to compete in the first all-Short-Course event. Normally piggybacked with another event, the promoters created an event that stood alone and catered just to the growing Short-Course racing crowd with seven separate classes. As major supporters of the Short Course class, Team Associated sent out factory representative Scott Brown as both an ambassador and racer to promote and assist fellow participants. Scott has been involved in R/C for years and is the owner of Tacoma R/C Raceway near Seattle, WA so his experience in the hobby runs deep. Utilizing his Team Associated SC10 and SC8, Scott brought home the victories in the top classes, taking the win in Electric 2WD Open with his Reedy/LRP powered SC10 and in 4WD Nitro with his Reedy 121 VR-powered SC8. Scott also participated in the fledgling class of 4WD E-Conversion Open and again piloted his SC8e to victory using Reedy power.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

July 28, 2009

Martin Bayer wins big at Bokor Cup 2009

One of the downsides of being so far out of a major city is that it makes you realize how much you depend on things you are used to having at your disposal. In my case this week, it was the internet. Unfortunately there was no hot spot I could drop by to send out my race reports this weekend, so I am sorry for the delay in the update. As we went to bed last night the forecast was for heavy storms and wind to rumble through the area, which had us all very worried, but as we awoke, we were very pleased to see that only a sprinkle hit us and soon the sun was bright as could be. We ran a total of 6 rounds of qualifying where a driver’s best 4 of the 6 rounds would be counted with points to determine which drivers would make the semi finals.

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July 28, 2009

Adam Drake takes Buggy at NSS Rd2

Adam Drake was in touch to tell us about the 2nd round of the Novarossi Summer series, which attracted 11 heats of drivers. In the buggy class it was Kyosho / Team Orion driver Cody King who TQ’d round one over Losi / Novarossi’s Adam Drake. In round two the track was dusty and bumpy, but The Drake was able to TQ the round by more than 15 seconds over Cody and set a new overall fast time by one second. In the final Adam and Cody battled early on, but Cody broke something on the front end of his car at the 15min mark and this opened the door for Losi’s Matt Schreffler to take home second behind Drake, with Xray racer Chad Nevin claiming third.

July 25, 2009

Bokor Cup 2009 – Friday report

Follow the long winding road about 1 hour outside of Budapest and it will lead you to a very small village at the base of the mountains named Bokor. Home only to a small cheese factory and about 120 residents, it is the smallest dot on the map, but it is the home to a wonderful race track. Overlooking this small town is the beautiful track of Bokor. The pride of organizer and track owner Laszlo Szebelledi, the track is located on family land that he and his crew have transitioned to a beautiful facility. Laszlo has spared no expense to organize an amazing event that takes care of a racers every wish which includes free bottled water and ice tea to all the racers and mechanics along with the opportunity to take a ride in an actually Dakar Rally vehicle. Laszlo had arranged for the Dakar Hungry team to bring their Opel Vehicle here for the event and everyone has the opportunity to go for a ride in the Bokor countryside for a thrilling rally ride.

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July 24, 2009

Cragg & Martin take Southport BRCA National

oOple are reporting on the 4th round of the 2009 BRCA 1/10th off road National Championship series held last weekend at the popular Southport buggy track. After a domination by XFactory drivers during the 2WD series thus far, it was looking a similar story with XFactory cars taking the first couple of qualifiers in the hands of Phil Sleigh and Mark Stanley respectively. Round three saw Neil Cragg’s Associated B4 on top and to make it four different drivers from four, Danny McGee put his Losi/Atomic Carbon hybrid CR2 in the top spot. Despite some great pressure especially from Mark Stanley, Neil Cragg dominated the finals – winning all three legs to take his first 2WD National of the season. Reigning 4WD champion for the previous two years, Lee Martin, went out meaning business in the wet early morning of the 4WD event – taking the first three rounds of qualifying before Neil Cragg took the final round. Like Neil had done in 2WD – Lee Martin took all three legs to take the victory after some intense and exciting racing.

Check out the full report, with video and lots for photos, here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]