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February 24, 2010

Ty Tessmann wins Nitro Challenge Pro Truggy class

The Dirt Nitro Challenge took place last weekend at the Nitro Pit in Wittmann, Arizona and young Canadian Hot Bodies team driver, and recent Worlds Warmup top qualifier, Ty Tessmann ended qualifying with 3rd in Pro Truggy and 6th in Pro Buggy. Ty got a clean start in truggy with Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri out in front of him. As the race progressed Ty, Tebo and Maifield battled for the 2nd place as Cavalieri increased his lead to 14 seconds at one point in the race. The first place seemed unreachable for everyone else and it was thought that Cavalieri had the race in the bag but that was not to be. Ty continued to drive smooth, consistent and clean laps and slowly caught Ryan, and after a few bobbles from the leader and traffic for both of them, Ty took over the lead and kept it smooth and consistent to take his first major US win in front of Ryan Cavalieri and Ryan Maifield.

February 23, 2010

Graham Alsop to run Schumacher tires

Schumacher have announced the signing of top British 1/8th Buggy racer Graham Alsop to run their 1/8th tires on grass and astro for 2010. Schumacher are keen to improve all aspect of their tire program and have been working hard with Graham to gain valuable experience in the 1/8th market. Schumacher are expected to release further details about their 1/8th scale buggy tire project in the next few days.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

February 23, 2010

Miguel Matias confirmed at Team Losi

Team Losi have announced that the hugely experienced and widely respected Portuguese driver Miguel Matias is joining their team with immediate effect and will contest the Losi 8ight EU in all competitions in 2010. Adding his considerable depth of talent to an already impressive European driver line up that includes Yannick Aigoin, Martin Bayer and Darren Bloomfield, former European champion and World runner-up Miguel is sure to be installed as one of the pre-race favourites for the up-coming European Championships later this year.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

February 23, 2010

Neumann dominates Neuffener Indoor Masters

One of the biggest Offroad indoor races in Germany were held last week in Neuffen, near Stuttgart, with 132 drivers making the trip to the Neuffener Indoor Masters. Saturday would comprise of 3 rounds of practice and 4 rounds of qualifying, with one more round on Sunday morning. Jörn Neumann TQ’d both 2WD and 4WD and in the triple A-mains Jörn would convert his qualifying pace into race victory with his LRP powered Yokomo in the 4WD class, while in the 2WD class Neumann would again win, in front of Benni Gröschel and Patrick Hofer.

February 21, 2010

Yannick Aigoin victorious at Montpellier GP

The annual Montpellier GP took place this weekend and attracted some of Europe’s best racers to battle it out for glory. Qualifying saw Losi driver Yannick Aigoin take the top spot ahead of current European Champion Renaud Savoya in 2nd with Spanish racer Daniel Vega in 3rd and Martin Bayer from the Czech Republic in 4th. Following the semi finals it was Losi driver Martin Bayer that would claim the pole position ahead of Renaud Savoya in 2nd with Jerome Aigoin in 3rd. The 60 minute final started off with the front runners maintaining their starting order and due to different fuel strategies the top 3 starters occupied the front spots in various orders until the 20 minute mark when Yannick Aigoin worked his way up through the field to the front to sit just behind his twin brother Jerome. At the halfway point Yannick was into the lead just ahead of Bayer but the two team mates would battle it out for the rest of the final, with Bayer making a mistake under pressure close the end allowing Yannick through to take the win by 4 seconds at the end, with Bayer in 2nd and Kyosho team driver Jerome Aigoin taking 3rd.

Source: RC Mag [rcmag.com]

February 17, 2010

Bitty Design Contest 2010 – Announcement

Italian company Bitty Design have been in touch to let us know about the 2nd running of their ‘Contest 2010’ event that will take place in Barco di Bibbiano in Italy on the 12th to 13th of June. Open to 1/8th scale buggy, the event will be an exciting affair with the drivers competing in a superpole event with a last chance qualifier also being run to allow drivers secure their place in the final. Combine that format with some of the best drivers in Europe, a live DJ and some beautiful pin-up girls and you have a great event.

Visit the official event site here for more information.

February 16, 2010

Evans clean sweep at Rumble in the Rockies

The 15th annual Rumble in the Rockies took place at MHOR RC Raceway in Aurora this past weekend. Losi drivers Dustin Evans and Matt Chambers both competed at the event in the Modified 2WD Buggy, Modified 4WD Buggy and Modified Truck classes. Dustin was the Top Qualifier in all three classes, and also went on to take first place all three A-Mains as well. Matt took third place in the Modified 2WD Buggy A-Main. Both drivers equipped their vehicles with Xcelorin Brushless Motors and ESCs and Losi Pink compound Taper Pin tires.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

February 16, 2010

Yatabe International Offroad GP 2010

The organisers of the Yatabe International Offroad GP 2010 have asked us to let everyone know about this great event that is taking place at the Internationally famous Yatabe Arena in Japan from the 6th to the 7th of March. So far Ryan Cavalieri (AE), Joern Neumann (Yokomo) and Hupo Honigl (Durango) have confirmed their entry and as usual all of the Japanese factory team drivers from Kyosho, Tamiya, Yokomo, etc will also be in attendance as well. The event is split over the 2 days with 2wd classes, short course, stadium truck, buggy and world class buggy being run on Saturday, while on Sunday there are the 4wd classes, stock class buggy, buggy and world class buggy. Entry forms for both days are available here (Sat 2wd) and here (Sun 4wd) and if you want more information you can e-mail the Yatabe Arena directly at info@yatabearena.com.

Source: Yatabe Arena [yatabearena.com]