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January 29, 2009

Alex Laffranchi joins Max Power

Italian engine company Max Power have announced that former World & European Champion Alex Laffranchi has joined their team. The company is now preparing an improved support package in the off road market for this season and with Alex in the team will be a great boost. Max Power have also announced that it is going to release new features for the off road motors in combination with the Diamond Hard Coated shaft treatment available for square and long stroke motors.

Source: Max [rcmaxpower.com]

January 29, 2009

Samuele Lenzi to use Tourex tires

Vita Tuning have announced that 2-time former Italian Off road National Champion Samuele Lenzi, who recently signed to IDM, will use Tourex tires this season. The former Pro-Line driver, and current Kyosho driver will also distribute the tires in Italy through his company Sam Model.

Source: Vita Tuning [vita-tuning.de]

January 28, 2009

Tebo does Nitro Double at CRCRC

We reported on his success in the electric classes at the CRCRC facility in Columbus, OH last weekend, but Jared Tebo dominated both the 1/8 nitro buggy and truggy classes as well. In fact, his performance was so strong that Tebo won seven of the eight qualifiers to secure TQ in both classes, just missing a perfect sweep of all eight rounds by less than 1.6 seconds in one of the truggy rounds. Tebo continued his domination during the finals, pulling away to a comfortable lead and an eventual win in the 1/8 buggy class. Establishing a comfortable lead in the 1/8 truggy class wasn’t as easy, as Tebo traded the lead a few times in the first half of the event. But, after the halfway point, Tebo took the lead with his ST-RR for the final time and held it to the end.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

January 28, 2009

Drake & Truhe clean sweep at Airtronics Winternats

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This past weekend saw the Airtronics Winter Nationals take place at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA with a lot of pro drivers in attendance. The expert buggy class saw a clear win for Losi racer Adam Drake ahead of Jeremy Kortz, racing the Hobao in 2nd, while Mike Truhe took 3rd spot less than 3 seconds further back. In expert truggy, it was the Losi 8ight T 2.0 show up front with Mike Truhe (video above) taking the win by almost a lap from team mate and top qualifier Adam Drake, while Travis Amezcua, racing the prototype Hot Bodies buggy took 3rd.

Video by Upgrade RC

January 23, 2009

Jared Tebo wins CRCRC 4wd Mod class

Kyosho America are reporting on the CRCRC race in Columbus, Ohio in which their team driver Jared Tebo, in his first race with the Lazer ZX5 FS, TQ’ed and won the 4WD modified title. In his debut with the Ultima RB5 and prototype Ultima RB5T, Tebo also qualified and finished second in both classes, a notable achievement given that this was the first time he’d never driven any of these vehicles in competition. Dan Griffin won the 2WD stock class driving an Ultima RB5 buggy.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

January 22, 2009

Truman wins Petit RC Race 4wd class

Tony Truman wins Petit RC Race 4wd class

Having already covered the 2wd class at last weekend’s 3rd annual PetitRC race, held at the Maritime Raceway venue in the UK, Team Orion have the report on the 4wd class. Qualifying saw Hot Bodies driver Tony Truman lay down a mistake free run in round 3 to TQ the event by 4 seconds. In the finals Tony finished 2nd in leg 1 after after a little mistake cost him the win, but had a better run in leg 2 to win unchallenged. In the 3rd leg, a mistake dropped Tony back to 4th, but he was able to get his head down and work his way back to 2nd, which was enough to take the win, ahead of 2wd winner Lee Martin and Simon Moss in 3rd.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

January 21, 2009

Jon Hazelwood to use Savox servos

CML have signed Hobao’s lead driver in Europe, Jon Hazelwood to run the new Savox servos in 2009. Jon a World Finalist and 4th at last years European Championships was convinced that these new servos were the future after testing them in his Hyper 9 buggy. He joins Elliot Boots, Dave Crompton and Ellis Stafford in using this new brand of servos. He had the following to say:

They feel excellent, they have great speed and torque and yet they are 15g lighter than my previous servos. What more could you want?

Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]

January 21, 2009

2009 Golden State Off road Champs

Team Tekin are reporting on their success at the 2009 Golden State Offroad champs held at Lakeport Hobbies, CA. Team driver Phillip Atondo TQ’d and went on to win in the 2wd Open class and continued with his winning ways by TQing and winning Mod truck. There was also success for Tekin in the hotly contested 4wd mod class as team driver Kevin Jelich took the win after qualifying 2nd behind AE driver Frank Root.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]