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June 24, 2009

Drake & Johnson clean up at O’Donnell Summer Champs

Revelation Raceway hosted the O’Donnell Summer Championships last weekend and the event attracted a large group of quality drivers taking part. Adam Drake was top qualifier in both the buggy and truggy expert classes and in buggy he was able to win the 40 minute race by nearly 17 seconds ahead of O’Donnell racer Steven Hartson in 2nd, and another Losi driver Matt Schreffler in 3rd. In the truggy main, The Drake didn’t have it all his own way and could only manage 2nd, 4 laps down on team mate Kyle Johnson, while Dylan Rodriguez claimed 3rd spot for O’Donnell. Robert Wickham won both buggy and truggy amateur class, the latter from TQ, driving his Losi 8ight chassis’.

June 22, 2009

Jörn Neumann wins the GM Masters

The GM Masters race took place last weekend in Bischofsheim. Qualifying saw Jörn Neumann take the pole position winning 3 out of the 5 qualifiers and was the only driver to make 8 laps in the heats, with his Orion powered Losi 8ight 2.0. Behind Jörn was Maximilian Cordts in 2nd and Gerhard Frank in 3rd. Jörn was able to win his semi final and would start the 30 minutes main event from pole position. In the final Jörn won by 1 lap over 2nd place Gerhard Frank with Torsten Flaegel in 3rd.

June 22, 2009

Redding & Johnson take Region 10 titles

This weekend saw the ROAR Region 10 Championships run at Colorado Fast Track in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Racers from around the Region came to compete for the championship and it was Team Losi’s Lars Johnson who was on early form to defend his Regional titles from 2008 in the Pro Buggy and Pro Truggy classes, TQ’ing the first couple rounds in both classes. Round 3 saw Team Associated driver Adrian Redding grab TQ with his new RC8B and with a shortened schedule due to rain on Saturday, Lars would be top qualifier for both pro classes. The 45 minute Buggy Main would prove to be very tough with temperatures in the 90’s and track getting bumpy and hard to navigate through. The start of the main was not what Lars had in mind, a costly mistake over the first double had him getting bounced around with the back of the grid. While making a charge back to the front of the race he would have mechanical problems ending his chance of challenging for the win. This would allow Adrian Redding to get the distance he needed over the rest of the racers and cross the finish line first.

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June 21, 2009

King & Aigoin win 2009 Kyosho Masters

RC Mag are reporting on the Kyosho Masters race which was being held this weekend at a track outside Paris. With a lot of international racers in attendance from all around Europe as well as Japan and the USA, it was to once again be an exciting event to showcase the products of the Japanese manufacturer. In the Elite buggy class it was Jerome Aigoin that took the top spot in qualifying in front of Linus Thern in 2nd, while in the truggy class it was again Jerome Aigoin who was fastest ahead of Cody King. In the buggy semi, Jerome had problems and wouldn’t move up to the main event which would see Linus Thern on pole position. In the race itself, it was Cody who would win the event, setting the fastest lap in the race, to finish in front of newly crowned Euro B Champion David Ronnefalk from Sweden, with another American, Tyler Vik claiming 3rd. In the truggy final, Jerome was able to make amends for his poor buggy race by winning the final by 7 seconds ahead of Linus Thern, while young David Ronnefalk took his second podium of the day in 3rd.

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June 19, 2009

Darren Bloomfield joins Ultimate Racing

Spanish firm Ultimate Racing have announced that front running British driver Darren Bloomfield has joined their team. Having tested some UR products during the Euro Warm Up in Austria along with his Losi team mates Adam Drake, Mike Truhe and Yannick Aigoin, the Novarossi driver was in no doubt about the decision.

Source: Ultimate Racing [ultimateracing.es]

June 15, 2009

Polish Tamiya Championship Rd3

We received a brief report from last weekend’s 3rd round of the Polish Tamiya Championship for off road that took place in Warsaw. After a night of rain on Saturday, Sunday’s first run was still a bit wet but with the sun beginning to shine, it soon dried up and the from the 2nd round of qualifying the track was dry. Qualifying for the 2wd class was headed up by 8 year old Michal Orlowski, with Bartosz Maciejewski in 2nd and Patryk Rybarczyk in 3rd, while in 4wd it was Artur Kramza that TQ’d from Morris Indovino. After the 3 leg 2wd finals it was Rybarczyk that ended up taking the win following 2 leg victories, with pole man Orlowski in 2nd and Maciejewski taking 3rd. In the 4wd finals, touring car regular Morris Indovino took the overall win from Artur Kramza in 2nd and Lukasz Kowalczyk taking the last podium step in 3rd.

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June 10, 2009

West Caribbean RC Pro Series Rd2

This past weekend saw the Landfill RC track in Puerto Rico play host to round 2 of the West Caribbean RC Pro Series. In 1/8th buggy it was Rafa Sabatier who took the win with his Mugen MBX6 fallowed by team mate Tory Santiago, while in 3rd spot was Kyosho’s Peter Alvarado. Rafa ran a flawless 1 hour main, while Santiago and Alvarado flamed out twice making it impossible to challenge Sabatier’s near perfect run. In the truggy class, Mugen Team Driver Tory Santiago took the win with his ‘out of the box’ MBX6T with 2nd place going to team mate Choto Mendez, while the final podium position going to Associated driver Jaime Negron.

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June 10, 2009

Hereford Micro Open – Announcement

The Hereford Micro Open is back for 2009 and will be held on Sunday 16th August at the clubs usual Bridge Street Sports Centre venue in Leominster, Herefordshire (HR6 8EA). The micro race of 2007/2008 and a good warm-up for the BRCA Micro Nationals series, the Hereford micro open has just got better and better, with last years track probably being the best the UK micro racers have ever seen. Always a large and very strong entry list so get your entries in early and book yourself a place to avoid disappointment. Both the 2WD and 4WD 18th scale micro off-road classes are supported running to the 2009 BRCA rules. Trophies will be presented for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each final, plus concourse and the team event. Chairs and mains power is available but you’ll need to bring along a table. For more information visit the event site here.