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August 22, 2008

Kinwald extends X-Factory agreement

X-Factory have announced that 2-Time World Champion Brian Kinwald has agreed to extend his agreement with the company through the end of 2009. Kinwald, who has won more than 30 U.S. National Championships, has been instrumental in the design of X Factory’s upcoming X-60 conversion for the AE T4. From his home in Tucson, Arizona, Kinwald said:

Working with Paul Sinclair on the new truck conversion has been one of the most satisfying projects of my R/C life. Paul has lots of great ideas and we talk frequently to make our ideas work together.. He puts our concepts into Solids and sends me the drawing, then we talk about it, make changes, and Paul sends a new one. I can see my input going directly into the design as it takes shape, something that’s never happened before. I’m just so happy here at X Factory.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

August 20, 2008

Cavalieri wins ROAR Mod 2wd & Truck

Team Orion are reporting on their success at last weeks ROAR electric buggy nationals held at Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, California. Throughout qualifying defending Champion Ryan Cavalieri proved he was the man to beat by TQ’ing all three of the modified classes. In the Modified Truck Class Cavalieri went on to take full advantage of his TQ position by checking out on the field in the first two A-Mains giving him his 1st National Title of the weekend. In the 2wd Modified Class Cavalieri won leg 1 by 6 seconds but a mistake in leg 2 meant he had it all to do in leg 3. At the tone Cavalieri started out with a fast pace pulling out a small lead on the field and making no mistakes, to take the leg win and overall title. In the 4wd Modified Class RC ended up finishing a very respectable second overall behind Ryain Maifield, having won A-main 1, then ended up finishing a very close second place to team mate Maifield in the last two A-mains.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

August 20, 2008

Ilya Schupik wins at Russian Nats

We have a brief report from the Russian National Championships that were held in Moscow at the RC2 off road track last weekend. HongNor team driver Ilya Schupik driving the X2-CRT took home the victory by 2 laps ahead of Mugen racer Alexandr Stolnikov in 2nd and Associated racer Anton Shegolev in 3rd.

Source: Hong Nor [hongnor.com.tw]

August 20, 2008

Phend dominates ROAR Super Stock class

Phend dominated ROAR Nats Stock class

Team Losi were in touch to tell us that 11 year-old Dakotah “The Phenom” Phend used his Team Losi Racing XXX-CR 2WD buggy, XXX-TCR stadium truck and XXX-4 4WD buggy to dominate all three Super Stock 10.5T classes at the ROAR Nationals held last week at Hot Rod Hobbies in Santa Clarita, California. Guided by his ultra-reliable Spektrum DX3R radio and powered with Losi Li-Po batteries and chargers, Dakotah was Top Qualifier and A-Main Champion of 2WD Super Stock Buggy, Super Stock Truck and 4WD Super Stock.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

August 19, 2008

Adam Drake dominates SoCal SS Rd5

The 5th round of the SoCal Nitro series was held last week at the Hemet R/C track and it was Adam Drake who was the man to beat in the Pro classes. In the buggy class the Losi driver beat off competition from Levi Jackson racing a Kyosho in 2nd, while 3rd spot went to Kyle Hunter racing an 8ight. In the truck class it was the Drake again that took the win, once more from Levi Jackson, with Losi racer Kyle Johnson ending in 3rd. Johnson also gained a 2nd spot in the Expert buggy class, that was won by his Losi team mate Don Vinklemulder. The final round of the series will take place at Thunder Alley R/C on September 6th.

August 18, 2008

Daniel Reckward wins German Nats Rd1

Last weekend saw the first round of the German National Championships for 1/8th scale buggies held on the multi surface Oberhausen track. Weather was great all weekend and it was the debut race for the RT Tourex X300 tires with 8 racers using them in the main final. At the end of the 40 minutes it was Daniel Reckward that took the win for Kyosho, followed closely by team mate Tim Bremicker in 2nd with LRP driver Patrick Feschtschenko in 3rd, 2 laps down on the leading pair.

Source: RMV [rmv-deutschland.de]

August 15, 2008

Harron wins Rd3 of Irish Buggy Nats

Podium at Irish Buggy National Rd3

The third and penultimate round of the Irish 1:8 Buggy National Championship took place at the Banbridge and District Model Car Club’s Aghalee track in Northern Ireland last weekend where Mark Harron became the third different winner of the season. Heavy showers mixed with sunny spells made for ever changing track conditions but making the most of the four qualifiers was the Hobao of Mark Harron who secured the TQ from the Xray of Barkley Abernethy.

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August 11, 2008

Robert Raphael wins Belgian Nats Rd4

We received a brief report from the 4th round of the 1/8th scale Belgian off road national Championships that was run last weekend at the TT-Fays track. Ishima Racing team driver Robert Raphael took Pole position, as well as recording the fastest lap, on his way to the win. Robert was using the new Ishima Rave, together with Picco motors and Medial Pro tyres, and won from Mugen racer Cédric Nickel in 2nd and Jeremy Hanotiaux, racing an RC8, in 3rd.