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May 26, 2008

Todd & Baird win Rd1 Irish Off-Road Nats

Todd & Baird win Rd1 Irish Buggy Nats

Round 1 of the 2008 Irish 1:8 Off Road National Championship kicked off over the weekend with the Nitro Navan Nuts club hosting Round 1 of the 4 round series on their astroturf surface track in county Meath. Attracting a large entry of top drivers from North and South of the country it was Michael Todd that laid down the marker for this year’s title battle as he took his KSR Racing prepared Losi to victory in the 45-minute A Final. Securing the TQ position Todd took his Novarossi powered Eight to a convincing 2 lap winning margin over Hobao driver Mark Harron who was followed home closely by the Xray of Barkley Abernethy. Defending Champion Darren Hill took sixth having had to work his way up from the B Final but the Kyosho driver will be hoping for a better performance in Round 2 which will run on his local Galway track. In the Truggy class it was youngster Bradley Baird driving a Hot Bodies Lightning that took top honour from Top Qualifier Christopher McCauley with Frank McGoey completing the podium.

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May 25, 2008

Y. Aigoin wins French 1/8th TT Nats Rd3

The 3rd round of the French 1/8th scale buggy Nationals was held this weekend at the Montceau track, in the East of the country. Qualifying went the way of Team Losi driver Yannick Aigoin, who placed his 8ight on pole position for semi final A, while Mugen racer Renaud Savoya was 2nd quickest and would start on pole for semi final B. The main final saw the order stay the same as Yannick was able to take the win, completing a dominant event, while 2nd spot went to Savoya and the final podium spot to Kyosho driver Jerome Aigoin.

Source: RC Mag [rcmag.com]

May 25, 2008

Riccardo Rabitti takes Italian Nats Rd2

The 2nd round of the Italian 1/8th scale buggy Nationals has taken place this weekend at the Blue Rabbits track in Empoli. Qualifying for Sunday’s race saw Losi racer Riccardo Rabitti take the pole position ahead of round 1 winner, Crono racer Davide Tortorici in 2nd and Fabio Boero, driving a Mugen in 3rd. Sunday’s F1 class final saw little change at the front with Rabitti taking the win from Boero in 2nd, who managed to get passed Tortorici who ended the race in 3rd. In the F2 category it was a win for Mugen driver Eugenio Berti, while Alessandro Stocco took the runner up spot for Losi and Helmuth Aufderklamm rounding out the top 3, again for Mugen.

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May 24, 2008

JConcepts J82 Challenge – Announcement

JConcepts J82 Challenge - Announcement

The JConcepts J82 Challenge will take place as an exhibition class at the ROAR Offroad Electric Nats at Hot Rod Hobbies in California this summer. If you think you can really wheel an RC Car, JConcepts wants you to win big, J82 big! You could win the big prize! Drivers are invited to enter the J82 class at the Nationals, August 13-17, 2008, to compete in the exhibition 1/8th Electric 2wd class, the winner will receive an American Express gift card courtesy of JConcepts.

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May 23, 2008

Fabrizio Teghesi joins Kyosho

Kyosho Germany have confirmed that front running Italian buggy racer Fabrizio Teghesi has joined their team to race the Japanese company’s buggy and truggy. Starting his racing career with buggies in 2000, the Italian racer was runner up in the National Championships last year, racing for Crono, and will this year compete for Kyosho at both National and International level, including the World Championships in the USA.

Source: Kyosho [kyosho.de]

May 23, 2008

RB International Cup 08 – Announcement

RB International Cup 08 - Announcement

RB have announced the full details on their first RB International Cup that takes place at the end of August on the Torres Vedras track in Portugal.

It’s an opportunity to meet some of you guys and to share a wonderful moment together near Santa Cruz Beach. We’re looking forward you celebrating this race in Torres Vedras 30 minutes far from the Lisboa International Airport. The race take place in August 29th, 30th and 31th and the track will be open all the week! Many infos will be added in this page in the future. We hope to see many of you during this international event!

Full details of the event can be found here.

Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]

May 22, 2008

Zac Ryan joins Hong Nor

Hong Nor is proud to announce the signing of Zac Ryan to the Hong Nor Racing Team in Australia. Zac will partner Martin Wolhuter and Justin Milan at the Queensland Championships next month were he will be driving the new X1X Team buggy with the popular 16mm shocks. Zac has done very well in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa where he was runner up at the recent South African Championships.

Source: Hong Nor [hongnor.com.tw]

May 22, 2008

Hickersen wins RC Pro East Series Rd2

We received a report from Gene Hickersen on round 2 of the RC Pro East Series that was held at Sumter, South Carolina last weekend. There was a light turnout of 110 entries due to several other big races the same weekend on the East coast, but the track was challenging as the best from the East battled for the Division Championship. It was perfect weather with 85′ F temps. The track was watered before each round, but got very dusty and bumpy as the weekend went on.

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