The Reedy Truck Race of Champions is finished and it was a close race in the Electric mod truck class with Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri tied for points after the 3 finals so the title had to be decided by shortest overall times, and so Tebo won, in a repeat of the 1-2 at the recent US 4wd buggy Nats.
In the Gas truck class it was Ryan Mayfield who won ahead of the ever present Tebo.
You can view more pics here.
Image: RCCA [radiocontrolzone.com]
This weekend saw the 2nd running of the RB Meeting race, organised by the local importer RB Italia, at the Pista di Capua in Italy. All racers had to run with RB motors and as expected, French racer, RB employee and European Champion Yannick Aigoin took the victory ahead of Samuele Lenzi with fellow Italian Gerardo De Lucia in 3rd.
Source: ModellismoRC [modellismorc.net]
After qualifying it was Team Associated drivers Ryan Cavalieri and Ryan Maifield that top qualify the Factory Modified and Factory Gas Truck classes. California is 9 hours behind us so their race day has just begun, so most likely we will be able to give you the final results of the race Monday morning.
In the meantime you can check out pics of the latest prototype of the Losi XXXT-CR truck of team racer Amezcua… content
The 2006 Reedy Truck Race of Champions takes place this weekend at the Hot Rod Hobbies facility in California. This prestigous event attracts top level competition from around the US and beyond. After 2 rounds of qualifying it was Ryan Maifield who was TQ with his Associated GT2.
We will bring you more on this event as we get it. In the mean time you can check out more images after the jump… content
This weekend sees the Kyosho Masters event being held in Japan. This off road event, which is being covered by Neo-Buggy, has attracted all the top Kyosho drivers from around the world.
World Champ Mark Pavidis is there along with Miguel Matias, Reckward, Thern, Peris, Kawamoto, Kanai, John Agus and young German Philipp Guschl.
Results after practice sees Miguel Matias on top followed by Daniel Reckward with Atsushi Kawamoto in third. You can view the top 10 results sheet here.
Check out Neo-Buggy here for the full picture set.
Neo-Buggy reports that Ian Haley took another convincing TQ and win at the Telstra WRC Rally RC event. But more importantly this event was held during the World Rally event and attracted former RC racer and WRC World Champion Petter Solberg, who joined in, along with top WRC young gun Dani Sordo. The picture above has nothing to do with either driver but its better to look at the Miss WRC girls than a middle aged Norwegian and a young Spaniard.
Solberg drove CEN driver Paul Cornwall’s car for a while; who with Haley ended up on the podium with the Miss WRC girls!! Petter Solberg was himself at the age of 13 a keen RC Racer; back in the day he won his fair share of events in Norway, before moving onto bigger and faster cars….;)
You can see a picture of Petter Solberg with Paul Cornwall after the jump… content
 
At the recent iHobby Expo in Chicago, the boys over at 4wdrc.com made the next instalment in their ongoing podcast series. This time the podcast contains an interesting interview with top US off roader, and Horizon Hobbies employee, Adam Drake. If you have 12 minutes of your life to spare, you can have a listen and get an insight into Adam himself as well as the new products released at the event by Horizon, including the new 1/36th scale Micro-T that we covered previously.
Listen to the podcast here (WMV).
Source: 4wdrc.com [4wdrc.com]
Image: Steel City Hobbies [steelcityhobbies.com]
You can view the Video with this link
I wanted to report on this earlier but decided i should leave it for a quieter day. Well that day has come. This video is a TV advertisement from the guys at the RC Pro Series over in the US. It will be shown on Regional TV and it promotes the upcoming Nitro Off Road finals that are being held at the Rockford Metro Arena in Illinois on November 6th – 12th (altough the video says 9th to 11th?).
The TV ads start on October 23rd on WIFR 23 on the Morning Show, during the Letterman Show and during According to Jim. WIFR will be doing a Monster Truck giveaway from Losi as well as tickets to the event. Myself and one of the Team Losi guys will be on the Morning Show monday November 6th to talk about the event and show off some cars.
This is one well promoted event as they also have a radio advertising campaign in place, leading up to event.
Check out the RC Pro Series website for more info.
