Italian engine company Novarossi has announced the signing of Austrian Hupo Honigl to their factory team. The multiple European offroad Champion will run the engines in his Durango DNX408 and 408T cars having previously used LRP engines. Expect to see Hupo running his new Novarossi power plants at numerous major events throughout the year.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
This past weekend was the First Annual LFR race at Space Coast R/C in Cocoa Beach, FL and Billy Easton provided this report. ‘The facility is the largest Indoor track in the state of Florida. They use Red Clay and prep it with grape soda and sugar. The traction is pretty intense and the layouts are always a blast. Angel and his crew did a great job keeping the track up and the race program going. There were around 200 Entries for the event and 21 or so heats. It was a typical IFMAR qualification format with 2 quals and a single A-Main. There were a fair amount of sponsored drivers in attendance, Paul Wynn, Ryan Eckert, Daimon Borkowicz, Jeremy Harris, Jadar Lopez and a few others. This track has been the home of a lot of the testing and development of the Serpent SRX-2. I have several race days at this track to develop the car for durability and also performance. This was the largest race I have entered thus far.
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The track at Liege, Belgium, is well known for its great clay surface, giant size, and awesome layouts, and the MRCL club did not disappoint for this year’s edition of the annual GP last weekend. The day started out chilly, then warmed up with just one brief shower mid-way through the program to hold down the dust. X-Factory team driver Bruno ‘Elvo’ Heremans was there bright and early with his brand new X-6 Cubed prototype for some early practice and it paid off. Elvo TQ’d every round of qualifying and ran away with all three legs of the A Main, setting fastest lap in every race. Martin Vierin took second with an X-6 Squared.
Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]
The first oOple race of the summer took place at the Stotfold venue recently. The Schumacher Team were there in force and dominated the final results. The new series puts the emphasis on fun racing and there were plenty of happy faces in the pits. In 4WD Schumacher’s own Tom Cockerill took the win from Nathan Ralls and Ben Jemison with 6 out of 10 A finalists running the Cat K1. In 2WD Tom pushed the Cougar SV2 of Lloyd Storey all the way but it was Lloyd who came out on top from Tom and Nathan again. Cougar SV2’s made up half of the A final.
The 2nd round of the French 1/8th offroad Nationals took place at the weekend in Toulouse in the South of the country. Wet weather hampered qualifying on Saturday allowing only one round to be completed before the organisers put a stop to the track action. Thanks to the club working hard to prepare the track with sawdust they were able to run another round of qualifying on Sunday morning. Following the 2 rounds it was Jerome Aigoin that took the top spot after qualifying with brother Yannick in 2nd, with Jerome Sartel and young Rayan Medjobi in 4th. In the final it would be Agama driver Jerome Sartel that took the win by some 8 seconds from Kyosho driver Jerome Aigoin in 2nd with Associated driver Yannick Aigoin in 3rd, the top 3 covered by less than a lap after 45 minutes racing.
Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]
It was a nice, warm and sunny Summer day in Manila for the Philippine Off-Road Nationals in the E-Buggy Class held at the CV Off-Road Track. The early benchmark in qualifying was posted by Team-C racer Garet Santayana who was almost assured of pole position until a late charge by Team Losi Racing driver Emer Agero who snatched the TQ spot by posting some blistering final laps on his last run. The top 5 on the grid after qualifying were TQ Emer Agero (Losi), 2nd Garet Santayana (Team-C), 3rd Mike Ang (AE), 4th Ish Montilla (AE) and 5th Joseph Salcedo (Xray).
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Last weekend saw the start of the Scottish Off Road Championship hosted by Dunfermline District Radio Car Club. Round 1 of qualifying was a bit of a wet affair with Chris Mitchell setting TQ pace in 2wd and Kenny Clark setting the fastest time in 4wd. The lap times tumbled as the track dried out through the rest of qualifying, the early pacesetter of Chris Mitchell took TQ in 2wd and Kenny Clark managed to secure overall TQ for 4wd. Chris Mitchell the 2wd pole man was unable to convert his early pace in the finals it was the Schumacher SV2 driven by James Collins that took the win of all three legs of the 2wd A finals. For the 4wd finals it was much the same story as with 2wd, polesitter Kenny Clark unable to take the win, it was the Schumacher K1 of Martin Wallace that pipped Kenny by 1 second in leg 1, leg 2 was an even closer run thing between Martin Wallace and Ross Irwin, Martin just managed over the line in front of Ross beating him by 0.23 of a second and taking the overall 4wd win.
Round 3 of the Short Course Showdown made it’s way to Trackside Hobbies located in Brookfield Wisconsin. The new track layout had been down for a week or so. The track was wet and still holding a lot of moisture due to the fact that the outside weather was cold and wet for the last few weeks. On Thursday Drivers started to arrive and get their pit spaces picked out and setting up camp for the weekend.
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