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June 26, 2012

Aigoin takes title as Sartel wins Rd4 in France

Round 4 of the French 1/8th scale Nationals took place at the weekend in Noeux Les Mines in the north of the country. Qualifying would go the way of Kyosho/Novarossi driver Jerome Aigoin with Agama driver Jerome Sartel in 2nd followed by Renaud Savoya and Yannick Aigoin. The top qualifier would also win his semi to take pole position to line up ahead of Jonathan Bacro, Jerome Sartel and JP Sartel. The 45 minute A-main would be won by Agama/Bullitt driver Sartel with an 8 second advantage over Jerome Aigoin in 2nd with Renaud Savoya bringing his RB powered Xray to 3rd spot. The runner up spot in this round would be enough to give Jerome Aigoin the 2012 French National title.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

June 25, 2012

Ty Tessmann is double ROAR National Champion

The 2012 ROAR 1:8 Fuel Nationals have wrapped up today and is one that will be remembered forever in r/c history. The truggy final started with Ty Tessman on the pole after his commanding performance of leading his semi from start to finish, also with the fastest time. TQ in qualifying, Jared Tebo didn’t show his dominant form as he did in the previous days but was still able to start second on the grid in the main.

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June 24, 2012

Tebo & Maifield ROAR Nats top qualifiers

Saturday at the 2012 ROAR Nationals kicked off with slightly cooler weather out at LCRC in Pennsylvania for the final day of qualifying. Maifield and Tebo swept the first day of qualifying in buggy and truggy respectively. The best 2 of 4 rounds of qualifying points count so the TQ was still up for grabs in each class.

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June 24, 2012

Matt Chambers wins Colorado Nitro Series Rd2

TLR/Orion/JConcepts driver Matt Chambers made the drive with TLR teammate Clayton Easley to the famous DirtWorks R/C track, better known to the locals simply as “Burlington” for round 2 Colorado Nitro Series. A massive 1/8th track with huge jumps, tons of elevation change, and a flowing racing line. Matt took his new Orion CRF .21 powered TLR 8ight 2.0 to the TQ spot in all three rounds and went on to win the 30 minute A- main by a huge margin. Thanks goes out to Bill Parson owner of DirtWorks R/C for putting on a flawless event. In July the series moves to Denver’s RAT Raceway for round 3.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

June 23, 2012

Tebo & Maifield lead qualifying at ROAR Nats

The first two rounds of qualifying for the 2012 ROAR 1/8th gas offroad National Championships kicked off on Friday at Lost Creek RC in Oakland Mills, Pennsylvania. Due to an East Coast heatwave the weather has been scorching hot and extremely humid. First impressions of the track had a lot of participants in awe. There are lots of elevation changes, huge jumps, downhill whoops section, high-speed banking turn, and a duo of front and back straightaways. The surface grooved up quite a bit but a high amount of dust steals away what traction may appear to be there.

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June 21, 2012

Chris Cristo wins Race For A Cure in Goshen

Last weekend Pin Stop Hobbies presented the Race For A Cure at the Goshen Connecticut Fairgrounds. The race was held in the center of the fairgrounds during the Goshen Stampede, which is a large fair with a rodeo, demolition derby, truck pulling, carnival rides and concerts; more than 10,000 people attended during the three days. The R/C track was built in a grassy area in the middle of everything, with dirt jumps and grass on the level parts of the track, so the fair attendees were constantly watching R/C action. X Factory Team driver Chris Cristo TQ’d and won 1/10 Stadium Truck with his X-60. Cristo took three of the four qualifiers and won the first two A Mains to sew up the title.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

June 18, 2012

Papanikolaou double at the 2012 ElectroChamps

The second edition of the annual ElectroChamps electric off road race is now history and was another success with almost 60 cars attending this year’s two-day event held last weekend in Athens. For this year although there were no International drivers participating the event which was hosted in a brand new dirt track especially built for the race. On Saturday (2wd day) both buggies and Short Course were racing in three different heats. In open buggy class it was Kyosho driver John Papanikolaou that dominated the event becoming the first ever Greek ElectroChampion. Second was the Greek 2wd Champion Nicolas Floudas with his well prepared TLR22 and third was Jim Amaxas being the best mid motor 2wd buggy of the day with his C4.1.

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June 13, 2012

Marcel Guske moves to TLR Germany

Horizon Hobby Germany have announced that they have signed star of last year’s Euros in Germany, Marcel Guske away from Mugen and the RMV team to race for TLR. Along with signing Marcel they have also lured away young Burak Kilic, and his father Abduallah, who we featured last week when a video documentary was made about them. Both drivers wanted to thank Mugen Seiki and RMV for their support in the last years and a special thanks was directed to Mathias Reckward for his professional support and a great cooperation.

Source: Horizon Hobby [horizonhobby.de]