Red RC » R Off Road

February 12, 2012

Neumann dominates at Euro Offroad Series

Joern Neumann completed the perfect result on the opening weekend of the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series taking TQ honours and overall victory in both buggy classes at the Czech Republic event along with success in 4WD Short Course. The pre-event favourite started his day of by lifting the 2WD title with victories in Leg 1 & 3 of the A-Main but went on to make even lighter work of the 4WD Buggy class wrapping up the overall win in the second of the three legs.

View the complete event coverage here.

February 12, 2012

Neumann wins 2WD Buggy at inaugural EOS

Joern Neumann will enter the history books as the winner of the opening round of the inaugural Euro Offroad Series after the German ace won the third leg of the A-Main to secure overall victory in the 2WD Buggy class. Starting from pole position, Neumann led from start to finish ahead of Durango team-mate Hupo Honigl helping the team secure the top two steps on the podium of the TLR/Spektrum backed event with young TLR star Oskar Levin completing the Top 3 in the Czech Republic.

View the complete event coverage here.

February 11, 2012

Neumann pulls off Qualifying double at EOS

Joern Neumann will carry the No.1 starting number on both his buggies in tomorrow’s A-Mains at the Euro Offroad Series opener in the Czech Republic after the German ace completed the double in buggy qualifying. Having secured overall TQ honours in 2WD Buggy from Durango team-mate Hupo Hönigl, the European Champion went on to put in his fastest run of the weekend in the closing heat of the day to be crowned Top Qualifier again from his Austrian team-mate.

View the complete event coverage here.

February 11, 2012

Neumann is EOS 2WD Buggy Top Qualifier

Joern Neumann is the 2WD Buggy Top Qualifier for the opening round of the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series after the German secured his third TQ run of the day in the fifth & final round of qualifying in the Czech Republic. The Team Durango driver went into the last qualifier with only team-mate Hupo Honigl in a position to deny him the No.1 starting position but the Austrian rolled onto his roof on the opening lap bringing a very premature end to that challenge.

View the complete event coverage here.

February 11, 2012

2012 JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals Rd 1

For the 3rd year in a row racers made their way to Smac Trac raceway in St. Louis, MO for the JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals. A record turnout of 371 entries filled the building and the pit area was in a constant buzz of excitement. The amazingly prepped track by Scott McDonald featured the best layout in the short history of the event which produced some extremely close racing and challenged even the best drivers in attendance.

Click here to continue reading

February 11, 2012

Neumann rules opening qualifier

Joern Neumann has TQ’d the first round of qualifying in both buggy classes at the opening race of the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series in the Czech Republic, the German ace outpacing TLR’s Oskar Levin in 2WD and his own Team Durango team-mate Hupo Honigl in 4WD.

View the complete event coverage here.

February 10, 2012

EOS jumps into life in Czech Republic

After months of preparation and planning Scotty Ernst & Uwe Rheinard watched their newest race series jump into life this morning in the Czech Republic as drivers from 13 countries took to the indoor carpet track in Hrotovice for Day 1 of the opening round of the exciting new TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series presented by Horizon Hobby. With six round of practice making up today’s schedule the focus of attention is going to be on the head to head battle between the full factory squads of Team Losi Racing and Team Durango.

View the complete event coverage here.

February 9, 2012

Tom Cockerill dominates Euro Indoor race

This past weekend saw the Euro Indoor Race, held at the superb Black Country Arena facility in Charleroi, which is host to round 2 of the EOS in March. There were 142 drivers from 12 different countries in attendance and the race fell on the debut weekend of the new Schumacher SV2, so Tom Cockerill was in attendance with his new car. With Friday as open practice, 6 rounds of qualifying on the Saturday and 6 leg finals on the Sunday, there was plenty of track time for all drivers.

Continue reading the report here