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December 27, 2011

Meyir Azulay wins Israeli League Rd3

This past weekend saw the 3rd round of the Israeli League for nitro 1/8 scale buggies held at Top-Drive racing club near Tel Aviv. Yaniv Sivan TQ’d the field with his Kyosho MP9 WC, however a problem with his car caused him to lose the lead and a few places. Race day was full of failures to everyone which caused strong drivers to find themselves in the B final. Some say that the B final was more challenging then the A due to a close race between Yaniv Sivan (TQ) and young talented driver Or Levy that did not give up and despite the close battle won the heat. In the A main it was Meyir Azulay that took the win with his Xray ahead of the Mugen pairing of Itai Atedgi and Dan Pric in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

View the B Final podium here

December 23, 2011

Adam Drake clean sweep at DNC Europe

The first ever “Dirt Nitro Challenge” in Europe was held last weekend at the amazing IBR Padova Indoor R/C Track. The race attracted around 100 drivers including some of the best European drivers such as Robert Batlle, Reno Savoya, Elliott Boots, Darren Bloomfield and USA’s Adam Drake. The total number of drivers was about 100. Novarossi was the main sponsor of the event and their drivers collected most of the awards. In truggy class it was Adam Drake who took the win in his Novarossi powered TLR 8ight T 2.0 followed by Reno Savoya in second and Walter Floris in third also running a TLR 8ight T 2.0.

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December 22, 2011

SWorkz France signs Edouard Hugon

SWorkz France have announced that Edouard Hugon has joined the SWorkz European Team. Hugon is well known in the European R/C scene will use the SWorkz S350 BK1 2012 for the new season and will be attending most of the major events throughout the year.

Source: S-Workz [sworkz.com]

December 21, 2011

Henrique Winik joins Novarossi team

Novarossi Italy have announced that South American Truggy Champion Henrique Winik has joined their factory team. The Brazilian, who won the FAMAR title which in Chile back in October, will run the full range of Italian made engines and pipes during the 2012 season.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.com]

December 21, 2011

Matt Wolter wins Toys for Joy event

SDRC Raceway in San Diego hosted their 1st Annual Toys for Joy event recently. In addition to helping out needy children in a big way, it was also a great race event. In the highly competitive 1/8th Electric class Tekno RC once again finished on top. Matt Wolter drove his Tekno equipped RC8.2 to 1st place, while in 2nd was class TQ Thomas Jones running a fully Tekno equipped buggy. The final podium spot went to Tekno RC owner Daniel Lewis also running a Tekno equipped buggy. Tekno drivers Ryan Hughes and Zac Burnside took 4th and 5th. A great race for a great cause with great results.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]

December 19, 2011

Cavalieri & King win at KO Offroad Champs

The 2011 KO Off-Road Championships were held December last weekend at West Coast R/C Raceway in La Mirada, CA. This years event brought in over 180 entries, which included 5 IFMAR World Champions, Ryan Cavalieri, Jared Tebo, Cody King, Brian Kinwald and Hayato Matsuzaki. The race program would run 3 rounds of qualifying on Saturday taking each drivers single fastest run to determine the overall qualifying order. Then the top 8 drivers would go straight into the A-Main, with 2 car bump-ups from the lower mains to make a full 10 car field. Triple A-Mains were ran to decide the Champion in each class.

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December 17, 2011

2012 Dirt Nitro Challenge – Announcement

The organisers the 2012 Dirt Nitro Challenge in Arizona were in touch to tell us about this great event which will be run from the 22nd to the 26th of the February. Being held at the Fear Farm RC Raceway in Phoenix, AZ, the event attracts the best offroad drivers in the World and this year will be no exception. This event is open to both gas & electric 1.8th buggy as well as truggy, short course and 1/5th buggy/truck, with the latter running on a separate track. The event starting on Wednesday the 22nd of February for practice and runs through to Sunday the 26th for the buggy mains. For more information on the event and details on how to enter you can view the event flyer here.

December 16, 2011

Maifield & Neumann dominate JConcepts Clash

The JConcepts Clash held its 5th annual event in Coral Springs, FL last weekend. Since 2007 The Clash has brought a one of a kind event to Florida that produces an experience like none other for competitors and manufacturers alike. For the 2011 edition, drivers were greeted by an amazing track surface on Thursday’s practice session which produced the fastest lap-times down into the sub 23 second lap range. The race was dominated by two drivers Ryan Maifield and Joern Neumann who took 3 and 2 class wins respectively.

Read the full report here.