August 23, 2011

Drake heads home Losi Top 5 at Summer Sizzle

Drake heads home Losi Top 5 at Summer Sizzle

This past weekend ARC Raceway held their Summer Sizzle race which attracted over 100 entries including some of So Cal’s best drivers. Adam Drake, Richard Saxton, Josh Alton, Matt Castellano, Drew Moller, Ronda Drake and Matt Schreffler were in attendance. TLR / Novarossi driver Adam Drake TQ’d both rounds of qualifying, while second on the grid was TLR teammate Matt Castellano. The start of the final was action packed with many lead changes. At one point Drake and Castellano were shuffled as far back as fifth or sixth. About the seven minute mark Drake resumed the lead for the final time and didn’t look back.  Drake went on to win the 30 minute final by almost one lap followed by TLR teammates Castellano, Schreffler, Moller, and Ballow.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

August 22, 2011

Matt Chambers wins Colorado State Nitro Champs

Matt Chambers wins Colorado State Nitro Champs

TLR drivers Matt Chambers and Lars Johnson attended the 8th annual Colorado State Nitro Championships at RAT Raceway in Denver, CO.  Both Lars and Matt competed in the Expert 1/8 Nitro buggy division and qualified 2nd and 3rd respectively.  In the main event both Lars and Matt ran into trouble early on but battled back.  Matt took the lead around the 30 minute mark and never looked back; taking the win and his 3rd 1/8th buggy state championship.  Lars ran into an issue with a tire coming unglued early in the race but was able to take the final spot on the podium for the Expert Buggy Division. Two TLR privateers, Chris Aretakis and Sam Ford, also had a great weekend with their TLR vehicles.  Chris took the win in the Open Truggy A-main and Sam took the TQ and win in the Open Electric buggy A-main.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

August 19, 2011

Dmitry Malyshko wins 4WD buggy @ Russian Cup Series RD4

RussianOffRoadCupRd4

Dmitry Malyshko has won the 4th round of the Russian EP Off-Road Cup series. The Race was held in Tula on the Hobby-Cents track with around 30 percent Astroturf and 70 percent dirt surface. After taking TQ after the qualification, Dmitry swept the A finals and won in front of Gennady Ereveev and Stepan Leshenko.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

August 18, 2011

Reds Racing R5T buggy engine

Reds Racing R5

During the European 1/8 scale Buggy Championships in Germany, Marco Rossi showed us the latest Reds Racing buggy engine, the R5T. Tuned by M. Rossi, the completely new designed long stroke 5-port motor features a new exhaust port with a booster function for increased acceleration, a new port design for better fuel economy, a new CNC-machined piston and an updated 14mm balanced crankshaft.  Other features include ultra-high-quality Swiss ball bearings, a new composite slide carburetor and a cooled combustion chamber. Also new is a lightweight crankcase and cooling head with updated head design for a lower centre of gravity. The R5T will substitute the older XR line and becomes available starting from October 2011.

View more engine images here

August 18, 2011

Wischnewski tops first controlled practice

Wischnewski tops first controlled practice

Continuing his free practice pace Dirk Wischnewski has topped the first round of controlled practice this morning at the 200mm European Championships in Ettlingen, Germany.  The Xray driver set the pace over 7-minutes from Mugen’s Robert Pietsch with Italian teenager Biagio Spataro 3rd.

View our event coverage here.

August 16, 2011

Martin Sørlie does double at Norwegian Nats

Martin Sørlie does double at Norwegian Nats

Last weekend saw the Norwegian Championships in 2wd and 4wd buggy held in IMSK-RC’s fabulous track in Torbustaden, Levanger. 2wd was held on Saturday, with sunny weather and perfect conditions for the 32 drivers in attendance. The track consists of high grip astro turf, with both fast sweeping sections and more tight technical turns, and making an error free run would not be easy. In the qualifiers, Andreas Daving showed great pace with his AE B4, and managed a brilliant TQ-time, 2nd qualifier was local hero Roy Gjemble running impressively fast with a rear motored TLR 22, and 3rd was Martin Sørlie running the usually more astro friendly mid-motored TLR 22.

Continue reading the report here

August 15, 2011

Ari Heinonen dominates Rd2 in Finland

Ari Heinonen dominates Rd2 in Finland

JQ Products got in touch to tell us that team driver Ari Heinonen has TQed and won the second round of the 4 round Finnish National Championship series, ahead of Mugen drivers Simo Ahoniemi and Jarno Siltanen, who have come on strong this year. With this win Ari kept his hopes of winning his 4th Finnish National title alive. The last 2 races will be held in 2 weeks, during the same week end. This win also marked the first victory for THE Engine, which has shipped last week to distributors worldwide.

Source: JQ [jq-products.com]

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