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May 31, 2011

Honigl & Adachi wins Greek ElectroChamps

The first ever electric off road ElectroChamps race took place on last weekend in Athens, Greece with quest drivers Hupo Honigl and Shin Adachi giving great battles all weekend. The typical sunny Greek weather was the perfect background for this International show race with top Greek drivers attending. In the 2wd class, former European champion Hupo Honigl took his prototype Team Durango DEX210 to pole position and after winning two out of three seven minute finals he won the overall ahead of Team Kyosho’s factory driver Shin Adashi in second. Third place and best Greek driver was John Papanikolaou with a Kysoho RB5 SP2. In 4wd it was Shin’s time to shine. Starting from second behind Hupo, he won 2 out of the three final rounds and took his Kyosho Lazer ZX5 FS2 to first place in the event. Second place went to Hupo Honigl with his Team Durango DEX410 and third was Dimitris Tsigkos driving a HPI Cyber10.

View the 4wd podium here

May 30, 2011

Jamie Grayek does double at The Big One

This past weekend LCRC in Oakland Mills PA held their Memorial Day weekend race called ‘The Big One’. Despite it raining on and off all week the track held up great and ended up being a nice Blue Groove for the huge crowd of racers with 90 degree and sunny weather all weekend. With 3 rounds of qualifying on Saturday and a 4th round on Sunday there was a lot of track time for all. Sunday afternoon saw the mains and it was JConcepts driver Jamie Grayek who was able to take the 1:8 Buggy and Truggy class victory. With stiff competition from Associated driver Mike Gay and Losi’s Anthony Mazzara, Jamie’s JConcepts Sevens on his Truggy and Subcultures on his Buggy helped carry him to victory.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

May 29, 2011

Yannick Aigoin wins Rd3 in France

Round 3 of the French 1/8th buggy nationals was held this weekend in Cogolin in the south of the country close to Marseille. Qualification was headed by Losi/nVision driver Yannick Aigoin with his brother, Kyosho/Novarossi driver Jerome Aigoin in 2nd and US based Renaud Savoya with his RB powered Durango in 3rd. Nicolas Reynaud and Jerome Sartel completed the top 5. In the semi finals it was Jerome Aigoin that won Semi B to take pole position for the final with Savoya winning semi B to line up on 2nd spot ahead of 3rd place starter Yannick Aigoin. The 45 minute final ended in Yannick taking the win by over 2 laps from his brother Jerome in 2nd, who was locked in a close battle with Savoya in 3rd, the pair ending just over a second apart.

Image: TLR [tlracing.com]

May 29, 2011

Race for a Cure – Announcement

The organisers of the second annual ‘Race for a Cure’ got in touch to tell us about this year’s event that runs from the 17th-19th of June at the Goshen Fairgrounds in Goshen CT. It is a wonderful event combining a good old fashioned New England Country Fair along with an exhilarating RC offroad race. Several popular classes are being run including nitro buggy & truggy as well as 1/8th scale electric and various short course classes. This is a real must-do event and best of all it helps raise money for the American Cancer Society and have fun at the same time. More information can be found here (PDF).

May 28, 2011

Pro-Line’s new ‘Dirt’ track

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdNgn-YzUyY[/youtube]

Pro-Line Racing have published a video showing their new 1/8th offroad and Short Course track at their premises in Beaumont, California. Designed and built by superstar track builder Joey ‘The Dirt’ Christensen, it incorporates two layouts, a smaller infield section for Short Course, while the 1/8th scale cars take in the outside perimeter which is bigger and features larger jumps. Aside from Pro-Line using it to help develop their future products, we can also expect some races to be held on this track in the near future so we will let you know when that happens.

May 27, 2011

Xray sign Ales Bayer

Xray have announced the signing of top Czech driver and multiple junior national champion Ales Bayer to their team. The former Losi driver, and brother of European finalist Martin Bayer, Ales will run his XB808 buggy and XT8 truggy at all upcoming National and International events.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 27, 2011

RC Hill-Climbing World Games – Announcement

The organisers of the RC Hill-Climbing World Games in Faistenau/Austria on June 11th got in touch to tell us about this fun event. Every kind of RC-car can compete, it doesn’t matter which scale or whether its electric or nitro, you just have to try to get to the top of the hill. Each run will be judged by the highest height as well as action & style, which will be voted for by 3 judges. Deadline for entry will be on Wednesday June 8th 2011 and you can find out more information here.

May 26, 2011

TLR Super Cup 2011 – Announcement

Eden Park Raceway will be hosting a two-day meeting on 25-26 June at their famous multi-surface racetrack in Beckenham, Kent. Although the organisers aim to attract top drivers from around Europe, it is hoped that the TLR Super Cup in association with Spektrum and Electrix will appeal to local drivers as well. The format sees a change to the norm with racing on both days for each class. On Saturday there will be two practices and three qualifiers, with a short practice, two qualifiers and multi-leg finals on Sunday. Qualifying will use the FTD format and there will be three legs for the A finals in 2WD, 4WD and Short Course with two legs for the other finals. Awards will be presented to the podium finishers in 2WD, 4WD and SC as well as the top three in U14 and U19 classes. There will also be a concourse competition prize kindly donated by RudeBits. Full information can be found here.