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April 2, 2011

Cavalieri Top Qualifier in EOS 2WD Buggy

Team Associated have taken the honour of being the first manufacturer to TQ a Euro Offroad Series race after Ryan Cavalieri produced a clean sweep of fastest runs on Day 2 of the Pilot event in Tomelilla, Sweden. The American outpaced yesterday’s Q1 top qualifier Dustin Evans in all four of today’s rounds of heats with European Champion Lee Martin third on each occasion and this is how they will line up for tomorrow’s A-Main.

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April 1, 2011

Americans dominate first ever EOS qualifier

The Euro Offroad Series’ first ever round of qualifying has been dominated by American drivers with Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri topping 4WD in both buggy & Short Course truck while Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans reigned over 2WD.

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April 1, 2011

Durango dominate Russian Indoor Nationals

The Russian National Indoor Championship race took place last weekend in Crocus Expo, Moscow. The indoor carpet track drew more that 150 entries spread over the various classes. Team Durango’s Denis Zuykov dominated the 4WD Buggy Modified class with his DEX410 Spec 2010 taking the TQ and win. Second place in 4WD modified was Dmitry Malyshko, who qualified 3rd position for the final. In 4WD stock the class was dominated by Markin Michael with his new DEX410R, while in the new Expert SC-10 4WD class it was won by Dmitry Malyshko with the new DESC410R, who having started from second place won all finals.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

April 1, 2011

Euro Offroad Series practice update

Practice continues in Sweden at the first ever Euro Offroad Series race with drivers having completed three five minute runs on the indoor clay Tomelilla track. With a racing groove starting to appear drivers have two final opportunities to get their cars dialed-in ahead of the first round of qualifying. While times from the opening three practice don’t count for anything, each driver’s three fastest consecutive laps from P4 or P5 will count towards reseeding the heats.

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March 31, 2011

Travis Amezcua re-signs with Reedy/LRP

World-class driver Travis Amezcua has chosen to re-sign with Reedy and LRP for the remainder of 2011. Already a multiple race winner with Reedy/LRP power, Travis will continue as not only a factory team driver but remain instrumental in the testing and development of new products. Travis had the following to say regarding his recent signing:

I’m excited to re-sign with Reedy and LRP for the 2011 season. With this proven combo powering my 2WD, 4WD, and 1:8 buggies, and my 2WD SC, I’ll definitely enjoy a competitive advantage.

Source: Reedy [rc10.com]

March 29, 2011

KBRL Nitro Series champions crowned

The KBRL nitro series made its final stop at the Fear Farm rc facility in Glendale AZ. Racers from all over the state did battle through 8 championship rounds of racing at various tracks around the state. Team Losi Racing vehicles stood atop all classes available including expert buggy, intermediate buggy, Intermediate Truggy and electric buggy. In the Intermediate Buggy class it was Brandon Akiyama who shut down the class with a hot streak of 4 straight wins in the last 4 races to secure the overall win. Brandon picks the 8 2.0 buggy as his race weapon of choice along with Dennis Munteen who finished 2nd with his 2.0 as well.

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March 28, 2011

Ginting & Andriadi win Rd2 in Indonesia

The 2nd round of the Indonesian 1/8th scale National championship and 1/10th scale Jakarta GP series Rd2 was compressed into one day on the newly surface Jakarta International Twin Circuit. Following the new asphalt, the track had awesome grip with the best lap going to be 1 second lower than the times with the previous track surface. In 1/8 qualifying, it was Bowie Ginting with his brand new Xray RX8 in TQ spot, followed by Sadikin Sutrisno also with Xray RX8 2 seconds behind. Toni Kundjung placed his Mugen MRX5 in 3rd spot, 0.4 seconds behind Sadikin. Ricardo Carnadi (Mugen) and Sani Nugroho (Kyosho) completed the top 5.

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March 27, 2011

Jerome Aigoin takes wet French season opener

The opening round of the French 1/8th scale offroad Nationals took place this weekend at the Pierrefeu track in the south east of France, close to Nice. Qualifying saw Losi/nVision driver Yannick Aigoin take the top spot ahead of his brother Kyosho/Novarossi driver Jerome Aigoin with Spanish Mugen/Novarossi driver Robert Batlle taking third on his guest appearance in the National Championship. Hobbytech’s Nicolas Rodriguez and Agama driver Jerome Sartel completed the top 5. Unfortunately Sunday’s finals were heavily affected by rain, with the organisers deciding to stop the race after the semi finals due to too much water on the track but not before we lost Yannick Aigoin, Jerome Sartel and Renaud Savoya. This decision gifted the win to Jerome Aigoin, with Robert Batlle taking 2nd and Nicolas Vouilloz taking 3rd.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]