As the 1:10 electric winter racing season kicks off, the Spektrum Off-Road Challenge, hosted by Trackside Hobbies in Brookfield, WI got things underway with over 300 entries for the three day event. Friday’s schedule had one qualifier with the three remaining rounds of qualifying on Saturday and concluding with main events on Sunday.
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The organisers of the 2011 Arena Offroad meeting in Italy were in touch to announce the next running of the popular indoor event. Back after a break this year to make way for the Worlds in Thailand, it will take place from the 13th to the 16th of October at the Cowboys guest ranch in Voghera close to Milan. The event will once more play host to 1/8th gas buggy and gas truggy along with brushless buggy classes along with the Race of Champions on Saturday night with top drivers from around Europe expected to take part. Expect more details in the coming months.
View our report from the 2009 event here.
Nestled in the heart of Wisconsin, Trackside Hobbies plays host this weekend to the Spektrum Off-Road Challenge. Traveling from sunny Southern California to represent Team Associated is 1:10 electric ace, Ryan Cavalieri. Having ran exclusively 1:8 Buggy for the past few months, culminating with his “A” main finish at the 1:8 World Championship, Cavalieri pulled his Factory Team B4.1 and B44.1 off the shelf and laid down the fastest qualifying time in the first round of qualifying in 2wd and 4wd Modified. Not to be left out, Reedy’s very own Sean Cochran took his Factory Team SC10 to the top spot in the ultra-competitive SCT 17.5 class. With three more qualifiers on Saturday and the main events on Sunday, Cavalieri is off to a good start at what has become one of the largest indoor events in the country with 300+ entries
Source: Associated [rc10.com]
Round 4 of the KBRL Electric series was this past weekend in Tucson, AZ at Hobbytown USA. Team Losi Racing driver Ricky Gaynor was on fire in the 2wd Open Class with his XXX-CR, TQ’ing over the field. In the main Ricky used the TQ position to his advantage and checked out on the field in the 10 minute main with fellow Losi driver Billy Fischer finishing second ahead of Brian Kinwald in 3rd.
Source: Losi [losi.com]
Agama USA has announced that 31 time ROAR National Champion Josh Cyrul has joined their racing team. Josh is world renowned in the on road racing scene and will now be competing in the premier 1/8th nitro class on behalf of Agama USA joining the likes of Gene “The Machine” Hickerson and Levi Jackson in the team.
Source: Agama USA [agamausa.com]
Racing in Southern California is always very competitive and it was no different at last weekends Kyosho Fall Classic hosted by Revelations Raceway. The event had over 120 entries. Adam Drake and newly crowned 1/8th Buggy World Champion Cody King were on hand and battled in the 1/8th buggy class. Adam Drake driving his Novarossi powered Team Losi Racing 8ight 2.0 and 8ight T 2.0 was in top form all weekend and TQ’ed every round in both classes. In the 1/8th truck class Drake lead from start to finish and took home the victory by two laps in the 30 minute final. The final event of the weekend in the 1/8th buggy class, Drake got a clean start and Cody made a few mistakes early in the final which allowed Drake to pull away early. Cody continued to push hard during the final, but Drake’s pace and consistency paid of and Drake won the 30 minute final by just over one lap.
The first Horizon Nitrocross were held from last weekend in Quakenbrueck and with 163 entries from Germany, Italy, UK and Czech Republic it was a large success. The famous Quakenbrueck track is indoor, but temperatures are the same as outdoor and it was around 0° degrees the whole weekend. Friday was practice, Saturday saw one more round of practice and then 4 rounds of Qualifying, with the best 2 rounds to count. Martin Bayer TQ’d the Buggy class ahead of Jorn Neumann and Riccardo Rabitti. Sunday was finals day and in the semi finals Carsten Keller had the fastest time and would start the final from Pole Position. The Final was 40 minutes and in the first minutes Carsten, Riccardo and Jorn battled for position. Then Jorn took the lead and never looked back winning by 2 laps in front of 2nd placed Carsten Keller and Riccardo Rabitti in 3rd.
Thanks to Joern Neumann for the report.
Italian company Bittydesign have announced that the 2011 running of the off road contest will take place from the 6th to the 8th of May. Already in its 3rd year, last year’s event was a big success and they hope to improve on that again this year. Expect more details to be released in the coming months.
View videos from last year’s event here
