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April 26, 2010

Blazej Orlowski wins Polish Buggy opener

The first round of the Polish 1/8th scale buggy Championships got underway last weekend in Nowy Targ in the very south of the country. The 30 minute final was very hard on equipment and a lot of cars couldn’t make it to the finish line. It was Blazej Orlowski, driving an O.S. powered Tamiya 801X that emerged the winner, in front of Mugen driver Maciej Dzwigaj in 2nd and Tomasz Gadnicki driving a Kyosho in 3rd. The next round will take place in Dywity on the 15th-16th of May.

April 26, 2010

Flying start for Dylan Rodriguez at RC Pro West

We received a quick update that team Mugen driver Dylan Rodriguez goes 1, 2, 3 at the R/C Pro West opener last weekend at Hemet Raceway. Dylan TQ’d and won Electric buggy and TQ’d all three rounds of Truggy, but had mechanical problems in the main and settled for 3rd and wrapped up a great weekend by finishing 2nd in Pro buggy.

April 26, 2010

Hartson dominance at Associated 1/8th Electric Champs

Hosted by Orange County R/C Raceway in Huntington Beach, CA on April 24th, the Team Associated 1/8th Electric Championship again proved that 1/8th electric racing is alive and here to stay. Being only a one day event allowed the track to make adjustments to the program based upon entries and class breakdown. With over 65 entries and 9 heats, the program was tweaked to allow for maximum track time that included 6 minute qualifiers, B main bump-ups and 7 minute triple A mains. The highlight class of the event was Expert 1/8th Buggy and the star was Associated/Reedy/LRP’s Steven Hartson. Picking up where he left off the week before at the JBRL event, Hartson laid down the fastest qualifying time over fellow Associated/LRP teammate Ryan Cavalieri. Hartson, having found his groove with 1/8th electric over the past few months, was untouchable in the main events. Cavalieri pressured at times, but the consistency of Hartson, combined with the experience in the class, saw him easily win both A1 and A2 by 6 seconds over Cavalieri. Joining Hartson and Cavalieri in the A main for Team Associated were Brent Thielke and Chris Jarosz who both also used Reedy/LRP power.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

April 25, 2010

Fabio Boero wins Rd1 in Italy

The Italian 1/8th buggy Nationals got underway this weekend at the Valley Sporting Club in Alberobello in the very south of the country. Reigning champion Riccardo Rabitti managed to TQ the event with his Picco powered Losi, ahead of Mugen/Reds Racing driver Fabio Boero, with multiple Champion Davide Tortorici in 3rd. Things would go badly for Rabitti in his semi final, a number of problems in his race saw him lose too much time and so failed to bump into the main event. Fabio Boero would start from the pole position for the hour long race, with Carlo Jacopini lining up just behind him. In the race itself, it was Riccardo Perin that took the early lead, while behind it was Jacopini in 2nd being chased by a hard recovering Boero who had lost a lot of time on lap 2. Just before the half way point Perin hit trouble, and with Boero up to 2nd he was able to pounce and take the lead, which he held on to until the end. Davide Tortorici took 2nd place, passing Fabrizio Teghesi a few laps before the end, demoting the Kyosho driver to 3rd spot by the flag.

View the final results here

April 25, 2010

Peter Harder takes victory in Danish opener

The opening round of the Danish 1/8th off road Nationals took place this weekend with nice sunny weather in Hillerød on the challenging NXC track north of Copenhagen. Peter Harder with his Novarossi powered Xray 808 took a strong victory leading from early on to win by 3 laps from Losi driver Silas Høgholt Pedersen, with HongNor driver Tim Culmsee completing the top 3.

Click here to see the final results

April 24, 2010

Short Course Nationals – Announcement

The organisers of the 2010 Short Course Nationals to be held at R/C Madness in Enfield, CT were in touch to promote their event which takes place from the 9th to 11th of July. As the name suggests, the race is only open to short course vehicles by encompasses 7 classes including Slash spec, 2wd stock, 2wd open, 4wd electric small block, 4wd electric big block, mini short course open and finally 4wd nitro open. Registration is now open and you can find the entry form here.

April 22, 2010

Matt Gosch joins AKA team

AKA have announced that Matt Gosch has joined their team for the coming season. “Matt and his dad are some of the nicest people you will meet and we are very proud to be apart of what they bring on and off the track”. In Matt’s first race out on AKA tires he TQ’d and won the event and was very impressed with how little the tires wore yet still produced great traction.

Source: AKA [raceaka.com]

April 22, 2010

Hartson doubles up at JBRL Electric Rd2

Continuing on where he left off from round 1 of the JBRL Series, Team Associated/Reedy/LRP driver Steven Hartson dominated the field in both the ultra competitive classes of 1/8th electric buggy and 2wd modified. Starting from the pole in 2wd, Hartson quickly gapped the field and cruised home for an easy victory. However in 1/8th electric buggy he got stuck behind 2nd place for the first 4 minutes of the 10 minute final. Patience and experience from the SoCal teenager proved to pay off as a tangle between 1st and 2nd coming on to the 100’ straight-a-way allowed Hartson to split the gap and never look back and take the win.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]