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May 4, 2010

Tresrey Off-road series Rd2

Round 2 of the Tresrey Off-road series was held last Sunday at the TRS circuit in Matsusaka-city, Japan. 54 racers joined the event, making it the best attended race that the TRS circuit ever had for an off-road event with 49 entrants in the 2WD class and 44 in the 4WD class. In qualifying it was Takashi Nobuhara to managed to take TQ for both the 2WD and 4WD classes. In 2WD, Nobuhara won the race from the pole, with Hideki Nakajima taking 2nd and Noriyuki Kawashima 3rd. Team Durango/Speed Passion Japan team driver Minoru Utsugi was 8th in qualifying and finished 4th in the final. There were 13 Durango DEX410s in the 4WD class and 5 of them made the A final. Team Durango/Speed Passion Japan team driver Kazuki Sasatsu started from 3rd position and eventually won the race ahead of Kyoji Minagawa, with Team Durango Japan local support driver Akihiro Yasuda in 3rd. Minoru Utsugi finished 5th, Akira Ema finished 7th and Satoshi Kawano finished 10th driving DEX410s. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big draw prize draw which included two DEX410R kit exchange tickets, Axial kits and Speed Passion ESCs and motors.

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May 4, 2010

Adam Drake wraps up Losi Winter Series title

Losi Novarossi team driver Adam Drake has TQ’d both 1/8th pro buggy and truck this weekend at the final round of the Losi Winter Series hosted by Revelation Raceway. In the final Mike Truhe and Adam Drake made a mistake on lap one which allowed team mate Matt Castellano to take over the lead and never look back. Matt won followed by Mike Truhe and Adam Drake making it a Losi podium sweep. In the truck class Drake and Cody King had a good battle early in the race, but Adam was able to pull a large gap on Cody late in the race and take home the victory followed by Cody King and Matt Schreffler in third. Losi Driver Matt Schreffler took the overall championship in the 1/8th truck class with his Novarossi powered 8ight T 2.0, while it was Adam Drake that took the overall title in the 1/8th Pro buggy class for the second consecutive year.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

May 3, 2010

Taylor James joins Team Losi

Losi have welcomed former Jammin driver Taylor James and his numerous years of top level racing experience to the team. Taylor will be joining the team for the upcoming 1/8th ROAR Off-road Fuel Nationals warm-up race in Colorado Springs, CO on May 13th-18th and will be competing in all the major races including the upcoming IFMAR World Championships this November. Taylor James will be running the Team Losi Racing 8ight 2.0 buggy race roller and the 8ight-T 2.0 truggy race roller powered by Nitrotec engines and controlled by his Spektrum DX3R.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

April 29, 2010

Hupo Honigl reports from Pre Season testing

New Team Durango signing Hupo Honigl attended last weekend’s pre-Season race held at the Rhein-Mein Circuit in Bischofsheim, Germany and filed this report. A lot good drivers attended the race at Bischofscheim including Neumann, Drescher, Ronnefalk, Svenson, Reckward, as well as many top German drivers. Gerd made some subtle changes to a couple of parts and all I can say is that they work awesome. In the first practice run the car felt already pretty good, but the shocks were too soft and also the diff oils were too soft. I changed from 5k-5k-2k to 10k-10k-2k and changed the shockoil to 10 harder in the front and 5 harder in the rear. This helped a lot.

Continue reading the report here

April 29, 2010

Hungarian National Off road Championship Rd1

Last weekend the Hungarian national offroad championship kicked off with more than 60 drivers. The race was held in Apaj, a small city about 50km’s from the capital city of Budapest and organised by RCOR club. The layout of the track is really nice, very enjoyable, it has all kind of jumps (table, double, triple, step-down) and corners (sweeper, hairpin, chicane). The racing line was visible but covered with some dust and the track held up really well all weekend, thanks to the proper preparation of the organiser club.

Continue reading the report here

April 28, 2010

TecnoPower sign Portuguese driver João Gomes

New Italian engine company TecnoPower is on its way to enter the serious buggy competition scene with its freshly released ‘B01’ engine and a new upcoming Portuguese driver called João Gomes, who finished 7th at the 2010 Euro’s Warm up in Portugal.

We are very happy to have João joining us and helping us to promote and race our engines. He will not only participate in the upcoming Euro B but also the Euro A and Worlds in Thailand. We at TecnoPower would like to wish him the best of luck and give our best to support to him during these events and will be present too support technically any other driver who will be using our engines during these events.

Source: TecnoPower [tecnopower-motor.com]

April 28, 2010

Drake & Schreffler win Rd3 of Losi Winter Series

Losi are reporting that their team driver Adam Drake TQ’d and took a deserved win in the 1/8 Buggy class last weekend at round 3 of the Losi Winter Series, hosted by Revelation Raceway. In the truck class it was another Losi driver Matt Schreffler who took the victory from pole position with his 8ight-T. The fourth and final round of the series takes place on May 1st.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

April 27, 2010

Johnny Loguidace is double Michigan State Champion

TQ Racing are reporting that their factory driver Johnny Loguidace is the Michigan State Champion in both 2wd mod and Truck Mod. The race was hosted at Dirt Burners RC and was attend by drivers representing AE, Losi, X-Factory and Kyosho. Johnny was TQ in truck and second on the grid in buggy behind AE Factory Driver Dan Griffin. In buggy, Johnny was able to get by Dan early and drive of to the victory, while in truck Johnny led from start to finish to secure another title.

Click here to see the truck podium