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March 15, 2010

TQ Racing report from Chi Town Shootout

TQ Racing are reporting that their team driver Johnny LoGiudice was the Top Qualifier in both the 2wd Modified and Truck Modified classes at the recent Chi Town Shootout with his TQ Racing SX10 2w and SX10T. Johnny won the 2wd Modified class with fellow TQ Racing team driver JP Richards finishing in third. While Johnny was also the TQ in the Modified Truck class, some trouble in the mains knocked him down the order, but team mate JP Richards stepped up from a lower qualifying position to finish in 2nd place. Also in the 13.5 buggy class – TQ Racing team driver Ray Kindstom finished third in his first major event with the TQ SX10 2w. TQ Racing continues to develop the SX10 4w four wheel drive chassis which will soon be released and development work is continuing on the SX10 SC Short Course chassis for an early summer release.

Source: TQ Racing [tqracing.net]

March 13, 2010

Venom signs Taylor Petersen

Venom have announced that they have signed top US driver Taylor Petersen for the 2010 season. The current Mugen racer, who has driven for O’Donnell and Kyosho in the past, will have his debut outing with Venom products this weekend at the Silver State Nitro Challenge.

Source: Venom [venom-group.com]

March 12, 2010

Hupo Honigl joins Durango’s 1/8th scale team

Having signed multiple European Champion Hupo Honigl to their electric buggy team back in January, Durango have today announced that the Austrian driver will also now race for their 1/8th scale team through to the end of 2011, following the end of his contract at LRP to run their 1/8th scale buggy. We contacted Hupo for comment and he gave us this statement:

First of all I want to thank my former car sponsors LRP – specially Moritz Gaul – and Tamiya – Kiyo and Satoshi – for their awesome support over the last few years, it was a great time. But every contract has an end and it was time for me to make a change and now I´m looking forward to race my new cars and help develop and test for Team Durango – there are some nice projects in the pipeline. I will continue running all the LRP nitro as well as the electric power components, I will of course also stay with Proline Rubber for all cars and the radio gear is from Sanwa. I´m really looking forward to a successful racing year in 2010!

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

March 10, 2010

Miguel Matias dominates National Rd1 in Portugal

The opening round of the Portuguese buggy nationals took place at the weekend in Trofa and it was Miguel Matias who won the 1st and 2nd round of qualification to take the TQ spot. With qualifying locked up he decided not to run the last round and this allowed Ricardo Monteiro to won round 3 in front of Carlos Duraes and Rodrigo Luis. The first semi saw Miguel Matias continue his dominance by winning the race with Ricardo Monteiro 2nd crossing the line 8 seconds behind. Semi number 2 saw Carlos Duraes win the race easily with Bruno Boelho, Fernando Almeida and Tiago Aguiar 1 lap behind. In the main final it was again all about Miguel Matias from start to finish, winning by 2 laps along with the fastest lap of the final, with Carlos Duraes in 2nd and Ricardo Monteiro placing 3rd completing the all RB podium.

Source: RB Products [rbproducts.com]

March 10, 2010

Drake does double at Psycho Nitro Blast

The 2010 Psycho Nitro Blast took place last weekend in Atlanta, GA. and attracted some 400 entries for this annual indoor event. Qualifying consisted of 3 rounds, with the best 2 to count, and Adam Drake TQ’d all three rounds in 1/8th nitro buggy, 1/8th nitro truck, and 1/8th electric. The Drake was able to convert those TQs into wins in both the 60 minute 1/8th Pro buggy class final, finishing ahead of Tamiya driver Ryan Lutz and Losi team mate Mike truhe, and the 20 minute 1/8th electric buggy class final, winning that in front of fellow Losi driver Gene Hickerson.

Click here to see the electric class podium

March 9, 2010

Richard Lowe signs for X-Factory UK

X-Factory UK have announced Richard Lowe as the latest signing to their race team for 2010. Rich will be campaigning the forthcoming new X6 Squared EC buggy in 2wd and the X60 stadium truck in the truck class while continuing to run his current JConcepts BJ4 in the 4wd class. Rich is rated as one of the best drivers in the UK today, he has been racing now for 19 years since the tender age of just 8 and finished inside the top 10 in both 2wd and 4wd classes in last years BRCA national championship. He has also exerted his dominance on the truck class at the recent Petit races in 2009 and 2010 by winning both and setting the overall truck TQ this year also. No stranger to overseas events either, Rich has managed to finish on the podium in ALL 3 classes (2wd, 4wd and Truck) at both of his last visits to the superb JConcepts Clash events held in Florida, USA. Rich’s cars will be powered in the 2010 season by the all new Trinity Nemesis and Epic Duo 2 Platinum brushless motors as well as LiPo batteries from Vampire Racing. Rich joins an already strong line up in the X-Factory team for 2010, headed by current BRCA 2wd National champion and 2009 Euros TQ man Ellis Stafford, as well as the likes of Kevin Lee, Dan Greenwood, Mat Dodd and up and coming youngster Ashley Caunt to name just a few.

Source: X-Factory UK [xfactoryrc.co.uk]

March 8, 2010

Ghost RC sign Lee Martin

Double UK 1:10 off road National Champion driver Lee Martin is ready to frighten the competition as he teams up with ceramic diff ball specialists, Ghost RC. Lee will be running the Ghost RC’s UK made 3mm ceramic diff balls in his Tamiya 511 diffs for the 2010 season. According to Lee “the Ghost RC diff balls feel so good it’s scary! I’m looking forward to having these rocking in my Tamiya diffs throughout the year!”

Source: Ghost RC [ghostrc.co.uk]

March 8, 2010

Agustí Saltó wins Spanish National

JConcepts are reporting that Agustí Saltó has won at the Spanish Nationals in Montjuich, Barcelona, using Bar Codes in blue compound. The racing was very difficult with runner up Carlos Pineda, racing for Associated, proving to be very fast and putting pressure on Yokomo driver Saltó. Durango driver David Bustos completed the winners podium in 3rd.

Source: JConcepts [jconceptsracing.net]