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October 8, 2009

Proline Dirt Arena Winter Series Rd1

The Proline Dirt Arena kicked off it’s new Winter Series in style last weekend with some top name drivers and some very competitive racing. Smiley faces all round as all that turned up liked the recent changes to the facility after opening about 7 months ago. In 2wd, Team Associated driver Tony Truman took pole in the A final with three 1’s in qualifying. Richard Barton would take TQ in the second round and he would line up 2nd on the grid with Simon Willetts in 3rd. Simon took the 1st leg of the 3 legged A final but it would be TQ man Tony Truman who would take legs 2 and 3 to secure a well deserved victory. 4WD would see a almost perfect domination from Jon Dell running his Associated B44 taking all 4 rounds of qualifying to put himself on pole. In leg 1 of the A final he would have a wheel fall of and Rob Rasey would come through to take the win. Legs 2 and 3 Jon Kept it together as well as his car, to take comfortable win and transfer his TQ to a win.

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October 8, 2009

BRCA Micro Nationals Rd1 Report

After the 6 month summer break, normal micro racing service resumed at Leighton Buzzard for Round 1 of the BRCA Micro Nationals. 68 drivers descended upon the quiet Brooklands School venue to see whether 2008 Champions Mark Stiles and Horizon Hobby’s John Timberlake would be able to retain their 4WD and 2WD crowns respectively.

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October 7, 2009

Martin Achter crowned 2wd World Champion

Having qualified on pole position, securing the position with another leg win in qualifying today, Martin Achter of Germany is the new 2wd World Champion. In an event only attended by 17 drivers it was actually Craig Laughton that won the first leg of the final but Achter, driving an Associated B4, responded by going out and winning both second and third legs with very cool driving. Craig ended up as runner up with Albert Claassons taking 3rd, with the top 3 unchanged from how they qualified. The 4wd class gets underway tomorrow with practice, where Martin will begin as favourite once more, driving the new Durango DEX410.

Source: TRAP [trap.co.za]

October 5, 2009

Ryan Cavalieri wins Pro-Line Gas Champs

This past weekend was the 1st Annual Pro-Line Gas Championships held at Thunder Alley in Beaumont, CA. The race format consisted of 2 10-minute qualifiers on Saturday and 1 10-minute qualifier on Sunday, then each driver’s 2 best points would seed them into the Semis. A 15-minute Semi would be ran to fill the A-Main. In the Pro 1/8 buggy class, Ryan Cavalieri won his Semi by 11 seconds as well as the fastest time and would start first on the grid. Team Orion teammate Cody King won his Semi by 9 seconds and would start 2nd for the 30-minute A-Main. At the start of the main, Cavalieri go off to a clean start. King was involved in a first lap crash and would be shuffled back to 6th position. Cavalieri would leave from start to finish, with Cody recovering to take 2nd place, with Travis Amezcua taking 3rd spot.

Click here for a few videos from the event by Upgrade RC

October 4, 2009

Offroad Meeting Arena – Announcement

Run from the 19th to the 22nd of November, the Offroad Meeting Arena will take place again this year in Italy, at the Arena of Cowboys Guest Ranch of Voghera, near Pavia. The annual indoor race, which was won last year by Hupo Honigl, once again has attracted some of Europe’s best off road racers, who are taking part in the buggy, truggy and brushless classes. Running alongside the ultra competitive racing format that sees the champions crowned on Sunday, the organisers have created a ‘Race of Champions’ race that is made up of the best 16 drivers in buggy, in F1 and F2 class, as well as the best 16 truggy drivers. On Saturday night they will go together in a race that sees the last placed racer eliminated every 5 minutes until the 4th placed driver is eliminated and the podium positions are taken. This, together with all the other racing and activities planned, will make this an event to remember and Red RC will be there to cover all the action Live from the track throughout the weekend.

For more information on the Offroad Meeting, and how to enter, visit the official event site here.

October 4, 2009

Lars Johnson does double at Colorado Nitro Series

The Colorado Nitro Series wrapped up its season last weekend, with the series consisting of two races at Rat Raceway in Denver, two races at Dirtworks in Burlington and two races at Colorado Springs Fast Track in Colorado Springs. Losi driver Lars Johnson had a great year in the Pro Truggy, he TQ’d and won three of the six rounds and had the overall win wrapped up before the 6th and final race. In the Pro Buggy class Lars and Dustin Evans battled in out until the end. Dustin was able to TQ the final race, however Lars was able to come back for a first place finish in the A-Main and take the overall title.

Source: Losi [losi.com]

October 1, 2009

Robitronic Night Race & Race of Champions

Robitronic have the full report from their Night Race and Race of Champions event that was held last weekend in Bischhofsheim close to Frankfurt am Main. The event consisted of a night team race that began at midday on Friday and ended at 5am on Saturday morning with truggy teams and buggy teams taking alternating times on the track to give each team of up to 5 drivers 7 hours on the track. The buggy class was won by the Team Robitronic Losi team that consisted of Joern Neumann, Martin Bayer, Darren Bloomfield and Carsten Keller, while the RC-Car Shop Race Crew was triumphant in the truggy class. On Saturday following the Night race, the Race of Champions got underway with practice followed by qualifying over the next day and finals on Sunday. European Championship podium finisher Martin Bayer did the double in both classes, winning the buggy class from Joern Neumann and Maximilian Cordts, while in the truggy class Maximilian Cordts took the runner up spot with Stefan Petrich in 3rd.

Read the full report (in German) here.

Source: Robitronic [robitronic.com]

September 30, 2009

Nordman & Ausfelt takes Norwegian National finals

Last weekend saw the final round of the Norwegian Nationals for 1/10th 2WD and 4WD buggy held in Oslo “Hvervenbukta”, Norway. In 2WD PerErik Nordman showed he was on the pace as he took TQ honors after putting a fast round together in the first round of qualifying. As the track got slower through the day due to the surface being really soft, PerErik’s time proved unbeatable. The finals was extremely exciting as the track conditions made it really hard for the drivers to put a 7 minute run together without mistakes. After plenty of exciting racing in the finals with leaders changing throughout the 7 minute heats, PerErik took the overall win ahead of Ole Steen Karlsen and Kjell-Gunnar Guttormsen.

Continue reading the report here