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January 16, 2008

2008 US Open Fuel Sedan Champs

The organisers of the 3rd Annual Kyosho US Open Sedan Championships have been in touch to let everyone know about this event which will be run from the 11th – 13th of April. Held at the Kissimmee R/C Raceway in Florida, they have already confirmed that both last years Champions, Chris Tosolini in Factory class and Chris Lefrebve in Open class will return to defend their titles. Also, this year Kyosho has added the Inferno GT class into the mix.

For more information about this event go here.

January 15, 2008

DJ Apolaro wins Florida Series Rd5

DJ Apolaro wins 5th round of Florida Series

This past weekend saw many of the top gas racers from around the US descend on the Ft. Myers track for the 5th round of the Florida state Series. This race is seen as a warm up for the Winter Nats with track time used to prepare for this annual international event. Qualifying saw Kyosho racer Robert Maestrey take the TQ spot ahead of Serpent racer Gianni Giorgio in 2nd, while the Xray of Mark Harrison was 3rd just ahead of DJ Apolaro in 4th. At the start of the main final DJ was able to slot into 2nd and then 2 laps later he could take the lead, which is where he stayed for the rest of the race to take the win.

Source: Serpent USA [serpent-usa.com]

January 14, 2008

Stefano Solaroli signs to Motonica

Top Italian 1/8th scale gas racer, and owner of Solaroli Tuning, has signed a 4 year deal to join Motonica starting immediately. Joining fellow Italian racer, and current number 1 Motonica driver, Dario Balestri, Solaroli will begin work on development of the car as well as helping customers trackside at races. Stefano has raced for a number of top brands, the most recent of which being Mugen.

Source: Automodellismo [automodellismo.net]

January 13, 2008

Wilck & Maddison win DHI Cup

Modified Class Podium

Viktor Wilck has won the modified class here at the DHI Cup after a great run in the 3rd and last leg of the A-final. Quicker than Teemu Leino from the start, he began to hound the Xray racer until they actually hit before both continuing. Shortly after the Finnish racer made a mistake going onto the straight, rolling over the dots and causing his body to stick up over the wheel. Once this happened Wilck was able to pull out a commanding lead and this also allowed Hagberg, Volker and Graversen through.

Read the full race report here.

January 12, 2008

Teemu Leino is TQ at DHI Cup

Teemu Leino is Modified class TQ

In a blistering run that saw him make the fastest qualifying run of the day, a 19 lap run in 5 minutes 03.03, Finland’s Teemu Leino has snatched TQ in round 5 to start from pole position in tomorrows final. In typical Finnish style the Xray/ Team Orion driver showed little emotion but stated he was pleased with his qualifying performance. Tamiya racer Viktor Wilck, who had a crash in the final round dropped to 2nd position and in the same incident, the marshall who was attending the crash was hit by Jilles Groskamp who was on pace to take the round win and TQ but instead will start tomorrows final from 4th.

Read the full report here.

January 11, 2008

Groskamp overnight TQ at DHI Cup

Jilles Groskamp TQ

Jilles Groskamp has made the perfect start to his new tenure at Tamiya by setting the quickest time in round 1 of the 2008 DHI Cup, giving him maximum points for the round with 3 of the 5 to count. Heading into Heat 21, the final heat of the round, it was Hot Bodies racer Andy Moore that had taken the TQ spot over from Shin Adachi, who had only taken the spot in the previous heat. Heat 12 saw a gaggle of quick cars, all on TQ pace which included Juho Levanen, Teemu Leino and of course Groskamp. In the final moments Jilles managed to get his head down and put in the laps needed to take the top spot and was aided by a slowing Levanen, run time being a struggle for a lot of the competitors.

Read the full report here.

January 10, 2008

Jonas Kaerup joins Hot Bodies

Jonas Kaerup has made a surprise move only a short time before the 2008 DHI-CUP, with the former European 1:10 electric Touring Car Champion deciding to end his relationship with Corally, and race the Hot Bodies Cyclone for Morfars.dk and Hot Bodies Europe. Jonas had to say-

It is a major chance to get to drive the Hot Bodies Cyclone and I am thrilled to get the opportunity. The car has won the European championships and World championships in the hands of Andy Moore. It is probably the best car I get to drive now, so I cannot wait to try it on the track.

As well as signing up to Hot Bodies, Morfars.dk and Much More Racing, Jonas will be continuing to run GM motors and batteries with Xenon racing gears.

Source: Race RC [racerc.dk]

January 10, 2008

Olly Jefferies wins Rug Racers Rd4

Mirage are reporting from the 4th round of the Rug Racers championships which saw round 3 winner Olly Jefferies continue his great run of form to take the overall win. The HB Cyclone of Jefferies led after round one of qualifying but it was Elliott Harper that took over at the top of the time sheets in round two which made the final round of qualifying a very tense affair with both Elliott and Olly suffering incidents in the last run leaving Olly on pole with Elliott missing out by only a second. The first leg of the final saw Olly pull out a lead while Elliott found himself battling hard for second with Chris Kerswell, Elliot eventually claiming the position and taking 2nd. The 2nd leg was closer and saw Harper close to the bumper of the yellow and pink Cyclone for most of the race but he couldnt find a way past and so Jefferies took the overall win from Harper in 2nd.

Source: Mirage [mirageracing.com]