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December 20, 2006

Alex Lopez signs for Schumacher

Alex Lopez sings for Schumacher

Wow it seems everyone wants to get their driver announcements in before the holidays. Latest announcement is that of former Xray driver Alex Lopez, the multiple National Champion signing to race the Schumacher Mi3, but judging by the photo he will have to make do with the Mi2. Alex had this to say about the deal:

I am really looking forward to running a Schumacher. They have some pretty amazing things in the works. The Mi3 is going to blow a lot of people away. I also like that their team is very organized and works as a unit to make everyone go faster. I got my start with Schumacher so this is kind of like coming home. (Alex Lopez)

Source: RC Tech [rctech.net]

December 20, 2006

Andy Griffiths is British 1/12th National Champion

Andy Griffiths has won the 2006 British 1/12th National Championships with 2 rounds still left to run having taken a perfect score from the first 4 rounds of the championship. Whats particularly noteworthy about this title is that it was the first major title in the UK won using a brushless motor, this particular one being from Nosram.

Andy has won many national titles in the past and has made numerous European and World Championships A finals. This result is the first major title for Brushless in the UK and fittingly it was Nosram who pulled it off after lots of hard work and development.

You can read the full report with some more pictures here or a different report from the event here.

Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]

December 20, 2006

Elliott Harper claims 2nd at Rd3 of Rug Racers

Elliot Harper Rug Racers

Elliot Harper has written a report on his first race with the HB Cyclone Moorespeed at round 3 of the Rug Racers championships held at the indoor circuit at Ware.Â Elliott could only manage 2nd place in qualifying due to being in a slower heat after a late entry to the event but performed well in the race with only a few small mistakes meaning he could take 2nd position overall.

The second “A” final was a rerun of the first, but at a faster pace than earlier races. This made it both enjoyable driving as well as good spectator sport. All was going well and I was comfortably in 2nd place until the pen ultimate lap when I clipped a corner damaging my servo horn affecting the steering forcing retirement, but still managing a 3rd placed finish. Overall on the day I finished 2nd.

Read the full report from Elliott here.

Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]

December 18, 2006

Brunet wins Rd2 of French 1/12th Nationals

French 1/12th Nationals round 2

Our partner site RC Infos are reporting that Pierre-FranÃ§ois Brunet has won the 2nd round of the French 1/12th National Championships held last weekend in Le Harve. Driving an Associated RC12L4, round 1 winner Brunet claimed TQ spot in qualifying by just over a second and then went on the win the event ahead of 2nd placed racer JÃ©rÃ©my Delalondre who was driving a Corally SP12X. The final step on the podium went to another Corally SP12X racer Walter Poller-Villard.

Source: RC Infos [rcinfos.com]

December 15, 2006

Apolaro and Gray win Rd4 of Florida State Series

Florida State Series

Serpent are reporting on their site that DJ Apolaro and Scotty Gray have won round 4 of the FORGASS Florida State Series held last weekend at Homestead RC Speedway in Miami. DJ Apolaro was running the Serpent 720 in the Sedan class and won easily by 2 laps ahead of teammate Danny Horta in 2nd with Andrew Duperrouzel in 3rd. Meanwhile Scotty Gray was using his Serpent 960 to good effect, finishing just over a second ahead of team mate Paolo Morganti to take the win with Vince Tate 6 laps further back in 3rd position.

Read the full report with results here.

Source: Serpent [mytsn.com]

December 14, 2006

Race Announcement – Homestead Miami, March

RC Pro Series

We got notification of an event for the RC Pro Series that takes place in March at the Homestead Miami Speedway in Florida. This is at the real Indycar track and what is cool about this event, besides it being open to all racers, is that it will take place during the actual Indycar event that is run at this track. So as well as getting to race your own car you get a great side show too.

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December 12, 2006

Elliott Harper takes 3rd at Rd3 of BIWS

Elliott Harper

Young racing ace Elliot Harper continued his great form at the British Indoor Winter Series held at the Don Valley indoor track. Starting from 2nd on the grid after a mistake in qualifying, the round 2 winner, had a bad start in the final and ended up in 9th after the first corner, but recovered with a fine drive back to 3rd.

My “A” final start didn’t go to plan and a “glitch” on the first bend set me back. With all the other cars racing in from behind I took a swipe that spun my car around and out of contention and into 9th place. It took 3 laps for the car to settle back down but by this time I had been lapped by a number of cars. However, once the car settled down it was really pulling back and I started to power forward and move back up the pack.

You can read Elliott’s full report here.

Source: Mirage Racing [mirageracing.com]

December 10, 2006

Meen Vejrak dominates 2006 Reedy Race of Asia

Reedy Race Asia

A quick update from the 2006 Reedy Race of Asia that was held this weekend at the Thang RC Raceway in Thailand. It was Kyosho driver Meen Verjak all the way as he won the Modified and Stock classes in perfect style. In Modified class Meen won the first 2 finals and sat out the last main to win the event ahead of Australian Tamiya driver Bradd Vercoe in 2nd with Hot Bodies racer Porapong Raganarat finishing in 3rd. In the stock class it was a perfect score again for Thai racer Meen Vejrak, the Kyosho racer winning all 3 A-mains to easily take the title ahead of local Tamiya racer Paphon Chanyasak in 2nd with Associated racer Tanit Kachchapananda rounding out the podium in 3rd.

We hope to get images soon. Hit the jump for the final standings… content