October 24, 2006

Magnus Vassmar takes 2006 Swedish 1/12th Champs

Magnus Vassmar

Team Orion is reporting on their site that team driver Magnus Vassmar (old picture) has won the Swedish Indoor 1/12th scale Championships. This very talented youngster has now won back to back indoor titles in 1/12th scale as well as 1/10th.

Magnus Vassmar conquered the competition in the 1/12 Modified class at the 2006 Swedish Championships. Utilizing the latest voltage enhanced V-Max Plus RDS IB4200 WC cells, Magnus became double consecutive Swedish Indoor Champion in 1/12 and 1/10 classes.

You can read the full report here.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com] 


October 24, 2006

Kissimmee in November is turning into a classic

Kissimmee

It appears that the US Open Fuel Sedan Championships, being held at the Kissimmee track in Florida at the start of November, will be quite the competitive race. With a lot of top names in the entry list already and high traction guaranteed thanks to new sealer having been laid down on the track recently, we are assured of some quality action.

Top drivers already entered include:
– Josh Cyrul
– Chris Tosolini
– Joel Johnson
– Scotty Gray
– Michael Salven
– Paolo Morganti

See the current & complete entry list here.

Source: RC Pro Series [rcprosites.com]


October 23, 2006

Scott Kimbrow wins 2006 Paris Memorial

Scott Kimbrow

Scott Kimbrow has won the 1/8th scale class at this years Paris Memorial race in Las Vegas. Driving his RB powered Kyosho he finished the race ahead of Kevin Jehlich who was second driving a Mugen with Sal Defazio in third, again with a Kyosho. content


October 22, 2006

2006 Paris Memorial race – Qualifying

Ron Paris

This weekend sees the annual running of the Paris Memorial race in Las Vegas. Set up after the death of engine master Ron Paris in 2001, this event has turned into a huge event stateside, even attracting racers from as far away as Europe.

This years race is no exception with over 80 racers spread over 3 classes competing to win this prestiquous event. Weather for this years event is hot an sunny as you would expect from Las Vegas and after 5 rounds of qualifying the outcome looks like this: content


October 17, 2006

Xray T2007 performs well on Indoor debut

Jilles Groskamp Xray

Xray are reporting on their win in the 19T Stock class at the Team Orion Speed Weekend last weekend in Germany. The stock class was TQ’d and won by Bastian Henning driving his Xray T2 and they managed to get 5 cars in the final whilst in Modified they got 2 Xray T2007 cars in the final with Jilles Groskamp just missing out on the win and Martin Hudy finishing in 8th.

Although Jilles had bad luck in the first final, he showed his driving skills and car performance in the second final charging hard to take 2nd in the second final behind Marc Rheinard (securing the overall event win for Marc) and winning the third final by 2 seconds after fighting to pass Simo Ahoniemi.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


October 14, 2006

Xray win the 2006 Curitibano Championship

Fabiano Franco

Xray have a report on the Curitibano Championship in Brazil in which Fabiano Franco driving his Xray T2 won the Championship.

Xray Team Brasil was very satisfied with this season. This round was full of Xray T2 cars. In the TOP eight, 4 drivers were using the Xray T2 chassis and 1 driver was using FK05. FS Modelsport was very proud to see that and to announce that Xray T2 was the champion of Modified Class.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


October 12, 2006

Ralph Burch wins ROAR Nats

Roar Nats podium - Image by Mike Myers

Mike Myers over at Starting Grid has a nice daily report of the ROAR 1/8 On-Road Nationals in which Ralph Burch from RC America TQ’d and won the event with his Max powered Kyosho Evolva. In fact it was a very good event for the Japanese company getting 6 into the main final and Kyosho America Vice President Joel Johnson rounding off the podium with 3rd position.

Source: Starting Grid [sgrid.com]