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January 19, 2011

Ty Tessmann takes Rd2 of WCICS

This past weekend Ty Tessmann was at the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series Race #2 in Lethbridge, Alberta. In qualifying the first round went to Xray racer Wayne Mah, but in the 2nd round Ty upped the stakes to qualify 6 seconds faster, and setting the tone for the weekend. After the 3rd qualifier, Ty’s TQ from the 2nd round still stood. In the 4th and final qualifier Ty’s dogbone twisted off, opening the door for Associated’s Peter Toszer to take the TQ from Ty by 1 second. This set the stage for what would be an exciting main. Peter Toszer, Ty and Wayne Mah pulled away from the field, but Ty was able to come away with the win putting the HotBodies TCX with PROTOform’s MazdaSpeed 6 body in the top podium position, Wayne would take 2nd with Peter finishing 3rd after an unfortunate marshaling incident.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 18, 2011

Samual Chiu wins Novarossi China Open

Samual Chiu, top 1/10 sedan driver from Hong Kong drove his Murnan M3 powered NT1 to TQ and the win at the 2011 Novarossi China Open. In 2nd place was Wang Hei Feng from China driving a Mugen MTX4, also powered by Murnan Modified Motors. The event saw 70 plus drivers participate in this the season opener in China.

Source: Murnan Modified [murnanmodified.com]

January 17, 2011

Griffiths & Kerswell win BRCA 1/12th Nats Rd4

Round 4 of this season’s BRCA 1/12th scale nationals saw the annual trip south to Plymouth, a venue that remains a favourite on the calendar for many of the drivers. When entering the venue the drivers were greeted with an extra 2 meters of carpet width, ensuring that this is one of the largest venues visited during the series. The track had been laid to produce a fast flowing circuit which provided some excellent racing throughout the entire field.

Continue reading the report here

January 12, 2011

Paul Lemieux extends Xray contract thru 2012

RCAmerica/Xray USA have announced the re-signing of team driver Paul Lemieux. The multiple US National Champion has been a great asset to RCAmerica both on and off the track and both parties are looking forward to the new season. Paul had this to say:

After 5 years of partnership between Team RCAmerica/Xray and I we have decided to keep a good thing going, I have re-signed with both companies for 2011 and 2012. This means that I will be using exclusively Xray cars and Max Power motors along with Hudy products. I am excited about gaining more experience with the ever so growing Xray product line. I would like to thank everyone at RCAmerica in Dallas TX and also Xray in Slovakia. See you at the races!

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 11, 2011

Contact RC announce 2011 Factory driver line-up

Contact RC have announced their factory driver line up for 2011. Contact tyres have been making real progress in the foam tyre market and have achieved some excellent results in such a short space of time. This can only happen with the time and dedication of their drivers. They are pleased to announce that joining the already strong line up of USA Champion Paul Lemieux, European Champion Robert Pietsch and US star DJ Apolaro are up and coming young Swiss star Simon Kurzbuch (pictured), who has been impressing at recent large races, and Belgian Champion and European A finalist Jerome Renaux.

Source: Contact RC [racing-cars.com]

January 10, 2011

Ardent Raceway Winter Series Rd4

Ardent Raceway hosted the 4th round of their winter series last weekend and with 14 heats lined up it was going to be a long day. In 13.5T Liam Brooks wrapped up not just a comfortable TQ, but a double race win and overall championship victory with 2 races to spare. A simply awesome performance from Liam and his Schumacher Mi4CX. In the 10.5T class James Hart continued his fine form taking TQ, with Sam Clifton an excellent 2nd with his new CX and Dominic Carter in 3rd. Final one was dominated by James with a flag to flag win, the second was a bit more frenetic with Chris Ashton catching James, Sam and Dominic from further down the grid and taking the win. Last minute changes in positions saw James take the overall from Dominic and Sam and Chris, making 3 Mi4CX’s in the top 4. The big boys in the modified class gave the watching crowd some close and entertaining racing. Chris Grainger improved his previous performances lining up 3rd on the grid, with Matt White and John Pape also getting amongst it in the top 10. Andy Moore and Olly Jefferies went at it big time with the 1-2, Chris had a tough set of finals on the hard to pass track and ended up in the midfield.

View the other podiums here

January 10, 2011

Volker & Lissau take victory at DHI Cup

The 11th and final DHI Cup took place last weekend in Odense, Denmark and while some of the big names were missing this year the race was no less exciting. In the modified class it was the seemingly unstoppable Ronald Volker who took the TQ spot ahead of last year’s top qualifier Christer Andersson with Alexander Hagberg lining up 3rd. In the Pro Stock class it was runner up from the ETS in the Czech Republic, Martin Lissau who was top qualifier ahead of Steffen Leinburger in 2nd and Tony Streit in 3rd. The finals were more of the same from the two top qualifiers with Ronald Volker taking his Yokomo BD5 to another win with victory in the first 2 A-mains. The Xray of Alexander Hagberg moved up to the runner up spot with victory in the 3rd leg which demoted the Associated of Christer Andersson to 3rd spot following a difficult last leg. In the stock class Martin Lissau also took victory in the first 2 legs to wrap up victory early ahead of Steffen Leinburger in 2nd with Tony Streit round out the podium in 3rd.

View the complete final results here.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

January 10, 2011

Simon Nicholson joins Kyosho

Multiple Australian National and State Champion Simon Nicholson has joined Kyosho for the 2011 season. The former Corally team driver, who will run the Japanese company’s latest TF6 touring car chassis, sent us the following statement:

I would like to thank all the Corally team (Yoko, Susanne, Joeri and others) for all their support over the last few years, it has been a great experience for me racing with the team and all working together. Also many thanks to Ari and his team at HEI for all the help over the years. I am delighted to be offered this deal by Kyosho and I am really looking forward to working together with them for the 2011 season. My first international race with the TF6 will be the TITC in Bangkok, Thailand in February.