2011 September | The Big RC

Archive for September, 2011

Team Associated’s Pro-4 Drivers Sweep the LOORRS Podium!

Congratulations to Team Associated’s very own Kyle LeDuc for winning Pro-4 in rounds 11 and 12 of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series! Hard-charging Carl Renezeder did well this weekend too, coming in second to Kyle both days as well. Sunday’s round 12 was especially great as the podium was loaded with Team Associated [...]

Video from Oregon State Series #6 Bend

PRCR Summer Series Race 6 Tonight

PRCR Summer Series is getting close to the final race. Race 6 of 7 is tonight with some of the series possibly being decided tonight! Racing starts at 7

Venom Factory Pilot Jesse Munn Wins 2011 Northwest Championship Tour

Venom Team Driver Jesse Munn kept up his consistent showings to take the overall points win for the Northwest Championship Tour 2011. The final race, “The Columbia Cup,” was held this last weekend in Pasco, Washington and brought out the normal high-level NCT competitors, as well as well-known Kyosho Team Driver, Shawn Dunlap. Munn held [...]

TQ Wins ROAR Reg. 5 event

TQ Racing driver Mike Champrenault won the Modified Short Course class at the ROAR Region 5 Championships at The Proving Grounds. Mike qualified a close 3rd behind two factory Kyosho drivers after an intense qualifying session that had the field tightly bunched for the A Main. During the main, the top three checked out on [...]

New carbon fiber upgrade parts for the TEN-SCTE

FTW Racing Components today marked the launch of its line of carbon fiber racing components by introducing three upgrade kits for the Losi’s popular TEN-SCTE 4WD short course platform—a cooling fan kit, a shock tower kit, and an Ackerman rack kit. The kits demonstrate the same commitment to form and function that defies convention found [...]

Team Associated At The Thunder Alley Gas Champs & RC8.2 Highlights Video

With the RC8.2 due to hit store shelves any day now, Ryan Cavalieri took his production RC8.2 out to the Thunder Alley Raceway for the Gas Championships. The same site of his 2011 ROAR 1:8 National Championship with the prototype version a few months earlier.

TLR Sweeps Modelcar-Novamodel Challenge Series

TLR swept the final round of the Modelcar-Novamodel Challenge Series this past weekend. The final round was held at the new track of Vilela (Paredes), in north Portugal. TLR driver Ricardo Monteiro already locked up the series championship at the last round taking some pressure off him for the final meeting. Ricardo Monteiro put his [...]

New Reedy Sonic 550 motors

Short Course 4WD is quickly becoming the one of the most popular competition classes in America. To satisfy the power demands that this class requires, Reedy developed the Sonic 550. Designed specifically for the Short Course 4WD class and intended strictly for competition, the Sonic 550 features a lightweight case design with extra-large strategically placed [...]

TLR Dominates 7th French National Championship

TLR’s dominance in Europe continued this past weekend with TLR and Horizon Hobby driver Yannick Aigoin taking his 7th French National Championship. Yannick’s back-to-back 1/8th buggy title is all after Darren Bloomfield had won the 2011 BRCA 1/8 Buggy National Championship a few weeks prior and Ricardo Rabbitti wining the 2011 Italian National Championships all [...]