As engines fire and the crowd surrounds the track, the tension builds and the cars take their warm up laps for the 2012 IFMAR 1/8 World Championship. Gridding up, they go quiet and down the engines scream together at the sound of the tone for the 1 hour Final race. Off the grid, Canadian Ty [...]
Semi-Final Odd The star of the week thus far has been Elliott Boots, qualifying in the top spot with his Kyosho MP9. While Boots appeared to be the Cinderella story of the week, it was a short race as he fell back off the line allowing Ty Tessman of the USA to take the top [...]
With the final round of qualifying called for rain and the Friday lower mains run, Saturday morning kicked off the 1/8 and 1/4 mains at the 1/8 IFMAR Worlds in Argentina. While the crew and racers are on break for lunch, here’s a quick look at the guys that are working hard to make the [...]
With the weather forecast for the week showing imminent disaster, the choice was made to run the fifth round of qualifying on Wednesday after rounds 3 and 4 – which turned out to be the right decision, as the skies opened up on Thursday and prevented any chance of completing the sixth and final round [...]
In Q1, Robert Batlle picked up where he left off at the Worlds Warm-Up in September and drove to the front of an antsy qualifying heat “A.” The Spaniard out-dueled youngsters Dakotah Phend, Elliott Boots and Ty Tessmann to take the heat and the overall fast time from Q1. Elsewhere, the Czech Republic’s Martin Bayer [...]
It was 751 days ago that Cody King, the young American who races for Kyosho and Orion, crossed the finish line to win his first IFMAR World Championship in what has become the elite class in radio control racing. And after the completion of Monday’s final practice, we are just hours away from the official [...]
One of the best things about the Worlds is the amount of new gear that manufacturer’s debut at they try to capture that elusive title. You can find anything ranging from from new bodies to tire glue. Here are a few of the items we have seen thus far. Pro-Line Pro-Line has announced a new [...]
The first day of controlled practice is over at the 2012 IFMAR 1/8-Scale Off Road World Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and one name missing from the time sheets is the 2008 ROAR National Champion in the class, Mike Truhe. The Team Losi Racing driver came within 1.5 seconds of winning the title at the [...]
