2/28/2010

The Icebreaker is held at the Indy RC World facility in Garland Texas each February. This year RC Pro Products/Alpha Plus Team Drivers were in force.
Team drivers Ryan Lutz, Gary Haggard, Frank Sell, Ron Fleck Jr. and Tanner Hagler made the trip along with privateers Jason Howell and Jason McAllister.
I was there to help as needed and managed to stay busy most of the time.

Qualifying went well for our team guys with Lutz taking TQ in both Expert classes. Making the arena ... << MORE >>

Copied from the Ryan Lutz Tamiya Blog

Sunday March, 7th.

    Wow what a crazy, psycho, long, sad, happy, tired, all over theplace week. That is what the Psycho Nitro blast turned out to be in2010!

    To start off with my 801X buggy and 801Xt truggy came to playthis weekend! On a track that I have always shown well but neverfinished well it was my time to try to shine.

   Qualifying went decent for the first two rounds. I was able toput top 3 runs in both vehicles whilst setting the fastest lap times.In my round 3's at 3am my luck wasn't there and I bowed out of both.Overall I qualified 3rd in both classes. A good starting position forthe Hour long A-mains.

   Truggy main was up first and after warmups I decided to do a tirechange. My choice to run AKA S Gridirons paid off and on the first lapI powered my way past Truhe and Drake to take the lead and never lookback! My 801Xt was dialed and just floating over all the bumps! My801Xt consistently laid down the fastest lap times and I ended uptaking the win by about 30 seconds over the Drake.

   Buggy main was up last and by this time everyone was whooped. Ihad a good start and moved up to battle with Drake for the first 8minutes. I took the lead before my first pitstop but Drake was on alonger pit strategy. It ended up working out for him as he extended abit of a lead. I would stay right with him for the first 30 minutes orso but eventually with a few mistakes he pulled away a bit and withless pitstops I just couldn't catch up to him. My 801X laid down thefastest laptimes but it was only good enough for 2nd. Overall thoughafter my last 2 weekends it felt good to get some decent finishes andhave my Tamiya Vehicles working good!

   Next up Silver State!

Alpha Plus powered

Truggy - S852
Buggy - Z852

        

RC Pro Products driver Daniel Baldissarri took two 4th & a 5th place in the triple B main at the Warsaw Poland round this past weekend.
Daniel is our Italian driver and uses the RC Pro Product tool line to keep his Schumacher running.



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After a crazy 60 minute A Final where almost everyone flamed out at one time or another Meen Vejrak took the win with his Alpha Plus powered Mugen. Alpha Plus also finished 4th with local racer Champ Khunthin.
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The Worlds Warmup Race is in progress in Pattaya Thailand. After qualifying Alpha Plus sponsored drivers Dani Choi and Meen Vejrak are qualified 5th & 7th respectively.
Mains can be seen on Live RC later tonight.
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The end of February will be busy for most of the RC Pro Products Team.

Coming up the weekend of the 20th will be 2 large races - Nitro Challenge in Arizona and Motorama in Pennsylvania.
Lutz, Flores and Pres along with Jimmy Wright and the Track Star crew will be in attendance for the Nitro Challenge to see how the Alpha Plus engines stack up against everyone else.
Lindemann and Rieck along with the Ready Roller crew will be at the Motorama show debuting their new Alpha Plus engines.
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New Team Member Frank Sell and his racing buddy Jason Howell headed to the Enid RC indoor facility for some saturday racing and a chance to try out the new Alpha Plus engines and A plus pipes.
Jason took TQ in Buggy followed by Frank. In the A main Jason took off and left Frank to deal with the pack running over him on the start. Frank managed to work his way through the pack and catch Jason but time ran out before he could find a way around. That means Alpha Plus and A plus with ... << MORE >>

 This was the 1st weekend for many of our team members to run their new engines. Ryan Lutz was at the CRCRC Midwest Nitro Challenge. I'm sure Ryan will have a full report and some pics this week so I will just hit the basics until that comes in.
Ryan put the Alpha Plus into the Pro A Main for both Buggy & Truggy finishing 5th in Buggy and 11th or 12th in Truggy after a wheel nut decided it was tired.
Nice 1st outing Ryan and I can see some great results coming this ... << MORE >>