This weekend (10.05 - 12.05.2013) we had our second race the Dutch Championship Buggy in Purmerend. 

Saturday the day starts with rain so we had to find a setup for these conditions. Training went very well , diff set up was 2-2- grease in the back.Soft shocks and springs.Later that day rain stopped and the track became dry, but the forcast was rain on sunday morning so we kept it this way. 

First qualy on sunday was good, eleven rounds . Second qualy we put on other tires this was to much, to much grip so bad result, track was already dry.Third and last qualy, Jordy was fast and on the first spot, but the electric switch broke so no result. 

Half final starting from place 2 behind cousin Jeffrey Halsema, both were to fast for the rest so the final was there. Jordy again from place 2 , but he took the lead in the first round , car was super, 5k in front diff ,the rest was the same.

Heavy oil in shocks and a 3mm stabie in front.Jordy took a gap on number 2 Jeffrey, and drove to the win in perfect driving style, with 10 min fuel stops. 

Car was so easy to drive, no problem at all. Jordy and TeamC , the perfect match!!!

On the weekend of 4/5 May, the legendary 24 hour race by Uwe Rheinard took place on the Mini Circuit Luxembourg. The team "Chupa Chups" which is composed of:

Betrallo Patrick (L), Maquel Tom (L), Schilling Marc (L), Markus Elicker (GER), Thomas Stenger (GER) und Andre Klink (GER).

The team went to the challenge and equipped your TT01 chassis handout with a  ECU 1 brushed speed controller from Absima. Through their constant and defensive driving the boys were largely spared of defects and only had about 8 hours to make an engine change.

After 24 hours of run time they crossed the line on a excellent 2nd place of 18 teams, with 20 laps behind at No. 1 and 2 lap lead over 3rd place. They covered a total of 2890 rounds converted this are incredible 924.8km. 

Congratulations to the team and thank you to Absima for support.

On 13.04 - 14.04.2013 was the first Dutch Buggy champs race in Helmond. Training on saturday went very well, fast rounds car very stable.
On Sunday we had three rounds of qualifications. Jordy drove TQ in round 1 but rain came down and it was hard to find the grip on the slippery astro track.
After three round Jordy ended at the second place behind Kay Koops, he was just three seconds quicker.

Semi final was very good , Jordy and Jeffrey drove an easy race en Jordy ended at the first spot.

The A final was differend. All drivers wanted to show what they could, so at the first corner lot’s of drivers hit each other and Jordy always was involved.
During the a final Jordy was hit several times , so a third place was the best he could get. After all we had a very nice race weekend and happy with the result.
Everybody have seen what potential this car can have, it’s so easy to drive.
 
Next race is in Purmerend on our home track, let’s hope we can do it a little bit better then!!

The first round of the Elsass/Lothring Cup in France was held at the beginning of April. Under sunny but very cold conditions, the French Team C Team could claim rank 1 and 2 for himself. 

A good start for the team in France and hopefully not the last race success.

This weekend (06.04 - 07.04.2013) we had the nationscup NL-GER-B uit our track MVW Purmerend. Lots of Dutch-German en Belguim drivers were present. Weather was good but very cold on saturday, training went very succesful, Jordy was quick from the beginning and shows a lot of potential with the T8 buggy.
Saturday at the end of the day we did start with the first qualification, Jordy had a lot of fun, and won this qualy with 11 rounds.

Sunday the weather was much better , a little bit more sun, again Jordy was the fastest driver in the field. After qualifications Jordy had TQ.
 
Semi final , starting from spot 1, clean drive , first place again. Than the big final, lot’s of fast drivers , including Matthias Reckward, Bart Mullink etc.
Jordy immidiatly took a gap after the start, and drove a very very nice final. Car was so easy to drive and the win was the result. Afther so many bad luck in other races, this year everything is going so well. 

The 1:10 4wd electric off road Spanish Championship finished this weekend, on a one race format where everything was decided on the awesome track of RC Hobby Garden. Qualifying was dominated by Carlos Pineda, Roger Sancho and Robert Batlle which was the starting position for the A main finals. The first A main was an incredible fight between Pineda and Batlle as they were fighting all main until the last lap when Batlle overtook Pineda landed the triple and won. The second final was dominated from lap 4 until the end by Batlle taking his first Spanish Championship in 1/10 electric with his Yokomo BMAX-4 II. The podium was completed by Carlos Pineda in second position and Juanma Lerma in third.

Results:

1. Robert Batlle Sanchez (Yokomo)
2. Carlos Pineda Vidal (Associated)
3. Juanma Lerma Flores (Team C)
4. David Escudero Samper (Xray)
5. Javi Ortigosa Castro (Durango)
6. Zacarias Villalba Nilsson (Team C)
7. Roger Sancho Gomez (Xray)
8. Ferran Coy Sentis (Xray)
9. Mauricio Ramos Rubio (Associated)
10. David Bustos Flores (Yokomo)

Great results for Team C UK this weekend at the West Bridgeford indoor champs!

Paul Musgrove 5th overall in 4wd, John Jones 6th overall in 2wd, Iain Mellish 2nd in 2wd and Curtis Rj Stain and Ben Smith 1st and 2nd in the junior category.

This weekend 22.03 - 24.03.2013 we had our first round in the Dutch truggy nationals in Purmerend.

In very cold conditions, Jordy was unbeatable , TQ in three rounds of qualification and the only driver with 11 laps. Jordy drove his car to the win at the end of the day.

The Team C T8T was very easy to drive , setup was box stock , with 7-7-3 in diffs.

The previous week-end there was the 1:10 indoor off-road italian championship. Our sponsored driver, Marco Laghezza, took the second place with the TM2. He lost the first place only for few seconds!

At the “Broxtowe Winter Series” our new team drivers Iain Mellish won convincingly overall with TQ and victory in each round that he competed in with his new TM2. The performance of the TM2 on cold, damp and slippy astro was excellent and goes to prove that it's not just a carpet racer, but a superb allrounder. The competition was very high class with many British national A finalists present over the 6 round series. All over there were around 90 entrants over the series.

Well done Mr. Mellish!

Under the leadership of „Hobby Delgado“, our distributor for Spain, we proudly present our Spanish 1/10 race team for the coming season 2013. Guys, we would like to welcome all of you in our Team C family!

Jordy Velder – first race first win!

We would also welcome our new team driver Jordy Velder and his father/mechanic Michel from the Netherlands in our Team! Jordy will start in the 1:8 nitro categories with our “T8” Buggy and “T8T” Truggy. And he also had a perfect start in the new season.

On his first race on the MVW track in Purmerend – Netherlands he took the first place under very bad weather conditions.

Well done – Jordy and looking forward to see much more great results!

Team C and Zacarias Villalba wins Spanish 2WD nationals Rd1.

The first round of the Spanish 2WD electric buggy Championship took place on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th of February in the Andalusian town of Jerez, in southern Spain. It is the second consecutive year that the club CDRC Jerez hosts a national championship and they put on a great effort to prepare the track from all rain and bad weather the week leading up to the event.

Yet again the series saw a great attendance with drivers from every corner of the country. Electric racing is getting pretty popular in Spain, and many drivers from nitro classes are trying their luck in the electric classes. One of them is current 1/8th world champion Robert Batlle who raced his first ever electric race in Jerez.
 
On Saturday’s practice local driver Antonio Notario showed that he would be one of the contenders for the win. Last year’s winner in Jerez, Team C driver Zacarias also had a good pace. Robert Batlle had the speed but was lacking consistency and Carlos Pineda was struggling with a new-built car in the first rounds of practice. The four drivers stood out from the rest.
 
On Sunday all five rounds of qualifying and triple finals were held. Team C driver Zacarias Villalba took the first two rounds of qualifying while local driver Antonio took the third. Driver Carlos Pineda got his speed up in the last two rounds and won them. It came down to the fastest time to determine the TQ, in favor of Villalba by 8 second. As qualifying went on the track rutted up badly and drivers had to find new lines in the dirt/clays sections. The extremely low-traction astro-turf didn’t make thing easier for the drivers.
 
The crowd gathered around the track witnessed epic battles in all three A-finals. Notario took A1, while Villalba and Pineda took A2 and A3 respectively. All three drivers also had a second position, so yet again it all came down to the fastest time to crown de the winner. Villalba won by 8 tenths over Notario, with Pineda in third. Robert Batlle was fourth in his electric debut.
 
In total there were thre Team C cars in the A-main, and the winner of the B-main was also Team C driver. Almost 25% of the field were Team C cars, which proves the huge success the brand is having in Spain at the moment.
 
Results:
 
1. Zacarias Villalba (Team C/Speed Passion)
2. Antonio Notario (Associated/Hobbywing)
3. Carlos Pineda (Associated/LRP)
4. Robert Batlle (Yokomo/LRP)
5. Juan Luis Roman (Team C/Speed Passion)

Video:

A2 Finale

Full results

New team driver Zacarias Villalba from Spain – First race, first podium finish.
 
Anyway it`s a pleasure for us, to welcome such a good driver like “Zac” in our team. But no one dreamed about such a good result, only one week after he had signed the contract.
First race was in Almeria on the annual race of Hobbyndalo with 40 drivers lining out on the grid in 2WD Buggy class. Some really good 1/8 drivers were present at the event including several Spanish Championship podium finisher.
 
Zac raced his “T2evo” on the newly built astro-turf track. All over he finished on second place with his rear engine compare to all the mid-motor buggies from the other drivers. Now think about, what Zac is able to do with our brand new “TM2” mid-motor buggy which will arrive in January!!!
We are sure, that 2013 will be great season for Team C Spain!
 
Thanks also to Hobby-Delgado, our Spanish distributor for promoting and sponsoring.

Lehtojärvi and GT8L dominate GT8 series!
By winning 3 of 4 Races Jethro Lethojävi totaly dominated Finlands GT8 series. In the last race just one guy was able to beat him and made him finish on second place. That was Jan Hovi which also raced Team C GT8L.
These results proof the great performance of Team C's GT8L Onroad Touring Car!

Doublestrike for Guzman and Team C at 2012 HRH Shootout.
Hot Rod Hobbies is known to be one of the greatest tracks in the world. For the 15th time they hold down the HRH Shootout. It was Michael Guzman who served Team C a great vitory by winning the Expert Stock SC and Expert Stock Buggy class!

Great result for TS2 and TC02Evo!

congratulations to Jason Kenney for winning the 1/8th electric sportsman buggy class with his T8e, at "bring the heat" race in Mississippi. ( 7/13/12-7/15/12).

Team C driver Darrin Quinn won the RC Pro series Round 3 in both 2wd and 4wd SCT classes over here in Southern Ontario!

Round 3 of the UK BRCA Short Course Nationals were held at the popular club Broxtowe on the 17th June 2012. Team C / SMD had several drivers in attendance Richard Johnson, John Brook, Dan Austin, Rob Jaques & Aaron Birkin all running the new Team C Short Course Truck (TS2).

A fantastic days racing were had by all and the Team C / SMD drivers did not disappoint with an epic result, 4 Team C TS2’s in the top 5 overall, a dominating performance it has to be said.
 

The Nitro Dirt Challenge is one of the biggest events in USA. Mainly it's about Nitro Buggies and Truggies but in the past years more classes been added. So it was Andrew Smolnik with his TS2 who won the 2WD Short Course Class in 2012.