Racing – Thursday 24th May

Posted on May 21, 2012 by

That’s right…..it’s time for the second last round of our Autumn Championship series this Thursday night.

And with just a couple of race meetings to run before the 2012 Launceston Cup we can be double sure of a big turnout.

Come, race, enjoy good company, have fun.

Normal classes for anything electric, and as usual doors will be open by 6, with racing underway by 7pm.

Entries for the Launceston Cup are rolling in – we’re approaching 40 entries already, including our first interstate entry (Adrian Beggs flying in from the Gold Coast). We’ve also added entries in Junior and Open Short Course in the last couple of days.  Hit the online entry form to get your entry in.

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Launceston Cup Update

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

Latest batch of Launceston Cup entries now listed on the entry list.

Don’t forget you can enter on the online entry form here (pre-entries compulsory).

And a great parcel of gear for the event raffle arrived courtesy Ace Hobby Distributors:
- Sweep Racing pit mat, traction compound applicator bottles & stickers
- Team Associated WC hats & battery plugs
- Fusion Typhoon L50B Pro 2s capable LiPo charger/balancer
- Sky RC e-fuel fuse protected power board (for plugging multiple items into power supply)
- Extreme BMC-01 Brushless Motor Checker

Get your entry in and make plans to be in Launceston 29/30 June!

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Autumn 2012 Season Points Update

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

With seven rounds down, and two to go, the 2012 Autumn Club Championship season is hotting up.

Points update is available here: LRC Autumn 2012 Points After Round 7

The score-sheet now includes two dropped rounds (the format for this series being best 7 our of 9 scores counting).

In Short Course Truck it’s Andrew Green with a narrow 6 point lead over Rocket, Andrew Mackenzie third.

Jarrod Painting tops the 8th scale leaderboard, just two points clear of Steve Madziara, Darren Sheehan in third.

Painting makes it two-from-two as he also holds top spot in 10th Buggy, with Paddy Hume just 1 point away and Damien Betts another two back. That’s tight!

Rocket is well clear in tourers, Andrew Mackenzie second and Peter Hutton third.

Sam Betts is three points clear of Chloe Beresford in the battle of the young-guns in Novice. Michael Taylor is third, but Ben Goode is the man to watch, shooting up the rankings quickly.

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Race Report: Thursday 10 May 2012

Posted on May 10, 2012 by

46 cars and some excellent racing were the hallmarks of tonight’s action at Launceston R/C.  Race wins went to Jarrod Painting (8th Buggy), Paddy Hume (10th Buggy), Ben Goode (Novice), Rocket Houghton (Tourers), Justin Strickland (Short Course B) and Scott Guyatt (Short Course A).

Full results are online here, or read on for a summary. Continue reading →

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Racing this week: May 10!

Posted on May 7, 2012 by

We’re on….and it’s going to be big!  With interest starting to build towards the Launceston Cup late June, we can expect to see drivers coming out of the woodwork to fine tune cars and driving.

So we’re racing this Thursday night with all our usual classes. It should be an action packed night, and we hope to see you there.

As usual racing takes place at the Rutherglen Holiday Resort, with doors open by 6 and racing underway by 7 at the latest. Get there early for a practice if you can.

 

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2012 Tiger Models Launceston Cup Details Announced

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

We’re delighted to announce full details for the 2012 Tiger Models Launceston Cup, taking place 29/30 June 2012

Head over to the event page at launcestonrc.com for all the news, entry forms, times, rules and entry list.

A huge thanks to our event partners:

Major changes this year:

  • All new track layout for the event
  • Open practice 5-9.30pm Friday night
  • New class for Open Short Course Trucks – 2/4wd, open tyres, open motor, 2s LiPo.
  • New class for Mini
  • Tourers is combined 17.5/Blinky and 21.5/Open ESC. 27t Johnson/Mabuchi 540 motors also welcome

We’re hoping to offer an event raffle with some great prizes (including R/C gear from Venom and Pro-Line). If you have or can arrange any donations, please see Scott to add to the raffle prize pool.

We’re looking forward to a ripper of an event, and hope you will come and race with us.

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2012 Autumn Points Update

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

We’re now 6 events into our 9-round Autumn 2012 points championship.

The end results will be based on each driver’s best 7 resuults from the 9 rounds.

Here’s the updated points after Round 6, ordered counting each driver’s top 5 scores.

LRC Autumn 2012 Points After Round 6

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Race Report: Thursday 26 April 2012

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

Jarrod Painting took two wins (8th Buggy and 10th Buggy), joining Rocket Houghton who also doubled up (Tourers and Short Course truck) while Chloe Beresford took her second win in the last two club race meetings (Novice) to cap off an exciting night of racing.

we’ve uploaded full results from tonight, together with last fortnight’s race meeting. Get all the details here:

Or, as usual, click through for tonight’s race report. Continue reading →

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Racing Thurs 26 April, 2012

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

We’re on again! Launceston R/C fires up for regular club racing this Thursday night.

If you have an electric R/C car (or you’re interested) come and check out the action at Rutherglen Holiday Resort, Hadspen. Doors open by 6, with racing underway by 7pm.

All our usual classes will be in action:

  • 2wd Short Course Trucks
  • 10th Buggy
  • 10th Tourers/Minis
  • Novice Offroad (any 10th offroad vehicle)
  • 8th Big Bangers (EP 8th buggy/truck)

We’ll see you there!

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Committee Meeting – 7th of May

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

That’s right, it’s time for a committee meeting once again.  It will be at the usual venue of 10 Cameron street Launceston, at the offices of Ritchie & Parker, Alfred Green and Co on the ground floor

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