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Thanks to Team CEN driver Gene Hickerson on the previous IFMAR Pre World Warm up at The Farm II, here a picture courtesy of rc news partner, Neobuggy.net
Congrats to Renaud Savoya for being the champion with his Mugen buggy and Ninja engine.
Not forgetting congrats to Mike Truhe with his LOSI ride and Raul Peris with Kyosho buggy! Congrats to all. 
10/27/2007
What awesome result for an awesome Team CEN drivers, Andrew Smolnik and Gene Hickerson aka The Machine. At the recent IFMAR Pre World 1/8 Nitro Offroad Championship at the Charlotte, North Carolina track, The Farm II. Here in Gene’s own words.
Team CEN’s Andrew Smolnik and Gene Hickerson piloted the Matrix Pro into Final A-main of IFMAR Pre-worlds championship taking 4th and 6th positions. Top drivers around the world including many national champions and European Champions gathered at North Carolina to compete in this IFMAR event. Andrew and Gene are ranked 2nd and 3rd in all USA drivers ahead of many USA national champion.
This is the final result of the IFMAR Pre Worlds Race 2007:
Place Name Country Car Engine
1. Renaud Savoya France Mugen Ninja
2. Mike Truhe USA Losi Novarossi
3. Raul Peris Spain Kyosho Novarossi
4. Andrew Smolnik USA CEN OS
5. Miguel Matias Portugal Kyosho Sirio
6. Gene Hickersen USA CEN OS
7. Taylor James USA Jammin OS
8. Davide Tortorici Italy Crono Falcon
9. Kelby Roberts USA Kyosho Werks
10. Daviel Vega Spain Mugen Ninja
Greetings to all my friends, subscribers and visitors to this blog. I am just curious on how the merchants do their online selling. I have seen a few sample of online shopping website own by radio control hobby shop with their own shopping cart software available to the public. However, none as attractive as the one I saw at Ashop Commerce, the leading provider on ecommerce software.
We have featured Tabushi who is our friend at rctech, back at March at the 2007 South American RC Nitro Buggy Championship and now here at his recent outing again at the Fourth stage of the Bogota - Columbia Regional Championship.
Tabushi and his team of Pits Hobby Shop I have to say made an impact on this race outing. They conquered the podium and leave everyone else at the bottom. Just for info, Tabushi is Patricio “Pato” Concha and together with his other team mate Mario Utria were driving with Jammin new engine the Jammin JPX.21 and Maxy’s Fuel and M2C Racing 4 shoes clutches. While their Team Boss, owner of Pits Hobby Shop, Rodrigo Echeverri was using Ofna Hyper 8.5 for the first time. Well done and congratulation to all of you.
FEMCA Pattaya Thailand 2007 just finished last weekend and this is the latest news we can offer you all.
Buggy Final
1 Surikarn C Hotbodies HPI Racing / Hpi /
2 Meen V PRC Xray / Xray / Novarossi
3 Yeh Hsia Ching HN / Hongnor / RB
4 Sam Cheng Hobbylink / Xray / RB
5 Gems PRC Mugen / Mugen / O.S.
6 Cheng Yi Kuan HN / Hongnor / RB
7 Hwang Sun Young Kyosho / RB
8 Charlee PRC Mugen / Mugen /
9 Surasak K Baimai / Kyosho / O.S.
10 Yuhtana D Hobao Sivewender / Hobao / Werks
Truggy Final
1 Paphon C CEN Thailand / Matrix TR Arena / Sirio
2 Alan Looi Racelines / Mugen / Ninja
3 John Ho Reef Hobby / Losi / RB
4 Yeo Seong Leng IRW / GS / Falcon
5 Chai Kok Chin RCMRC / Mugen / GO
6 Lim Kok Beng RCMRC / Hobao / RB
7 Trevor Gillard Racelines / Mugen / Novarossi
8 Antony Kwok Losi / Picco
9 Champ Khunthien Topspeed / Hobao / O.S.
10 Reece McGergor Racelines / Mugen / O.S.
Another long overdue posting. We thought we have covered this 16mm Big Bore Shocks by the Jammin / HongNor Taiwan. Well, we thought wrong. Ha-ha. So here just for our own record and to those who at lost about this new big bore shocks.
The new 16mm Big Bore Shocks are now available. After many testing and improvements, the shocks are designed to the highest quailty and best performance.
For the convenience of first buyers, the big bore shocks are packaged as a set, two front & two rear shocks excluding the springs.
3 different shock springs (yellow-super soft, white-soft, and Nickel-hard) are also available for your choice.
more at : Hongnor Taiwan
Since this is a personal blog and it is simply unavoidable not to talk about personal thing here. Hope you all do not mind. I remembered one of the many conversations I had with my wife regarding RC. Now, I always hope that one day I can drive my RC car as well as Masami Hirosaka. I know, I know, you guys out there might say that I put my hope too high but hey who knows I might. I nearly name my first child Masami you know but my wife against it. She said “Who is this Masami that you adore so much? Is he a movie star?” I still remember she asked me that question.
I simply answer her “Well dear, Masami is not a movie star or a singer. He is the RC world champion in 1/12th scale electric, 1/10th scale Pan, 1/10th scale 2WD off road and 1/10th scale 4WD, all electric and you know what?” I asked her.
“How am I supposed to know dear since he is your “STAR”.” my wife replied.
New hop-up option parts for the CEN Racing Matrix and TR Arena from Machine’s Racing Products available exclusively at Machine’s R/C Hobbies. Designed by CEN factory team driver, Gene ‘the machine’ Hickerson.
MRH01 -
Hardened tool steel cross pins for the Matrix, TR Arena, and GST 7.7 differentials.
MRH02-
CNC 7075 blue anodized front upper turnbuckles for the Matrix TR Arena
MRH03-
CNC 7075 blue anodized front upper turnbuckles for the Matrix Buggy
MRH04-
CNC 7075 blue anodized ackerman steering plate for Matrix & TR Arena
MRH05-
CNC 7075 blue anodized front suspension holder plate for Matrix & TR Arena
source: Gene Hickerson from Machine’s RC Hobbies
This is the engine we have been waiting for, The STS D28 Pro, 5 ports engine. Built specifically for the RC Truggy Class. We heard about it before but nothing solid and thank goodness only recently it is official as per Taiwan STS Racing website announced. Here the specification and a few shots.
D28Pro (#2809)
Professional Truggy Engine
Source: STS Racing Taiwan | Friend: Ah Kim aka Arghh
As always, another great report coming from our friend, Gene “The Machine” Hickerson. Enjoy his report but sadly, he did not join the 1/8 Truck aka RC Truggy class for he surely has the chance of going hat-trick on the championship points. However knowing Gene as humble person, we think he made the right decision to let others get the hands on the truggy class he won for consecutive 2 years in a row. Good for you Gene 
We are very sorry to all loyal readers and visitors. We are in the process of upgrading, maintenance mode. You will experience some glitches and some data errors. This is an unavoidable. The technical team handling is no where expertise in their field except doing some radio control tweaking. Therefore, we as the racers, same like you, just have to close our eyes and hope for the best.
Hope everything will be up and running sooner than we expected. We already give them deadline
Gene “The Machine” Hickerson report on the final of 2007 RC Pro East Series that was held at Phil Hurd Raceway.
The 3rd and final round of the 2007 RC Pro East Series was held last weekend in Savannah Georgia at Phil Hurd Raceway. It was a good turnout of about 140 entries as the best of the East battle for the title of RC Pro East Champion. The track was a good combination of fast sections and really slow sections with tons of small double jumps and 1 huge double jump in the middle. There was no place to make up any time on the layout, but many places where you could easily loose time; so the racing was very close as everyone had about the same lap times.
1/8 Expert Arena Truck qualifying:
