RCGP - Inside Track

With the USA round of RCGP approaching fast and the exciting announcement of Ryan Lutz joining the Beach RC Team we decided to have a chat with him. Ryan gives his thoughts on the series and racing so far, how he feels it can benefit the industry, racing Ongaro again and a few other topics. Thank you Ryan for your time and we look forward to seeing you at Thunder Alley in October.

Links for RCGP and partners

YouTube 

 www.youtube.com/channel/UC1kuFeeNuG9zeZrNJiQcr_g

Facebook

www.facebook.com/RCGPWorldSeries/

RCGP Webpage

www.rcgp.racing

Thank you to all the companies that are participating in season one of the RCGP World Series:

HB Racing- www.hbracing.com

Performa Racimg - www.performaracing.com

SWORKz RC- www.sworkz.com

Infinity Racing - www.creationmodel.net/

JQ Racing - http://stories.jqracing.com/

Beach RC - www.beachrc.com

MX Scuderia Scampi Rosso - www.scuderiascampirosso.ch

Savox Servos www.savoxusa.com

Hot Race Tyres hotracetyres.com

Reds Racing - www.reds-racing.com

Maugrafix - www.maugrafix.com/en/

Proline Racing - www.prolineracing.com

Rounds 5&6 from Asti, Italy are in the books and it did not disappoint. There was race action, drama on and off the track, Facebook drama and much more. On this episode Lee Martin's mechanic Leon Morrell joins JQ and Lefty to talk about the races last weekend from his perspective. They also talk about the last rounds coming up in the USA in October. If you have not seen any of the action you can go to the RCGP YouTube Channel or Facebook page and the post race show will be available soon as well. Thank you for the support and enjoy the podcast it was a bit windy where Leon was and JQ was driving to a race so there is some background noise that was unavoidable.

Links for RCGP and partners

YouTube 

 www.youtube.com/channel/UC1kuFeeNuG9zeZrNJiQcr_g

Facebook

www.facebook.com/RCGPWorldSeries/

RCGP Webpage

www.rcgp.racing

Thank you to all the companies that are participating in season one of the RCGP World Series:

HB Racing- www.hbracing.com

Performa Racimg - www.performaracing.com

SWORKz RC- www.sworkz.com

Infinity Racing - www.creationmodel.net/

JQ Racing - http://stories.jqracing.com/

Beach RC - www.beachrc.com

MX Scuderia Scampi Rosso - www.scuderiascampirosso.ch

Savox Servos www.savoxusa.com

Hot Race Tyres hotracetyres.com

Reds Racing - www.reds-racing.com

Maugrafix - www.maugrafix.com/en/

Proline Racing - www.prolineracing.com

Good day everyone RCGP is this weekend rounds 5&6 in beautiful Asti, Italy. The Asti track owned by Former Italian football player Diego Fuser has been prepped and prepared for the upcoming races. The track is looking exceptional and should prove to provide some of the best racing yet in the first ever 1/8 scale Off Road World Series that is RCGP. 

On Episode #10 of The Starting Grid JQ , Felix Bo Rigby and Lefty talk about the upcoming race and what they expect will happen. Felix is the new reporter for RCGP and look for his articles this weekend. Together they discuss the past Euro events and how this will effect the drivers coming into these rounds. They break down each team and driver and look at the points and what can possibly happen. They also give their predictions for top 3 for Saturday & Sunday and Lefty's prediction is completely off the wall. 

Links for RCGP and partners

YouTube 

 www.youtube.com/channel/UC1kuFeeNuG9zeZrNJiQcr_g

Facebook

www.facebook.com/RCGPWorldSeries/

RCGP Webpage

www.rcgp.racing

Thank you to all the companies that are participating in season one of the RCGP World Series:

HB Racing- www.hbracing.com

Performa Racimg - www.performaracing.com

SWORKz RC- www.sworkz.com

Infinity Racing - www.creationmodel.net/

JQ Racing - http://stories.jqracing.com/

Beach RC - www.beachrc.com

MX Scuderia Scampi Rosso - www.scuderiascampirosso.ch

Savox Servos www.savoxusa.com

Hot Race Tyres hotracetyres.com

Reds Racing - www.reds-racing.com

Maugrafix - www.maugrafix.com/en/

Proline Racing - www.prolineracing.com

Good day everyone we hope you enjoyed the coverage from RCGPs rounds 3 and 4 from Ferhing, Austria this weekend. It was a great event congratulations to Davide Ongaro for winning the RCGP round and Leonardo Valente for winning the RC2 class. Well done to everyone that participated in this event it was awesome. The coverage was great congrats to the RC Racing TV team that covered the event the owners of the Ferhing track for all thier hard work and the team of people that went in to make this happen.

This week on Episode #9 one of the main figures in making RCGP happen Mr David Isherwood joins Lefty to chat for a bit then they are joined by JQ to discuss the race this past weekend. They discuss the facility, track, atmosphere, racing good and bad, and many other topics that happened this past weekend. Thank you David for coming on the show and we now turn our focus to the next race in Asti, Italy the first weekend of August the beauty of a World Series Championship is the ability to make up for bad races and proceed forward to the next race. 

Thank you all for the continued support, enjoy the podcast and please share spread the RCGP love.

Links for RCGP and partners

YouTube 

 www.youtube.com/channel/UC1kuFeeNuG9zeZrNJiQcr_g

Facebook

www.facebook.com/RCGPWorldSeries/

RCGP Webpage

www.rcgp.racing

Thank you to all the companies that are participating in season one of the RCGP World Series:

HB Racing- www.hbracing.com

Performa Racimg - www.performaracing.com

SWORKz RC- www.sworkz.com

Infinity Racing - www.creationmodel.net/

JQ Racing - http://stories.jqracing.com/

Beach RC - www.beachrc.com

MX Scuderia Scampi Rosso - www.scuderiascampirosso.ch

Savox Servos www.savoxusa.com

Hot Race Tyres hotracetyres.com

Reds Racing - www.reds-racing.com

Maugrafix - www.maugrafix.com/en/

Proline Racing - www.prolineracing.com

Good day all as RCGP heads into Austria this weekend at the beautiful track knows as Ferhing Lefty and JQ  sit down and talk about the upcoming race. They talk about the unique Euro style track, the beauty of where it is located, the new additions to the race this weekend Elliot Boots, Jorn Neuman and Marco Baruffolo. They make predictions for the top 3 as well as the rest of the field.

RC2 class gets to race more this weekend racing the same format as RCGP on the first day and then again IFMAR ladder style on the second day. Can the Mini Viking Pelle Culmsee repeat his performance from the Philipines? Time will tell!!!

Coverage starts at 10 AM Austria time on Saturday and that is 6 hours ahead of EST so if you want to watch live you have to be up early. Tune in and watch some of the best in the world race every time they touch the track !!

Thank you for the continued support with the podcasts and we hop you enjoy the coverage this weekend.

Links for RCGP and partners

YouTube 

 www.youtube.com/channel/UC1kuFeeNuG9zeZrNJiQcr_g

Facebook

www.facebook.com/RCGPWorldSeries/

RCGP Webpage

www.rcgp.racing

Thank you to all the companies that are participating in season one of the RCGP World Series:

HB Racing- www.hbracing.com

Performa Racimg - www.performaracing.com

SWORKz RC- www.sworkz.com

Infinity Racing - www.creationmodel.net/

JQ Racing - http://stories.jqracing.com/

Beach RC - www.beachrc.com

MX Scuderia Scampi Rosso - www.scuderiascampirosso.ch

Savox Servos www.savoxusa.com

Hot Race Tyres hotracetyres.com

Reds Racing - www.reds-racing.com

Maugrafix - www.maugrafix.com/en/

Proline Racing - www.prolineracing.com

On this episode JQ, Brent and Lefty talk about the awesome first rounds of RCGP Philipines. Current IFMAR World Champion Davide Ongaro won Rd#1 Saturday then RD#2 Sunday leaving Manila with the Championship lead for drivers as well as the Team points. The racing was awesome from the first qualifier all heads up racing and inverted the starting grid each round.

JQ talks about how it felt to see RCGP actually happen, Brent is pumped about his Beach RC team and LTG is just pumped period. They touch on the drivers, racing, track, professional coverage and the soon to be released post race show. 

Congratulations to Pelle Culmsee for winning the RC2 class and all the participants that took part the racing was great in thier finals and hopefully more top young Euro drivers joining Pelle in Austria in 4 weeks time. We talk about how RC2 is the stepping stone to RCGP and how it can grow young drivers to become pros.

Also congrats to the JR drivers that participated in the JR final and the 40+ drivers that participated it all makes for great a great event.

Congratulations and job well done to all those involved it was RC history in the making Great job RCGP!!

Next race is at the Fehring in Austria more of an MX style track big, dirt and high speeds it should be interesting to see who comes out on top after this next race.

Remember the post race sho should be up on Extreme TV this weekend you can also find all info on the website rc-gp.com as well as the RCGP Facebook and Instagram page and also on the RCGP Youtube page

 RC2 guys if you was on the fence of Austria jump pff the fence let's see all the fast young guys race next race who can dethrone Pelle ? Sign up and race !!

Thank you all for the continued support and like and share this podcast please !

Links for RCGP and partners

YouTube 

 www.youtube.com/channel/UC1kuFeeNuG9zeZrNJiQcr_g

Facebook

www.facebook.com/RCGPWorldSeries/

RCGP Webpage

www.rcgp.racing

Thank you to all the companies that are participating in season one of the RCGP World Series:

HB Racing- www.hbracing.com

Performa Racimg - www.performaracing.com

SWORKz RC- www.sworkz.com

Infinity Racing - www.creationmodel.net/

JQ Racing - http://stories.jqracing.com/

Beach RC - www.beachrc.com

MX Scuderia Scampi Rosso - www.scuderiascampirosso.ch

Savox Servos www.savoxusa.com

Hot Race Tyres hotracetyres.com

Reds Racing - www.reds-racing.com

Maugrafix - www.maugrafix.com/en/

Proline Racing - www.prolineracing.com

Well the time is here in 1 day the first ever RCGP race will take place in Manila, Philipines. Lots of hard work, time and money put in to make this happen the first ever world series of RC Racing. On this episode Joseph and Lefty do a preview of the teams and drivers entered in this historic first race and predictions for RCGP.

Joseph explains how the format will work in both RCGP and RC2 and talks about all the planning and how he is looking forward to being just another racer at this event.

Congratulations to all those involved in doing this and its going to be an exciting weekend of racing and RC Racing TV and Matt and Nick will do an awesome job as usual you can follow all the  coverage on the RCGP Facebook page as well as www.rc-gp-com and also on the RCGP YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1kuFeeNuG9zeZrNJiQcr_g

Thank you all for the continued support we cannot do it with out you please enjoy the podcast like and share and tune in to RCGP !!

Links for RCGP and partners

YouTube 

 www.youtube.com/channel/UC1kuFeeNuG9zeZrNJiQcr_g

Facebook

www.facebook.com/RCGPWorldSeries/

RCGP Webpage

www.rcgp.racing

Thank you to all the companies that are participating in season one of the RCGP World Series:

HB Racing- www.hbracing.com

Performa Racimg - www.performaracing.com

SWORKz RC- www.sworkz.com

Infinity Racing - www.creationmodel.net/

JQ Racing - http://stories.jqracing.com/

Beach RC - www.beachrc.com

MX Scuderia Scampi Rosso - www.scuderiascampirosso.ch

Savox Servos www.savoxusa.com

Hot Race Tyres hotracetyres.com

Reds Racing - www.reds-racing.com

Maugrafix - www.maugrafix.com/en/

Proline Racing - www.prolineracing.com

This week on the Starting Grid episode #5 Lefty talks to Mau of MauGrafix and race director of the RCGP World series. Mau talks about how he started in RC, how MauGraphix came about, working with JQ, his thoughts on RCGP, his role as RD, experience as an RD and many more topics. 

RCGP Round #1 in Manilla, Philippines is about 2 weeks away and will be free for everyone to watch and will be something never seen before in RC and if you was not excited you should be now.

Go to rc-gp.com for more information on the racing and goals of RCGP as well as to sign up your track or club to the track affiliation program.

Thank you all for listening and supporting this podcast as well as the NNRC and we look forward to bringing you the listeners more content from Rc around the world!

This week on Episode #4 of The Starting Grid Lefty talks to HB Racing team drivers David "The Viking" Ronnefalk and Cole Ogden while they are in Spain practicing and getting ready for the first round of RCGP in Manila, Philippines in one month. They are both excited to be apart of the first ever World Series of RC racing and looking forward to the new revolutionary format of racing that will be broadcast world wide. The share thier thoughts on and expectations for round one as well as spending some time in the beautiful Philippines.

Lefty then has the  CommSportMX Scuderia Scampi Rosso Team Manager Beat Knutti. Beat explains to Lefty how a non RC industry funded team started and is now a part of RCGP. Talks about Swiss driver Patrick Hofer looks to improve by racing with some of the fastest racers on the planet. He talks about having current IFMAR WC Davide Ongaro on the team and goes on to explain how the unique team name came about.

Thank you all for listening and supporting this podcast as well as the NNRC and we look forward to bringing you the listeners more content from RC around the world!

Episode #3 of The Starting Grid the official podcast of the RCGP World Series is ready for download. This episode Lefty talks to RC Racing TV's Nick Daman about the exciting upcoming first round of RCGP in Philipines. Nick tells us about his background in RC and full scale productions, how he feels RCGP will change RC, why people should be excited and how this benefits everyone. He explains how making a viable product to help make RC racing more mainstream to help get new people involved  and how important the proper production of such an event is. Please enjoy the cast and share so more people can learn about Nick's role in this game changing concept that is RCGP.

Remember in less than 2 months the first round of RCGP will happen and there are still entries available in the RC2 class so if you are interested in visiting a new country, partaking in an awesome RC race and being apart rc history now is your chance. If you want to just watch it from home or while you are out racing you can do this too. Stay tuned for more podcasts and info about RCGP.

The Starting Grid will be a regular podcast covering everything RCGP, leading up to it as well as when the races start, talking to everyone involved. If you wish to learn more about RCGP please visit their website at rc-gp.com as well as on their Facebook Page.

Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy the podcast, learn more about what RCGP is going to do, and remember for change to happen, things actually have to change.