TLR confirm Reedy Race winner for ‘Euro Offroad Series’ pilot event

Team Losi Racing have confirmed 2011 Reedy International Race of Champions Invitational winner Dustin Evans will travel over from the US to represent them at the ‘Euro Offroad Series’ pilot race in Sweden which runs from April 1-3. The 25-year-old from Denver, Colorado, is the latest big name driver to join the growing entry list that already includes current European Champion Lee Martin, former champions Marc Rheinard, Hupo Honigl & Jorn Neumann, Petit RC race winner Paul Bradby and young Swedish star David Ronnefalk.

The driver responsible for taking Losi’s all new 22 chassis to victory on its race debut, when he won the Spektrum Offroad Challenge in December, Evans will race both buggy and Short Course at the inaugural EOS event and will be joined at the indoor clay track in Tomelilla by TLR’s European 1:8 Offroad ace Martin Bayer from the Czech Republic.

Also making the trip across the Atlantic for the inaugural EOS event is top US female off road racer Sarah Ernst. The daughter of legendary race announcer Scotty Ernst, Sarah recently enjoyed her biggest accomplishment to-date when she made the 2WD Mod Buggy A-Main at the Spektrum Offroad Challenge and she will be looking to build on that when she makes her European 1:10 debut next month.

The creation of the EOS is the result of over a year of lobbying by a number of top off-road racers to get ‘Euro Touring Series’ founders Uwe Rheinard and Scotty Ernst to bring the profile and fun element of their hugely successful electric touring car series to 1:10 off-road, a category which is enjoying a strong resurgence in Europe. Catering for 2WD & 4WD Buggy and Short Course Truck, the timetable for the 3-day pilot event starts on Friday with open practice and the first round of qualifying followed by five more rounds of qualifying on Saturday which will determine the grids for Sunday’s finals with triple Mains for all competitors.

Entries for the EOS pilot race, that will set the stage for a full multi round series beginning in November, have already passed 160 and for your chance to be part of history in the making visit the race page where you can find further details on the event and registering your entry.

Euro Offroad Series announced

The organisers of the hugely popular Euro Touring Series will bring their successful concept off-road with the announcement that they are to create a ‘Euro Offroad Series’. Catering for 1:10 electric off-road classes, the EOS is the result of 12-months of lobbying by a number of top off-road racers to get ETS founders Uwe Rheinard and Scotty Ernst to bring the profile and fun element of their electric touring car series to 1:10 off-road, a category which is currently enjoying a strong resurgence in Europe.

In a year which Europe hosts the 1:10 Off Road World Championships, the EOS will kick off with a 3-day pilot event in Sweden at the beginning of April before the staging of a multi round series scheduled to begin next October. Having persuaded the ETS organisation to create the new series, Europe’s top drivers have been quick to get behind the first EOS race, which will run on an indoor clay track, with current European Champion Lee Martin, former champions Marc Rheinard, Hupo Honigl & Jorn Neumann, last weekend’s Petit RC race winner Paul Bradby along with Swedish stars Viktor Wilck and David Ronnefalk already confirming they will travel to Tomelilla for the April 1-3 event.

1:10 2WD & 4WD Buggy along with 2WD Short Course Truck will make up the ‘Euro Offroad Series’ programme with full details of the race format, rules and information on travelling to the Sweden to be announced over the coming days.

In the meantime all inquiries can be directed to Uwe Rheinard at – uwe.rheinard@t-online.de.