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July 30, 2013

Martin Harrison wins E-Truggy at Bring the Heat

Beside the usual nitro classes this year’s Bring the Heat race also saw the running of the corresponding electric races and in E-Truggy it was Tekin factory driver Martin Harrison who was able to TQ rounds one and two taking the overall TQ in this class. In both mains, Harrison got a good start and was able to check out from the rest of the competition and bring home the overall win. His team mate Nathan Harrison would take 3rd overall.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]

July 30, 2013

Van Elmond & Konnings win at BNK Rd5

The fifth round of the coupled Belgian and Dutch BNK electric off-road championship took place at the ORRA track in Arendonk in the North of Belgium. The UK-style astro turf track offered a very challenging layout and despite being flooded on Saturday night by heavy rain the track was fully prepped for Sunday’s race. The meeting saw a good turnout on racers with 50 drivers in 2WD buggy and 30 contenders in 4WD. In the 2WD class Euro A finalist Westley Van Elmond (TLR) TQ’d and won the race chased by Wouter Wijnen who raced his Yokomo buggy for the first time at this event. The third place went to Risser Nicolas (Kyosho) who had some setup issues but he finally found his way up in the field after qualifying fifth. The fourth and fifth place overall went to John Debaquer (X Factory) and Nick Wijers. In the 4WD class Jean-Yves Konnings (Xray) was the dominant driver, followed by local Martin Kempeneers (Kyosho) and Frederic Munoz (Kyosho). Current championship leader Erik Michiels was on a day off and lost the championship lead by one point, having JY Konnings leading the championships now. The next BNK race will be in Bergenhoek, NL.

Thanks to Jean-Michel for sending the report.

July 29, 2013

Drake double at Bring the Heat race

The third annual Bring The Heat Race was held at Flowood R/C Indoor Park in Flowood, Mississippi July 19-21. TLR’s Adam Drake TQ’d and won both Buggy and Truggy. Adam’s tire of choice for qualifying was Pro-Line’s M3 Holeshot 2.0 in buggy and M3 Holeshot in truck. For the 45 minute finals Adam switched to Pro-Line’s M3 Blockades in both classes. Adam’s engine of choice was Novarossi’s Keep Off 4 in the buggy class and the Keep Off 7 in truck. Both engines provided great power, runtime and consistency for the 45 minute finals.

View the truggy podium here

July 29, 2013

JR Mitch wins Mod 2WD Buggy at Open Wheel Classic

GS Hobbies located in Barling, Arkansas hosted the first annual Hangin’ Judge Open Wheel Classic. Drivers travelled from Florida, Texas and Oklahoma to compete with the local Arkansas racers in this Open Wheel only event. The event was limited to 50 entries but ended up with 60 entries which made for some exciting close racing on the small indoor track. TLR Drivers JR Mitch and Cody Hollis had many battles throughout the day with JR Mitch taking the overall win in Mod Buggy and Cody Hollis taking the top spot in Mod Truck. JConcepts Driver Trevor Nault took the win in Mod 4WD Buggy with Cody Hollis taking the 2nd spot.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

July 29, 2013

Baird & Rennick win at Irish off-road nats Rd2

Round two of the Irish 1/8th off-road nationals was held on a new track to the Irish calendar in Southern Ireland, Cork. The qualifying consisted of four seven minute heats and in the nitro buggy class Bradley Baird (JQ/nVision) TQ’d all four rounds and locked up qualifying. In the electric class JQ Products’ driver Andrew Rennick put in three consistent runs which put him third in the electric main. In the 45 minute nitro main, Bradley got off to a clean start and within the first 15 minutes he managed to pull a one lap lead over second place. As the final went on the tricky Cork surface began to rut up and become like a motocross track which made great racing and caught out the unprepared. Bradley kept it together to the end and claimed round two victory followed by Gary Baird (Kyosho/Bullett) and Alan Scroggie (Agama/Bullett). In the electric final it was a three battle for the lead with great racing right to the buzzer which saw Andrew Rennick take his JQ E car to the top step of the podium.

Click here to view the eBuggy podium

July 28, 2013

Groskamp wins 2013 1/8th European Championships

Jilles Groskamp has become the 2013 1/8th Track European Champion here in Halifax after a thrilling final saw him take the win after a race long battle with Brit Kyle Branson, Dario Balestri completed the podium. The finals day in Halifax began with a dry track, something that hadn’t happened many times during the week. Hot temperatures began the day but by the time the semi finals were out on track, it had cooled slightly. In the first semi final, Dario Balestri took a dominating win ahead of his Capricorn team mate Daniele Ielasi and Simon Kurzbuch’s Shepherd. Balestri finished on 78 laps in 1208.48 seconds with Ielasi on 77 laps in 1205.55 seconds with Kurzbuch just .91 seconds behind. Adrian Bertin took the final definite place with the new KM prototype car but Patrick Schafer would have to wait and see if he had made the final. The second semi final proved to be a much closer affair with Mark Green taking the win just .32 seconds ahead of the Shepherd of Groskamp. 3rd and 4th in the Semi A, to definitely book their place in the final, were Motonica’s Robin D’Hondt and Mugen’s Kyle Branson. A noticeable person missing from the final would be Robert Pietsch with the German taking his Novarossi powered Mugen to 8th position. Green’s run of 78 laps in 1201.95 seconds proved to be a whole 7 seconds faster than Dario’s winning time in the Semi B, putting Mark on pole for the 45 minute main final.

Continue reading the report here

July 27, 2013

Martin Bayer wins 2013 4wd Euros

The 1/10th EFRA European Electric Offroad Championships took place in Spain last week and Martin Bayer wrote this report. ‘Immediately following a successful week of 1/8 off-road racing, I traveled with my teammate Reno Savoya to Spain for the European Electric Off-road Championships. The race program started with the 2WD class. We were using a 2WD prototype buggy based on the XB4 1/10 4WD offroad buggy. The car felt very good, but the track proved difficult with many low traction areas. I worked diligently during my free time to continuously improve my set up. After qualifying was completed, I was sitting in 8th position. I was quite pleased with this result considering it was my first race using this prototype on clay.

Continue reading the report here

July 26, 2013

Mark Green is 1/8th Euro A top qualifier

Mark Green is the top qualifier at the 2013 1/8th European A Championships in Halifax. The Serpent driver pulled everything he had out of the bag in the last round of qualifying to take the TQ by 0.14 seconds from Capricorn’s Dario Balestri who held the accolade after the first 4 rounds. With Balestri fastest in the first qualifier, Jilles Groskamp topped the 2nd round with a run of 21 laps in 313.00 seconds ahead of Balestri and Green. With the clock approaching 12:00 at the time of the run, the track proved to be too slow. In the 3rd round, Mark Green took his serpent to the fastest time ahead of Capricorn’s Daniele Ielasi and Mugen’s Kyle Branson. Posting a time of 21 laps in 314.18 seconds, Green again proved that the track was too slow. After the lunch break Round 4 commenced and again Groskamp posted the fastest time to improve by around a second ahead of Dario Balestri and Mark Green hinting ever so slightly that the track was picking up pace as the sun started to go down. With almost every heat prior to the top heat going faster in the final round, the stage was set for something special to come. Dario Balestri would lead for the majority of the heat only for Mark Green to close him down and take the round on the last lap to the joy of the crowd. The stage is set for an exciting set of finals tomorrow.

View the final qualifying results here