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April 26, 2017

Austin Blair wins at Tekin Shootout

Amain’s Silver Dollar Raceway recently played host to the 2017 Tekin Shootout. In the Pro Nitro Buggy class the 20-minute A-main saw a close fight between Austin Blair (SWorkz) and CJ Jelin (Xray) who constantly swapped positions due to being on different fuel strategies. In the closing stages and after the final fuel stop, Austin got into the lead again and even after a hard chase CJ was not able to catch him again meaning Austin would take the win a narrow 0.132 seconds in front of CJ while Mason Eppley (Tekno) rounded out the top 3.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 26, 2017

Ginting & Sutedja win at East Touring Series Rd2

The second round of East Touring Series was held at the Sunter International Speedway. The race was held in a Reedy Race format for both the Modified and Mini chassis classes. The race format saw 7-rounds of reverse grid racing and in the end Bowie Ginting would score four wins in the Touring Modified class to take the win from Arya Seta and Suwardi Suliandy in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the Open Mini class it would be young gun Ridhwan Sutedja who made a clean sweep for the win.

View the final results here

April 26, 2017

Konsta Saarinen takes double Winter Jumps title

The Finnish Winter Jumps Offroad Indoor Championship concluded this past weekend with the final round being held at the Model Expo Toy Fair in front of thousands of spectators. Due to the unfortunate clash with the EOS finale in Austria some of the Finnish frontrunners such as Haatanen, Salmela and Valander would be absent from the meeting. This made way for young and talented Konsta Saarinen who had a shot at both the 2WD and 4WD titles. Ultimately he would clearly dominate the weekend, taking the TQs and wins in both classes and with him the double title.

View the overall results here

April 25, 2017

Tyler Busch wins at Spring Smack Down

The Timewarp RC/Lake in the Hills 5th Annual Spring Smack Down was recently held with over 150 entries. Tyler Busch would walk away with the win in Stock Buggy while Tom Gwinn and Chris Gilliland made up the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 25, 2017

Jason Breiner successful at West Coast Challenge Rd1

The Florida-based West Coast Challenge recently had their opening round with about 100 entries for the race. In the 4WD Buggy A-main Jason Breiner (Team Associated) came out fastest from runner-up, Ben Pinover and 3rd placed Ryan Petitt (both Xray).

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 25, 2017

Mattia Polito wins at FastRace Trophy

The FastRace Trophy was held this past weekend at the Ospy Team track in Gussago, Northern Italy. In the F1 category the main final was won by young Mattia Polito with Luca Puerari coming in 2nd some three laps down. Leonardo Valente took the TQ but had to settle for 3rd overall as he fell victim of bad luck at the start of the final.

Source: Pepe Group [pepegroup.net]

April 25, 2017

Yaniv Sivan wins Israeli League E-Buggy series Rd5

The fifth round of this year’s Israeli League E-Buggy series was held at the Rishpon racing track near Tel Aviv. After three rounds of qualifying Yaniv Sivan took the TQ honours and thus the pole position for the triple A-mains. At the start of A1 Yaniv made a small mistake that saw him drop to 6th while Yaniv Levy, coming from the 2 spot on the grid, took over the lead followed by Amit Bublil. In the closing stages and after a big recovery, Yaniv Sivan was able to close the gap on Levy to take the lead and eventually coming in 1st in the opening A-main. A2 was pretty much a done deal for the TQ holder as Levy ran into tyre issues but was able to hold onto 2nd place while up front Yaniv Sivan would score another win and with it the overall victory.

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April 25, 2017

Aydin Horne sweeps Factory Tracks Invitational

Leisure Hours Raceway hosted the 4th Annual Factory Tracks Invitational in Will County, Illinois this past weekend. While in its fourth year running, each year has crowned a new champion from FTR’s Aydin, Austin, and Allen Horne having all won the overall 2WD/4WD combined championship. The FTR Invitational uses the all out, racing format of the Reedy Race of Champions with points decided by five runs in 2WD and five runs in 4WD allowing for one drop in each class. Running alongside the FTR Invitational was the 2017 JConcepts Shootout, which consisted of the more standard four rounds of qualifying and single A-Main format to decide the winner.

Continue reading the report here