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January 8, 2016

Bayer fastest in 4WD at DHI Cup

Martin Bayer has set the 4WD Buggy pace on the opening day of the DHI Cup. Despite being forced to sit out the final practice due to a servo failure, the Xray driver still managed to top the seeding list thanks to his 3-consecutive pace of the opening timed practice. Closest to the Czech ace was HB’s David Ronnefalk, the Swede improving on his opening time by a tenth of a second to get within 2/10ths of Bayer. Having set the pace in 2WD practice, Michal Orlowski would end up third fastest but the Schumacher driver was a considerable 7/10ths off the pace. For defending champion Joern Neumann, sixth would be the best the Serpent driver could manage behind Yokomo team-mates Tom Cockerill and Frederik Hovgaard.

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January 8, 2016

Orlowski tops 2WD practice at DHI Cup

Michal Orlowski has topped 2WD Buggy practice at the DHI Cup, the Schumacher driver setting the fastest 3-consecutive laps at the Danish event to end up almost half a second clear of former winner Tom Cockerill. Joakim Nicolaisen would complete the Top 3, Team Associated’s up & coming talent 3/100ths faster than defending champion David Ronnefalk. For two time 2WD winner & unbeaten 4WD Champion Joern Neumann practice would leave the Serpent driver only 9th fastest while Xray’s 4WD World Champion Bruno Coehlo, despite laying down the fastest single lap ended up 16th.

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January 7, 2016

Patrick Hofer triples at Hohenems Winterchamps

The annual Winterchamps electric off-road race hosted by the EFAC Hohenems in Austria was held this past weekend. Usually the first big race of the year the event attracted some 160 racers to race on the purpose-built high-grip carpet track. Swiss frontrunner Patrick Hofer (Team Associated) swept the 2WD Buggy, 4WD Buggy and Modified Truck classes by TQing all three categories and by bringing home solid wins in the A-mains for a brilliant start into the year. In the 2WD class Micha Widmeier (Schumacher) grabbed the runner-up spot from Fabian Widmer (Yokomo) while in the 4WD Buggy class Patrick was sidelined by teammate Nico Schmid (Team Associated) with Fabian Widmer (Yokomo) having scored another 3rd place finish.

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January 6, 2016

Rug Racers Rd3 – Report

The recent third round of the 2015/16 Rug Racers series welcomed people in from the rain and the excesses of Christmas, the pits were awash with shiny new toys that loved ones had bestowed upon them to spread some Christmas cheer and get them out the house for a few weekends of racing a year. The race again was fully booked and so controlled practice was the starting order of the day and once all 11 practice heats had been completed it was onto driver briefing and then game time. In Open Modified Elliott Harper took 3 of the 4 rounds, being the only driver on the day to get into 31 laps with young Harley Eldridge taking round 4 Kyle Branson being 2nd in every round.

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January 6, 2016

2016 Venom Offroad Jam – Announcement

The annual Venom Offroad Jam is back for it’s 4th year in a row, hosting some of the hottest indoor offroad R/C racing in the midwest on January 29-31. The event returns to Fastlane Raceway in Blue Springs, Missouri, providing racers heated indoor pits, restrooms, on-site hobby shop, nearby lodging, food, entertainment, and more. Beside racing the event will see the annual Sponsor Raffle, Dash 4 Cash Race, the signature ‘Worst Weekend Award’ contest, and more to make everyone feel like a winner. More information and sign-up can be found here.

January 5, 2016

Norwegian Cup Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Norwegian Cup was run at the Lucky Raceway in Fredrikstad, host of the 2015 Nordic Championships. Classes run were Touring Modified, 13.5T Stock Blinky and 1/12th on-road and in the Modified class Helge Johannessen took the TQ with a prototype ARC R11 car in front of Petter Berntsen (Xray) and Andreas Daving (Schumacher). In the supporting Stock class Fredrik Haavardsrud (ARC) came out fastest after the qualifiers from Lars Haugen (Xray) and Trygve Berntsen (Gizmo). Finally in the 1/12th pan car class Lars Haugen (Xray) took the TQ from Lars Tommy Berntsen (Xray) and Trygve Bull Freng (Xray).

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January 4, 2016

Bloomfield wins at Herts Nitro Winter Series Rd5

Round 5 of the Herts Nitro Winter Series was held in unseasonably warm weather which allowed an almost bone dry track right from the off. Darren Bloomfield would take a commanding TQ in the Nitro Buggy class with fellow team drivers Ollie Currie and Callum Niblett were both running strong and pushing each other on along with Jamie Clancy as they disputed 2nd overall behind Darren. The main final saw a masterclass from Darren as he powered away from the field to take a dominant win. Behind was where the action was, with Ollie, Callum and Jamie battling it out for 2nd. Jamie eventually dropped off the back of the other two and left the Agama juniors to fight it out for 2nd. Ollie eventually took the place after Callum made a hard charge to get on the back of him but ultimately fell a little short, and this completed an Agama 1-2-3 podium lockout.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

January 4, 2016

Speith & Pauwels win at MIO Cup Rd3

The third round of the International Indoor Off-road Cup held at Model Indoor Oss took place this past weekend. In the 2WD Buggy class Oliver Speith (Schumacher) took the TQ with a clean sweep from Schumacher teammate Bart Mullink. The finals then again were an easy affair for the German who scored wins in all three A-mains to take the day’s victory from TLR’s Wesley van Helmond with Bart Mullink rounding out the top 3 result. The 4WD Buggy class had David Pauwels (Yokomo) being equally dominant as Oliver in 2WD. The TQ holder would win all three A-finals from runner-up after the qualifiers, Arie Vos (Xray). Bart Wubben (Xray) rounded out the podium result in 3rd.

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