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October 7, 2015

Oscar Navarro takes Madrid Buggy regional title

The final round of the Madrid Nitro Buggy regional championship was held at the Tarancon track. Oscar Navarro would take the TQ after the qualifiers but it was Javier Pombo who came out fastest after the semifinals to start from pole position into the main final. The A-main would then see Oscar Navarro taking an early lead and he would keep it until the end to take the win from Javier Pombo and Ignacio Gutierrez in second and third respectively. With the win Oscar also secured himself the overall regional championship.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 7, 2015

Kyle Klingforth sweeps 2015 Halloween Classic

This past weekend NORCAR R/C Racing at The Gate hosted their 21st edition of the Halloween Classic. This year proved to be the largest Halloween Classic ever with IIC not happening in 2015. In the largest class, 17.5 Touring, Xray’s Sam Issacs would take TQ in round 1 and re-set TQ in round 3. At the start of the main, a mini failnado would mix things up and out of the carnage, Sam Issacs lead Kyle Klingforth (Awesomatix) for the first few laps with Xray’s Eric Anderson in 3rd. Early on Kyle and Eric would swap places once, and then give them back the lap later. On the 25th lap Sam would tap out allowing the hard charging Kyle to take over the lead. The rest of the podium would be decided with just four laps to go when Eric fell victim of team mate Dan Hamann which allowed last year’s winner, Michael Hanulec (Awesomatix) to promote himself into 3rd after starting 9th.

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October 7, 2015

Alexander Hagberg wins at ORCA Cup Malaysia

The ORCA Cup Malaysia was recently held at the Kota Raja track in Klang, just outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 2-day event saw the running of four different classes and the attendance of Sweden’s Alexander Hagberg as a special guest. The current EFRA Touring Car European Champion would attend in the Modified Touring class and he was facing some difficulties at first as the bumpy and low-grip track took the better of him, allowing local Azri Amri to take the TQ. In the finals Alex was then able to fight for the win after some drastic setup changes. A1 though didn’t went to plan but the Swede was fighting back in A2 after a mid-race mistake of Azri allowed Alexander to take the win. In the third and decisive final leg Alex was again able to profit of a mistake by Azri, allowing Alexander to take the overall win in the Modified class.

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October 7, 2015

French Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

The fifth and final round of the French Electric On-road Nationals was held in Reding. In the premier class of Touring Car Modified Loic Jasmin (Yokomo) took the day’s win from Team Magic driver Cyril N’Diaye and Xray’s Hugo Ragaut. Jérémy Limoges and Rémi Callens in fourth and fifth respectively rounded out the top 5 result.

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October 7, 2015

Team Associated Top Gun Shootout – Announcement

The 2015 Team Associated Top Gun Shootout will be held from the 12th to 13th of December at SDRC Raceway in San Diego, California. The event will see the usual mix of 1/10th Buggy and Truck classes along an 1/8th E-Buggy category and more information and signup can be found here.

October 6, 2015

Noah Ford wins E-Buggy class at SRI Showdown

The Scale Reproduction Inc Showdown 29th Anniversary race was recently held with a 170+ entries field. Noah Ford would take the round TQs in the first and third qualifier to grab the overall TQ in the 1/8th E-Buggy class. In the opening A-main Noah would lead from tone to tone only to run into problems in the second A-main. An early mistake let Ford drop to fourth place. With three minutes to go Noah had moved up to second place and he started to close in on the leader who would make a mistake with two laps to go. Ford was able to get around and hold the lead for the remainder of the race to take the overall class win.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 6, 2015

Mustafa Alp wins at TORC Championship Rd4

Round four of the TORC Championship was held in Bumod Bursa, Turkey in rather cool weather conditions compared to the previous round. In the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class Mustafa Alp put himself directly into the final thanks to TQing three qualifiers. At the start of the main final Mustafa took off with no problems and he quickly opened a gap to his competitors. Some 25 minutes into the race he came in for a scheduled stop for tyres and at the end Mustafa brought home the win after a very clean run and with an 8 laps margin on runner-up Halit Korpe who suffered from several flameouts during the race. Mert Ekinci would round out the top 3 result.

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October 6, 2015

Lemieux & Ellis win at Halloween Classic

The 21st Annual Halloween Classic was hosted at its home track “The Gate” in Cleveland, Ohio. This race has gone back many years as the warm-up to the Cleveland Indoor Champs and has grown its own prestige over time. The event format was official practice on Friday with three qualifiers on Saturday and one qualifier on Sunday followed by the finals. This year’s race sold out at 220 entries in 90 minutes when the online sign-ups opened. This year it was considered the first race of carpet season for the US so it is fair to say that there was some big anticipation for everyone to get back to carpet racing.

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