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April 26, 2013

Emer Agero wins E-Buggy at Philippine Off-Road Nats

It was a nice, warm and sunny Summer day in Manila for the Philippine Off-Road Nationals in the E-Buggy Class held at the CV Off-Road Track. The early benchmark in qualifying was posted by Team-C racer Garet Santayana who was almost assured of pole position until a late charge by Team Losi Racing driver Emer Agero who snatched the TQ spot by posting some blistering final laps on his last run. The top 5 on the grid after qualifying were TQ Emer Agero (Losi), 2nd Garet Santayana (Team-C), 3rd Mike Ang (AE), 4th Ish Montilla (AE) and 5th Joseph Salcedo (Xray).

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April 25, 2013

Collin & Wallace win SORC Rd1

Last weekend saw the start of the Scottish Off Road Championship hosted by Dunfermline District Radio Car Club. Round 1 of qualifying was a bit of a wet affair with Chris Mitchell setting TQ pace in 2wd and Kenny Clark setting the fastest time in 4wd. The lap times tumbled as the track dried out through the rest of qualifying, the early pacesetter of Chris Mitchell took TQ in 2wd and Kenny Clark managed to secure overall TQ for 4wd. Chris Mitchell the 2wd pole man was unable to convert his early pace in the finals it was the Schumacher SV2 driven by James Collins that took the win of all three legs of the 2wd A finals. For the 4wd finals it was much the same story as with 2wd, polesitter Kenny Clark unable to take the win, it was the Schumacher K1 of Martin Wallace that pipped Kenny by 1 second in leg 1, leg 2 was an even closer run thing between Martin Wallace and Ross Irwin, Martin just managed over the line in front of Ross beating him by 0.23 of a second and taking the overall 4wd win.

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April 24, 2013

Kinwald & Due win Short Course Showdown Rd3

Round 3 of the Short Course Showdown made it’s way to Trackside Hobbies located in Brookfield Wisconsin. The new track layout had been down for a week or so. The track was wet and still holding a lot of moisture due to the fact that the outside weather was cold and wet for the last few weeks. On Thursday Drivers started to arrive and get their pit spaces picked out and setting up camp for the weekend.

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April 24, 2013

Joseph Quagraine wins RedBull GP in Moscow

Last week end a RedBull GP was held at a Hobby Expo in Moscow Russia. There were over 200 entries all together in a race that covered all the electric offroad classes. This was the debut of the production JQ Electric 1:8th Buggy. There were three JQeCars at the event, and all three made the main, JQ, Dmitry Malyshko and Timo Jalas. The racetrack threw some curve balls to certain drivers with two jumps that crossed over the diagonal main straight. Tricky to jump, and marshall. In the end Joseph Quagraine would take the win ahead of Serpent driver Jörg Tiit in the 2nd with JQ driver Dmitry Malyshko completing the podium in 3rd.

Source: JQ [jq-products.com]

April 24, 2013

Alexander Hagberg reports on Xray Challenge Greece

The Xray Challenge Greece was held last weekend at the FRT track outside of Athens and this report is by Alexander Hagberg. ‘The track is huge by its size, comparable to the famous Lostallo track in Switzerland. It has been the host of numerous EFRA European Championship events in the past, so the quality of the track is very good. This time, the race featured the 1/10 GP and 1/10 EP Modified classes. A total entry count of around 50 had joined the event which was held over one day. The weather was sunny and reaching well over 20 degrees C, which meant perfect racing conditions.

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April 24, 2013

Kobbevik & Erik Mo win at JConcepts Challenge final

Mustit RC Raceway played host to the JConcepts Challenge final event last weekend and it was the biggest so far this year, and a good ending for the winter with a new record in the Short Course 4×4 class 38 cars taking part. The 4wd buggy event saw many hard fights and the fight between Lars Erik Mo and Daniel Kobbevik was tense, they were so much faster than rest off the field, switching possisions all the time. In most of the races it has been Lars Erik Mo winning A-main 1, Daniel A-main 2 and then again Lars Erik taking A-main 3. This time the same happened and final 3 was open, Daniel was actually leading until the last round. Lars Erik pushed his Kyosho all he could and was like 10cm behind all the time and it looked like this time it could be a change, but a pin from the center cvd in the B44.2 came out and 40 meters from the finish line the car stopped. So Lars Erik took the win this time also. Lars Erik has been the most winning driver in 4wd this winter.

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April 24, 2013

Tamiya SG takes lead of RaceWorks Elite series

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Round 3 of the inaugural season of the RaceWorks Elite Racing Series was held on 21 April 2013 at RaceWorks’ onroad circuit in Singapore. Fashioned after F1, the series features 5 ‘manufacturer’ teams of 2 drivers each competing for the overall drivers’ and team championship in the 7-race season. With rain disrupting the race, the overall results were based on the only qualifying run that was completed. TITC 2013 champion, Nicholas Lee (Team Tamiya SG) finished first, while teammate Alvin Koh took third spot. Team HB/HPI’s Allister Lim was second for his first podium finish of the season. After finishing on the podium in all 3 rounds so far, Alvin Koh leads the drivers’ standings ahead of PY Tang (Team Xray Singapore). The double podium finish of Team Tamiya SG’s drivers in Round 3 would see the team leap-frog Team Xray Singapore to take over the lead in the team standings. The teams look forward to “locking horns” again when the series resumes on 5 May for Round 4 of the season.

Source: Raceworks [raceworks.sg]

April 23, 2013

Elliott Harper wins BTCC season opener

The Cotswold RC track in the UK saw the unofficial BTCC season opening race and it was Team Durango’s newly signed Elliott Harper who took the TQ honours with the company’s DETC410 touring car prototype. Elliott was able to TQ every qualifying round and also posted the fasted lap ever at the Cotswold track. The young Brit then went on to sweep the A finals and took the race win in front of Schumacher’s Chris Grainger and Olly Jeffries (Team Associated).

Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]