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May 10, 2018

Tommy Hinz sweeps RTS Carpet Cross

The recent RTS Carpet Cross race saw Tommy Hinz making a clean sweep in both the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes. The race was held on a small and tight track and following the practice rounds on Saturday the opening two qualifiers were held on Saturday evening. Tommy would TQ the two rounds in both 2WD and 4WD and also also came out fastest on O3 and Q4 of 2WD and 4WD Buggy on Sunday. Luck was on his side in both 8-minute A-mains and he got through traffic on the small track without any major hiccups and ended up with the win in both classes. In 2WD Carl Engleman and Jared Bardin would complete the podium while Ian Maize and Jeff Statkiewicz rounded out the 4WD top 3.

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May 10, 2018

Hupo Hönigl doubles at Austrian 1/10 Buggy Nats Rd1

The first round of the Austrian 1/10 Off-road Nationals was held at the SMRC Vienna track which was known for its very loose dirt surface, however the club converted the track to a super nice but bumpy Astro turf track. Xray’s Hupo Hönigl made a clean sweep in the tricky high speed and high grip conditions, winning every single practice, qualifying and final run to take the wins in both the 2WD and 4WD Mod Buggy classes. Team Associated’s Peter Pinisch came in 2nd in 2WD from Lucas Grainer (Yokomo) 3rd while in 4WD the podium was rounded out by Yokomo’s Thomas Pumpler and AE’s Peter Pinisch.

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May 9, 2018

Tyrolean Championship Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Tyrolean Championship was held at the AMC Tirol club last weekend with 49 entries for the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula and Histocup. The latter attracted eight entries and was run with mandatory “youngtimer” body shells and hand out 13.5T stock motors. The drivers are encouraged to use non-disc wheels for the hand-out tyres to make for an even more realistic appearance of the cars and in the end it was Rainer Tschabrun with the win from Aaron Tursky and Stefan Santer.

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May 9, 2018

Eric Dankel wins at TOS Central Division Rd4

Round 4 of this year’s central German division Tonisport Onroad Series was held at the Mannheim track last weekend. In the Touring Modified class Mugen’s Eric Dankel made a clean sweep, TQing all four qualifying rounds of qualifying and also coming out on top after the triple A-mains. Team Magic’s Patrick Gassauer ended the day on the 2 spot from Thomas Stenger 3rd.

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May 9, 2018

2018 Silver State race – Report

The 2018 Silver State race was held at South Point Hotel Casino and Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada last weekend, attracting the creme de la creme of the US’s off-road pilots. This year’s Silver State was a totally new experience from year’s past. In many ways, you can say that it’s a version 2.0 or a refresh of a great race organized by Joey Christiansen and The Dirt crew that still has the familiar taste, but a whole new look. One of the reasons why the Silver State is so popular is the plain and simple fact that it’s held in Las Vegas, Nevada also known as City of Lights (or Sin City whichever you prefer). Keeping the tradition alive, Joey decided to keep the race in Vegas but came up with a great idea to have an 8th scale and 5th scale race simultaneously at the South Point Hotel Casino and Spa. To everyone’s pleasant surprise, Joey hit the jackpot.

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May 8, 2018

Schumacher BTCC Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the Schumacher BTCC series moved to sunny Stafford this weekend with Elliott Harper taking the win in Modified ending Olly Jefferies’ fine run of form. Elliott took the overall TQ ahead of Olly, winning three of the four qualifiers, local fast guy Zak Smith having a strong day qualified 3rd. In the final Elliott controlled the pace, Zak managed to get past Olly into 2nd and that’s how it remained.

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May 8, 2018

Norwegian 1/10th Buggy Nats Rd1 – Report

Round 1 of this year’s Norwegian 1/10th Electric Buggy Nationals was held at the Bergen track in what is considered to be the rainiest region of the country. And indeed did the race kick off on the wet, however things got better during the weekend with the grip slowly coming up. The track layout used was tight and technical and together with the unpredictable weather the drivers were forced to be on their toes in terms of setup and tyres. The weekend kicked off on Saturday with the 2WD class and right from the start it was Xray’s Daniel Kobbevik who set the pace. After winning three of the four qualifiers he put his buggy on the pole position from Torbjorn Doler (Team Associated) on P2 as as Øystein Doler (Team Associated) came in 3rd.

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May 8, 2018

Micha Widmaier doubles at BAWÜ Cup

The BAWÜ Cup was held at the Nufringen track in southern Germany recently, attracting a good amount of drivers to compete in several 1/8th off-road classes. In Nitro Buggy it was Micha Widmaier (SWorkz) with the day’s win in front of Fabian Hinderer (Mugen) and Tobias Nagel (SWorkz) in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Luca Schmid (SWorkz) lead the best of the rest in 4th place.

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