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July 22, 2014

ROAR to ban 1/8th style 1/10th buggy tyres

2_ROAR bans 1/8th style 1/10th buggy tyres

U.S. RC car governing body ROAR have announced the ban of the latest breed of 1/10th buggy wheels and tyres such as AKA’s Evo and Pro-Line’s VTR range for ROAR sanctioned events in 2014. It is understood that said wheels and tyres, that adapt the tyre bead design of 1/8th buggy wheels, do not meet with the wheel and tyre dimensions allowed by the ROAR as the AKA Evo and Pro-Line VTR are in fact 2.4 inch offerings while the ROAR and virtually every other governing body only allows 2.2 inch wheels and tyres. Even the use of so called adapter kits are disallowed as they are seen as (illegal) modification to the wheel. The current ban so far only affects 2014 events and there is a chance that the new style wheels and tyres will be allowed to use from 2015 on.

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July 22, 2014

Bruno Coelho takes Portuguese TC championship

This weekend was the 4th round of the Portuguese national touring car championship. The meeting was run at the Torres Novas track with the same layout as the 2013 Euros. With Saturday being the practice day everyone focussed on the Sunday that started out wet. On the drying track Bruno Coelho excelled and he took 3 out of the 4 qualifying rounds to take the overall TQ for the finals.

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July 22, 2014

Austrian electric on-road nationals Rd3 – Report

The 3rd round of the Austrian electric on-road nationals was run at the 1. MRC Wiener Neustadt track in Lower Austria. Overall 42 racers participated in the three classes of TC Modified, TC Stock and Formula 1. In TC Modified Dominik Vogl and his Yokomo BD7 been unbeatable all weekend. Dominik settled for TQ after the qualifiers in front of Martin Szunyogh (VBC), who is regaining his old strength after a longer break while Jakob Zündel (Yokomo) completed the top 3. In the A-mains Dominik was unbeatable up front and winning A-main one and two handed him an early overall victory. The runner-up spot saw a tight fight between Martin and Jakob with the better end for Jakob after winning the third A-main.

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July 22, 2014

Stu Wood takes Northwest regional series title

The 5th round of the UK Northwest regional series was held at the Bury Metro Club with around 90 entries in the 2WD classes. Rain on Saturday meant the racing Sunday would start out wet. Stu Wood made the best out of the conditions and TQ’d the 2WD class and also went on to win the A-main in front of Mark Smith and Adam Perei. The result handed Stu the regional champion title with one round remaining.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 21, 2014

17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout – Report

The 17th Annual Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout was held this past weekend in Saugus, California. The race always attracts some of the country’s fastest off-road drivers and the 2014 edition was no exception and so 2WD class qualifying had Hot Bodies’ Ty Tessmann taking the TQ in round 1 in front of Jared Tebo (Kyosho) while the two swapped positions in round 2. Tebo then also TQ’d round 3 in front of Ty to take the overall TQ position for the finals. 4WD Buggy qualifying saw TLR’s Dustin Evans TQ-ing round 1 in front of Ty Tessmann who in return grabbed TQ honours in the second qualifier from Team Associated driver Ryan Cavalieri. Round 3 then went to Ty Tessmann who left Carson Wernimont behind. The round win then handed Ty the overall TQ for the finals.

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July 20, 2014

Jörn Neumann makes it two at 2014 Euros

After winning the 2WD class at this week’s EFRA Electric Buggy European Championships Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann also won the 4WD class. The qualifying saw Jörn walking away with the TQ from Yokomo’s Lee Martin and Team C’s Hupo Hönigl. Kyosho’s David Ronnefalk had a better qualifying than in the 2WD class with a 4th place overall whole Team Associated’s young Joona Haatanen completed a top 5 result that saw five different chassis manufactures battle for the top spots. Robert Battle (Yokomo), Daniel Kobbevik (Team Associated) and Michal Orlowski (Team Durango) put their buggies on 6th, 7th and 8th on the grid while Tom Cockerill (Schumacher) and Ellis Stafford (TLR) made for seven different brands in the top 10 qualifying result.

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July 18, 2014

Søren Boy Holst wins Rd4 of Danish TC Nats

The 4th round of the Danish electric outdoor Championships was run at the Naestved track, a big nitro track. In the Pro-stock class, run with 13.5T motor and ESC combo kit and same gear ratio, it was Soeren Boy Holst who took the overall win after some really close racing. The battle in top was on between three drivers, Caspar Morgen who dominated the practice on Saturday, Nicolai Nielsen and Soeren Boy Holst. Saturday evening was full of showers, so the track was quite damp Sunday morning, but got better during the day. Nicolai won the first round of qualifying with Caspar on 2nd place and Soeren on 3rd.

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July 18, 2014

Nikos Georgiadis wins Greek Touring Series title

The 5th round of the Greek Touring Series championship was run at the FRT track. The hot weather made for good grip on the track that was run in a slightly different layout this time. Nikos Georgiadis was able to snatch the TQ and he also won the first two A-finals to take the day’s win in front of his Xray team mates Nikitas Niotis and Dionisis Zogogiannis in 2nd and 3rd respectively. The win also handed Nikos his 4th consecutive Greek Touring Series title.

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