Last weekend was the Tale of Two Cities race at Hal’s Hobby Warehouse in El Paso, Texas. The event kicked off with practice on Friday and racing took place Saturday. TLR’s Adam Drake TQ’d both in the Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy class. In the 30 minute Nitro final Drake got a clean start and was able to lead start to finish while he also came out successful in the E-Buggy class.
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The Nordic Championship was held at the Lørenskog Modelbilklubbs track near Oslo, Norway. The 2-day event attracted about 30 drivers in the Modified Touring Car class. A Stock class was also run as a support class with some 20 drivers in attendance. The race format saw 5 rounds of round by round qualifying with 4 of them being run on Saturday and the last one on Sunday, followed by triple mains. In qualifying it early came clear that it would be a three horse race for the TQ, with local star Helge Johannessen, Swedish ace Daniel Carlsson and the youngster Nikolai Haaheim outpacing the rest of the field. Local star Helge Johannessen would eventually claim the overnight TQ in front of Nikolai Haaheim who had his best result deleted as he was late for marshalling in a leg.
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The 2014 edition of the Xray Challenge Korea was held at the Kirina circuit, one hour away from the capital of Seoul. Drivers joined the race in three different classes and hot weather conditions on Sunday helped making the race a successful one. The Kirina circuit is of medium size, but challenging in both nitro and electric classes. Xray’s Alexander Hagberg was able to TQ the electric touring car class in front of Mr. Ahn in 2nd and Mr. Ryan Lee in 3rd place. Alex went on to win the triple A-finals as well as setting a new track record of 16.0 seconds.
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July 18th to 20th sees the HotRace Cup run in Rome on a track halfway between the centre of the city and the sea. International drivers like Eric Dankel and Alexander Hagberg are already confirmed for the race that will be run in touring car modified and 13.5T stock classes. More information about the event, that will also see a Saturday night beach party, can be found on the official event site and on Facebook.
The 2nd round of the Austrian 1/10th electric off-road nationals saw Team C’s Hupo Hönigl walking away with the TQ and win in both the 2WD and 4WD classes. Run at the TSA Krieglach track, Hupo took quite easy wins in A1 and A2 of the 2WD class allowing him to sit out A3. Philip Stocker finished 2nd, Martin Kreil completed the podium in 3rd. The 4WD class had again Hupo taking wins in A1 and A2 although he had quite a competition in the form of Team Associated’s Stefan Pfeifhofer in A2. Stefan then went on to take the overall runner-up spot from team mate Peter Pinisch by winning A3.
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This weekend the BRCA 10th Off-Road National series visited TORCH club in Titchfield, the deep South of England. A new venue to the 6 round national series for this year, having previously hosted an end of season final. The club had done a good job of laying a fairly open, race-able track, with plenty of features to keep drivers busy, but nothing too difficult that it was make or break for any level of driver. The national format sees just 2 rounds of 3 minute practice runs before drivers in to 4 rounds of qualifying and then finals, with just the A main having 3 legs to battle it out, 2WD on the Saturday and 4WD on the Sunday.
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This past weekend hosted the 2014 Fastlane Raceway Spring Shootout in Blue Springs, Missouri. In the largest class of the weekend 1/8 Expert E-Buggy Team Losi Racing’s Mike Garrison found himself in a three-way battle for the lead. He worked his way to the front battling for the lead with Xray team driver Spencer Wall. Mike the led majority of the race until Wall made a surprise last lap pass heading into a big double section. Garrison retaliated with an over-the-top big air pass with less than a few corners to go, capturing the overall Expert E-Buggy class win.
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Round 3 of the BRCA Clubman Series was at the beautiful sight of the southern coast at Eastbourne. This track is very tight and twisty with the need to know on how to setup your car for a good result at this track. Showing how its done, the local drivers in the hot conditions set the pace for the weekend. Round 1 of qualifying started on the Sunday with the sun coming in early and strong. This round known by many was the fastest round of the day as the grip conditions get worse as the temperatures go up. In 17.5T, Dominic Skinner set provisional TQ 3 seconds ahead of Darren Tickner almost setting lap record. In 13.5T something never seen before happened. David Spashett set TQ and track record and then on the last heat of the round Tim Hancock then set another track record by a whole second with setting TQ as well.
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