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May 19, 2014

King & Tessmann win at Lone Star Challenge

The 2014 Lone Star Challenge took place in Austin, Texas on the Thornhill Racing Circuit. The race was run on a track built by The Dirt’s Joey Christensen and it doubled as the warm-up for this year’s ROAR Gas Nationals and was also the third stop of the 2014 USPro Cup tour. The 1/8th Nitro Buggy class had Ty Tessmann taking the first qualifier from Ryan Lutz and Josh Wheeler while Ryan Mayfield just edged out Ty in the 2nd qualifying round by 0.1 seconds. Ty stroke back in the 3rd qualifier by taking the round TQ from Ryan Maifield. The 4th and final qualifying round then went to Josh Wheeler who left Cody King and Adam Drake behind. After the semi finals Ty Tessmann put his Hot Bodies buggy on the pole position for the 1-hour A-main with Adam Drake (TLR), Ryan Maifield (Team Associated) and Ryan Lutz (Team Durango) completing the top 4.

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May 19, 2014

Belgian SCT Cup Rd2 – Report

The 2nd round of the Belgian SCT Cup was run in Seraing, Belgium. The track layout with its few low-speed corners, elevation changes and nice jumps made for close racing while its surface dries very fast which was a plus over the weekend too. In Pro2 the race was on between Juian Andre (Team Associated), Philippe Hautecoeur (Team Associated) and Nicolas Evens (TLR 22SCT) who each took a leg in qualifying. Philippe and Julian where also tie on points but at the end Julian took TQ with a better time. In Pro4 Thierry Matthieu (Tekno) dominated qualifying like he did in Brussels. Nicolas Evens (TLR) followed in front of Jean-Yves Konings (Team Associated).

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May 14, 2014

Euro Contest 2014 – Announcement

Euro Contest 2014 - Announcement

The 2014 Euro Contest will take place on the weekend of the 29th of June at the Barco-Off track in Barco, Italy. The race sees an 1/8th Buggy Pro F1, Open F2 and 1/8th E-Buggy class with the 3-day event starting on Friday the 27th with free practice. More information about the event can be found on the organiser’s website, where you can also sign-in for the race, by clicking here.

May 13, 2014

Tyler Jones wins at 2014 Post Derby Classis

The Post Derby Classic took place at the Adventure RC Raceway in Louisville, KY this past weekend. It was the first ever trophy race held at this indoor facility and the event had 104 entries and drew some of the fastest racers in the Midwest. Tyler Jones would lead the entire 1/8th E-Buggy A main wire to wire. He would be challenged a few times by fellow TLR teammates Dylan Gerard and Jimmy Vanderhaar but would fight off the challenges for the win.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

May 13, 2014

Chin Wee Yuan wins SRCC touring car race

The Swan Radio Control Club in Sibu City, Malaysia recently hold an electric touring car race with around 40 drivers in attendance. The win went to Chin Wee Yuan after a long and hard battle against veteran driver Ong Chee Yong. Andrew Ting completed the podium in 3rd position.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 13, 2014

Ken Miller takes WCICS 1/12th Stock title

At the final round of the non-profit Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series (WCICS), which hosted over 1500 registrations across 8 events in its 24th season, Ken Miller took the The UPS Store (Country Hills) sponsored 1/12th Scale Stock season Championship, the largest foam tire class in the series. Second in the championship was British Columbia’s Colin Roussel, followed by fellow B.C. racer Luke Pittman in his first full year of racing. Full results can be found on the series’ website by clicking here.

Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]

May 13, 2014

BRCA Clubman Series 2014 Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the BRCA Clubman Series 2014 saw mixed weather conditions at the midlands track of Bedworth. Saturday practice seen drivers try to fine tune with great difficulty their cars to run round the technical bumpy track which at some points could be wet and then could be dry. Round 1 of qualifying started on the Sunday which seen clouds which lasted all day however the day started with a wet track with rain on and off all the time. All cars were on the wet tyre which meant it was round by round type qualifying to help with the unpredictable weather. In 17.5, Mark Bristow was showing how well he knew the track and his ability to compensate with a wet track and TQ’d the round where in 13.5 Luke Burr came on top well known for how fast he can get his car round the track in the tricky conditions.

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May 12, 2014

Bayer doubles at Czech 1/8th off-road nationals Rd1

The first round of the Czech Republic 1/8th off-road national championship took place this past weekend in Horni Jeleni. The race format saw four qualifying rounds on Saturday with the fifth and final qualifier being run on Sunday, followed by the finals. The weekend started out wet but the weather on Saturday cleared up and in the improving conditions it was Xray’s Martin Bayer who took the TQ in both the Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy classes. On Sunday, right before the semifinals, heavy rain poured down meaning the finals had to be cancelled. This handed Martin Bayer the win in the Nitro Buggy class from David Kukla and Jan Zamis.

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