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June 17, 2014

Tom Cockerill wins Spanish EP off-road nationals Rd2

This weekend was round 2 of the Spanish National Series, held at the CARBI track in Bilbao, home of the 2009 European Championships. The club have changed a few features of the track since the previous years event, but it was still a very challenging and high grip circuit. Saturday would see a day of practice, with 2 controlled rounds late in the day to seed the heats for the following day. With just 2WD running, Sunday would have 5 rounds of qualifying and 3 finals for all. The weather report threatened for rain on Sunday afternoon, but it never came, the sun and dry weather staying for the whole weekend.

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June 17, 2014

Nicola Marrone wins at Italian Touring Car nationals

The Italian Electric Touring Car nationals was held last weekend at the RME Lamberto Collari circuit in Cassino. The Modified class was won by Yokomo driver Nicola Marrone who left Alessandro Brunelli (Xray) and Alessio Menicucci (Xray) behind.

Modified Touring Car top 3 result:
1. Nicola Marrone – Yokomo/EZ Power/EZ Power
2. Alessandro Brunelli – Xray/EZ Power/EZ Power
3. Alessio Menicucci – Xray/Lipotech/EZ Power

Source: EZ Power [ezpower.it]

June 17, 2014

Short Course Showdown Rd4 – Report

Addiction RC in Ogden, UT, hosted of the 4th round of the Short Course Showdown on a fairly new layout with the track being watered all weekend, making for consistent laptimes. Qualifying was based on qual points with your best 2 out of 4 rounds being used to seat you in the mains. All the A mains were seated with 8 cars and 2 bumps from the B main. After 4 full rounds of qualifying, Dustin Evans sat on TQ in 2WD Mod Short Course and 4WD Mod Buggy while Frank Root grabbed the TQ in 4WD Mod Short Course and Dave Duncan TQ’d in 2WD Stock Short Course.

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June 17, 2014

David Kukla sweeps Offroad Cup Rd3

The 3rd round of the Offroad Cup was held in Kolin using a new track layout and surface that many drivers considered the best they ever drove on. In the 1/8th nitro and 1/10th 4WD electric classes it was David Kukla who took the overall TQ’s for the finals. The 1/8th finals where run in an electric style format with three 12 minute legs that David easily won in front of Jiri Benes and Jiri Dvorak. David then also went on to win the 4WD buggy class in front of Martin Korinek and Kaja Novotny.

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June 17, 2014

Tobias Weist wins Pro10 RC Lemans series Rd3

The 3rd round of the RC Lemans series was held at the fast 2012 IFMAR Electric Touring Car Worlds track of the MACH Heemstede in a floodlight race. After only two rounds of qualifying Tobias Weist took the TQ in the Pro10 class with a 6s lead over Tim Altmann and Dutch racer Reinder Wilms. The three where also the only ones to score a 20 laps run. The first of the two finals was won by Reinder Wilms because Tobias made a huge mistake in the last corner. Tim Altmann ended the opening main in 3rd position. The 2nd final then went to Tobias Weist with a 1.5 seconds faster time, so he took the win ahead of Reinder Wilms and Kai Altmann, who startet from 4th. In the overall result the runner up spot went to Reinder Wilms while Tim Altmann secured himself the final podium spot.

Thanks to Tobias Weist for sending the report.

June 17, 2014

Jesse Munn doubles at Northwest Buggy Champs

This past weekend Northwest Buggy Championships took place in Pasco, Washington. It was a 2 day event with Friday being a practice day and Saturday consisting of 3 rounds of qualifying with the qual points format, then triple A-Mains for electric and a 20 minute nitro main in the evening. While the overall turnout was a little less than expected, the quality of drivers in attendance was great and the racing intense. In 4WD Modified Buggy Jesse Munn TQ’d both of the first 2 rounds to secure the overall top qualifier position without having to run the 3rd round. In the triple A Mains Jesse went 3,1,1 to take the overall win from Mikey Hudson and John Walentia.

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June 16, 2014

Moore & Price win at BRCA TC Rd3

Stafford was the host to round three of the BRCA Touring Car series this past weekend which attracted all the top drivers from across the UK to do battle. Drivers were greeted by clear blue skies and sunshine upon arrival to the circuit and the action soon got underway on the track. In the Super Touring class it was HB/HPI Racing’s Andy Moore who got off to the best start by securing TQ in round one. Olly Jefferies with his LRP-powered Xray T4’14 then went on to TQ round two. With bad weather the talk amongst many drivers these suspicions came true in round three of qualification, when the heavens opened up and completely soaked the Stafford track. Again it was Olly who took round three TQ with a great drive in the wet. The final two rounds of qualifying on Sunday was Chris Grainger’s turn to take TQ runs with his Schumacher Mi5 Evo. With Chris deciding to use up his last set of tyres in round five he was able to secure first on the grid by beating Olly Jefferies fastest qualifying time.

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June 16, 2014

Elliott Boots doubles at Kyosho Masters 2014

The 16th edition of the Kyosho Masters took place last weekend at the track of Sucy en Brie. Run in 4 classes of GP Buggy Elite, Expert and Ligue as well as an E-Buggy class, the race attracted some of the fastest Kyosho drivers in Europe. In the premier class of Elite Buggy Jerome Aigoin took the TQ from Elliott Boots and Linus Thern. In the 45 minute finale Elliott was able to fight back and to take the win some 11 seconds from Jerome. 3 laps down Mikael Palsson completed the podium in 3rd position. Thomas Carandi, Riccardo Berton and Kyosho’s own Yuichi Kanai rounded out the top 6 result.

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