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March 7, 2014

Bayer fastest in 4WD Practice

Martin Bayer has set the pace in 4WD practice at EOS Round 3, the Team Xray driver running the fastest 3-consecutive laps in both timed runs which brought official proceedings on Day 1 of the Slovakian event to a close. Chasing his first EOS victory, the European Champion topped the times at his home track over the Yokomos of Lee Martin and Naoto Matsukura and will be top seed for tomorrow’s four rounds of qualifying. Having had a disappointing day in 2WD, reigning 4WD EOS Champion Joern Neumann’s day didn’t improve much, the unbeaten driver who is chasing win number 10 this weekend ending up only 11th fastest.

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March 7, 2014

Honigl TQ’s second EOS qualifier

Hupo Honigl has TQ’d the second round of 2WD qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series in Slovakia, the Team C driver being the only driver to run 13 laps of the difficult Hudy Arena the second time of asking. Improving on his Q1 time by over 4-seconds, the Austrian topped the round from Q1 pace setter Naoto Matsukura with an improved run from the Japanese driver’s team-mate Lee Martin seeing him complete the Top 3.

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March 7, 2014

Matsukura takes Q1 at EOS in Slovakia

Team Yokomo driver Naoto Matsukura has taken the opening round of 2WD Buggy qualifying at Round 3 of the Euro Offroad Series. A two time Top Qualifier and race winner, the Japanese driver topped Q1 at the Hudy Arena by 2-seconds over practice pace setting Martin Bayer. The round saw four drivers go top of the time screens over the 5-minutes but they would all make significant mistakes Hupo Honigl eventually claiming third and David Ronnefalk fourth as the only other drivers to run 13 laps of the tough track. Having had a troubled practice, breaking on both his runs, defending champion Joern Neumann’s event didn’t improve as he retired with a broke rear stub axle 3-minutes into the qualifier.

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March 7, 2014

Bayer tops 2WD practice at Hudy Arena

Martin Bayer is the top seed for 2WD qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series third round taking place at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia. The Xray driver set the fastest 3-consecutive laps around a difficult track to outpace Round 2 winner Naoto Matsukura who in turn was quicker than Round 1 winner Hupo Honigl. Breaking his buggy in each of the two timed practice runs, defending champion Joern Neumann posted the 5th fastest time.

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March 7, 2014

2014 Silver State Nitro Challenge – Announcement

The 2014 Silver State Nitro Challenge will take place from the 10th to 13th of April at the Boulder City Track in Las Vegas, NV with international super stars like Yuichi Kanai, Atsushi Hara and Kyle McBride in attendance. The event is also the second round of the USProCup 2014 and it will see the running of a Gas Buggy, Gas Truck and Electric Buggy category all of which are separated in three new classes; 100 percent, 99-1 percent and 0 percent chassis sponsor. Additionally 40 over Buggy and 40 over Truck will be held, separated into 100 percent chassis sponsored drivers and everyone else. Entry fee is US$80 per class payable per PayPal to thedirtracing@aol.com or call for entry 951-902-9319.

March 5, 2014

Anticipation high for first EOS visit to Hudy Arena

There is an air of high anticipation ahead of the third round of the Euro Offroad Series as the 1:10 electric offroad championship travels for the first time to the Hudy Arena in Slovakia this weekend (7-9 March). Widely reputed as the greatest r/c venue in the world by anyone who has had the opportunity to visit the 25,000 square metre facility which is also home to the Xray factory, over 260 drivers will get the opportunity to be part of what is only the second major international event to be hosted at the Hudy Arena, the first being last season’s Euro Touring Series finale.

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March 5, 2014

Bernal & Albano win at Outback Shootout

A Main Hobbies would host their 4th annual Outback Shootout at their indoor track, Outback Raceway in Chico, CA with a total of 281 entries. Qualifying would consist of 4 rounds of heads up qualifying taking your best 2 runs. 4WD Open Buggy would see Albano taking the TQ with Strange starting 2nd and Bernal 3rd. Matesa would take the TQ in Open Stadium Truck. In 2WD Open Buggy, going into the 4th round, Matesa, Strange, and Albano would all three have one win. Albano would claim the win and overall TQ with Strange 2nd, Matesa 3rd, and Bernal 4th.

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March 5, 2014

Ferrell wins at Pacific NW Showdown Rd4

The Marty Barnes’ Pacific NW Showdown Tour made its way to Albany, Oregon last weekend. Conveniently located just off the I-5 freeway, NW Hobbies hosted round 4 of the 5 race series on an all clay, super high bite, tacky indoor race arena. Practice was held on Saturday with 1 qualifier in the evening and 2 on Sunday with mains to follow. The layout was technical yet easy, but at the same time extremely challenging. The most challenging part was deciding which tires to go with and playing with the amount of grip that was available. There was a fine line between speed and too much speed that would make the car very twitchy and edgey to drive resulting in increased chances of roll-overs and crashes. The window was very small and tire combo was definitely the key to your success.

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