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September 10, 2013

Reno Savoya wins 4WD at French electric nats

The MBGO Gonfreville club hosted the final round of the French electric nationals in the Northern West of France. After three rounds of practice and six rounds of qualifying Xray’s Reno Savoya TQ’d the 4WD class with his team mates Armand Lantheaume and Lorenzo Crolla being very fast too. In the finals Reno took the win in leg 1 and 2 allowing him to sit out the final A main to watch Armand and Lorenzo battle for the win. At the end it was Armand Lantheaume who took the runner-up spot with Lorenzo Crolla taking the final podium spot.

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September 10, 2013

Sarda ORE Nationals Rd4 – Report

Last weekend saw the fourth round of the South African National Onroad Electric championship run at the DMCC track in Durban, SA. Drivers from all over the country attended the event, but it was the local Serpent driver Michael Wiseman who dominated both the Touring Modified and 13.5T classes. The runner-up spot in the Modified class went to Jason Hillcoat (Xray) who had Micheal Gibson (Schumacher) in tow. The second place in 13.5T was grabbed by Shaun Schutte (Xray), Michael Gibson again came in third. In 17.5T Touring it was the Xray triple of Andre Greeff, Ashley Hurley and Justin Cloete who dominated the proceedings. In 1/12th Modified Dave Wiseman brought home the win with Andre Greef coming in 1st in the 13.5T FWD class.

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September 10, 2013

Patrick Hofer sweeps Swiss off-road nats in Oberbüren

The last round of the Swiss electric off-road nationals took place at the well-known and tricky Oberbüren track. In qualification Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer made his intentions clear and TQ’d the 2WD, 4WD and SC 4×4 class. Come the finals the conditions changed to the worse as rain transformed the sandy track into a mud puddle. Patrick kept his cool and went on to win all modified classes in order to take his 5th national title in a row.

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September 9, 2013

Adam Drake sweeps JBRL Nitro Series Rd6

Team Losi Racing’s Adam Drake made a clean sweep at the recent JBRL Nitro Series round 6 at Thunder Alley Raceway. In the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy class Adam came in first and he also took home the win in E-Buggy after fighting all the way to the finish line with team mate Mike Truhe. Jose Alvarado (TLR) took the victories in both Sportsman Buggy and Truck.

Thanks to Adam Drake for sending the report.

September 9, 2013

Mini-Z Indonesia Open 2013 – Report

The Mini-Z Indonesia Open 2013 was held in Mangga Dua Square, Jakarta in last weekend. With a competitive 70 entry from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the U.S. the meeting was run in a Stock 50T and a Modified class. Saturday saw two qualifying rounds with a single controlled practice before qualifying. The Stock class was TQ’ed by American Mini-Z Legend, Grant Matsushima who recorded 22 laps in 5:01. Local ace, Bowie Ginting was the closest to Matsushima and only 4 seconds behind. Malaysian Jason Wong secured the 3rd spot, 5 seconds behind Bowie. Alvin Lim (Singapore) and Jeff Cheong (Malaysia) followed closely to complete the top 5. The Modified class TQ went to Dave Tang from Singapore who outperformed Grant Matsushima with Bowie, Tri Hariyanto (Indonesia) and Philip Ng completing the top 5.

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September 9, 2013

Steven Brown wins 2WD at Apex Models Grand Prix

The Apex Models Grand Prix was run last weekend at the Surrey and Hants Radio Control Car Club in a Reedy Race format in wet and dry conditions. RudeBits Kyosho DB2 driver Steven Brown took the win from Tony Evdoka (RudeBits Kyosho) and David Burton (RudeBits Kyosho) who finished third in the 2WD class.

Source: RudeBits [rudebits.co.uk]

September 9, 2013

Scholz & Morgenstern win German 2WD titles

The German 2WD buggy nationals took place last weekend at the permanent astro turf track of the MAC Burgdorf, the host of the 2010 1/12th and ISTC World Championships. Saturday’s practice and qualifying started dry but come Sunday the rain was there. In the 2WD Modified class Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann made a clean sweep by winning all three qualifiers on Saturday followed by Team C’s Oliver Scholz who was tie on point’s with Christopher Krapp (Kyosho). Björn Prümper and Luca Rau completed the top 5. In the Standard class Mirko Morgenstern (Team C) won the first and second qualifier with the third run being TQ’d by Tom Bujara (Team C). Third placed Eugen Stand (Team C) scored two second places during qualifying and ended third on the grid. Thomas Oehler and Marcel Felzmann put their buggies in fourth and fifth place respectively.

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September 9, 2013

Maifield does Buggy double at JConcepts Clash

Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield has done the double in electric buggy at the 7th running of the JConcepts Clash, the Arizona driver successfully defending his 2WD title and adding the 4WD title after winning each of the deciding third A-Mains over Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans. Having also successful defended his 2WD Short Course title after A2, the first buggy title to go to Maifield was 4WD as he took his Reedy powered B44.2 to an easy win after Evans rolled on two occasions coming on to the straight, his XXX-4 struggling in the high traction conditions at the Flowood RC Indoor Park track. The closing race of a packed race program and the blue ribbon class of the event, A3 of 2WD Buggy saw a blistering opening lap from Maifield with him getting his C4.2 passed Top Qualifier Evans’ also mid motored TLR 22 2.0. While Evans fought back, a mistake on lap 3 would ultimately end his chances allowing Maifield to post the only 15-lap run of the finals.

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