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September 12, 2013

Miguel Matias joins Vampire Racing

Multiple Portuguese National Champion, former European Champion and multiple European and World Championship podium finisher Miguel Matias recently joined the Vampire Racing factory team through to 2014 to run the company’s 1/10th and 1/8th brushless motor and speed controllers along the Vampire Racing line of high performance LiPo battery packs. Miguel already used the components during the 1/10th Buggy Euros and the recent Neo Race with great success.

Source: Vampire Racing [vampire-racing.com]

September 11, 2013

Karstens wins Mod Truck at Hobby Haven Shootout

The annual Hobby Haven Offroad Shootout has been around for over a decade and has become one of the largest off-road races in the Midwest. This year the organisers capped the entries at 250 and the race filled up on rcsignup.com 4 weeks before the event date. After qualifying a huge thunderstorm rolled through the area Saturday night and when the drivers showed up at the track Sunday morning many were very sceptical that their cars would even touch the track. After some serious work from a few of the locals, the track was starting to come around. With the delay from the wet track all the racers took a vote and decided to skip the triple A-mains and go with single mains to speed up the day. JConcepts Chad Karstens (Team Associated) was in third place the first couple of laps in the Modified Truck A main with Fellow JConcepts drivers Cole Tollard and Rod Rippee (both Team Associated) were first and second but Cole got a little sideways going into a rhythm section. Chad was able to squeeze the throttle and move to the outside passing both Cole and Rod at the same time. He then built a 2 to 3 second lead and was able to hold that gap for the rest of the race taking the win. Cole finished second and Rod came in third.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

September 10, 2013

Ucar & Maralan win at Türkiye Touring Series Rd5

The fifth round of the Türkiye Touring Series championship took place at the Yavrupist track near Ankara. The sugar watered track offered lots of grip for the 32 drivers attending in the Modified and Pro Stock class. In Modified Xray team driver Erol Ucar dominated practice, qualifying and the finals. He was chased by his team mate Halit Körpe, Kagan Aydin completed the podium in third place.

Click here for the top 10 results of the Modified and Stock class

September 10, 2013

Belgian SCT Cup Rd5 in Kampenhout – Report

For the fifth round of the Belgian SCT Cup the drivers travelled to the iconic Kampenhout track that was as challenging as always with its elevation changes, off camber turns and different track surfaces. As usual, the Heremans’s ensured a smooth organisation and the day went flawless. The first qualifier was run on a wet track but once the sun came out the surface started to dry. Nicolas Evens (TLR 22SCT) TQ’ed the first two runs while Jean-François Renard (TLR 22SCT) took the last one. Behind the two Edouard-Benoît Michez, Philippe Hautecoeur and Cédric Vandeginste, all running Associated SC10’s, battled for the remaining top 5 spots.

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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.