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October 14, 2015

John Doucakis wins at Greek TC Nationals Rd3

Round three of the Greek National On-road Championship was held at the Zorri RC track near Athens with many of the country’s top drivers in attendance. Sunday started out in nice weather and with the usual warm-up runs ahead of the qualifiers. With four qualifying rounds of which the two fastest counted and a tyre limit of two sets for the day, tyre strategy was important. In the opening qualifier John Doucakis (Awesomatix) dominated the proceedings in the Touring Modified class by scoring a 17 laps 5:13 run, two seconds clear of reigning champion, Nick Georgiadis (Xray) and touring car veteran, Dimitris Mitropoulos (Yokomo).

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October 14, 2015

5th Annual JConcepts Fall Brawl – Announcement

AMain Performance Hobbies’ Outback Raceway presents the 5th Annual JConcepts “Fall Brawl” on November 7th to 8th. Run on an all-new layout and using an accurate event timetable the organisers are keeping the “Buggy Brawl” format, which provided for some great triple A-main racing following bump-up B-mains. The event will see Open 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes along Pro Stock, Stock and 40+ categories. More information can be found on the event’s Facebook page here and sign-up is available here.

October 13, 2015

Dutch 1/8th Nitro On-road Nats Rd6 – Report

Utrecht’s RACO 2000 track played host to last weekend’s sixth and final round of the Dutch National 1/8th Nitro On-road Championships. Saturday’s practise started off dry and partially cloudy, while Sunday morning’s qualifying started under sunny but much colder conditions. In both the premier NK class and the Nomac class, the championship still was to be decided. In the NK class it was Frank Baggen (ARC/Reds) who was fastest after the qualifiers, followed by Arie Manten (Shepherd/Picco), Joey Sorber (Shepherd/Maxima) and Ad Vissenberg (ARC/Reds).

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October 13, 2015

Laszlo Kiss-Orban wins Hungarian E-Buggy title

The final round of the Hungarian Off-road National Championship was held at the RCOR track in Apaj. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class Laslo Kiss-Orban was the pre-event favourite going into the season finale and he would not disappoint as he grabbed another podium finish as he took the win from Zoltan Bognar and Janos Pakot in second and third respectively. With the win Laszlo also took the overall Hungarian National Championship.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 13, 2015

Nitro-West-Masters Rd6 – Report

The final round and end of season finale of the Nitro-West-Masters was held at the Dormagen track with a record entry of 76 drivers. The weekend started out on Saturday with free practice and a driver’s party with BBQ, beer and loads of nitro talk followed by some serious racing and the battles for the titles on Sunday in perfect Indian Summer weather conditions.

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October 13, 2015

Adam Drake triples at JBRL Nitro Series Rd7

Round seven of the 2015 JBRL Nitro Series was held at Dialed In R/C Raceway in Victorville, California this past weekend. Run in the usual range of Expert, Intermediate and Sportsman classes the event again attracted a good amount of internationally experienced racers as well as local talent and in 1/8th Expert Buggy it was Adam Drake (Mugen) who took the win from Kyle Johnson (Kyosho) and Team Associated’s own Richard Saxton.

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October 13, 2015

Thurston & Beal take BRCA 1/10th IC track titles

Last weekend’s BRCA 1/10th IC On-Road race meeting was the last one of this year’s UK National Championship for Nitro Touring Car and Sports GT. The race was held at the very technical Cotswold track in good weather conditions on Saturday and with around 45 drivers in attendance. Sunday morning was very foggy and the track was damp but quickly dried up when the sun came out. In the premier 200mm Touring class Alex Thurston was in a good position to grab the overall title and coming in second after the qualifiers things looked very promising. In the main final he suffered from a flame out but at the end Alex was able to snatch the overall Championship. In the Sports GT class Glyn Beal took the TQ and the win and with it the 2015 National Championship title.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 12, 2015

Lorenzo Crolla doubles at RCmag Cup

The French RCmag Cup was held in Viglain in four different nitro and electric classes. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy category Xray’s Lorenzo Crolla and TLR driver Jerome Sartel battled for the TQ with the better end for Lorenzo who would take the overall TQ from Jerome while Valentin Lopez (Radiosistemi) rounding out the top 3. Lorenzo would then also dominate the semifinals, taking the pole position for the main final with Jerome Sartel in second and Romain Valter on the 3 spot. In the main Lorenzo again never looked back to take the overall win some 20 seconds clear of Jerome Sartel while Valentin Lopes completed the top 3 another two laps down. Elsewhere in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was again Jerome who came out successful after TQing all four rounds of qualifying and winning the first three out of four A-final legs.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]