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March 23, 2015

Super Cup Championship Series Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the JConcepts Super Cup Championship Series was scheduled to be run in the beautiful Florida sunshine outdoors at Coral Springs. The unpredictable Florida weather was calling for some rain, so a last minute decision was made on a venue change for a roof and 4 walls. Newly opened Beachline Raceway stepped in to help with the event. 182 entries would fill the 21 heats of racing with Florida’s premier 10th scale racers.

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March 23, 2015

Neil Cragg wins 2WD class at Bradby Cup

This past weekend the Robin Hood Raceway played host for the Bradby Cup, in honour of the late Derek Bradby. It was a very cool formatted race run by Paul Bradby with four rounds of qualifying and all 4 rounds counting followed by bump up finals. It’s a format Derek always wanted to try and it made for some great racing. In the 2WD class Neil Cragg (Team Associated) finished just in front of Lee Martin (Yokomo) with local hero Ben “Jemmo” Jemison (Schumacher) coming in 3rd.

Source: LMR [l-m-racing.co.uk]

March 23, 2015

Hagberg & Hönigl win at 2015 1/12th Euros

The 2015 EFRA 1/12th scale European Championships were held at the famous Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia this past weekend. Almost 100 entries from all over Europe split into the two classes of Modified and Stock. Practice and the first round of qualifiers were on schedule for Friday with 2014 European Champion Alexander Hagberg (Xray) being on rails from the early beginning as set the early pace in the Modified class while Hupo Hönigl (Serpent) placed himself on top of the timing sheets in the Stock class.

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March 21, 2015

Hungarian National Championship Rd4 – Report

The 4th round of the Hungarian National Championship was held in Budapest in several classes including Touring Car Modified and Stock, 1/10th Pan Car and 1/10th Electric Off-Road. The mix of on-road and off-road cars made for changing track conditions and in the Touring Car Modified class Bálint Rajki made the best of the situation as he won the A-mains in front of Zsolt Kálnay and Dániel Dunavölgyi.

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March 20, 2015

2nd Annual SWorkz Challenge – Announcement

AMain.com’s world-famous Silver Dollar R/C Raceway will host the Second Annual SWorkz Challenge presented by JConcepts on May 29th to 31st. The race will also serve as the ROAR Nationals Warm-Up Race so you can expect to see the nation’s top nitro off-road racers as they prepare and test for the coveted nationals. The race will see Pro, Open, Electric and 40+ 1/8th scale classes with the Open class racers won’t want to miss the SWorkz Challenge sponsorship opportunity as there will be a sponsorship deal with SWorkz, JConcepts, ProTek R/C and Airtronic. Combined with a best trick contest, TQ’s “$100 Dash For Cash” for all class TQs and Chico’s finest food trucks serving tasty grub, the SWorkz Challenge is sure to be a huge event in late May. More information can be found here and here.

March 19, 2015

Euro Contest 2015 – Announcement

Bittydesign officially announce the 2015 Euro Contest, held at the Barco-Off racetrack in Italy from June 5th to 7th. Situated around an hour’s drive from the Bologna airport the track offers a unique “US style” layout that will receive some big changes for the 2015 race. Entries for the 3-day event are limited to 192 drivers with Friday seeing free practice, qualifying on Saturday and the Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) followed by the Superpole and Finals on Sunday. The race is held in Nitro Pro and Open Buggy classes as well as an 1/8th E-Buggy category. More information and registration is available here.

March 19, 2015

GTS Rd1 & GNS Rd2 – Report

The Fanatix racing track in Greece recently held the opening round of the Greek Touring Series and the 2nd round of the Greek Nitro Series. The day started with the electric class and after the qualifiers Papachristos took the TQ from Mitropoulos and Konstadopoulos.

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March 18, 2015

Bruno Coelho wins at Portuguese Indoor Series

Brubo Coelho wins at Portuguese Indoor Series

The final round of the Portuguese Indoor Series was held in Barreiro last weekend. Bruno Coelho dominated the qualifying and finals, taking a strong TQ position and finishing all three A-mains more than 3 laps ahead of the runner-up spot. Behind Bruno Goncalo Alves came in 2nd and while Joao Martinho rounded out the top 3 result.

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