The second round of the Canary Island Championship was won by Cristian Artiles Cruz who dominated both the qualifying and the main final. He also smashed the track record in the qualifiers while Agama driver Cristo Gonzales Perez took 2nd with Xray racer Leandro Romano Pulido rounding out the top 3 result in the final.
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The 2015 1/10th Offroad Tasmanian Titles were held at the Goodwood RC Club in Hobart, Tasmania. The small but enthusiastic Goodwood club had prepared a fun and challenging layout for the racers and mother nature provided its own challenge with a searing Summer sun and temperatures in the mid 30s all weekend. Several racers flew in from the Australian mainland for the race including Ray Munday, Ash Peeler, Mark Rogers and Cameron Zammit, all looking to take the challenge up to local hero Sam Wells in the Modified classes. AKA Rebars were chosen as the control tyre for the grooved dirt surface. In addition to the normal classes, this was the first running of the newly sanctioned “Junior” class for under 16’s with 2WD 17.5T buggies.
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The first round of the RCmag Brushless Tour was held at the Black Country Arena in Charleroi. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Nicolas Risser who came out successful in front of Thomas Musso and Lorenzo Crolla, who rounded out the podium in 3rd.
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The first round of the 2015 South-African ORE national championship was held at the TRAP track in Pretoria. The Touring Car Modified class again provided for some spectacular high-speed racing with top speeds as high as 105km/h during the finals. 2014 champion Jason Hillcoat showed a good form by taking the TQ after the qualifiers and the overall win in the finals after some good battles with team mates Antonio Caroli and Shaun Schutte.
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Last weekend the Moro Race was held at the Moro race track in Sant Joan, Spain. Following a 2nd place in the qualifiers Alejandro Daras took the pole position for the main final. With consistent driving and a bit of luck Alejandro was able to retain his position to cross the finish line as the leader in front of Andres Marcelino and Alejandro Gual who rounded out the top 3 result.
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This past weekend the 4th and final round of the French Winter Championship was held in Montbrison. In the premier class of Touring Car Modified, Cyril N’Diaye took the overall TQ from Jeremy Limoge and Mathieu Briere. The opening final then saw Cyril taking the win in front of Alexandre Laurent and Mathieu Briere who suffered a bit on used tyres. In A2 Mathieu started with a new set of tyres and he was able to challenge Cyril but the latter managed to stay in front to take the win and with it the overall victory early. Mathieu came in 2nd while Jeremy rounded out the top 3 so far. In the final A-main Mathieu cemented his runner-up spot by winning the leg in front of Alexandre and Jeremy. With the 2nd place finish in the final round of the championship Mathieu Briere took the overall 2014/15 French Winter Championship title.
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Ryan Maifield has won the big one at this year’s 16th running of the Dirt Nitro Challenge. The TLR driver would claim his 2nd buggy title at the Fear Farm but more significantly his first big nitro win for his new manufacturer when on the penultimate lap of the exciting 45-minute A-Main he got ahead of former team-mate Ryan Cavalieri. A race that saw four different leaders, Maifield went to the front ahead of defending champion Ty Tessmann 4-minutes in until a mistake at the 10-minute mark would drop him to third. His challenge then looked to be over as he fell further down the order to sixth. A driver famed for his late charges, the Arizona ace never gave up and as a gusting wind added to the challenges of the tough track conditions in the closing stages, Maifield was there to capitalise to take his second major title of the new season having last month claimed his first ever Reedy Race of Champions win. Unfortunately for the stars of last night’s epic Truggy final Tessmann and new champion David Ronnefalk their races would hit trouble. Holding a comfortable lead with just 8-minutes to go Tessmann would suffer a problem with his battery connector and losing over a minute in the pits fixing it the World Champion would be leaving with no titles this year finishing up 7th overall. Trying to recover from a frantic start, Ronnefalk would twice run out of fuel after communication issues with his pit crew. With Maifield and Cavalieri separated by just 0.684, joining them on the podium would be the other of America’s offroad establishment trio Jared Tebo. Leading a total of close on 1/3 of the race, Dakotah Phend would just miss out the podium by half a second, the wind being the downfall to the 18-year-old’s quest for a first DNC title.
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The International Carpet Challenge was held in Southend, south-east England over the weekend. Xray’s Olly Jefferies completed his domination of the 2015 ICC event by taking a clean sweep of qualifying and the triple leg finals. The British National Champion was clearly the class of the field at signature race of the well-known EWS team in the UK. Olly topped the controlled practice rounds, and then proceeded to win every one of the five qualifying rounds at the 2-day event. German star Christopher Krapp looked liked being Olly’s closest challenger, taking his Kyosho to second place in the opening three rounds of qualifying.
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