The recent Austria Cup was held on the small and technical track of Jaidhof in the three 1/8th off-road classes of nitro buggy, nitro truggy and E-buggy. After qualifying Rene Kargl secured the TQ in the nitro buggy class with Thomas Dieselbacher and Martin Wollanka in tow. After the semi-finals Kargl was still on the top spot while Dieselbacher and Wollanka swapped positions, handing Wollanka the 2nd spot on the grid.
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The 4th round of this year’s Jimmy Babcock Racing League Nitro Series was held at Heritage R/C Park in Chula Vista. While Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated) came out successful in the supporting 1/8th E-Buggy class, Drew Moller (Mugen), Adam Drake (TLR) and Cody Smith (TLR) formed the Expert Nitro Buggy podium.
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The 2nd Annual Big Bend Off-Road Shootout was held at the Capital City Raceway in Tallahassee. Reds Racing team drivers Eduardo Cordoba and Cole Ogden dominated both the Nitro Buggy and the Nitro Truggy classes. While Eduardo came out successful in the Truggy class and came in 2nd in Buggy his team mate Ogden took the win in Nitro Buggy and the runner-up spot in Truggy.
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During last weekend’s O.S./Futaba Challenge in St. Louis, MO Ryan Lutz dominated qualifying in the 1/8 E-Buggy class by taking the overall TQ place. Ryan was then able to win the first two legs of the prestigious A-main finals, claiming the top spot well before proceedings had concluded for the rest of the field. Carter Flotron finished the race on the runner-up spot while Eric Fletcher completed the podium in 3rd.
Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com] | Image: Futaba [futaba-rc.com]
This past weekend was the O.S./Futaba Challenge in St. Louis, MO. The track was built by The Dirt Racing with lots of jumps and some nice flowing sections that made for good racing. The racing format was best 2 out of 3 qualifiers with two 20 minute main events for both pro buggy and truggy. There would also be a dash for cash with the top 6 qualifiers starting in inverted order. Truggy qualifying went very well for Josh Wheeler as he managed to TQ the first two rounds to take the overall TQ. Buggy was going to be tough with top names like Jared Tebo, Ryan Lutz and Taylor James. The first round went well but a mistake would cost Josh the overall TQ to Taylor James. The 2nd and 3rd rounds went much better and Wheeler TQ’ed both rounds.
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The 5th Annual East Coast Champs took place at R/C Excitement in Fitchburg, MA with around 100 entries. TLR’s Adam and Ronda Drake were on hand for the event not only to race, but to offer help to all the racers. Adam was the top qualifier in 1/8th nitro buggy and 1/8th nitro truck. Drake then went on to win the 1/8th nitro buggy final followed by Renato Tradardi, Gunnar Rieck, Richard Saxton, and Ronda Drake and he also came out successful in the 1/8th nitro truck class followed by Ronda Drake in 2nd and Anthony Mazzara in 3rd.
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The warm-up race for the German 1/8th E-Buggy nationals was held last weekend at the RC Racing Club Eisenach in Eastern Germany. The track offers a good flow that is disturbed a bit by a “skateboard” ramp in the middle of the track but the element is also very unique and now accepted by the racers. After the qualifiers Daniel Reckward put himself on top of the timesheets with Steven Schöniger and Marvin Fritschler in tow. In the 15 minute final local hero Steven Schöniger made best use of his track knowledge to come in 1st followed by Marvin Fritschler and Daniel Reckward.
Source: Spielzeugautorennfahrer [spielzeugautorennfahrer.de]
With only two races to go Kurt Vanvlemen (Mugen/O.S.) in the Masters class and Bas Beunis (Mugen/O.S.) in the Hobby category are on their way to snatch the overall 2014 Benelux Truggy Championships in their respective classes. The runner-up spots are currently also taken by Mugen drivers with Bjorn Nagels in the Masters class and Jos Borgdorff in the Hobby category.
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