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September 10, 2014

Chad Due takes 2WD at Futaba Electric Challenge

This weekend was the Futaba Electric Challenge hosted by Leisure Hours Raceway in Joliet, Illinois. This very unique event which competes on both indoor and outdoor surfaces across two days of racing to crown an overall champion. The first day of competition started on Leisure Hours’ flowing, high-grip indoor track. In 2WD, Chad Due was able to TQ two of the three rounds of qualifying to start first on the grid in the main, followed by Ryan Lutz (Team Durango) and fellow Team Associated teammate Corey Liebherr. In the main, the first few laps were very clean and then a mistake by Ryan and Corey gave room for Mason Perillo (Team Associated). At the end Chad was able to cruise to the finish with Mason taking 2nd and Ryan 3rd.

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September 10, 2014

Zsolt Bajusz wins at Xray Challenge Hungary

During the recent Xray Challenge Hungary, held at the world-famous Hungaroring track, the 1/10 200mm EFRA nitro class was dominated by Zsolt Bajusz. Behind Zsolt there was a nice fight between Hungarian championship leader, Laszlo Kiss-Orban and last year’s nitro Stock class champion, Balazs Bihari. At the end Balazs grabbed the runner-up spot from Laszlo who rounded out the podium.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 10, 2014

Ryan Maifield doubles at Sidewinder Nitro Explosion

The 2014 Sidewinder Nitro Explosion was held at the Heritage R/C Park in Chula Vista, CA. The annual event promoted and directed by Jimmy Babcock continually brings out the best drivers from Southern California. Qualifying started with the awaited Ryan and Ryan show with TLR’s Ryan Maifield taking round 1 of the 1/8th Pro buggy class with Ryan Cavalieri piloting the new AE prototype to 2nd in the round. Truggy qualifying in round 1 also went the way of Maifield taking the 0 qual point for the round and holding an early edge in both competitive classes. The detailed track built by Don Vinkemulder had that distinctive California flow incorporating rollers, floating jump sections and elevation changes. With a slightly watered surface, tire wear was nonexistent during qualifying with only dry sections really forming toward the end of un-watered races.

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September 9, 2014

Sagi & Kalnay win at Xray Challenge Hungary

The Xray Challenge Hungary was held at the famous Hungaroring track that, beside the full-scale race circuit, also has an RC racing track to offer. In the 1/8th nitro on-road class Tamas Sagi came out successful in front of Peter Keöberz and Bendeguz Gyulai in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Tamas then also went on to win the 1/10th scale 200mm Stock class in front of Peter Varsanyi and Bela Pogatsnik. The electric touring car class had Zsolt Kalnay walking away with the win from Zoltan Polyak in 2nd and Peter Loncsar in 3rd.

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September 9, 2014

Bruno Coelho takes Portuguese Nitro Buggy title

During last weekend’s final round of the Portuguese 1/8th scale Nitro Buggy national championship in Ortigosa Serpent’s Carlos Duraes (Serpent) took the win, but the race was also on for the overall championship between Bruno Coelho and his Xray team mate Miguel Matias. In the 45 minute final Bruno and Miguel started from 3rd and 4th respectively and in the beginning stages Miguel quickly moved into the lead, constantly opening a gap on Bruno. In order to save tyres and to keep the car in one piece Miguel started to drive very conservatively, eventually falling back to 3rd place only 2 seconds behind 2nd placed Ricardo Monteiro (TLR). Bruno ended 2 laps down in 4th place and this meant Miguel and Bruno would be tie on points with the better end for Bruno as Miguel had a DNF to count that handed Bruno Coelho the 2014 national championship title.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 9, 2014

Jesper Rasmussen doubles at Danish Buggy champs

Jesper Rasmussen doubles at Danish 1/10th buggy champs

Though cloudy skies covered the outdoor 2014 Danish Championship finale, but it did not rain on Jesper Rasmussen’s parade. He successfully drove his Team Associated buggy to the series win in the 2WD Buggy class, winning the A-main on the Astroturf track with his Reedy-equipped RC10B5M. If that wasn’t enough, he also piloted his Reedy-equipped B44.2 Factory Team buggy to championship in 4WD Buggy.

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September 8, 2014

Spiniello & Cazzolo win at Italian 200mm Nats Rd3

Spiniello & Cazzolo win at Italian 200mm nationals Rd3

The final round of the Italian 200mm nitro on-road championships was held at the Il Lombrico track in Milazzo, Sicily. In the Expert category Alessio Mazzeo took the TQ six tenth of a second in front of Mario Spiniello. The one hour main than saw Mario Spiniello and Davide Stefanizzi fighting for the win with the better end for Mario who opted only to change the corner outside tyres on his car. Francesco Tironi completed the podium in 3rd. In the overall championship Luca Redaelli took the title from Mario Spiniello. In the F1 category Luca Cazzolo came out successful in the race and also the championship followed by Francesco Meddaloni.

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September 8, 2014

Dutch 1/8th nitro on-road nats final round – Report

Last weekend the small and technical track of the MBC de Sluis club in the Dutch “cheese city” of Gouda held the final race of this year’s 1/8th nitro on-road nationals. In the NK class Gunther van Steay had already secured this year’s overall title due to a brilliant year but there were still many other top positions to fill at the final round. Sadly due to illness Belgium ace John Lenaers was unable to attend this last race, giving away his 2nd overall position at the NK Master class.

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