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July 15, 2014

Clarification on fuel supply for 1/8th Buggy Worlds

In the wake of the forthcoming 2014 IFMAR 1/8th Nitro Buggy World Championships in Italy speculations about the availability of nitro fuel for the event arose among the participants. Due to new European Community regulations kicking in at the beginning of September and some strict Italian regulations related to it, the organisers where forced to look after official fuel suppliers that are now found in the form of Tornado, Runnertime, Merlin Fuel and Maxima. This will ensure every driver is able to choose between these four fuel brands, the European governing body EFRA announced.

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July 15, 2014

Marios Christodoulou takes RCE championship Rd3

The 3rd round of this year’s RCE championship was halt at the Dirt Paradise track in Nicosia, Cyprus. Run in very hot weather conditions the day’s win went to Marios Christodoulou, who also posted the fastest laps of the day. Nicholas Zachariades in 2nd and Andreas Thrasyvoulou in 3rd completed the podium while George Eleftheriou and Savvas Savva rounded out the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 15, 2014

Xray Challenge Italy – Report

The 2nd Xray Challenge Italy of 2014 was held at the beautiful Livorno RC Gymnasium facilities in Livorno, Italy. The race was immediately sold out in all classes, underlining its popularity in the Italian RC scene. Some 120 drivers gathered for the two day event which saw perfect weather conditions. The track in Livorno proved to be very challenging with its banked, narrow corners and high traction. Open practice commenced on Friday with most drivers being already present, enjoying the atmosphere.

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July 15, 2014

Scott West takes 2014 WCICS Tamiya Mini title

At the final round of the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series WCICS, which hosted over 1500 registrations across 8 events this season, Scott West took the Tamiya Mini championship. Fellow Calgary racer Matt Wilfort took 2nd, and Anthony Hobbs took 3rd. In WCICS best season yet the series again grew almost 35 percent over last year and full results and podium pics can be found on the official WCICS website by clicking here. Planning is already underway for next season, which will begin in late September in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]

July 14, 2014

Ermen & Rausch take West German championships

John Ermen and Bernd Rausch are the 2014 Western German nitro on-road champions. Xray factory racer John Ermen from the Netherlands celebrated his second victory in the 4th and final round of the Western German Championship in the 1/8th scale class 1 at the Hamm track. In 1/10th scale a 2nd place finish behind team mate Benjamin Lehmann was enough for Shepherd team driver Bernd Rausch to capture the title and to get back the prestigious starting number “1” for the 2015 campaign. In 1/8 scale class 2 Mugen racer Reinhard Zick has caught the title while Serpent racer Thomas Reiche took the final win.

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July 14, 2014

Perfect TLR debut for Maifield

Ryan Maifield completed the perfect debut with Team Losi Racing as he took all three of his new TLR cars to victory at the JConcepts Indoor Summer Nationals at Outback Raceway in Chico, California. Having dominated the same event last year with Team Associated, the Arizona ace’s much anticipated first outing with his new team again produced an all concequering performance. Top Qualifier for each of his A-Mains, in the series’ two big classes, 2wD & 4WD buggy, he would wrap things up early repeating his A1 performances in A2 to claim overall victory. Also debuting TLR’s new 22 SCT 2.0 at the A-Main Hobbies owned track he made it a hat trick as he took the win of that class’ single A-Main.

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July 14, 2014

Stu Wood wins 2WD class at 2014 oOoos

The final round of the 2014 oOple series was held at the Southport club in the UK. Stu Wood took the TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD buggy class and came out successful in 4WD final while scoring a 2nd place in 2WD behind Chris Evison. The result handed him the overall championship title in 2WD in front of Ben Jemison and James Helliwell. In 4WD Ben Jemison took the overall title from Stuart Wood and Gregg Williams.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 14, 2014

Joseph Quagraine TQs and wins Finnish nationals Rd2

The 2nd Round of the Finnish 1/8th off-road national championship series was held last weekend in Turku. Joseph Quagrain (JQ/Reds) managed to TQ and win the event, and is now leading the series, after 2 races in the 4 race series. Ari Heinonen (Kyosho/Alpha) finished 2nd, and Tomi Salonen (Mugen/O.S.) 3rd, matching their current positions in the series.

Source: JQ Racing [jqracing.com]