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March 12, 2014

Barry Baker wins at JBRL Electric Series Rd1

Round 1 of the 2014 JBRL Electric Series visited IERC Raceway in San Bernardino, California and was greeted by a record 400+ entries. More popular than ever, the JBRL Series includes a variety of indoor and outdoor tracks across Southern California, with participation from some of the top factory drivers in the region. In 1/8 E-Buggy Reedy’s Barry Baker was pretty much the dominating factor. Starting from the pole position, Barry led wire to wire for the win in the 10-minute main event to take maximum points and another cool plaque. And in what many consider to be the premier off-road class in the series and in the U.S. as a whole, 2WD Modified, Barry Baker came back from a poor start that saw him fall as low as ninth to take the win with his Reedy-powered buggy.

Source: Team Associated [rc10.com]

March 11, 2014

José Areias wins at Portuguese 1/8th on-road nats Rd1

The first round of the 2014 Portuguese nitro on-road nationals took place at the Sintra track near Lisbon. The weekend started with a low grip track on Saturday and cloudy, partly wet racing on Sunday but culminated in a dry semi and main final that was won by new Capricorn driver José Areias. The 1/8 class podium was completed by Mário Miranda in 2nd and Solange Araujo in 3rd place.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

March 11, 2014

Xray Challenge Germany – Report

The first Xray Challenge Germany was held at the small permanent indoor track of the MAC Adenau club which is located just outside the famous Nürburgring. The race entry was limited to 50 drivers due to the pit space being limited. The race was sold out immediately, which gave an indication of the big interest in these kind of races. The classes run were TC Modified, TC Stock 13.5T as well as 1:12 Stock 10.5T. The track, even though being fairly small, proved very enjoyable to drive with its high traction level and challenging corners.

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March 11, 2014

Sinclair & Bickel win at Mafia Mayhem Race

REO Raceway in Rockport, Indiana hold the Mafia Mayhem last weekend. Track owner Jay Bickel was very pleased with the 155 entry turnout, one of the largest ever at REO. X Factory team drivers Paul Sinclair and Cody Bickel dominated most of the racing action, taking TQ and winning 4 classes. Sinclair took the TQ in 4WD and the fiercely-fought 2WD Buggy class, just one second over his teammate, and was able to cruise to a victory in both A-mains. Cody wrapped up the racing truck classes, showing an incredible pace. Particularly exciting was the Short Course A-main, which featured 5 drivers in the hunt for more than half the race until Cody was able to break away with 4 minutes to go, taking the win with his SCX-60CF.

Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

March 10, 2014

Christian Cavicchioli wins at Max Power Trophy

Last weekend the Mini Circuit M.C.S. 80 in Bologna held the Max Power Trophy, the first important race after the Winter season. In the 1/8th on-road class Christian Cavicchioli (Capricorn/XRD) took TQ after winning the first and third qualifying round. Alberto Tedeschi (Serpent/Max Power) and Mattia Collavo (Capricorn/XRD) came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. For the 30 minute final Christian was able to conserve his performance to take the win in front of his Capricorn/XRD teammate Mattia. Alessandro Bracci (Xray/Max Power) came in 3rd to complete the podium.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

March 10, 2014

Tony Evdoka doubles at NCRC race

The Northern Cyprus Racing Club hold an indoor electric off-road race during the past weekend with a special guest in form of UK’s Tony Evdoka in attendance. The meeting was called the Jump Buggy Jump race and took place on a demanding carpet track with three walls of death, huge jumps and slippery wooden plates. At the end it was Tony who TQ’d both the 2WD and 4WD class and he also went on to win both classes in style. The runner-up spot in the 2WD class went to Deniz Aksüt while Umut Oztumen completed the podium. In 4WD Ilker Ercen came in 2nd and Ahmet Akber took the last remaining podium spot.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]

March 10, 2014

Juan Hidalgo wins at Madrid regional championship

The first round of the Madrid regional championships took place last weekend. Serpent’s Juan Hidalgo took the win in front of his team mates Rodrigo Pahissa and Victor Pelaez. Valentin Garcia and Christian Lopez rounded out the top5 result.

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March 10, 2014

Lars Haugen takes Norwegian 1/12th national title

The Norwegian 1/12th scale championship was held in Spydeberg last weekend. The well organised race was run on quite a large track and attracted 21 drivers in the Modified class. The race format saw 5 rounds of qualifying, followed by triple mains. From early on it was clear that keeping good power over the 8 minute heats would be important in order to score good results. This was proven in the first round of qualifying where several drives did not make the 8 minute mark and Lars Haugen would take the first round in the highly competitive field. Helge Johansen would go on to take home two rounds on qualifying with Swede Alexander Anderson taking another round leaving Helge with the overnight TQ. On Sunday morning Lars took home the last qualifier and with it the overall TQ honours by beating Helge’s fastest run. Alexander Anderson would start from 3rd on tie-break with Øyvind Stusdal who put his car 4th on the grid.

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