Colton Kiefer has won the 1/8th E-Buggy class at the 2014 Chi-Town Shootout. He took the win in front of Tekno’s Randy Cathcart while Mike’s Serpent team mate Joe Sorwell completed the podium. Adam Cholka and Pinky McCarty finished 4th and 5th respectively.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The first round if the Paraguayan national 1/8th off-road championship attracted drivers from Hohenau, Capitán Meza, Ciudad del Este and Asunción. The schedule saw three 10 minute qualifiers, 30 minute semifinals and a 45 minute main. The race then was won by Manuel Dressler, Michael Mende and Fabio Lang (all Serpent).
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Beside 1/12th scale pan car racing the 2014 ROAR Carpet On-Road Nationals, held at the HobbyTown USA HobbyPlex in Omaha, Nebraska, also had a lot of touring car action to offer. Paul Lemieux (Xray) would TQ the Modified class by less than 0.5 seconds over Kody Knudtson (Awesomatix). Filling out the top five would be Keven Hebert (Associated), Josh Cyrul (Awesomatix) and Andrew Doherty (Xray). In A-main 1 Paul Lemieux would run away with the win, allowing for a tight battle between Kody, Keven and Josh for 2nd. Paul would cruise to the win, with Kody and Keven following.
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The organisers of the 1:10 & 1:8 Nitro Onroad based Euro Nitro Series are pleased to officially announce the tyre format for its inaugural four round championship. Following a recent meeting with industry representatives at the ETS in Germany, the decision was taken that the championship will continue to operate a hand-out controlled tyre system similar to that used during last year’s two race ‘Pilot Series’.
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The 2014 KL City GP Challenge was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last weekend. In the 1/8th nitro on-road class Chavit S took the pole position but in the finals it was Trin T who took the win with the KM Racing K8. In the 1/8th 200mm class Azri Amri successfully ended the qualifiers taking TQ but he had to make way in the finals for Charlee P who took the win from Azri.
Source: KM [km-rc.com]
The 2014 Chi-Town Shootout in Joliet, Illinois had Team Durango’s Travis Amezcua walking away with the win in the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes. Travis’ Team Durango team mate Ryan Lutz ended the race sitting in the runner-up position in both classes after the two also won the 30 minute endure race. Last but not least did Travis took the famous Dash For Cash race to end his successful weekend.
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The 2014 ROAR carpet on-road nationals took place last weekend at the HobbyTown USA Hobbyplex in Omaha, Nebraska. In the 1/12 Modified class Keven Hebert made a clean sweep by winning A1 and A2 to take the overall win early after starting from pole position. A3 then saw Dave Ehrlich coming in 1st after Josh Cyril scored a DNF. Josh came in second overall though with Dave Ehrlich completing the 1/12 Modified podium.
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Xray’s Adrian Berntsen claimed the biggest win of his career today at the third round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series when he became only the 10th race winner in the world famous electric touring car championship. Winning the opening A-main at the Gran Canaria event, which he backed up with a second in A2, the Norwegian drove a calculated final leg to finish second behind defending champion Ronald Volker and more importantly ahead of Xray team-mate Alexander Hagberg to take the overall win at the ETS’ 36th race. Having TQ’d the event, Volker would finish second overall on tie break with Hagberg to claim his 10th consecutive podium finish. Like at Round 2 where Hagberg took the win it was once again an all Xray affair with team driver Jan Ratheisky taking the win in both Pro Stock and Formula on the holiday island.
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