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September 10, 2013

Reno Savoya wins 4WD at French electric nats

The MBGO Gonfreville club hosted the final round of the French electric nationals in the Northern West of France. After three rounds of practice and six rounds of qualifying Xray’s Reno Savoya TQ’d the 4WD class with his team mates Armand Lantheaume and Lorenzo Crolla being very fast too. In the finals Reno took the win in leg 1 and 2 allowing him to sit out the final A main to watch Armand and Lorenzo battle for the win. At the end it was Armand Lantheaume who took the runner-up spot with Lorenzo Crolla taking the final podium spot.

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September 10, 2013

Sarda ORE Nationals Rd4 – Report

Last weekend saw the fourth round of the South African National Onroad Electric championship run at the DMCC track in Durban, SA. Drivers from all over the country attended the event, but it was the local Serpent driver Michael Wiseman who dominated both the Touring Modified and 13.5T classes. The runner-up spot in the Modified class went to Jason Hillcoat (Xray) who had Micheal Gibson (Schumacher) in tow. The second place in 13.5T was grabbed by Shaun Schutte (Xray), Michael Gibson again came in third. In 17.5T Touring it was the Xray triple of Andre Greeff, Ashley Hurley and Justin Cloete who dominated the proceedings. In 1/12th Modified Dave Wiseman brought home the win with Andre Greef coming in 1st in the 13.5T FWD class.

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September 10, 2013

Patrick Hofer sweeps Swiss off-road nats in Oberbüren

The last round of the Swiss electric off-road nationals took place at the well-known and tricky Oberbüren track. In qualification Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer made his intentions clear and TQ’d the 2WD, 4WD and SC 4×4 class. Come the finals the conditions changed to the worse as rain transformed the sandy track into a mud puddle. Patrick kept his cool and went on to win all modified classes in order to take his 5th national title in a row.

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September 9, 2013

Hupo Hönigl wins Austrian buggy nats Rd4

The fourth round of the Austrian electric off-road nationals took place in Krieglach. 36 drivers in 2WD and 28 entries in 4WD tried to tackle the dusty clay track that got better during the practice heats but later on started to break up. Some drivers tried to race mid motor buggies in 2WD one of which was Team Durango’s Hupo Hönigl, but the tricky surface made the buggies difficult to drive and since these cars need a different racing line most of the drivers came back to rear motor machines for the qualifiers and finals. Sunday Morning started with four rounds of qualifying and when the dust settled the Team Durango duo of Hupo Hönigl and Martin Kreil lead in 2WD with equal points, but a faster time gave Hupo the TQ spot. 3rd and 4th went to the Team Associated duo Pinisch/Pfeifhofer, also equal in points with 3rd going to Peter Pinisch. In 4WD Hupo took 3 out of 4 rounds, taking the TQ in front of Yokomo’s René Trauner and Stefan Pfeifhofer (Team Associated) with Martin Kreil in 4th and Pinisch in 5th position.

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September 9, 2013

Catanzani & Lazzerini win at Italian GT championship

The Italian GT Championship was held at the GAE track in Ferrara with around 40 drivers attending. In the Expert class BMT driver Roberto Catanzani took TQ and went on to win the class in front of Riccardo Scanziani and Massimo Suardi. Victorious in the F1 category was polesitter and BMT driver Federico Lazzerini, Caprarulo Stefano came in second with Spataro Alessio completing the podium.

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September 9, 2013

Adam Drake sweeps JBRL Nitro Series Rd6

Team Losi Racing’s Adam Drake made a clean sweep at the recent JBRL Nitro Series round 6 at Thunder Alley Raceway. In the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy class Adam came in first and he also took home the win in E-Buggy after fighting all the way to the finish line with team mate Mike Truhe. Jose Alvarado (TLR) took the victories in both Sportsman Buggy and Truck.

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September 9, 2013

Mini-Z Indonesia Open 2013 – Report

The Mini-Z Indonesia Open 2013 was held in Mangga Dua Square, Jakarta in last weekend. With a competitive 70 entry from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the U.S. the meeting was run in a Stock 50T and a Modified class. Saturday saw two qualifying rounds with a single controlled practice before qualifying. The Stock class was TQ’ed by American Mini-Z Legend, Grant Matsushima who recorded 22 laps in 5:01. Local ace, Bowie Ginting was the closest to Matsushima and only 4 seconds behind. Malaysian Jason Wong secured the 3rd spot, 5 seconds behind Bowie. Alvin Lim (Singapore) and Jeff Cheong (Malaysia) followed closely to complete the top 5. The Modified class TQ went to Dave Tang from Singapore who outperformed Grant Matsushima with Bowie, Tri Hariyanto (Indonesia) and Philip Ng completing the top 5.

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September 9, 2013

Lee Martin wins BRCA 1/8th buggy title

The fifth and final round of this year’s BRCA 1/8th nitro buggy nationals took place at the Slough RC track, oldest on the calendar for the BRCA national series. A few drivers could still win the championship, and Mugen’s Lee Martin was the one driver who had it in his own hands. Regardless of any result, if he finished 5th or higher, he would win the series in 2013. The track was prepared in the weeks before the race and early on the track was dusty and loose, with contrasting smooth and bumpy sections. Due to the abnormally good summer weather in the UK, it had caused the tracks surface to be very dry and it needed a lot of water. The track had a couple of new features and corners to make it a little different from normal.

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