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February 26, 2013

Truman wins HNMC Winter Series Rd8

After a wet start into the year the HNMC Winter Series round 8 was run in cold but dry conditions on the club’s dirt track. 85 drivers made the trip and were rewarded with a smooth fast surface to race on. Buggy qualifying went to Karl Jackson driving a TLR 8 3.0 just piping Jon Hazlewood’s Agama. Tommy Chung took top qualifying honours in the truggy class. The buggy A final saw an epic fight between Truman, Jackson and Hazlewood with position changes all the time. Tony Truman whatsoever had the better end, finishing in front of Kark Jackson and Jon Hazlewood. In the truggy class Richard Cousins finished first with Darren Warburton and James Tatlow in tow.

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February 25, 2013

Olly Jefferies wins BRCA Winter National

The BRCA held its 2013 Winter National at the fantastic Essex Winter Series venue in Essex. The format saw three rounds of qualifying with the top 32 drivers going through to a Reedy style Race of Champions. The remaining drivers contested a more familiar UK national format with round by round qualifying and three leg finals. After three rounds of qualifying it was the young Team Associated driver Zak Smith who took TQ honours and would carry the number 1 position into the Race of Champions. Nitro driver Kyle Branson who races electric during the winter months qualified second with Team Xray’s James Hart in third. After not having the fastest car in Qualifying, current BRCA national champion Olly Jefferies who qualified twelfth began his assault at the Winter National Championship in fine style by winning his first two Race of Champions races and was in a good position going into Sunday. EWS regular Tony Broad also had a good start with a first and a second in his two races.

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February 25, 2013

Carsten Keller wins Quakenbrück indoor race

The ninth instalment of the famous 1/8th off-road indoor race took place in Quakenbrück/Germany last weekend. A total of 140 drivers attended and it was Kyosho’s Carsten Keller who won the nitro buggy class with his Team Orion powered Kyosho MP9. RB’s Daniel Reckward took the runner-up spot at his first outing with the new RB One R buggy. RB team mate Maik Wiesweg grabbed the remaining spot on the podium.

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February 25, 2013

Video – DNC 1/8th Pro Buggy A-main

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Again our friends at Live RC have published the entire 45 minute Pro Buggy A-Main from the Dirt Nitro Challenge in Arizona. View the complete multi camera video embedded above and don’t forget to also check out our complete event coverage here.

February 25, 2013

Maifield wins Dirt Nitro Challenge

Ryan Maifield took a convincing victory at the 14th running of the world famous Dirt Nitro Challenge, the Associated driver winning the blue ribbon Buggy A-main of the Arizona event comfortably over Top Qualifier Jared Tebo and team-mate Ryan Cavalieri. For outgoing champion Ty Tessmann who last night successfully defended his Truggy title a difficult race following a strong start by the factory HB driver left him 6th at the end of the 45-minute encounter.

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February 24, 2013

Video – DNC Truggy & eBuggy finals

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Our friends at Live RC have published their A-main videos from Saturday’s Dirt Nitro Challenge Truggy and eBuggy finals. You can view the full 45 minute Truggy A-main above and after watch the 8 minute eBuggy final below. You can view our full event coverage on our Events page here.

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February 24, 2013

Tessmann bounces back to defend Truggy at DNC

Defending Dirt Nitro Challenge Champion Ty Tessmann came back from a difficult qualifying at the 14th running of the world famous Arizona event to take victory in Truggy ahead of Kyosho’s Jared Tebo and another driver experiencing a below par qualifying Ryan Maifield, a change of radio transmitters since qualifying bringing both drivers right back into contention. For Top Qualifier Adam Drake a wrong set-up meant he could only manage fourth at the end of the 45-minute encounter.

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February 24, 2013

Fischer wins 1:8 eBuggy at Dirt Nitro Challenge

Fresh from winning the B-Main in nitro Truggy to book himself a spot in the 45 Main, Team Losi Racing’s Billy Fischer bagged the first Pro class win of the 14th running of the world famous Dirt Nitro Challenge taking the victory in the 1:8 eBuggy A-Main from Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz and Kyosho’s Elliot Boots.

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