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April 18, 2013

Bart Mullink wins Dutch nationals Rd 1

The first round of the Dutch 1/8th off-road nationals took place at the Mach One track in Hellmond on a redesigned astroturf track. The circuit bit sports high speed chicanes and very technical and bumpy sections meaning loads of set-up work to do for the drives in Saturday’s practice sessions. Sunday saw an early start of the proceedings with as over 70 drivers attending. Qualifying round one was dominated by Team C driver Jordy Velder with round two and three being won by TLR’s Bart Mullink. After a promising start into the day the heaven opened sometime during qualifying round two meaning a lot of hassle for the pilots. At the end it was Serpent driver Kay Koops who took the overall TQ for the final with Bastiaan Ghielen (Mugen) and Bart Mullink in tow. Five minutes into the final disaster stroke for Bart who stranded with an empty fuel tank but he quickly found back into action and chased Kay and Jeffrey who left Bastiaan behind. Around the 15 minutes mark Kay experienced engine problems handing Jeffrey the lead but only until Bart was able to overtake him around the 20 minutes mark eventually winning the race with one lap over Jeffrey and Jordy.

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April 18, 2013

Sousa wins Portuguese Championship Rd2

The second round of the Portuguese nitro on-road championship took place at the Mini Autódromo track in Torres Novas, the track that will host the European Championship 2013 in August. Recently signed Xray team driver, Bruno Coelho, is the man to beat in the championship and this race meant no exception as Bruno took TQ for the main his NT1’13. The final was a different affair though as Portuguese rising star Pedro Sousa showed his potential. With a faultless race he crossed the finish line in first place after 30 minutes some four laps ahead of Bruno. Mario Miranda grabbed the remaining podium spot.

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April 18, 2013

Baker & Olson win at JBRL Rd2

San Diego RC Raceway played host to the JBRL Round 2 this past weekend. A brand new track layout was put in and made the race an even playing field for all and Tekno RC made their presence known. In the 1/8 buggy class, the Tekno RC EB48 swept the podium and 4th place. Barry Baker finished 1st, followed by Pres Ilog in 2nd, Josh Bertrand in 3rd, and Chad Panek in 4th. In the Pro4 Short Course class Tekno RC again dominated the podium. Matthew Olson from MIP running Tekno RC driveshafts came in 1st place followed by Tekno RC’s Barry Baker and Chad Panek to round out the top 3 spots. Rudy Rico and his SCT410 would finish in 5th place. There were more SCT410’s in the top 5 and in the A Main than any other truck.

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April 18, 2013

Win for Bloomfield at BRCA 2wd Nats Rd1

Vampire Racing’s Darren Bloomfield was on fire at the recent first round of the 2013 BRCA electric off-road nationals. He TQ’d the rain affected 2WD race on Saturday with his Vampire Racing-powered TLR 22 buggy. Darren was able to take a clean win in A final one and two handing him the day’s win in front of Schumacher Racing’s Simon Moss and Team Associated’s Neil Cragg. Darren used Vampire Racing’s new Type AB+ V2 brushless motors, the SR1+ speed controller and Vampire Racing’s latest 2013 spec LiPo batteries to win in style.

Source: Vampire [vampire-racing.com]

April 17, 2013

Wischnewski wins German West 1/10th opener

As we reported earlier the first round of the German West National series got underway last weekend in Sinzig and for the 1/10th 200mm class Dirk Wischnewski wrote this report. ‘The weather forecast was very good for the whole weekend, so the starter field with almost 70 entries was quite big. The field was separated in 3 categories 1:8 class 1, 1:8 class 2 and 1:10 scale. For me it was the first German race of the new season, further it was the first race with the brand new NT1 2013 spec. So everybody was excited to see how the new car will handle under race conditions. For me it was also a special race as over the winter quite a view things changed about my equipment so I wanted to see how I can perform in this new situation.

Continue reading the report here

April 17, 2013

Drake double winner at Canadian Indoor Shootout

Drake doube winner in Canada

This past weekend was the Canadian Indoor Off-road Shootout in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada. This race contained the best drivers in Canada along with some Americans including TLR / Novarossi / Pro-Line driver Adam Drake who attended the race which saw nearly 400 entries. Friday started with open practice in the morning and after lunch the organizers ran two rounds of seeding practice to set up Saturday’s three rounds of qualifying. The track was hard packed and stayed very consistent for all three rounds of qualifying. TLR’s Adam Drake would TQ all three rounds of buggy and truck. TLR’s Dave Henry secured the TQ in the 4wd short course class with his TLR SCTE 2.0.

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April 16, 2013

Richard Volta wins French 1/8 On-Road Nats Rd2

Last weekend the second round of the French 1/8 On-Road Nationals was held in Longic near Dijon. Free practice on Friday and Saturday was rained out so everybody had to start qualifying with only a few laps of practice which made it very challenging for Richard Volta to set up his Velox V8 “eleven” as he had no experience on this track. Finally the sun came out and the rest of the race was held under good weather conditions. With a safe qualifying Richard managed to finish the qualifying in 2nd position just one second behind the pole-setter Romain Picard. Starting from the front in the semi-final B he easily took the win claiming the pole-position of the main final as his time was faster than winner’s time of the semi-final A. At the start of the final he could defend his lead, but a few laps into the race Richard made a small mistake dropping him down to second. In the following laps Richard was able to catch up and took over the lead again. With his safe driving style he controlled the race at the front crossing the finishing line in first position ahead of Thomas Eytard in 2nd and Christophe Louis 3rd.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

April 16, 2013

Yannick Aigoin double at French EP Nats Rd2

Last weekend the LVDM Club organised the 2nd round of the French 1/10th EP buggy nationals. In the 2wd class it would be Associated/Orion driver Yannick Aigoin that would take the overall victory, with wins in the first 2 legs to take home the victory ahead of Antoine Rossetti in 2nd for Durango and Alexandre Desbrosses 3rd for X-Factory. In the 4wd class Yannick would TQ and win again to complete the perfect weekend ahead of Xray driver Lorenzo Crolla in 2nd and Antoine Rossetti in 3rd.

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